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How Philanthropy Can Meet the Challenges of Our Time
Just Giving: Global Social Change Philanthropy Conference
September 5-7, 2012
Berkeley, CA

We are pleased to announce the Just Giving conference will be held in Berkeley, CA from September 5-7, 2012.

Grantmakers without Borders has organized this annual gathering of globally minded foundations, individual donors, global Southern activists, and allies in philanthropy since 2001. We are thrilled that this year's conference is being co-organized with the Funders Network for Transforming the Global Economy (FNTG). We believe that combining GwoB's dedication to advancing social change philanthropy with FNTG's focus on the systemic and global nature of the challenges facing international and domestic funders will broaden the scope and deepen the nature of our conversations.

This is a moment of key importance for all of us concerned with social justice around the world. Throughout the globe, cultural, moral and political imaginations are expanding. Social movement momentum is building. From southern Tunis to Tahrir Square, at universities throughout Chile and in "quartiers populaires" in Senegal, in communities throughout the global South and in the US and Europe, a growing sense of urgency is accompanied by renewed hope, and action. Young people in particular are reawakening to the notion that fundamental change is not only necessary, but possible.

Philanthropy seems similarly ready to rethink and to shift, to more boldly meet today's challenges and today's opportunities.

Join us in September to explore these critical and exciting developments more deeply, to better understand how grassroots communities are themselves responding to the many challenges they face, and to discuss how our grantmaking practices are making a difference.

As always, the conference will provide time to network, share experiences and build relationships with peers and allies in grantmaking. In the spirit of the moment, recognizing that these issues affect all regardless of sector, geographic focus or grantmaking approach, special efforts will be made to broaden even more the array of donors, funders and philanthropic allies the conference will bring together. Your engagement in these issues is crucial, and your participation in the conference will make a difference.

More details about the conference and a Call for Sessions will be announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, please mark your calendars and plan on joining us in Berkeley in September.