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IFIP Conference Participants pose for a group picture at the El Cerrito
Pyramid.
Se:kon/Greetings
IFIP Friends,
I am
delighted to let you know that IFIP successfully convened and celebrated its
First Regional Convening in Querétaro, Mexico from January 18-20, 2008 with
successful pre- post conference trips to Sierra Gorda, Querétaro region and
the Oaxaca community. The international gathering, themed Awakening
Consciousness & Forming Alliances: Indigenous Peoples and Philanthropy,
succeeded in bringing together more than 180 donors and Indigenous
Leaders/NGO's from all over Mesoamerica and the world to discuss critical
issues; such as Alternatives to Genetically Modified Corn, Strategies of Indigenous Governability and
Building Capacity, Using Radio as an Effective Communication Strategy,
Conservation Techniques and Indigenous Stewardship of Land and much, much
more… .
This
was the first time in history that a gathering has been held bringing
attention to the Mesoamerican region that gathered donors that are interested
in Indigenous projects, NGO’s that are supporting Indigenous communities and
Key Indigenous leaders from the Mesoamerican region and around the world.
There
is an assortment of images from the conference available to view on our
website, at http://www.internationalfunders.org/index.htmlWe
are working on a full conference report and transcription of each of the
speeches. To view Don Samuel Ruiz
Garcia speech in Spanish, click
here. (we are working on getting it translated).
IFIP
is grateful for all conference sponsors that have made this event possible,
they include: The Christensen Fund, Levi Strauss Foundation, Ford Foundation,
Kalliopeia Foundation, AVEDA, SEEDS, Mitsubishi International Corporation
Foundation, The Mailman Foundation, CEMEFI and NAP.
Now
is the perfect time to join our expanding network of International Funders
for Indigenous Peoples. Become a paid member today to take advantage of our
unique services, like our newly implemented Members-Only Listserv and Members
Forum. Click
here for information on how to become a member and please note that the
last day for submission of articles for the Spring/Summer newsletter is due
July 1, 2008.
In Peace,
Evelyn Arce-White, M.A.T.
IFIP Executive Director
REPORTS
& ARTICLES
Global Mourning: How The Next Victim of
Climate Change Will Be Our Minds
Cliv Thompson
Australia is
suffering through its worst dry spell in a millennium. The outback has turned
into a dust bowl crops are dying off at fantastics rates, cities are
rationing water, coral reefs are dying, and the agricultural base is
evaporating.
To download the article, click here.
Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide
for Foundations and Corporations
European Foundation Centre and
the Council on Foundations
Moved
by widely publicized human suffering and increased disaster aid requests, foundations
and corporations are becoming more active in the disaster relief field.
Grantmakers have a distinct role to play in disasters because of their
ongoing relations with grantees, long-term perspective, flexibility and
convening capacity. Lacking the sizable emergency relief resources of
governments and some well-known nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
foundations and corporate grantmakers nevertheless can make a significant
contribution, for instance, by filling critical gaps in underfunded areas
like disaster rehabilitation, prevention, research and education.
To
download the full report, click here.
Joining the Fight Against Global Poverty:
A Menu for Corporate Engagement
Center for Global Development
In the last decade
more and more of the world's leading corporations have sought and found ways
to join in the fight against global poverty. In an increasingly
interdependent world, there are many opportunities to do good while doing
well commercially. Yet the approaches taken, and the logic of different
tactics by different companies, have not been much studied. This new report,
based on interviews with 15 corporations that have been active in
"development" work in poor countries,
offers a menu of six approaches.
To
download the full report, click here.
AWARDS
& NOMINATIONS
2008-2009
International King Baudouin
Development Prize
(Deadline—2/1/08)
The King Baudouin Foundation
will be accepting applications until
February 1, 2008 for the 2008-2009 King Baudouin International
Development Prize. Created in 1978, the prize is awarded every other year to
acknowledge positive examples of development. Beyond its actual financial
value of 150,000 euros, the prize gives winners international visibility and
publicity before the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union,
bilateral development agencies, foundations, and international NGOs. For more
information, click here.
IFIP
CONFERENCES & EVENTS
IFIP Reception & Session
Council on Foundations: A Leadership
Summit
May 4, 5
& 7
National Harbor, Maryland
Mark your calendars and join us
for a reception and session at the Council of Foundation’s Annual Conference:
A Leadership Summit. Information on the location and times will be available
soon!
EVENTS FOR
FUNDERS ONLY
Africa
Grantmakers’ Affinity Group
Conference:
“Funding
Impact: Partnerships, Networks, and Collaborations”
February 4-6, 2008
Johannesburg,
South Africa
Annual Retreat:
“Working
Together to Support Development Efforts in Africa”
February 7-8, 2008
Johannesburg,
South Africa
In February 2008, AGAG will convene private
funders for our Annual Retreat and sponsor an inaugural Conference that will
reach out to a broader audience of public and private agencies and
organizations involved in development funding in Africa.
