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SCHEDULE

DAY ONE

7:30 – 9:00 Registration, Exhibitors & Breakfast

9:00 – 10:10 Welcome & Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

10:10 – 10:30 Break

10:30 -12:30 Workshop Block I

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch, Facilitated Discussions, Exhibitors, One-on-One Consulting
At the conference, you can sign up for one free 30-minute session with an experienced consultant. 60 sessions will be available and they are first come, first served. Sign-up will be open in the morning during registration. Available in English and Spanish.

2:00 – 2:20 Break

2:20 – 4:20 Workshop Block II

4:20 – 5:30 Break, Facilitated Discussions,One-on-One Consulting, Networking

5:30 – 7:30 Reception: Rai$ing the Roof: Celebrating Movement

Unwind, relax and connect with new and old friends at this casual reception.

DAY TWO

7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast & Exhibitors

9:00 – 10:10 Plenary Session: Debate on Insider vs. Outsider Strategies 

Debaters (organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only):

Moderated by Libero Della Piana, People Before Profits

10:10 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 12:30 Workshop Block III

12:30 – 2 Lunch, Exhibitors, One-on-one Consulting, Facilitated Discussions

2 – 2:20 Break

2:20 – 4:20 Workshop Block IV

4:20 – 4:40 Break

4:40 – 5 Closing Plenary

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Ai-jen Poo and Cara Page will ground us in our bodies, vision and values and set the tone for a transformative two days together:

Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance

Ai-jen has been organizing immigrant women workers in New York since 1996. Beginning at CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities as Women Workers Project Organizer, in 2000 she helped start Domestic Workers United, an organization of nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end oppression for all. In addition to leading the first statewide campaign to establish labor standards for domestic workers in the nation, DWU helped to organize the first national meeting of domestic workers organizations at the US Social Forum in 2007, which resulted in the formation of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. In April 2010, she became Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Ai-jen also serves on the Board of Social Justice Leadership, the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation, the Labor Advisory Board at Cornell ILR School, and the New Labor Forum Editorial Board.

Cara Page, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective

Cara is the Coordinator of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, based in Atlanta, GA. As a Black queer artist, organizer and healing arts practitioner living in the South, she works for queer liberation, reproductive justice, environmental and economic justice. She is Founder and Practitioner of Deeper Waters, LLC, which uses story, reflection and visioning to create organizing strategy and leadership practices that intervene and transform trauma and violence in our communities, movements and lives. She is a member of the National Board of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and a co-trainer of the Southerners on New Ground (SONG) Organizing School. She also works in partnership with the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative, SINS INVALID, Project South and the Young Women’s Empowerment Project. Her previous work includes being the National Director of the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE). She is an alumna of GIFT’s fundraiser-activist internship program.

 

DEBATE

Insider vs. Outsider Strategies 

A debate on fundraising, the development of the nonprofit sector, and movement-building. Get ready as two teams of debaters go head-to-head on this provocative issue:

“Be it resolved that leaders of social justice organizations should seek every opportunity to suggest, support and field progressive candidates for public office and to work with politicians in order to change the entrenched political power structure from the inside, and to create a critical mass of elected officials who are accountable to a social justice agenda.“

In this political and economic moment, should we focus on policy or on community organizing? Run our own candidates for public office or agitate from the outside? How do we raise money so that we don’t get co-opted?

Debaters (organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only):

Kim Klein (Klein & Roth Consulting)

Mike Roque (Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships)

Rinku Sen (Applied Research Center & Colorlines Magazine)

Abdi Soltani (ACLU of Northern California)

Moderated by Libero Della Piana (People Before Profits)