Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers
This two-day workshop is a comprehensive orientation for new grantmakers. Grantmaking professionals will engage in discussions and exercises on topics such as foundation stewardship and accountability, grants management, and the financial and legal aspects of grantmaking. The workshop is designed for new foundation staff and those interested in a refresher course in grantmaking. Broaden your understanding of philanthropy, learn about best practices for ethical and effective grantmaking, and acquire new skill-building tools to help you in your work.

Session Designer: Pamela Colman, education director, Council on Foundations
Presenters:  Lori Fuller, director, Evaluation and Research, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust; Colburn S. Wilbur, trustee, The David & Lucile Packard Foundation; Kelly Shipp Simone, deputy general counsel, Council on Foundations; Matthew Nelson, assistant vice president, Council on Foundations

Red Rocks Amphitheatre Service Project
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a naturally formed amphitheatre located 15 miles west of Denver and set between two 300-foot-tall monolithic sandstone formations, is world renowned to performers and patrons for its unique environment and natural acoustics. Conference attendees are invited to join in an effort to keep the park clean and free of non-native plants and ensure the continued use of this unique national treasure. This should be a great field trip to kick off your visit to Denver. Transportation will be provided. Attendees must sign a Council on Foundations Liability Waiver and a Department of Parks and Recreation "Release and Waiver of Liability" form. Dress appropriately (Long pants and long-sleeved shirts recommended and dress in layers). Wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. Bring personal medications, drink plenty of water, and do not wear headsets. Red Rocks Park includes a Visitors Center (which includes photos and videos of some of the hundreds of concerts played there), restaurant, gift shop, and miles of hiking trails.

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy—2010 National Conference Building a Movement, Making an Impact - Morning Plenary: Philanthropic Effectiveness

 A high-energy, high-impact learning and networking experience, this two-day conference will offer interactive workshops, inter-generational learning, personalized career counseling, peer networking, and a unique opportunity to meet other non-profit professionals.

Registration Required. Contact: Rebecca Schumer at rebecca@epip.org; www.epip.org

Presenters: Judy Mohraz, president and CEO, Virginia G. Piper Trust and David Campbell, president, The McGregor Fund

In today’s rapidly changing environment, CEOs and trustees face a variety of management and governance challenges. Join us for an engaging conversation as CEOs and trustees from three foundations share insights about effective leadership and innovative management strategies. Patty Stonesifer, chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, will moderate this lively conversation, which will cover topics ranging from governance to board dynamics to defining appropriate roles and responsibilities for the Board and CEO. Afterward, trustees and CEOs will have an opportunity to break into smaller CEO- and trustee-only sessions to continue the dialogue and exchange ideas and explore possible solutions with peers.

Moderator: Patty Stonesifer, chair, Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution
Presenters: Luz Vega-Marquis, president and CEO, Marguerite Casey Foundation; Freeman Hrabowski, board chair, Marguerite Casey Foundation; Mary Jalonick, president, the Dallas Foundation; John Castle, board chair, the Dallas Foundation; William J. Hybl, chairman and CEO, El Pomar Foundation

Insights for Philanthropic Leadership: A Trustee and CEO Conversation
Lunch and Keynote Presentation: Philanthropy, Governance, and the IRS

Featuring Douglas Shulman, commissioner, Internal Revenue Service

Insights for Philanthropic Leadership: A Trustee and CEO Conversation
Concurrent Sessions-“Insights on Leadership in Today’s Philanthropy”

• Grantmaking, Grant Jury Subpoenas, and ACORN
• Pathways to Leadership
• CEO and Trustee Transitions: Managing Change

43rd Annual Film & Video Festival
Throughout the conference, a diverse, engaging, and entertaining slate of films that represent the power of media to effect change, and the power of foundations to fund some of the best documentary filmmaking of our times, will be screened.
See the schedule here.

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy-2010 National Conference Building a Movement, Making an Impact

Registration Required. Contact: Rebecca Schumer at rebecca@epip.org; www.epip.org

Insights for Philanthropic Leadership: A Trustee and CEO Conversation - Break

Insights for Philanthropic Leadership: A Trustee and CEO Conversation
Concurrent Sessions

• What if the IRS Audits Your Foundations?
• Data on Foundation Effectiveness: What a Trustee Needs to Know
• Investing for Impact: Mission Related Investing

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy-2010 National Conference Building a Movement, Making an Impact

Registration Required. Contact: Rebecca Schumer at rebecca@epip.org; www.epip.org

Association of Black Foundation Executives
Registration for the James A. Joseph Lecture and Awards Ceremony

Contact: Marcus Walton at mwalton@abfe.org

Global Philanthropy Reception and Dinner

Join colleagues who share a global grantmaking perspective for a reception and dinner hosted by the Council on Foundations Global Philanthropy Committee. Featured presenter, Helmo Hernández, is president of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. He is a noted art historian and specialist in visual arts, theatre, and cultural policy and development. A well-respected curator and critic, Hernandez serves as an advisor to the National Fine Arts Council and the National Performing Arts Council and as an adjunct professor at the University of Havana and at the Superior Institute of Arts. He currently is working with the Cleveland Community Foundation to further promote philanthropy in Cuba.

Award presentation: A Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Digital Media which honors the very best in foundation-funded media will be awarded to The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court, a film by Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onis.

Association of Black Foundation Executives
James A. Joseph Lecture and Awards Ceremony
This year, ABFE celebrates the 19th Annual James A. Joseph Lecture on Philanthropy. Established in 1991 as a tribute to James A. Joseph, ABFE co-founder and distinguished leader in the field of philanthropy, the lecture recognizes an outstanding individual whose leadership and contributions as a visionary philanthropic leader have helped advance progressive philanthropic ideals, strengthen grantmaking institutions, and build vital black communities.

Registration Required. Contact: Marcus Walton at mwalton@abfe.org

Association of Black Foundation Executives
ABFE Awards Reception

ABFE Reception following the James A. Joseph Lecture and Awards Ceremony. RSVP to Marcus Walton at mwalton@abfe.org

Saturday Night at the Movies:
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court

Over 120 countries have united to form the International Criminal Court (ICC) – the first permanent court created to prosecute perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The film follows ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and his team for three years as he issues arrest warrants in Uganda, Congo, Colombia, and Darfur. Film by Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onis.

Dessert, coffee, screening and discussion with filmmakers. Tickets: GFEM members $10; non-GFEM members $15. Tickets on sale in Resource Central and at the door.

8:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.

Philanthropic Leadership: A Trustee and CEO Conversation (cont.)

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers (cont.)

Opening Session for Corporate Grantmakers
Corporate participants are invited to kick off the conference at a program designed for you to connect with and learn from your peers in corporate philanthropy. This year, FSG Social Impact Advisors will offer a provocative framework for approaching social change, social justice, and social innovation in a competitive business context. Learn about their concept of authentic engagement and the implications for the future of corporate philanthropy. Where does the foundation fit in this model? What are the risks? What is now required of professionals? Hear reactions from your peers and join the conversation through interactive, small-group discussions.

Facilitators: Kyle Peterson, managing director, FSG Social Impact Advisors
Presenter: Michael Yutrzenka, executive director, Cisco Foundation; David Jerome, senior vice president, Corporate Services & Corporate Responsibility, Intercontinental Hotels Group; Paurvi Bhatt, Senior Director, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment, Care Program, Levi Strauss and Co.;David Etzwiler, Executive Director, Medtronic Foundation and Carrie Varoquiers, President, The McKesson Foundation
Session Designer: Elizabeth Sullivan, managing director, Corporate Services, Council on Foundation

Sponsered by:

Asian-Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy Annual Membership Meeting
Join us for the AAPIP 2010 Annual Membership Meeting. AAPIP members, partners, and friends from across the country will convene in Denver to share updates on the latest developments with each of our nine chapters and to welcome new board members and officers. The meeting will also be an opportunity to update members and friends on programs scheduled throughout the year and across the nation to recognize AAPIP 2010, 20 years of achievement in our communities and in the field of philanthropy. Contact: Priscilla K. Lee at priscilla@aapip.org

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy-2010 National Conference Building a Movement, Making an Impact - Concurrent Sessions

Registration required. Contact: Rebecca Schumer at rebecca@epip.org; www.epip.org

Native Americans in Philanthropy Annual Meeting

The annual meeting will present an overview of the progress and status of Native-Americans in philanthropy. We will review our programming, welcome new board members and kick off of our 20th Anniversary Journey: Weaving Leadership, Indigenous People and Resources. Contact: Daniel Lemm at dlemm@nativephilanthropy.org

International Funders for Indigenous Peoples
Exploring the Trend of International Grantmaking Specifically to Indigenous Communities

Contact: Evelyn Arce at evelyn@internationalfunders.org

Association of Black Foundation Executives Annual Membership Meeting
The ABFE Insight Forum brings to our members, supporters and friends critical issues, trends, ideas and discussion around black communities. A facilitator will lead a necessary and urgent discussion around this year’s conference theme: Advancing our Mission-Promoting Effective and Responsive Philanthropy in Black Communities.

Contact: Marcus Walton at mwalton@abfe.org

The Story of Stuff:
How We Are Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—and a Vision for Change
A key part of the American dream is centered on accumulating ever more, and better, stuff. Yet all the stuff in our lives is taking an enormous toll on the environment, public health, equity, personal happiness, and even our sense of citizenship and democracy. Annie Leonard, writer and host of the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, exposes the often hidden costs and provides a hopeful vision for moving beyond the age of Stuff. The Story of Stuff has been viewed by over 7 million people around the world since its launch in December 2007. In 2008, Leonard was named one of Time magazine’s Heroes of the Environment.

Moderator: Rachel Leon, executive director, Environmental Grantmakers Association
Presenter: Anne Leonard, director, The Story of Stuff Project
Session Designers: Eleni SotosCoordinator, Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and ConsumptionRachel Leon, executive director, Environmental Grantmakers Association

Special Funders Briefing: The War on Children - Gun Violence in the U.S. and Mexican Cities
The effects of gun violence on children, youth, and teens on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border raises many questions about the day-to-day quality of life for children exposed to such violence and the effect such violence will have on this generation. At the same time, issues of key interest to foundations—ranging from early childhood education to immigration—are held hostage by the gun violence that permeates these children’s lives. The funders’ briefing will focus on how gun violence affects children and youth on both sides of the border, explore parallels and differences, and discuss the mental price being exacted by children’s exposure, direct and indirect, to gun violence.  At the same time, it will offer an overview of how the easy availability of increasingly lethal firearms in the United States help facilitate such violence--in both Mexican and U.S. cities.

