DEMOCRACY BOUND
Moving a Contract for Social Justice

The Annual Conference of the National Network of Grantmakers

October 16th to 19th

About the Conference

These are certainly not the best of times. Whether the reports come from abroad or from within our own neighborhoods, our days and nights are filled with too many stories of hardship, loss, inequity and privation. Beyond the armed conflicts, the struggles for economic opportunity, civil liberties and social and natural harmony - here and around the world - have made us insecure about our present and the prospects for our tomorrow. The promise of democracy seems at times but a distant dream, bound in chains of disappointment and discontent.

And yet, in these failings come real opportunities for change. In addition to the events of the day, this historical moment is marked by renewed focus and urgency among advocates for social justice. Perhaps to a degree unseen since the Civil Rights Movement, the campaign this season is no longer limited to a particular electoral outcome; it has become a long-term struggle for democracy itself.

As funders committed to a tomorrow where equity, liberty and opportunity are more than a distant dream, we have a responsibility to seize the moment today. Alone we are certainly not powerful enough to nurture and sustain social justice. But together, as grantmakers, advocates, and institutions of social influence, our power is real. NNG's 2004 conference, as in years past, will consider our responsibilities as funders. This year, those responsibilities will be articulated as a community of funders, defining a contract between and among participants for a shared vision for the future.

2004 is the time to organize philanthropic partnership and to develop a common framework for change. Funders can't afford not to. Now more than ever we are: Democracy Bound: Moving a Contract for Social Justice.

For more information and to register, please visit www.nng.org.

Global Policy, Grassroots Change: About the Conference - Conference Program
Pre-Conference Event: Funder Delegation to Haiti
Post-conference event: Democracy Bound - Annual Conference of the National Network of Grantmakers
Post Conference Report

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