When & Where Program Register Sponsor Exhibit Friday Reception En Espanol 2006 Conference

Schedule

Keynote Speakers

Facilitated Discussions

Special Sessions

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Facilitated Discussion Topics

Please visit the registration area for a full list of topics, times, locations, and to sign up.

Identity-based caucuses, open to folks from these communities:

  • People of color (Saturday, 12:45 - 1:45pm)
  • Rural fundraisers (Saturday, 12:45 - 1:45pm)
  • LGBTQ (Friday, 12:30 - 1:30pm )
  • New fundraisers (Friday, 12:30 - 1:30pm)
  • Immigrants (Saturday, 12:45 - 1:45pm)

Issue-based dialogues, open to folks working on these issues:

  • Arts (Friday, 12:30 - 1:30pm)
  • Youth empowerment (Friday, 4:30 - 5:30pm)
  • Environmental justice (Saturday, 12:45 - 1:45pm)
  • International issues (Friday, 12:30 - 1:30pm)
  • Criminal Justice/anti-Prison Industrial Complex (Saturday, 12:45 - 1:45pm)
  • Economic justice (TBA)
  • Electoral work (TBA)
  • Immigrant rights (Friday, 4:30 - 5:30pm)
  • Racial justice (Friday, 12:30 - 1:30pm)
  • Feminist organizing (Friday, 4:30 - 5:30pm)

Topical skill-shares, open to all conference attendees:

  • Recent successes with using Web 2.0 and online fundraising (Friday, 4:30 - 5:30pm )
  • The delicate dance of foundation fundraising (Saturday, 12:45 - 1:45pm)
  • Preventing fundraiser burnout (Friday, 12:30 - 1:30pm )
  • Follow-up conversations to the debate (Saturday, 12:45 - 1:45pm)

Exhibitor-led topical roundtables, open to all conference attendees (topics TBA)

 

Special sessions:

Lifting the Movement from Underneath – facilitated by Judy Levine, Cause Effective

For fundraising trainers and consultants only.
12:30 – 2:00, Friday

This conference provides an unusual opportunity to be in the same space with other consultants and trainers from around the country who work primarily with grassroots and social justice organizations on building individual donor support for their work.  Join us for a conversation on the current issues and trends we're discovering in our work and how we can learn from and support each other.

 

For Funders Who Fundraise: Tools for Supporting Donors of Color – facilitated by Changemakers
12:30 – 2:00, Friday

 

Help Shape What's Next for GIFT and the Grassroots Fundraising Journal – facilitated by the GIFT Board of Directors
4:30 – 6:00, Friday

Join the Board of Directors of GIFT and the Journal to help us plan the next 3 years of our new, merged organization. Participate in a no-holds-barred discussion on which of our programs are essential and which ones need improvement. How can we do more work nationally and in underserved communities. How can we collaborate more with other groups and support the social justice movement. How can we build our own capacity and resource base. Come share your feedback and ideas to build a stronger GIFT! 

 

Robin Hood was Right:  Raising Money Strategically to Resource Movement Building – facilitated by Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
4:30 – 6:00, Friday

The non-profit industrial complex and the dependency of grassroots organizations on foundations is a growing debate in social movements nationally and internationally. The competition over scarce foundation resources for social justice organizing is both a cause and a result of the fragmentation of our organizing struggles in the U.S. Grassroots organizations lack a collective analysis and strategy for resourcing our movement building efforts. We have not created mechanisms for asserting influence on political priorities and accountability of foundations to the movement.  The Right has taken advantage of this and is imposing their political will on funding priorities through foundation boards and pressure in Congress. In this discussion we will share an analysis of the state of philanthropy in relation to social movements and potential efforts for coordination of social movement strategies.  We will also look at the resourcing of the US Social Forum as a case study.

 

Magnetizing Money for Media: How Social Change Orgs Can Make Media – and Fund It – facilitated by Lisa Rudman and Khanh Pham, Making Contact Media/National Radio Project

4:30 – 5:30, Friday

Join us to discuss how social change groups can partner with media makers to create radio, TV, or print media that supports their campaign or ongoing social change work. We'll discuss ways to find funding and to deepen the collaborations between independent media-makers and community groups. Our expertise is in independent media and movement-building media more than corporate-owned media.

 

GIFT Internship Alumni Network Gathering – facilitated by the Internship Alumni Network Coordinating Committee
For alumni of GIFT's Internship Program only
12:15 – 1:45 , Saturday

In the past 10 years, GIFT's internship program has trained and graduated more than 100 people of color as social justice fundraisers. Now, we're ready for the next step. Raising Change marks the launch of our Internship Alumni Network. The Network will be an ongoing space for leadership development, skill training, peer support and mentorship. During this session, we will share our goals for the Network, set an agenda for the first year, and map out a plan to make it happen!