Moderator: David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief, Mother Jones
Presenters: William D. Newell, special agent in charge/Division Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (Phoenix Field Division); Dr. William Arroyo, medical director of the Child, Youth, and Family Administration for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health; Dr. Arturo Cervantes Trejo, deputy general director of the National Center for Injury Prevention, Ministry of Health (Mexico); Julio Marcal, program officer, The California Wellness Foundation
Session Designer: Michael Fleming, executive director, David Bohnett Foundation

9:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Insights for Philanthropic Leadership: A Trustee and CEO Conversation - Break

10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

• Next Generation Trustee: Insights into Engaging the Next Generations
• Madoff, The Markets, and Trustee Liability

Native Americans in Philanthropy - Native Philanthropy Funders' Briefing: Strategic Funding for Impact and Change
Engage in strategic thinking and conversation around impact and change goals for your work in Indian Country. Non-native and native foundation professionals and tribal giving programs will share their intentions and lessons learned on the journey toward development of strategic grantmaking and partnerships between the philanthropic community and Native-Americans.

Contact: Daniel Lemm at dlemm@nativephilanthropy.org

Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy—2010 National Conference - Closing Plenary: Tying it All Together

Closing Plenary featuring Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO, NAACP. EPIP is offering a one-day special registration for this event ($25). Contact: Rebecca Schumer at rebecca@epip.org; www.epip.org

Opening Session of the 2010 Council on Foundations Annual Conference - Intersections: Public, Private, and Philanthropic Roles in Creating Change

Featured presenter: Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor and assistant to the president for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement

Award presentations: The Newman’s Own Award in honor of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward for Distinguished Professional and Philanthropic Service. The Newman’s Own Award seeks to honor an individual who has used his or her professional success for philanthropic service. This year, the signature award goes to Newman’s Own Foundation.
The Women & Philanthropy LEAD Award presented by the Women’s Funding Network celebrates outstanding risk-takers and innovators in the philanthropic community who, through their determination and leadership, have increased funding for programs that promote gender equity and diversity.

Voices of Colorado Presenter: Jeff Pryor, executive director, The Anschutz Family Foundation, Chair, 2010 Annual Conference Host Committee

Break in Resource Central

Knowledge Exchange for Corporate Grantmakers
Confer about shared concerns and potential solutions with other leaders in corporate philanthropy. Meet informally between plenary and concurrent sessions at the Knowledge Exchange.

1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Mini-Plenary Sessions

• Globalization and the Challenge for Education Improvement
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall B-G, Third Level
  
  

  Today, the United States is the only industrialized nation whose next generation is on pace to be more poorly educated than the last. The stakes for education improvement have been raised significantly in this era of globalization and the rapid development of other nations. Once the envy of the world, improvements in the education system of the United States have not kept pace with improvements in other countries. Broad-based acceleration of education improvement that benefits all children requires a comprehensive and coherent set of strategies for district reform, teacher quality, and higher standards.
  
  Presenters: Andreas Schleicher, Indicators and Analysis Division (Directorate for Education), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  Respondent: Former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, president and CEO, Alliance for Excellent Education
  Session Designers: Lydia Logan, vice president and executive director, Chamber of Commerce Institute for Competitiveness; Dan Leeds, board chair, Alliance for Excellent Education; Chris Shearer, director of grantmaking, National Geographic Education Foundation

• How Can We Get to a Healthier America?
  Convention Center, 201/203, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Where we live, learn, work and play dramatically affects the health of everyone – for better or for worse. The sometimes toxic relationship between how we live our lives and the economic, social and physical environments that surround us has resulted in some of our most persistent health problems. This session will spotlight the importance of leaders in all sectors – from philanthropy to businesses to governments - in working together to support improved health, and share successful strategies that are making progress on becoming a healthier society
  
  Moderator: Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief, Health Affairs
  Presenters: Kati Haycock, president, Education Trust; David Williams,
  Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health,
  Harvard University School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health; Derek Yach, senior vice president, global health policy, PepsiCo; Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO, PolicyLink
  Session Designer: Robin Mockenhaupt, chief of staff, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  
  

• Mini-Plenary Session: Social Justice: From Here to 2030
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial A-C, Third Level
  
  

  What should we be doing—now—to address issues that pose the greatest challenge to justice in our world over the next 20 years? Increasingly, disparate movements around the world identify their work in social justice terms, from the campaigns for “green jobs” and immigration reform in the United States to indigenous land reform in Mexico, women’s rights in Belfast, and climate change everywhere on the planet. Leading foundations, from the Ford Foundation to the Surdna Foundation, have come to embrace social justice as a guiding principle of their grantmaking. Of course, any progressive trend comes with a backlash, and of late TV talking head Glenn Beck has equated social justice with Nazism and Communism and urged his listeners to abandon churches which preach a social justice gospel.
  
  Is social justice a strong and sufficiently inclusive and adaptable framework for today’s leading global challenges? What are its key elements, and how do they help donors make critical strategic choices? How is impact and effectiveness measured in social justice campaigns and funding? Is it a crossroads for work across geographies, identities and issues?
  
  Eight social justice activists, most with strong ties to philanthropy, will consider these and other questions in a free-ranging conversation with Gara LaMarche, followed by reflections by Opportunity Agenda executive director and founder Alan Jenkins and interactive discussion groups in which the activists will participate.
  
  
  Moderator: Gara LaMarche, president and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
  Presenters: Van Jones, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress ; Eboo Patel, founder and executive director, Interfaith Youth Core; Deepak Bhargava, executive director, Center for Community Change; Kumaran Naidoo, international executive director, Greenpeace; Avila Kilmurray, director, Community Foundation for Northern Ireland; Akwasi Aidoo, executive director, TrustAfrica; Constance Rice, co-director, Advancement Project - Los Angeles; Ana Paula Hernandez, consultant, Angelica Foundation; Gara LaMarche, president and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies; Stephen B. Heintz, president, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  Session Designer: Suzanne Siskel, director, Social Justice Philanthropy, Ford Foundation

• Social Innovation: What It Is and What It Means for Philanthropy
  Convention Center, 205/207, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  This introductory session to the Social Innovation Track will endeavor to answer those questions with a thought provoking opening keynote address followed by panel discussions addressing these questions and more. There’s much to discuss as philanthropy moved from the simply supporting the development of programs to the exchange of novel ideas and new relationships to address positive societal change.
  

  Moderator: Katherine Fulton, president, Monitor Institute
  Presenters: Andrew Hargadon, professor and Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship, Graduate School of Management, University of California-Davis; Judith Rodin, president, Rockefeller Foundation
  Session Designers: Gabriel Kasper, Monitor Institute, Ophelia Basgal, vice president, Community Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

• Education: Federal Policy and Advocacy: Fixing No Child Left Behind and What Foundations Can Do About It
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall B/C, Third Level
  
  

  Fixing No Child Left Behind (a.k.a. the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) is moving to the front burner this year. Possible changes in this federal policy will impact the resources, structure, and governance of public schools for decades. Join philanthropic leaders in a roundtable discussion about key proposals for changing education policy to reflect the values of accountability, community, choice, equity, and innovation to improve student outcomes across the spectrum from early education to college readiness. Learn appropriate and effective actions for foundations to help shape and build the public will to reform the future of America’s public education system.
  
  Moderator: Former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, president and CEO, Alliance for Excellent Education
  Presenters: Barbara Chow, education program director, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; John Jackson, president, The Schott Foundation for Public Education; Stefanie Sanford, deputy director US program, policy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Ann Segal, director for Disadvantaged Children and Families, Wellspring Advisors, LLC
  Session Designers: Dan Leeds, board chair, Alliance for Excellent Education; Jason Franklin, board of directors, North Star Fund

• Health Reform 101: What’s Happening, What’s Next, and What’s the Role for Foundations?
  Convention Center, 203, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Many opinions exist regarding what health reform should look like for Americans. The recently passed legislation certainly will change the landscape. Join leading health experts as they explore what will happen next in health reform and what the debate means for foundations.
  
  Presenters: Dr. John McDonough, former senior health advisor to Senator Ted Kennedy’s Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee and key architect, Massachusetts Health Plan; Julie Rovner, National Public Radio (NPR) health policy correspondent and regular contributor to Kaiser Health News, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Dr. Lauren LeRoy, president and CEO, Grantmakers In Health
  Session Designer and moderator: Dr. Drew Altman, president and CEO, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

• Navigating the Crossroads of Global Social Justice Issues
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial B, Third Level
  
  

  Many foundations aspire to a social justice vision, but our approaches are often segmented and siloed—focusing on single issues, even when those issues intersect with others. How does a funder work successfully at the crossroads of multiple social justice issues? These intersections can be tricky to navigate, but impact requires bridging these usual divides, despite the challenges. During this session, social justice plenary speakers will return to examine specific cases where organizations have collaborated across issues, sectors, and population focus and built alliances that are more effective and have greater impact than single-issue campaigns and programs.
  
  Moderator: Alan Jenkins, executive director, The Opportunity Agenda
  Presenters: Van JonesSenior Fellow, Center for American Progress ; Eboo Patel, founder and executive director, Interfaith Youth Core; Deepak Bhargava, executive director, Center for Community Change; Kumaran Naidoo, international executive director, Greenpeace; Avila Kilmurray, director, Community Foundation for Northern Ireland; Akwasi Aidoo, executive director, TrustAfrica; Constance Rice, co-director, Advancement Project - Los Angeles; Ana Paula Hernandez, consultant, Angelica Foundation
  Session Designers: Suzanne Siskel, director, Social Justice Philanthropy, Ford Foundation; Daranee Petsod, executive director, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees; Alan Jenkins, executive director, The Opportunity Agenda

• Bringing Social Innovation to Market
  Convention Center, 207, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Businesses follow specific practices to develop, design, and bring new products to market. What can we learn from those practices and how do we encourage the kinds of creative collaborations that help develop and bring social innovations to market? This discussion will provide examples of both product and social innovation development and the risk taking that comes with creating and bringing to scale cutting edge solutions.
  
  Moderator: Rohit Ramaswamy, Gillings Clinical visiting associate professor, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Presenters: Ellen Goldberg Luger, executive director, General Mills Foundation; Ted Howard, executive director, The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland; Max Schorr, co-founder of GOOD Magazine and Community Director
  Session Designer: Ophelia Basgal, vice president, Community Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

• Legislative and Regulatory Roundup
  Convention Center, 201, Meeting Room Level
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  In this session, we will cover the important policy issues that could affect your foundation and what’s being done about them. We’ll look at what’s happening in Washington, D.C., now—in Congress and in the regulatory arena of the IRS and Treasury. We’ll also discuss foundation engagement at the state and local levels and how relationships with local policy-makers can be a game changer for your foundation.
  