Please
join us for what promise to be two unique, exciting, and important
gatherings. More
information and how to register at www.africagrantmakers.org.
Climate Funding 101:
Strategic Grantmaking on Climate Change
Environmental Grantmakers
Association
Funder Learning
Webinar
February 19, 2008 (1:00 - 2:00 pm EST)
This is a web-based seminar (webinar)
intended for environmental funders new to climate change and
non-environmental funders wanting to learn more. It will include a
teleconference component as well as an online visual presentation.
Please RSVP by sending an email to bhesterman@ega.org. For more information, click here.
Strategy Session
Change Action Partners
February 21, 2008
New York City, New York
Change Action Partners is a daylong strategy session that
achieves diversity in philanthropy by building partnership/ collaborations
between affinity groups that address structural funding inequities through intersectional
approaches.
Change Action Partners encourages you to:
- bring your bright ideas, hopeful programs, and
existing projects to the attention of your colleagues for possible
collaboration and support,
- come and hear what others are doing and join
their efforts,
- grow and generate new original partnerships onsite
from our conversations.
We’re looking for lively conversations that lead to
tangible partnerships with a high return on investment in advancing diversity
and inclusiveness in Philanthropy.
Please
send questions or RSVP’s to Pamela Strother at realChange Partners, pamela@realchangepartners.com or
202-486-5990.
Foundations On The Hill
Council on Foundations & Forum of Regional
Associations of Grantmakers
March 4-5, 2008
Washington, DC
The
work of the philanthropic sector affects the lives of millions of Americans.
That's why it is very important that we meet, develop relationships, and
educate members of Congress about the work foundations and corporate giving
programs do in their states and districts. Join the Council on Foundations,
Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, and hundreds of your
colleagues for Foundations on the Hill, March 4–5, 2008, in Washington, DC. For more information about this
event, visit www.foundationsonthehill.org. Questions?
Contact Chatrane Birbal (703-879-0689) at the Council or Erin McCarty (202-467-1122) at the Forum.
For
more information, click here.
Women's Funding Network Annual Conference
May 1-3, 2008
Washington,
D.C.
Our 2008 Annual Conference, Leadership
for A Changing World, will be a high-energy
gathering of visionary leaders from around the world. Join us for the best in
skill-building, inspiration and global idea exchange as we forge bold
strategies to empower women, communities and nations.
Women's funds are at the forefront of investing in solutions to some
of the world's most pressing social issues. Together we are bringing in a new
era of global change for women and their communities. Our conference will
showcase the most cutting-edge ideas, trends and insights on social
investment in women. We will also offer practical opportunities to develop
skills, knowledge and connections in arenas from social networking to social
investment. Join Us!
For more
information, click here.
Native
Americans in Philanthropy
3rd Annual National Gathering
May 2-3, 2008
Washington, DC
NAP will host a national gathering to
celebrate outstanding philanthropic practices in Indian Country and share
knowledge of best practices in Native nonprofits and Native philanthropy. This two-day event will include prominent
Native speakers, discussion groups and speaker panels, the Annual Awards
& Celebration dinner, a Silent Auction and the Annual meeting of NAP.
For more information, click
here.
Philanthropy's Vision: A Leadership
Summit
Council on Foundations
May 4–7, 2008
National Harbor, Maryland
Join a gathering of philanthropic leaders unlike any
the world has seen before. Whether you’re brand new to philanthropy or have
years of experience, from a small family foundation or a large corporate
giving program, from a rural area or a big city—philanthropy needs your
vision and your voice.
For more information, click
here.
Just Giving: Global Social Change
Philanthropy
Grantmakers Without Borders
8th Annual Conference
June 8-10,
2008
San Francisco, California
Grantmakers
Without Borders, a philanthropic network, is dedicated to increasing funding
for international social justice and environmental sustainability and to
improving the practice of international grantmaking. We offer a space for
education, community and collaboration among international social change
grantmakers. We advocate before policymakers on behalf of social change
grantmakers, and we work to leverage the philanthropic sector to increase
funding to the global South. In all our efforts, Grantmakers Without Borders
is committed to the ideals of justice, equity, peace, democracy, and respect
for the environment. See http://www.gwob.net/ for
registration info.
EVENTS FOR
ALL
Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Peace, Sustainable Development
and Biodiversity Conservation
The International
Center for Tolerance Education
February 7, 2008
New York City, New York
To download more information, click here.
Conference
on the Reclamation of Indigenous Languages
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
February 20-22,
2008
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
Mashantucket, Connecticut
The Language Reclamation Conference includes the visual, written and
performing arts, with presentations by many diverse and accomplished speakers
and performers who have devoted their life’s work to the study, preservation
and celebration of indigenous languages. The themes that will be addressed
include: Instructional Techniques, Linguistics in the Context of Preservation
and Reconstruction, Technological Innovations, and the Artistic Application
of Language. In addition, two Roundtables will be hosted: Dictionary Building
and Community Language Project Policy Development.
