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Global Giving Now: Meeting the Challenge, Seizing the Opportunity
Grantmakers Without Borders' Ninth Annual Conference
June 8th to 10th, 2009
At the AED Conference Center
Washington, DC
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Global Giving Now: Meeting the Challenge, Seizing the Opportunity is Grantmakers Without Borders' 9th Annual Conference on Global Social Change Philanthropy.

Global grantmakers funding a range of issues will come together to strengthen connections and further their understanding of what it takes, at this moment unlike any we've seen, to practice more strategic and effective international giving.


Quotes from Past Conference Participants

"Kudos to Gw/oB for all that you have done to hit the hard issues… to educate donors, and to create a provocative and supportive space for funders. You have far exceeded my expectations…"

"I left everyday with my head full of new ideas. Thank you!"

"I am new to philanthropy and this was a positive, educational experience."

The theme of this year's conference emerges from the extraordinary convergence of factors that seem to bear on almost everything we do:

  • the economic downturn in the US, part and parcel to a broader disintegration of the global economic system
  • the accelerating recognition of the enormous environmental costs of the way we live, from climate change, to depletion of water and forests, to energy use
  • the election of Barack Obama to the US presidency.

Indeed, at no time in recent history has our world faced so great a host of challenges—and so encouraging an array of opportunities—as now.

This theme will permeate the conference—in plenaries, in breakout workshops, and in networking time. Participants will have more than 30 sessions to choose from, on two main tracks:

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  • grantmaking practice, to build capacity on such skills as monitoring and evaluation, grantor-grantee relations, and collaborative grantmaking
  • social change and social justice, to explore some of the most urgent issues facing grassroots communities today.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to connect with familiar and new colleagues, learn new strategies for meeting today's most urgent challenges and promising opportunities-- and leave refreshed and inspired to make change in our world through your charitable giving.

Join Us!

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