  Presenters and Session Designers: Janne Gallagher, vice president and general counsel, Andrew Schulz, vice president, legal and government Relations, Kelly Shipp Simone, deputy general counsel, Council on Foundations

• Protecting Your Investments: Leadership Development for Sustainability
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall D/E, Third Level
  
  

  With three-fourths of senior management forecast to exit the nonprofit sector in the next decade, a leadership tsunami is looming and we must prevent a crisis! It is absolutely imperative for the philanthropic and nonprofit sector to actively cultivate talented leadership in order to undergird its capacity, prove its value, and effect positive change. This session will increase participants’ awareness, activities, and ambitions associated with the recruitment, development, and retention of a talented and diverse workforce. We’ll address the potential for youth, young professionals, and midcareer transitioners to successfully enter the sector.
  
  Facilitators: Alexandra Mitchell, president, Pathfinder Solutions, Inc.; Jeff Pryor, executive director, Anschutz Family Foundation
  Presenters: Steven Bauer, executive director, Nonprofit Workforce Coalition, American Humanics, Inc.; Adeeb Khan, trustee; Young Nonprofit Professionals Network and community services director, American Red Cross
  Session Designers: Alexandra Mitchell, president, Pathfinder Solutions, Inc.; Jeff Pryor, executive director, Anschutz Family Foundation

  
  
• Living Cities - Past, Present, and Future
  Hyatt Regency, Granite A-C, Third Level
  
  

  We need to treat our cities' problems comprehensively. We must take an integrative approach, simultaneously strengthening neighborhood institutions from the bottom up and re-engineering from the top down, the public systems that fail to create adequate opportunities. We must align local, state, and federal policies to effectively address the issues surrounding jobs, housing, climate change, asset building, and health care. We must leverage the collective power of the public, private, and philanthropic sectors especially through new and innovative ways of aggregating capital.
  
  Moderator: John Powers, board member, Ettinger Foundation, board president, Alliance for Sustainable Colorado
  Presenters: David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of environmental studies and politics, Oberlin College; Laura Sanchez , Program Coordinator, Living Cities; Llew Wells, initiative leader, Living City Block-Rocky Mountain Institute; Peter Park, manager of community planning and development, city and county of Denver
  Session Designers: Chet Tchozewski. president, Global Greengrants Fund; John Powers, board member, Ettinger Foundation, and board president, Alliance for Sustainable Colorado

• Philanthropic Strategies to Address Poverty and Disparity Using Race + Gender Lens
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall F/G, Third Level
  
  

  This session will examine philanthropic investments in alleviating poverty and disparities. Funders that target improving life outcomes of marginalized communities will lead a discussion about the importance of applying a race and gender lens to grantmaking.
  

  Moderator: Sherece West, President and CEO, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
  Presenters: Mia Herndon, executive director, Third Wave Foundation; Mark Constantine, vice president, Strategy, Policy and Learning, Jessie Ball duPont Fund; Rashid Shabazz, program officer, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, U.S. Programs, Open Society Institute
  Session Designer: Maya Garrett, program manager, Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families
  Session Host: Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families

• Hip Hop Arts in Education
  Hyatt Regency, Agate A-C, Third Level
  
  

  Hip-hop performers, writers, artists, and educators are forming exciting collaborations to promote literacy and build social awareness among students. Using hip-hop culture as an educational tool and unifying force, hip-hop leaders are engaging artists, developing curriculums, training teachers, and enlisting educational, research, and art institutions, as well as neighborhood centers as partners. The session will highlight the hip-hop art as a tool to facilitate critical thinking, cultural literacy, and leadership development; and hip-hop’s viability as an instrument for social change.
   
  Moderator: David E. Kirkland, assistant professor of English and Urban Education, New York University
  Presenters: Anthony "K~Swift" Scott, Youth Board (World Wide) and project coordinator, Urban Word NYC; Martha Diaz, founder and chair, Hip-Hop Association/Hip-Hop Education Center; Cynthia Keteku, poet, spoken word/teaching artist, Urban Word NYC; Carvens Lissaint, poet, spoken word/teaching artist, Urban Word NYC
  Session Designer: Janet Brown, executive director, Grantmakers in the Arts; Tommer Peterson, director of information and resources, Grantmakers in the Arts
  Session Host: Grantmakers in the Arts

• You Want What? Effecting Change and Building Support for Streamlining
  Convention Center, 205, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  You know your application and/or reporting practices are cumbersome for your organization as well as your grant seekers. But how do you build support for change? During this interactive workshop, participants will use Project Streamline's “Guide to Streamlining” to understand and share experiences about the phases of streamlining. This workshop is ideal for those beginning a streamlining process or in the middle of one.

  Presenter and Session Designer: Michelle Greanias, executive director, Grants Managers Network
  Session Host: Grant Managers Network

• Citizens United vs. FEC Supreme Court Decision: Victory for Free Speech or Threat to Democracy?
  

  The Supreme Court's recent Citizens United v. FEC decision removes decades-old barriers that have prevented corporations from publicly supporting or opposing political candidates. This session will explore how this landmark decision may impact federal, state, and judicial elections, policy-making, issue campaigns, and efforts to register and mobilize voters.
  
  Moderator: Stephen B. Heintz, president, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc.
  Presenters: Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D-Maryland, 4th District), United States Representative;  Michael Waldman, executive director, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law; Cynthia Canary, director, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform
  Session Host: Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation

Global Philanthropy Leadership Initiative Launch
Cross-border grantmaking currently meets with numerous challenges around the globe. Hear how the Council, the European Foundation Centre and the Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support have collaborated to break down barriers to global philanthropy. The session will address the global challenges, the legal and policy environment as well as strategies to achieve social change while strengthening global philanthropy and leadership.

Moderator: Carol Larson, president and CEO, The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Presenters: Steve Gunderson, president and CEO, Council on Foundations; Gerard Salole, chief executive, European Foundation Centre; Fernando Rossetti, secretary general, Group of Institutes, Foundations & Enterprises; William S. White, president and CEO, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Session Designer: Eliana Vera, managing director, Global Philanthropy, Council on Foundations

Sponsered by:

8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast Plenary Session

Keynote Speaker: Former Vice President Al Gore

Al Gore served as Vice President in the Bill Clinton administration 1993-2001. As a former member of Congress, author of four best-selling books, writer and star of the Academy-award winning film “An Inconvenient Truth”, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and now co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that focuses on sustainable investing, Gore is an expert at uniting seemingly disparate causes and the people who support them … on behalf of the common good. His unparalleled perspective promises to be provocative and illuminating to the conference theme – Intersections: Social Change, Social Justice, Social Innovation.

Gore also is cofounder and chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a senior advisor to Google, Inc., Gore also is visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Award presentations: The 2010 Board Chair's Award honors business leaders whose philanthropic work and contributions have led to transformative change in their home communities. Through their organizational leadership and personal example, these leaders have inspired, emboldened, and enabled others to give of their time, talent, and treasure to improve the lives and life chances of those who all too often are overlooked, left out, and left behind. The recipients of the inaugural Board Chair’s Award are two leaders who have embraced opportunities and demonstrated the resolve to confront the challenges of our time. They are: Sam Gary, an oil man and founder, Piton Foundation, and Thomas Cousins, real estate developer and founder of the Purpose Build Communities.

Voices of Colorado Presenter: Chet Tchozewski, president, Global Greengrants Fund, board member Council on Foundations

Sponsered by:

• Denver Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Tour
  9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

  Get an overview of how Denver has managed model transit programs. Participants will meet in the hotel lobby and walk one block to the north bound light rail station. We’ll ride the Light Rail to the 27th and Welton Street stop (about 10 minutes).  The Urban Land Conservancy, Enterprise Community Partners, Hope Communities, and Denver Housing Authority will share with us their strategies.  Participants will then ride the Light Rail back to the hotel.  Participants will utilize translation head phones so that everyone can hear the presenters as they ride the light rail. 

• Healthy Schools
  9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

  Health and education funders join forces with schools, parents, and the community to keep kids healthy and improve academic performance. Learn more about the synergy between school-based health, physical activity, nutrition education, and healthy meals in improving the overall health of children. The site visit will begin with a panel discussion with educators and funders followed by site visits to several schools that provide:

  • Support for innovation, charter schools with the goal of
    improved academic performance
  • School-based health care
  • Healthy meals
  • Opportunities to be physically active
    
• Our Surplus, Their Survival: Project C.U.R.E. Provisions for Global Health
  9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon

  PROJECT C.U.R.E. (Commission on Urgent Relief & Equipment) was founded in 1987 to meet the need for medical supplies, equipment, and services around the world. Since its inception, the agency has delivered medical relief to needy people in more than 120 countries. This site visit will discuss the healthcare needs of the international community and strategies for support . A panel presentation, facility tour, and hands-on volunteer opportunity will be incorporated into the visit.  

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

• Getting Out of the Catch-Up Business: PreK-3rd as the First Indispensable Step
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall B/C, Third Level
  
  

  By third grade, children must have the knowledge, skills, and disposition to succeed in school. By then, children must develop the skills to read, to learn, to understand and use mathematical concepts, and to be engaged in a learning community of peers and adults. Doing so requires that students begin early with quality pre-kindergarten and continue with instruction that builds on what children have learned and what they will be expected to learn. This approach (known increasingly as Pre-K-3rd) is being tried across the country. These years are the first, indispensable link in a Pre-K-16 education system that prepares all students for college.
  

  Moderator: Ralph Smith, executive vice president, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  Presenters: Jerry Weast, superintendent, Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools; Timothy Knowles, John Dewey director, Urban Education Institute, University of Chicago; Ruby Takanishi, president and CEO, Foundation for Child Development
  Session Designer: Fasaha M. Traylor, senior program officer, Foundation for Child Development

• Challenges and Opportunities in Health Programs Across Sectors
  Convention Center, 205, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Hear from funders and organizations who have implemented programs addressing health and other social factors (education, income, housing). Presenters and session participants will discuss the challenges and opportunities inherent in this type of cross-sectoral work. What are the successes and barriers in implementing programs? How were barriers addressed? Do target audiences understand connections between health and social factors?  What was learned and how will that influence future directions? How are health outcomes improved by addressing social factors?
   