For more
information, click here.
Guerrero Delegation
International
Service for Peace (SIPAZ)
March 7- 14, 2008
Oaxaca, Mexico
Traveling with SIPAZ
to Guerrero will give you the opportunity to get to know Guerrero from the
inside, the problems, local resistance processes, and the struggle of
indigenous people for a life with justice and dignity. During our 7-day
delegation, we will visit indigenous villages, ecologists, human rights
defenders, and much more. Through this trip you will acquire a broader
understanding of the problems and the human rights situation in Guerrero.
To download more information, click here.
Fire and Ice Ceremony for the
Earth
'The
Elders’ Federation of Greenland
July 18-20, 2008
Kangerlussuaq West Coast,
Greenland
The
Fire and Ice Ceremony for the Earth will be a powerful three-day
cross-cultural gathering of deliberation, ceremony, and celebration, the
objective of which touches the welfare of the world. A principal objective is
the return of the sacred fire in fulfillment of prophetic tradition. For the
first time in memory the sacred fire will be home. The ceremony will revolve
around the physical fire but the most important element will be the spiritual
fire, the spirit of which the physical fire is a symbol. It is a symbol of
countless generations of indigenous people who have met around it to consider
how to live well on the land given to them and how to relate well to the
Creator and to one another. The lessons of the ice will also be prominent,
both in helping us all recognize our common humanity, and in developing
common perspectives raised by the melting ice and global climate change.
For
more information, click
here.
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Relatively Few Charity Dollars Go To
Neediest, Study Finds
Providing
for the poor is the primary goal people cite for their charitable donations,
but less than one third of that money actually goes to helping the neediest,
according to a recent study commissioned by Google.org, the philanthropic arm
of Google.
Read
more…
United
Nations Human Rights Council establishes new Expert Mechanism on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples
On
December 13, 2007, in the closing hours of its sixth session, the United
Nations Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a resolution to establish a
new subsidiary body, the “Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”.
Read more…
US Banned
Pesticides Poisoning Indigenous Peoples Worldwide
Pesticides
banned in the United States are still being exported by US corporations to
agricultural fields surrounding Indigenous Peoples’ communities, including
those of Yaquis in Sonora, Mexico, resulting in illnesses and deaths.
Read more…
Language Dies
With Chief
Chief
Marie Smith Jones, the last full-blooded Eyak and the last person fluent in
her Native language, died at her home in Anchorage. She was 89.
Read more…
Indigenous Communities
Mini-Grant Program
Western
Mining Action
Network and Indigenous
Environmental Network
The goal of the
mini-grants program is to support and enhance the capacity building efforts
of mining-impacted
Indigenous communities in the U.S. and Canada
to assure that mining projects do not adversely affect human, cultural, and
the ecological health within their traditional territories.
Download application…
Conference
Fund
Canadian International
Development Agency
The
Conferences and Events Secretariat supports participation
by eligible delegates at
conferences that address topics of particular interest to the Canadian
International
Development Agency (CIDA). Conferences must directly support one or more ofCIDA’s
program priorities (governance, health, basic education, private-sector
development, and environmental sustainability, with gender
equality as a cross-cutting theme), and seek to influence sustainable
development in
developing countries and/or countries in transition. In response to Agency
requirements,
the Conference and Events Secretariat may favour conferences that address
areas where CIDA is strengthening
its programming. Conferences may be held in Canada or abroad.
The Conference Fund will
support up to 33% of total
conference costs, to a
maximum of $250,000,
towards the participation of eligible delegates.
For more
information,
click
here.
Director
of
Development,
Energy and
Climate Change
United Nations Foundation
(Deadline—2/8/08)
Director of
Development, Energy and Climate Change is an integral part of the United
Nations expanding Partnership Development team. Under the direction of the Executive
Director of Development, the position has primary responsibility for
worldwide fundraising and partnership development for UNF’s energy and
climate change program, including the identification, cultivation,
solicitation and stewardship of individual, government, corporate, foundation
and NGO donors.
For more information, click here.
Other job openings:
· Gifts and
Stewardship Manager
· Director, Major
Gifts
Program
Officer
Fund
for Global
Human Rights
(Deadline—2/11/08)
The Fund for Global
Human Rights seeks a Program Officer to manage grantmaking and technical
assistance programs in South and Southeast Asia.
The Program Officer's primary responsibility is the management of a grants
portfolio totaling over $1,000,000 that will be comprised of approximately 60
organizations in 4 countries (Philippines, Thailand, India, and Pakistan).
For more information, click
here.
Executive
Director, Grants Manager Network
The
Ford Foundation
(Deadline—2/15/09)
The Grants Managers
Network (GMN) provides a forum to exchange information about grants
management and its relevance to efficient and effective grant making. GMN has
more than 1,100 members nationwide representing 750+ private, community and
corporate foundations. Twelve regional groups also support
members--principally through periodic convenings—to discuss legal,
technological, financial and other professional topics of mutual interest.
For more information, click here.
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