Grantmakers Without Borders - Next conference to focus on climate change

Since 2001, Grantmakers Without Borders (Gw/oB) has convened a major annual gathering focused on global social change philanthropy. These events have brought together a diverse assembly of up to 250 grantmakers, individual donors, and activists from the global South, who learn, network, and explore collaboration through sessions that cover a wide range of grantmaking topics. For many international grantmakers, Grantmakers Without Borders’ annual conference has become an indispensable event in their yearly calendars.

In 2008, Gw/oB’s conference will pay special attention to issues of global warming and natural resource depletion, subjects needing urgent attention and action by governments, industry and citizens alike. It is anticipated that climate change will have a disproportionately negative impact on the poor in the global South. Certainly the time is ripe for global grantmakers and their partners to think seriously about their work in the context of climate change and the equally challenging issue of natural resource depletion. How should global grantmakers working on women’s rights, HIV/AIDS, education, indigenous rights and other critical issues be contextualizing their work in light of these urgent environmental issues? Conference participants will have the chance to collectively explore strategies to deal with the social, cultural and economic factors that exacerbate global warming and natural resource depletion and to look at how grassroots communities can build resilience and shape societies that are truly sustainable.

Gw/oB’s 2008 conference will convene 8-10 June in San Francisco.

Grantmakers Without Borders
Executive Director: John Harvey
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