  Presenters: Joan Cleary, vice president Foundation and Community Leadership,
  Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation; Gail C. Christopher,
  vice president for Programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Anthony Iton, M.D., senior vice president, the California Endowment; Robin Mockenhaupt, chief of staff, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Session Designers: Robin Mockenhaupt, chief of staff, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Movement Building for Social Justice
  Convention Center, 210/212, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  How can philanthropy best contribute toward the core social justice strategy of movement building? This session will explore ways foundations support movement building in a variety of social justice issue areas —from same-sex marriage, to immigrant rights, human rights, and campaign finance reform. Presenters will discuss strategies that have and have not worked—from attempts to connect the dots between policy and organizing, to incorporating technology to support activism or using the arts to challenge perceptions. Workshop participants will distill these into lessons for foundations working in and around social justice.
  

  Moderator: Tim Sweeney, president and CEO, Gill Foundation
  Presenters: Ryan Friedrichs, executive director, State Voices; Carlos Saavedra, executive director, United We Dream; Adrienne Maree Brown, executive director, the Ruckus Society; Katherine Acey, executive director, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice; Chet Tchozewski, president, Global Greengrants Fund; Erica Hunt, president, Twenty-First Century Foundation
  Session Designers: Suzanne Siskel, director, Social Justice Philanthropy, Ford Foundation; Henry Izumizaki, CEO, One Nation, Learning Director, The Russell Family Foundation; Karen Zelermyer, executive director, Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues

• Unlocking Social Innovation through Prize Philanthropy
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall F/G, Third Level
  
  

  Prizes have been used for centuries to reward excellence and spur innovation, but in recent years, prizes and challenges have increased dramatically in number, diversity, and ambition. This growth is driven by new appreciation of the many ways in which they produce change, their flexibility, and their ability to shift risk. Private and philanthropic funders have led the surge, but interest in prizes is growing in the public sector as well. This session will look at the potential for prizes in generating breakthroughs on enduring social problems, different types of prizes, and emerging best practices in prize design and implementation.
  

  Moderator: Gretchen Crosby Sims, director of strategic initiatives, The Joyce Foundation
  Presenters: Jonathan Bays, management consultant, McKinsey & Co.; Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, chairman and CEO, X Prize Foundation; Charlie Brown, executive director, Ashoka Changemakers
  Session Designer: Ellen Alberding, president, the Joyce  Foundation

• Technology and Philanthropy in the 21st Century
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial C, Third Level
  
  

  In 2009, the Council on Foundations convened a task force to look at technology and philanthropy in the 21st century. The report was presented to the Council’s Board of Directors in November, and is now being taken to the field for better understanding of the exciting and transforming potential technology can/will have on our work. Join Akhtar Badshah, Council board member and chair of the task force, along with other philanthropic voices on the task force and the board to better understand the implications of this report for your foundation’s work. At the end of 2010, the task force will provide a final set of recommendations to the Council Board based upon these conversations with the field.
  
  Session Designer and Moderator: Akhtar Badshah, senior director of Global Community Affairs, Microsoft
  Presenter: Technology Task Force Members

• Career Pathways to the Top in Philanthropy: Diversity and Inclusion in Senior and Executive Leadership
  Convention Center, 201, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  How do foundations choose their leaders? Is your foundation preparing for a leadership transition, or are you considering you own individual career advancement plan? How does inclusion factor into decision making? What are the current hiring trends? Learn about successful and promising strategies in inclusive talent acquisition and retention and the role of search committees, human resources officers, and search firms. Participate in an exchange of ideas and information about the senior and executive appointment process.
  

  
  

  Moderator: Ophelia Basgal, vice president, Community Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
  Presenters: Carol Goss, president and CEO, the Skillman Foundation; James Weinberg, founder and CEO, Commongood Careers; Michael Balaoing, senior vice president, The Entertainment Industry Foundation
  Session Designers: Michael Balaoing, senior vice president, Entertainment Industry Foundation; Renée Branch, director, diversity and inclusive practices, Council on Foundations;
  

• Philanthropy and Rural America - Expanding the Conversation
  Hyatt Regency, Granite A-C, Third Level
  
  
  

  Building upon the enthusiasm at the Philanthropy and Rural America conference in Little Rock, Ark., this session will expand upon the discussion of how rural philanthropy is strengthening America’s rural communities. Learn about three ongoing projects and discuss new innovative approaches to problems facing rural communities. Then we will open up the conversation to hear stories and questions directly from attendees. Plan to leave this session with some fresh ideas of how rural philanthropy is tackling chronic problems in rural America along with some new contacts to support your work.
   
  Moderator: Miriam Shark, director of Philanthropic Partnerships, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  Presenters: Karl Stauber, president and CEO, Danville Regional Foundation; Sherece West; president and CEO, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; Racheal Stuart, senior program director, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation; Jeff Pryor, executive director, Anschutz Family Foundation
  Session Designer: Will Heaton, executive assistant to the president, director of board relations, Council on Foundations

• Let’s Go Outside: Building External Champions for Foundations
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall D/E, Third Level
  
  

  Is your foundation meeting the moment? Partnership opportunities with players outside philanthropy have never been greater. Expectations are on the rise—engaged Americans are looking to foundations to find new solutions and speak up. Yet philanthropy still faces an awareness deficit. Few can name the difference foundations make, many misunderstand their scale, and scrutiny isn’t going away. Join a panel of foundation CEOs for a provocative conversation about reaching beyond foundation walls and engaging external leaders. What will it take, in your foundation and across the field? Why has this been so hard? And what’s the opportunity now?
   
  Presenters: Kathleen Odne, executive director, Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation; Sterling Speirn, president and CEO, W. K. Kellogg Foundation; Emmett Carson, CEO and president, Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Sherry Magill, president, Jessie Ball duPont Fund
  Session Designer and Moderator: Mark Sedway, director, Philanthropy Awareness Initiative
  Session Designer: David Morse, vice president, communications, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Economy: Revert or Reset – Strategies for the New Normal
  Convention Center, 207, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  How are foundations adapting more than a year after the recession hit? Now that some time has passed, join us to hear an overview on how foundations have adjusted their grantmaking strategies, how they are working differently inside and outside of the foundation, and how they are altering the kinds of support in order to meet what grantees need now.
  
  Moderator: Susan Wolf Ditkoff, partner, The Bridgespan Group
  Presenters: Kerry Sullivan, president, Bank of America Foundation; Phoebe Boyer, executive director, Tiger Foundation
  Session Designer: Susan Wolf Ditkoff, partner, The Bridgespan Group
  
  

• Trading Power: What Next Gen Offers in Exchange for What Seasoned Leaders Provide
  Convention Center, 203, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Move beyond rhetoric to action for engaging the next generation in creating philanthropy with impact. Building upon a new report from the Council, participants will examine effective engagement of the next generation in family foundations, community foundations, corporate giving programs, and independent private foundations.
   
  Moderator: Dolores Kreiger, managing director, Family Philanthropy Services, Council on Foundations
  Presenters: Sharna Goldseker, vice president, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Inc.; Nicole Robinson, director of corporate giving, Kraft Foods; Rob Collier, president and CEO, Council of Michigan Foundations
  Session Designer: Andrew Ho, member services manager, Council on Foundations
  

• Population, Justice, and the Environment: New Thinking; New Funding Strategies
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial B, Third Level
  
  

  We are living in a pivotal moment—for the environment and for world population. This session offers a progressive framework for understanding and addressing the nexus between population growth and environmental quality. It showcases practical funding strategies to slow population growth and promote sustainability by supporting women’s rights and social justice.
   
  Presenters: Laurie Mazur, director, Population Justice Project; Anju Malhota, vice president, Research, Innovation and Impact, International Center for Research on Women; Brian O'Neill, scientist III, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Denise Shannon, executive director, Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health & Rights
  Session Designer: Denise Shannon, executive director, Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health & Rights
  Session Hosts: Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights

• Civic Pathways Out of Poverty and Into Opportunity
  Agate A-C, 3rd Level
  

  How can civic engagement and national service expansion strategies better serve as pathways to work-force development and post-secondary achievement for low-income youth and adults? Join us to hear the results of a recent fieldwide dialogue and share your views on this important topic.
   
  Moderator: Christopher Gates, executive director, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
  Presenters: Steve Patrick, senior program officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Anne Mosle, vice president for programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Cynthia Jones, vice president for client services, Marga Incorporated
  Session Designer: Christopher Gates, executive director, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
  Session Host: Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement

Noon to 12:30 p.m.

Break in Resource Central

Lunch Session: National Service – Military and Civilian, with Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and Patrick Corvington

Award presentations: Critical Impact Award honors grantmakers who have supported innovative and bold solutions to societal problems and therefore enhancing lives and communities. Recipients for the 2010 are Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s Solar Habitat Program Initiative and W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Access to Recreation Initiative.
The Paul Ylvisaker Award for Public Policy Engagement honors a foundation that has demonstrated excellence in influencing public policy through creative and effective strategy. The 2010 Recipient is the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.

The Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications showcases the ways in which foundations and corporate giving programs use communications strategies and techniques to advance their grantmaking goals. We congratulate this year’s award winners.

Voices of Colorado Presenter: Luella Chavez D'Angelo, president, Western Union Foundation

2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Break in Resource Central

• Boomers Leading Change
  2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  

  Boomers Leading Change is a long-term Rose Community Foundation initiative to engage people over 55 in opportunities for ongoing work, community service, and lifelong learning. Boomers Leading Change recognizes that this large and highly experienced segment of the population has much to offer American society and communities for many years to come.
  

• Building Rural Capacity, Collaboration and Access to Resources through Colorado Philanthropy Days and Rural Regional Council
  2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  

  Learn about two Colorado collaborative efforts. Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days is a 20-year effort that has pipelined millions of dollars into rural communities, built regional collaborations, strengthened nonprofit capacity and enhanced the relationships between public and private grantmakers, nonprofit organizations and local governments. It was previously recognized by the Council on Foundations as a national model. The second is El Pomar Foundation’s Regional Partnership program. This innovative model employs advisory councils of leaders in rural communities throughout the state to recommend how foundation resources are allocated and identify regional priorities. Through this endeavor that encourages councils to think about regional approaches to common issues, El Pomar’s impact in rural areas of Colorado is growing.

• Social Change at the Grassroots: Where Funder Goals Meet Resident Action
  

  Visit Denver communities where funders and residents are working together on issues like education reform and neighborhood redevelopment. This site session connects you with resident leaders who are igniting civic engagement and demonstrates the powerful results of funder/community partnership.

• Early Childhood Takes Center Stage
  

  Early childhood education takes center stage in the Denver area thanks to the leadership of numerous local funders, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, and the support of voters.  Visit with local experts on the historic Clayton Campus east of downtown Denver. There you'll meet with leaders from the Denver Preschool Program, a taxpayer-funded initiative to send every Denver 4-year-old to a high-quality preschool; Clayton Early Learning, one of the nation’s leaders in early childhood education; Qualistar, the statewide organization working with providers, parents, and communities to improve the quality of early childhood education in Colorado; and foundation representatives who fund and work regularly in the field of early care and education.

• Alliance Center and Living Cities: Past, Present and Future
  2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  

  Tour Colorado’s leading green Multi-Tenant Nonprofit Center, the Alliance Center, a project of the non-profit Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, housing over 30 nonprofit tenants. Experience collaboration in action in this award winning, 100-year old warehouse that has been renovated earning US Green Building Council LEED certifications, Gold for Existing Buildings, and Silver for Commercial Interiors, along with EPA Energy Star Leader status. Participants will walk from the conference hotel through downtown Denver to the Alliance Center. Then hear an expert panel discuss innovations in urban paradigms conceived at the Rocky Mountain Institute, transforming an existing multiple-owner, mixed-use city block to become culturally thriving, energy and resource hyper-efficient, and economically sustainable. Please wear comfortable shoes.
  
  Location: Alliance Center, 1536 Wynkoop Street, Denver (10 blocks from the Hyatt Regency Hotel)

• Integrated Health Care at Denver Health
  2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  

  Visit Colorado's primary safety-net institution, Denver Health, a nationally renowned model of integrated care. Denver Health serves 25 percent of Denver residents and one of every three Denver children, efficiently delivering a comprehensive range of integrated health services to Denver’s uninsured and vulnerable populations. Visit a school-based health center and a neighborhood health center and hear an overview of Denver Health’s integrated approach and how foundations have played a key role. The visit will conclude with a walking tour of the Denver Medical Center and a reception with physicians.

• Denver’s Road Home: Funder Collaboration and Co-Investment to End Homelessness
  

  The Denver’s Road Home Funder Collaborative is a network of more than 20 foundations and corporations in Colorado that have co-invested in Denver’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.  Denver’s Road Home offers a promising example of the power of public-private partnerships to leverage cross-sector support and successfully address a challenging social dilemma. This off-site session will feature an introduction to evidence-based solutions for homelessness, followed by a visit to a cutting edge supportive housing program and a provocative conversation with local leaders to identify the necessary ingredients for success in partnerships of this kind.

• The Realities, Delights and Challenges of Immigrant Integration
  

  At this site visit to the Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning, participants will hear about a number of successful immigrant integration and refugee support strategies, witness a pre-employment training program in action, and interact directly with both service providers and refugees who have recently arrived in the U.S. from countries like Iraq, Burma, Somalia and Bhutan. The visit will explore how international challenges impact local communities in the U.S. as refugees come to this country seeking opportunity but face many challenges including economic, language and cultural barriers.   
  The central challenge for modern, diversifying societies is to create a new, broader sense of 'we'. -- Robert D. Putnam

3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions

• Intersections: The Roles of the Public, Private and Philanthropic Sectors in Advancing Community Service
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Convention Center
  
  

  
  Presenters: Stephen Goldsmith, Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education & former mayor of Indianapolis
  Moderator: Henry Izumizaki, Learning Director, The Russell Family Foundation & CEO, One Nation Projec;
  

• It is Rocket Science: The Imperative of STEM
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Convention Center, 205, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Not only does the level of education attainment need to increase, but the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics need to attract a significantly greater number of students to drive our future economic success. What is really working and what is missing. Building a more expansive definition of what it means to be a well-educated person in the 21st Century.
  
  Presenters: Bill Kurtz, dean, Denver School of Science and Technology; Michael Levine, executive director, Sesame Workshop; Patti Curtis, managing director, Washington, D.C., office, Museum of Science (Boston)/National Center for Technological Literacy Inc.
  Session Designers: Deborah McGriff, partner, New Schools Venture Fund;
  Lydia Logan, vice president and executive director, Chamber of Commerce Institute for Competitiveness

• Clearing the Path to Health: Creating Conditions for Healthy Eating and Active Living
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Hyatt Regency, Agate A-C, Third Level
  
  

  Poor community design and lack of high-quality food options get in the way of good health, negatively impacting individuals, families, schools, and businesses. In response, many foundations have focused on developing educational, neighborhood, and workplace environments that create safe communities, encourage healthy lifestyles, and prevent obesity and chronic disease. In this interactive session, participants will hear from leaders in the field on how to approach this growing problem through cross-sectoral partnerships, state and local policy change, and community development.
  

  Moderator: Lauren LeRoy, Ph.D., president and CEO, Grantmakers In Health
  Presenters: Kelly Dunkin, vice president, Philanthropy, The Colorado Health Foundation, Raymond Baxter, senior vice president, Community Benefit, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.; Allison Gertel-Rosenberg, senior policy and program analyst, Nemours; Billie G. Hall, president and CEO, Sunflower Foundation: Health Care for Kansans
  Session Designer: Lauren LeRoy, president and CEO, Grantmakers In Health

• Change Not Charity—Resources Mobilization for Social Justice
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial A, Third Level
  
  

  How can we meaningfully support communities to mobilize grassroots giving and local support beyond money to promote social justice outcomes? The principle of “change not charity” is promoted by social justice funders and networks that enlist public support for and civic engagement in social justice work. Discuss compelling cases from public foundations, giving circles, diversity focused funds, and community foundations.
  
  Moderator: Peggy Saika, President/CEO, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders
  Presenters: Kafi Blumenfield, president and CEO, Liberty Hill Foundation; Michael Roberts, president, First Nations Development Institute; Nicky McIntyre, executive director, Mama Cash Fund for Women; Rodney McKenzie Jr.,executive director, Resource Generation
  Session Designers: Suzanne Siskel, director, Social Justice Philanthropy, Ford Foundation; Linetta Gilbert, senior program officer, Community and Resource Development, Ford Foundation
  

• Scaling What Works
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Convention Center, 203, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Join this conversation with Michele Jolin from the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation to discuss the federal government’s role in scaling community-based solutions. We will discuss how the administration is thinking about and defining “what works”, the role of the Social Innovation Fund as a lever for broader systems change, how the federal government can become a better partner with nonprofits, and how philanthropy can and must play a vital role in this equation for it to succeed.
  
  Presenters: Kathleen Enright, president and CEO, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Michele Jolin, senior advisor for social innovation for the Domestic Policy Council, White House
  Session Designer: Kathleen Enright, president and CEO, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

• The Role and Effect of Technology on Social Innovation
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial C, Third Level
  
  

  Technology has dramatically changed how ideas and values are developed and exchanged and how successes, failures, and impacts are communicated. It also has shifted roles in philanthropic decision making. We’ll discuss specific examples of technology innovations and how they intersect with and impact philanthropy.
  
  Moderator: Julie Trell, director of All Things Fun, Meaningful and Rewarding, Salesforce.com
  Presenters: Perla Ni, CEO, Greatnonprofits ; Sean Stannard-Stockton, CEO, Tactical Philanthropy Advisors; Holly Ross, executive director, NTEN
  Session Designer: Ophelia Basgal, vice president, Community Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

• Authentic CSR: Moving Beyond Corporate Philanthropy for Social Change AND Business Impact
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial B, Third Level
  
  

  Many companies are transcending traditional notions of corporate social responsibility to deliver valuable change for both the business and society. Driving this trend is a belief that by tapping into all company assets, corporations can create social impact and increase sustainability—both at a larger scale than ever could be achieved through philanthropy alone. What is the role of corporate philanthropy in supporting this vision? How can these be done without self-dealing? What are challenges? What could go wrong? This session will address these and other questions through the real-life example of companies currently making this transition.
  
  Moderator: Kyle Peterson, managing director, FSG Social Impact Advisors
  Presentor: Chris Pinney, director, Research and Policy, The Center for Corporate Citizenship, Carroll School of Management, Boston College; Charles Moore, executive director, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy; David Etzwiler, executive director, Medtronic Foundation
  Session Designer: Elizabeth Sullivan, director, Corporate Services, Council on Foundations

• Post-Recession Workforce Innovations: Smart Ideas for the Public, Private, and Philanthropic Sectors
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall B/C, Third Level
  
  

  The economic recession has exposed the glaring deficiencies in the education levels and new skills needed by many of the employers who are struggling to create the needed new jobs. Low-income job seekers will be left behind as the economic landscape improves if they do not acquire new skills and education credentials to succeed in a work world that will reward those who can meet the competitive requirements. In this election year, Congress and the Obama administration will be faced with finding new solutions to spur job creation, and targeted public investments in new industries’ skill training and re-training are expected to help workers whose jobs are never coming back. This session will highlight current ideas about how to position the philanthropic sector as a source of innovation for new public policies and government programs in time for the post-recession upswing in public sector for the benefit of communities, employers, and workers.
   
  Moderator: Bob Giloth, vice president, Family Economic Success,The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  Presenters: Doris Koo, president and CEO, Enterprise Community Partners; Clifford JohnsonExecutive Director, Institute for Youth, Education and FamiliesOrson Watson, advisor, Community Revitalization, Garfield Foundation; Fred Dedrick, executive director, National Fund for Workforce, Solutions, Jobs for the Future
  Session Designer: Stephanie Powers, project director, National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Council on Foundations
  

• Equivalency Determination and the Centralized Repository Project
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall D/E, Third Level
  
  

  Would you like to reduce and/or eliminate the legal costs associated with determining whether to make a grant to a prospective grantee organization abroad? Then you don’t want to miss the Equivalency Determination and the Centralized Repository Project session. If you are a foundation executive, trustee or foundation staff charged with performing due diligence for prospective grantees abroad, this session is for you. Whether you are a public, private or corporate foundation, the centralized repository will help you save time and money and provide you with the necessary background information on grantees in another country in one, easy-to-access and convenient location.
  
  Presenters:Martin Schneiderman, repository project manager, Council on Foundations, president, Information Age Associates, Inc.; Sheila Warren, director, NGOsource, TechSoup Global
  Session Designer: Eliana Vera, managing director, global philanthropy program, Council on Foundations

• Immigrant Integration: National Trends, Local Influence
  2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Convention Center, 201, Meeting Room Level
  

  As the push for comprehensive immigration reform stalls at the nation’s capital, communities large and small are experiencing an alarming growth of anti-immigrant sentiment and policy. This environment of fear and unwarranted attacks impacts all members of the community—and threaten to undermine immigrant integration efforts supported by many foundations. The philanthropic community can play a leadership role to support programs and strategies that promote effective integration and strengthen the community at large. Join us to learn about model state and local policies and programs that promote integration and explore the practical roles funders can play to build service, organizing, and advocacy capacity at the state and local levels.
  
  Moderator: Darren Sandow, executive director, Hagedorn Foundation
  Presenters: Marielena Hincapie, executive director, national Immigration Law Center; Terrance Carroll, Speaker of the House, Colorado General Assembly; Stephen Fotopulos, executive director, Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition;
  Session Designer: Daranee Petsod, executive director, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)
  

  Session Host: Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

• Beyond Cash Machine: Communicating the Value of Foundations
  3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Convention Center, 201, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Policymaker briefings, media interviews, civic luncheons, even cocktail parties—every week you see opportunities to communicate your foundation’s value to key audiences. The trouble is…it’s hard to know what to say. What are effective ways to distinguish philanthropy from charity? Turn your metrics into messages? Describe how your foundation creates impact? Frame the foundation roles that resonate with government and media leaders? And engage your trustees as ambassadors? Join a panel of experts who have been researching these questions, and bring your own answers to the conversation. You’ll come away with concrete ideas for improving your targeting, outreach and communications.
  

  Moderator: Daniel Silverman, director of communications, James Irvine Foundation
  Presenters: Jeff Pryor, executive director, Anschutz Family Foundation; Vicki Rosenberg, vice president, education, communications and external relations, Council of Michigan Foundations; Rich Neimand, president and creative director, Neimand Collaborative; Lisa Dropkin, principal, Edge Research
  Session Designer: Bruce Trachtenberg, executive director, The Communications Network; Courtney Spalding-Mayer, project coordinator, Philanthropy Awareness Initiative
  Session Host: The Communications Network

Town Hall: Did Philanthropy Do Its Part in Response to the Economic Crisis?
How did we do? The economic crisis of the past several years offered a supreme challenge to philanthropy, especially to those grantmakers who saw the needs of their grantees rising at the same time that foundation resources—and in some cases, their staffing—faced cuts. Did we do enough? Could we have done more? What were some model responses to the crisis? Where did we fall short? Come prepared with your assessments, your breakthroughs, your past comparisons, and your lessons learned. Come prepared to challenge the conventional thinking and engage in a provocative discussion on philanthropy’s response when Americans needed us as they seldom have before.

Moderator: Emmett D. Carson Ph.D., CEO and President, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Presenters:Diana Aviv, president and CEO, Independent Sector; Aaron Dorfman, executive director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; Bradford K. Smith, President, Foundation Center; Stewart Hudson, President, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation; Sue Santa, senior vice president for Public Policy, Philanthropy Roundtable
Session Designers: Council on Foundations

Intersections: The Roles of the Public, Private and Philanthropic Sectors in Advancing Community Service

Today’s lunch plenary provided perspectives on how citizens can support their community or country through service. Join this conversation to further discuss the value of service and the value of philanthropy in supporting and encouraging civic engagement.

Moderator:
Presenters: Shirley Sagawa, Visiting Fellow Center for American Progress; Stephen Goldsmith, Chair of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Session Designers: Council on Foundations

Educators have proven adept at creating individual high performance schools, and even networks of high performing schools. What remains elusive is creating a system of excellent schools. What does an excellent district look like? How does it function to support improvements in instruction? This panel will examine the efforts of the Denver Public Schools, as well as other systemic initiatives.

Presenters: Tom Boesberg, superintendent, Denver Public Schools; Charles Payne, the Frank P. Hixon Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago; John Deasy, deputy director, education, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Cathy Lund, senior program officer, Walton Family Foundation; Phil Gonring, senior program officer, Rose Community Foundation
Session Designers: Phil Gonring, senior program officer, Rose Community Foundation; Chris Tebben, executive director, Grantmakers for Education

The Social Innovation Fund: Status Update with Patrick Corvington and Paul Carttar

What’s up with the Social Innovation Fund? Join Patrick Corvington, President and CEO, Corporation for National and Community Service and Paul Carttar, the new Director of the Social Innovation Fund for a conversation and update. From the current review of proposals to a longer term vision for the fund; from the challenges you’ve faced to the possibilities you see – this is the time for a casual conversation with the fund’s leadership!

Van Leer Lecture

The lecture is an annual series to increase awareness of issues affecting the global community and the role that foundations play in addressing those concerns. It was established in 2005 as a partnership between the Council on Foundations and the Van Leer Group Foundation in the Netherlands, after the foundation’s executive director, Rien van Gendt, received the Council’s Distinguished Grantmaker Award that year. This event is free and open to conference attendees. This year we will have Akwasi Aidoo who will focus on how can Africans innovatively turn things around and how can philanthropists help achieve that seismic shift in Africa as well as what is Africa’s role in the global quest for social justice?

Presenter: Akwasi Aidoo, executive director, TrustAfrica

Janet Langhart Cohen’s groundbreaking new play features an imaginary conversation between the world’s most recognized Holocaust victim, 15-year-old Anne Frank, and a young black boy named Emmett Till, whose murder at age 14 sparked the civil rights movement. This play represents the first exploration of the commonalities and parallels between their lives. A question-and-answer session with Janet Langhart Cohen and the actors directly follows the performance.

Sponsered by:

8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Breakfast Plenary Session: Featuring Chip Heath, co-author of “Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath is the co-author of “Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard,” written with his brother Dan, and released in February and has taken a quick trip up the best seller lists of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The book reveals that the same forces that make changing a diet so tough can also trip up social changes in school districts and communities. The book follows the widely acclaimed “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,” also a New York Times bestseller. “Made to Stick” has been translated into 29 languages and it was retired from the BusinessWeek bestseller list after a 24-month run.

Heath also is a columnist for Fast Company magazine, and he has spoken and consulted on the topic of "making ideas stick" with organizations such as Nike, the Nature Conservancy, Microsoft, Ideo, and the American Heart Association. He’s the Thrive Foundation of Youth Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Award presentations: The Critical Impact Award honors grantmakers who have supported innovative and bold solutions to societal problems enhancing lives and communities. The 2010 awards go to the Hitachi Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking honors an entrepreneurial individual who has made extraordinary and innovative grants that has changed the fabric of society. The 2010 award goes to Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO, The Global Fund for Women.
Voices of Colorado: William Hybl, chairman and CEO, El Pomar Foundation

Philanthropy 2011 – Annual Conference, April 10-12, Philadelphia - Kevin Murphy, president, Berks County Community Foundation

Session sponsered by:

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Town Hall: The Public-Philanthropic Partnership: Past, Present, and Future
The Public-Philanthropic Partnership is not really new. Such cooperation has been happening at the local level—and in some states —for many years. What is different is the incredible growth of partnerships at the federal level. Through the economic stimulus funding and the advancement of the Social Innovation Fund, we have added a new dimension to how we might work together with government. Is it a one-time partnership or a transformation of the way philanthropy will work? Who leads? Who collaborates? What are the areas of and conditions for partnership?  How do we evaluate the progress? Join a group of these philanthropic voices from the federal, state and local administrations as we consider what has worked, what is presently occurring, and where we might go in the next chapter of a public-philanthropic partnership. This is a town hall conversation at the highest level.

Moderator: Steve Gunderson, president and CEO, Council on Foundations
Presenters: Bill Schambra, director, Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, Hudson Institute; Chris Gates, executive director, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE); Lance Lindblom, president, Nathan Cummings Foundation; Barbara O'Brien, Lt. Governor, State of Colorado; Timothy R. Walter, Chief Executive Officer, Association of Small Foundations; David Washington, Interim CEO, Change the Equation
Session Designer: Council on Foundations

Race Confidential: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society
Conversations about race, ethnicity, and equity are often combined into broader discussions on diversity and inclusion. Yet, issues of racial equity, racial dynamics, social justice, structural and institutional barriers are harsh realities facing many in our society. Has race become a low priority in the era of a post-racial utopia? Join a smart conversation about race and equity and what it means for philanthropy.

Presenters: Janet Langhart Cohen; chairman and CEO, Langhart Communications; William Cohen, chairman and CEO, The Cohen Group

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions

• Building Systems for College Access and Success: Using Data as a Lever for Systemic Reform
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial B/C, Third Level
  
  

  In an era of globalization and advanced technology, a basic education requires attainment beyond high school. This elevated standard challenges our existing systems to prepare students to be ready for post-secondary education, and our institutions of higher education to admit more students and ensure that those students persevere through completion.
  
  Presenters: Margaret Long, research associate, OMG Center for Collaborative Learning; Jeanna Keller, program officer, Lumina Foundation for Education; Dan Challener, president, Public Education Foundation
  Session Designers: Chris Tebben, executive director, Grantmakers for Education

• Health Impact Assessment: Supporting Health-Based Decision Making in All Sectors
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall F/G, Third Level
  
  

  Many important health problems stem from decisions made in sectors outside the traditional scope of public health. For example, transportation, housing, and urban planning decisions are key drivers in childhood obesity, diabetes, and asthma rates because of their influence on physical activity and air pollution. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) shows promise as a bridge between public health research and the policymaking process. This session will introduce the HIA approach, provide examples of current applications in the U.S. and abroad, and use an interactive exercise to help participants evaluate how HIA might apply to their own work and funding strategies.
  
  Facilitator: Dr. Aaron Wernham, director, Health Impact Project The Pew Charitable Trusts
  Presenters: Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO, PolicyLink; Jonathan Heller, executive director, Human Impact Partners
  Presenters and Session Designers: Dr. Aaron Wernham, director, Health Impact Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts; Jonathan Heller, executive director, Human Impact Partners
  

• Bringing It Home - Achieving Social Justice in Our Own Sector
  Hyatt Regency, Agate A-C, Third Level
  
  

  Our growing commitment to social justice requires us to model what we espouse. It requires reshaping our organizations and the philanthropic infrastructure to democratize our sector. Discuss rationales and strategies to create diverse and inclusive, values-based social justice-oriented philanthropy, including emerging sector-wide efforts such as D5 and Caring to Change.
  
  Moderator: Stephen B. Heintz, president, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc.
  Presenters: Susan T. Batten, president and CEO, ABFE; Albert Ruesga, president and CEO, Greater New Orleans Foundation; Gail Christopher, vice president for programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Aaron Dorfman, executive director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; Dr. Robert K. Ross, MD, president and CEO, The California Endowment
  Session Designers: Suzanne Siskel, director, Social Justice Philanthropy, Ford Foundation; Stephen B. Heintz, president, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc.; Susan T. Batten, president and CEO, ABFE

• Volunteerism and Social Innovation
  Convention Center, 203, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Whatever the sector—business, education, government—volunteer programs are part of the cross-fertilization that is contributing to and supporting social innovation efforts. We’ll hear from specific programs that have creatively helped address gaps in important services, developed new relationships and provided simple solutions that have real impacts.
  
  Moderator and Session Designer: Ophelia Basgal, vice president, Community Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
  Presenters: Nancy Olson, assistant director, Volunteer Action, California Volunteers; Rebecca Onie, co-founder and CEO, Project HEALTH, Boston Medical Center; Marc Freedman, founder and CEO, Civic Ventures; Catalina Ruiz-Healey, founder and CEO, Catalista; Ophelia Basgal, vice president, Community Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
  Session Designer: Ophelia Basgal, vice president of Community Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

• Next Gen: What Else Do I Need for the Journey? Skills for Leaders Aiming at the Top
  Convention Center, 201, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Are you a high-achieving philanthropic leader, hungry for more growth and opportunities? Have you accomplished your initial goals and are wondering how to reach the highest levels of leadership in a constantly changing environment? This session explores 1) the skills needed to advance your career; 2) how to strengthen your personal leadership while adapting to change; and 3) how peers and mentors can smooth your path to the top. Listen to lessons learned from fellow philanthropic leaders, gain a framework for developing key skills, and engage in some “minute mentoring” with seasoned leaders in an interactive skills-building session.
  
  Moderator: Michael Smith, vice president, social innovation, The Case Foundation
  Presenters: Trista Harris, executive director, Headwaters Foundation for Justice; James Weinberg, founder and CEO, Commongood Careers; Richard Woo, CEO, The Russell Family Foundation
  Session Designer: Andrew Ho, member services manager, Council on Foundations

• Assisting Company Employees - The Legal Considerations
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall B/C, Third Level
  
  

  Corporations are increasingly interested in assisting employees through scholarships, disaster relief assistance, and emergency hardship programs. When is this activity charitable? This session will explore when corporate foundations can establish these programs and considerations concerning fundraising from company employees for the programs. The session also will touch on establishing programs to provide employee assistance with a fund at a public charity, such as a community foundation.
  
  Session Designer: Kelly Shipp Simone, deputy general council, Council on Foundations

• Setting the Table for Innovation and Impact: A Focus on Food Produces Results
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial A, Third Level
  
  

  In our role as conveners, funders can unlock a multitude of outcomes—from increasing collaboration among your grantees, decreasing your carbon footprint, leaving a lasting legacy that supports the local economy and families, and changing wasteful corporate practices—by focusing on serving local, seasonal menus at events and meetings. Learn from a team with proven success in this arena in a fun, delicious, how-to session.
  
  Presenters: Linda Ann Smith, principal, Environmental Resource Specialists, Inc.; Ben Starrett, executive director, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities; Virginia Clarke, coordinator, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF)
  Session designer: Virginia Clarke, coordinator, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF); L. Benjamin Starrett, executive director, Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
  Co-Hosts: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities

• An Opportunity for all: Rebuilding Haiti's social infrastructure
  Hyatt Regency, Granite A-C, Third Level
  
  

  The devastating earthquake in Haiti last January sparked an historic outpouring of charitable contributions from the public, private, and philanthropic communities. The Council on Foundations estimates that the value of the contributions from its members alone has exceeded $140 million; this amount continues to rise as concern and solidarity keep Haiti and its citizens on the minds of many. The challenge now is to harness the energy, interest, and commitment unleashed by this disaster to create an enduring and effective human, social and economic infrastructure, as the country rebuilds. The time for action is now, and the philanthropic community is poised to respond. Join foundation, corporate colleagues, Haitian and Caribbean leaders for a discussion on concrete next steps to ensure that philanthropy's participation in the long term plays a determinant role in rebuilding Haiti.
  
  Presenter: Nelson I. Colón, Ed.D., president, Puerto Rico Community Foundation, Inc.
  Facilitator: William Layton, Director, Foundation Relations, United Nations Foundation
  Presenters: Nelson I. Colón, Ed.D., President, Puerto Rico Community Foundation, Inc.; Garry Conille, Chief of Staff, Office of the Special Envoy for Haiti; David Etzwiler, Executive Director, Medtronic Foundation; Susan Myers, Executive Director, New York Office, United Nations Association

• Get Online and Thrive Online: What Foundations Need to Know
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall D/E, Third Level
  
  

  Twitter and Facebook and Blogs, oh my! Learning how to effectively use and master all these new tools can seem overwhelming, but is essential to ensuring your issues stay on the minds of thought leaders and everyday folks alike. Come learn from your foundation colleagues who hasve excelled in this space and the specific steps you can take to leverage new technology and social media to spread your message, spotlight your grantees, and gain traction and supporters for the issues your foundation cares about most.
  
  Moderator: Kristin Ivie, program manager, the Case Foundation
  Presenters: Marc Fest, vice president, communications, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Adam Coyne, director of public affairs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Jake Brewer, engagement director, Sunlight Foundation
  Session Designer: Michael Smith, vice president, social innovation, The Case Foundation

• Investment Insights and Emerging Market Trends for Foundation
  Convention Center, 205, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Due to recent market volatility, investment management is especially critical. In this session, foundation and investment experts will share new and emerging strategies, trends, and innovative solutions (including downside protection) to help foundations better manage their investments.
  
  Presenters: Lynn Thoman, co-president and trustee, Leon Lowenstein Foundation; Richard “Skip” Moore, president, Weaver Foundation; Stephen Campisi, director, Institutional Investments, Bank of America
  Session Designer: Lynn Thoman, co-president and trustee, Leon Lowenstein Foundation

Lunch Plenary Session: Featuring Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone

Geoffrey Canada is president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit organization whose goal is to increase high school and college graduation rates among students in Harlem. In 1997, Canada and the agency launched the Harlem Children's Zone Project, which targets a specific geographic area in Central Harlem with a comprehensive range of services. The Zone Project today covers 100 blocks and aims to serve over 10,000 children by 2011. The New York Times Magazine said the Zone Project "combines educational, social and medical services. It starts at birth and follows children to college. It meshes those services into an interlocking web ... to create a safety net woven so tightly that children in the neighborhood just can't slip through." The pioneering work of Canada and HCZ has become a national model and has been the subject of many profiles in the media, including on 60 Minutes, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Nightline, as well as in a number of print publications.
 
Award presentations: The Distinguished Grantmaker Award honors an individual for exemplary leadership and service to the field of philanthropy. The 2010 recipients are Robert E. Eckardt, senior vice president for Programs and Evaluation, The Cleveland Foundation and the National Fund for Workforce Solutions.

Voices of Colorado Presenter: The Honorable Fredrico Peña, senior advisor, Vestar Capital Partners

1:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Advanced Practice Institutes

• Advanced Practice Institute: Creating an Opportunity Society: A Frame For Bridging the Ideological Divide?
  Hyatt Regency, Agate A-C, Third Level
  
  

  In this lively and provocative session, panelists from a range of ideological perspectives will discuss whether “creating an opportunity society” is a framework that can bridge the political divide more productively than the traditional focus on poverty alleviation. Anchored by a new Brookings Institution book, participants will engage in a thoughtful discussion around the benefits and drawbacks of using this “opportunity” frame and focus. Session participants will explore how you can move from a opportunity framework, to forge a set of policy solutions that might can garner support from both progressives and conservatives. Finally, the session will investigate how funders can work strategically to create the necessary environments, collaborations and messages that give these policy ideas momentum.
  
  Moderator: Shelley Waters Booth, Senior Federal Policy Consultant, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  Presenters: Mark Edwards, executive director, Opportunity Nation, Be the Change, Inc; Isabel Sawhill, senior fellow, The Brookings Institution; Mark Rodgers, principal, The Clapham Group and managing director, The Wedgwood Circle, The Clapham Group and The Wedgwood Circle; Rep. John Kefalas, state representative, Colorado General Assembly; Kevin Walker, president and CEO, Northwest Area Foundation
  Session Designers: Michael C. Laracy, director, Policy Reform and Advocacy, The Annie E. Casey Foundation; Shelley Waters Booth, Senior Federal Policy Consultant, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Advanced Practice Institute: Foundation Interventions in the Foreclosure Crisis
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial B/C, Third Level
  
  

  Are you confounded by the continuing growth of the foreclosure crisis and its many negative impacts on families, communities and local economies? Sponsored by Living Cities, the Ford Foundation and The Annie E. Casey Foundation, this interactive session will explore the latest trends in the foreclosure crisis and share effective interventions that foundations across the country have used to address the crisis.  Join renowned expert, George McCarthy of the Ford Foundation, and other practitioners as they share their experiences and answer your questions about current and emerging strategies to address these issues – from preventing foreclosures to stabilizing communities devastated by the crisis.
    
  Presenters: Ben Carter, attorney, Legal Aid Society Louisville; Amanda Feinstein, program officer, Walter & Elise Haas Fund; George McCarthy, director, Economic Opportunity and Assets, Ford Foundation; Stockton Williams, senior advisor, director of Green Economy Initiatives,
  Living Cities; Wendy Jackson, senior program officer, Kresge Foundation
  Session Designers: Beadsie Woo, senior associate, Center for Family Economic Success, The Annie E. Casey Foundation; George McCarthy, director, Economic Opportunity and Assets, Ford Foundation

• Advanced Practice Institute: Going to Scale in Jobless Recovery: The National Fund for Workforce Solutions and Regional Strategies for Success
  Convention Center, 203, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  A recession that has pushed the national unemployment rate to 10 percent, with millions of experienced Americans losing their jobs, doesn’t seem like the right time for funders to make investments in workforce training programs, or does it? The National Fund for Workforce Solutions will show you that a variety of workforce partnerships being formed in four diverse communities across the nation, in fact, continue to help disadvantaged wage-earners find career advancement. Learn how philanthropic leaders in these communities have convened public funders, foundations, and employers to support strategic investment strategies that are pointed at long-term payoffs for both low-skilled workers and employers. This Advanced Practice Institute will make the case for why philanthropic workforce development investments are sound – no, critical! - investments now to help communities retool their workforce and organize their adult training resources and labor market institutions to get ready for the middle-skill job growth and labor shortages that lie ahead! (Yes, this is true… the country is now predicted to have a surplus of 5 million jobs in 2018, given the retirement of the baby boomers!)
  
  National Fund for Workforce Solutions
    
  Moderator: Angel Bermuda, principal, AHB & Associates
  Presenters: Elsa Holguin, senior program officer, Rose Community Foundation; Michael Brown, vice president, Community Leadership, The Seattle Foundation; Kathryn Dunn, program officer, Helen Bader Foundation, Clark Casteel, senior program officer, Danville Regional Foundation
  Session Designers: Stephanie Powers, project director, National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Council on Foundations

• Advanced Practice Institute: Accelerating the Clean Energy Economy: How We Get There From Here
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall B/C, Third Level
  
  

  We’ll explore the promise of a clean energy economy, with green jobs, economic growth, energy security, a safer climate, and cleaner air. You will leave this session armed with a positive vision of the future, solid economic underpinning of the vision, and concrete opportunities and next steps. Presenters will describe needed policies to accelerate our transition to a clean energy economy as well as the strategies to win those policies, including messaging, field operations, broadening and deepening nonenvironmental constituency outreach, and connecting clean energy to economic development goals.
  
  Presenters: David Tuft, program officer, Energy Foundation; Larry Schweiger, president and chief executive officer, National Wildlife Federation; Jeff Anderson, executive director, Clean Economy Network; Carrie La Seur, executive director, Plains Justice
  Session Designer: Paige Brown, program manager, CGBD/Climate and Energy Funders Group

• Advanced Practice Institute: How to Align and Leverage Federal Resources to Support Local Green and Healthy Homes Initiatives
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall F/G, Third Level
  
  

  The Green and Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) is a major innovative practice inspired by the unique philanthropic opportunity to leverage ARRA investments in weatherization and energy efficiency and integrate that funding with existing lead and healthy homes programs. This session provides a brief overview of the initiative, as well as the standards, principles, and guidelines necessary to launch GHHI efforts in your own community. The panel will discuss federal priorities and support for the initiative and share key information on how to align federal resources to support a local project.
  
  Moderator: Scot Spencer, manager of Baltimore relations, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  Presenters: Eric Hornbuckle, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control; Julie Hughes, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Ruth Ann Norton, National Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning (Green & Healthy Homes Initiative); Jonathan Njus, U.S. Department of Labor
  Session Designer: Scot Spencer, manager of Baltimore relations, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
  

• Advanced Practice Institute: Successful Students. Productive Citizens. Thriving Cities.
  Convention Center, 210/212, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Successful schools and thriving communities go hand in hand. This session examines proven models of community engagement and community building to create and sustain high performing schools.
  
  Presenters: Jeff  Edmonson, executive director, STRIVE, KnowledgeWorks Foundation; Geoff Green, Fund for Santa Barbara; Julie Kohler, program manager, Communities for Public Education Reform
  Session Designers: Jason Franklin, board of directors, North Star Fund; Jillian Darwish, executive director, Institute for Creative Collaboration, KnowledgeWorks Foundation

• Advance Practice Institute: Getting more Intentional about Innovation
  Convention Center, 201, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  This session will be an introduction to innovation processes and tools, and a chance for a hands-on opportunity to practice being intentional about “doing” innovation. Rooted in a report published last year by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Intentional Innovation: How Getting More Systematic about Innovation Could Improve Philanthropy and Increase Social Impact, the workshop will take participants through a structured process that can help them identify key challenges they’re facing in their work and deliberately develop new solutions.
  
  Presenters: Gabriel Kasper, consultant, Monitor Institute; Stephanie Clohesy, founder and principal, Clohesy Consulting
  Session Designers: Ophelia Basgal, vice president, Community Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.; Gabriel Kasper consultant, Monitor Institute

• Advanced Practice Institute: Social Justice Evaluation – Reframing for Real Learning
  Convention Center, 207, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  
  A: Learning-Based Collaboration to Achieve Social Justice
  B: Fear Not: Straightforward Approaches to Impact Assessment
  
  Words like "metrics" and "impact" commonly strike fear into the hearts of people striving to create social justice. Yet recent developments have made measurement of progress easier, with methods designed to empower communities, not just those who fund their efforts. Two Advanced Practice Institutes focused on social justice evaluation will allow participants to explore approaches, learn about a variety of tools and resources, and share lessons from their own experiences.
  
  
  Workshop A: Learning-Based Collaboration to Achieve Social Justice
  Shifting evaluation to learning – how grantmakers can build the confidence and competence of their grantees to be deliberate stewards of their own learning.
  
  Truth be told – the majority of both grantmakers and grantseekers admit to being ill at ease about evaluation. Both know that they should evaluate, but it seems like a requirement and/or an imposition and not an opportunity to learn. By shifting evaluation to learning – this session will help grantmakers empower programs, organizations and communities to measure what's relevant, useful and culturally bound, and facilitate processes that "make meaning" from findings. The majority of nonprofits claim that grantmakers drive the evaluation process, that the metrics are not of their own making. This interactive session will incorporate polling technology to encourage an array of insights and shared experiences, and will help you build the competence and confidence of your grantees to “own the metrics,” and yearn to become enriched learning organizations.
  
  
  Moderator: Jeff W. Pryor, Ed.D., executive director, The Anschutz Family Foundation
  Presenters:  Peter York, senior vice president, director of research, TCC Group; Tanya Beer, evaluation officer, The Colorado Trust; Alexandra Mitchell, president, Pathfinder Solutions, Inc.
  
  
  
  Workshop B: Fear Not: Straightforward Approaches to Impact Assessment:
  
  
  We all want to know that our work has impact. Social justice activists striving for meaningful change with communities in greatest need have no time or resources to waste. As grantmakers, our challenge is ensuring that evaluation efforts are framed and conducted in ways that measure progress and don’t simply tally up numbers. Fortunately, there are excellent tools to build on and peers, activists and others testing out new approaches.
  
  This workshop will address questions generated by participants drawing from their own experiences. Experts who are well-versed in the practice of social justice philanthropy will bring a range of resources to share with you including the new TRASI (Tools and Resources for Assessing Social Impact) system available from the Foundation Center. There will be no long speeches – only interactive problem-solving, either in a whole group or in small groups.
  
  If impact assessment for social justice work is on your mind, but you don’t quite know how to approach it, this workshop is for you. Bring a challenge to share or -- even better -- tell us about it in advance so we can think about it beforehand. Email jessica.bearman@gmail.com if you have a question or issue you’d like to bring to the workshop!
  
  Workshop Leaders:  Bradford K. Smith, president, Foundation Center, Barry Knight, executive director, CENTRIS; Lori Villarosa, executive director, Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
  
  Session Designers: Bradford K. Smith, president, Foundation Center; Barry Knight, executive director, CENTRIS
  

• The Sports Philanthropy Playbook: Strategic Giving for Community Change
  Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall D/E, Third Level
  
  

  Many of our greatest athletes are in a unique position to help vulnerable children and families thrive, but navigating the ins and outs of organized philanthropy can often be a challenge. Yet when athletes are able to bring their passion, talent, and leadership to social issues, the opportunities for community impact are boundless. Join the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for an interactive discussion with funders and leaders in the sports philanthropy movement to explore the roles that high-profile athletes can play in advancing sustainable community change. Participants will have the opportunity to hear about the work of several athletes in communities across the country, while getting a behind-the-scenes view of what it takes to help athletes develop successful partnerships with funders, nonprofit organizations and community.
  

  Moderator: Alandra Washington, deputy director, programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  Presenters: Towalame Austin, president, Magic Johnson Foundation; Ivan Blumberg, chief executive officer, Athletes for Hope; Lawrence Torry Winn, director, Neighborhood Corps, St. HOPE; Jonathan Herman, executive director, Admiral Center, Community Impact Initiative at Living Cities
  Session Designer: Alandra Washington, deputy director, programs, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

• Advance Practice Institute: Intersectionality 101 - Reaching Underserved Populations with Solutions that Last
  Hyatt Regency, Centennial A, Third Level
  
  

  Vast studies have found that the harshest conditions and most profound disparities are faced by communities dealing with the confluence of racial inequality, poverty, and widespread bigotry and discrimination. Where, then, can foundations forge solutions that address the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Participants will leave with specific tools and knowledge to address the multiple barriers facing our most vulnerable populations.
  

  Moderator: Katherine Acey, executive director, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
  Presenters: Ron Rowell, CEO, Common Counsel Foundation; Nancy Ordover, program director, Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues; Trishala Deb, program officer, National LGBT Rights Program, Arcus Foundation
  Session Host: Funders for LGBTQ Issues

  
  
• Advanced Practice Institute: Leverage Beyond Pure Grantmaking, Advocacy to Advance a Social Change Agenda
  Convention Center, 205, Meeting Room Level
  
  

  Interested in exploring how foundations can get high leverage by going beyond pure grant-making? Hear how women’s funds are helping to shape philanthropy’s role in policy, advocacy, and civic engagement. Learn about comprehensive strategies to advance a social justice agenda aimed at helping low-income women with children achieve long-term economic security.
  
  Moderator: Deborah Richardson, chief program officer, Women's Funding Network
  Presenters: Marjorie Sims, program officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Shelley Davis, vice president, Programs and Advocacy, Chicago Foundation For Women
  Session Designer: Deborah Richardson, chief program officer, Women's Funding Network
  Session Host: Women’s Funding Network

2:00 p.m., April 27 to
4:00 p.m., April 28

Post-Conference OVERNIGHT IMMERSION SESSION Shared Experiences and Common Goals in Colorado: Partnering with Philanthropy to Chart New Paths to Justice and Lasting Change

Tuesday, April 27, 2:00 pm  to Wednesday, April 28, 8:00 pm
You are invited to join us for an exceptional  program.  Native Americans in Philanthropy and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy will host an unprecedented overnight immersion site session to three sites in Southeast Colorado:

• Koshare Indian Museum, dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Southwest and Plains tribal art and artifacts;  
• Amache Internment Center, the only Japanese‐American World War II internment camp not sited on tribal land;
• Sand Creek, site of the Sand Creek Massacre, one of the most violent conflicts between government militia and Native Americans on historical record.

This collaborative program is designed to fully examine both the history of forced relocation, dispersal and discrimination that these communities share in common, and more importantly the enduring promise that philanthropy can make in terms of lasting, positive impact on these and all communities as they grow in the future. In addition, this session will promote dialogue on the changing dynamics and issues in philanthropy and community development in rural America while addressing the ever-changing demographics and cross-cultural opportunities.

Registration required; fee is $175.00
Includes: One hotel night stay (room and taxes only), entrance to all sites, transportation from and to Downtown Denver site, (or to Denver Airport), lunch and reception on Tuesday (April 27), breakfast and lunch on Wednesday (April 28), and snack on the motor coach.
Register online at http://nativephilanthropy.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=10. For more information, you may contact Native Americans in Philanthropy via e-mail (info@nativephilanthropy.org) or telephone, 612-724-8798.