Narrative Strategy & Social Change
Friday, April 26, 2013
9AM-Noon
The New York Foundation
A workshop and dialogue for funders on storytelling, communications and movement building. Sponsored by: Ford Foundation, Solidago Foundation, The Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, Chorus Foundation, Compton Foundation, New York Foundation and Edge Funders Alliance
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EDGE Funders Alliance 2013 Just Giving Conference
Global Social Change Philanthropy
What is to be done and who do we do it?
Kellogg Conference Hotel Washington D.C.
May 21-23, 2013
The Just Giving Conference provides a unique space for grantmakers to deepen their understanding of the current landscape of grassroots and transnational initiatives addressing structural injustice in key areas. Learn more…

Funders Exploring Transitions to Social and Ecological Transformation
March 2013
Together with the Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l’Homme (FPH) who will be hosting this two day meeting at its agro-ecological retreat center outside Paris, EDGE Funders is convening two dozen grantmakers just before the World Social Forum in Tunis to deepen collective understanding and develop potential collaboration in support of new forces and dynamics working on transitions towards deep societal transformation.

These conversations will continue at the WSF, at our Just Giving Conference in Washington, DC and then at the annual meeting of the European Foundation Centre, in Copenhagen at the end of May.

Funders at the World Social Forum in Tunis
March 2013
EDGE Funders is providing hotel, logistics and program support to grantmakers attending the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis at the end of March. Tens of thousands of civil society actors from the region and around the world are expected to attend, with discussions ranging from the right to self-determination and for freedom of movement, for a world “free from the war as an instrument of domination;” for democratic institutions and governance models; for building alternatives upon principles of cooperation and financial justice; and for collective reflection on the meaning of new social struggles and on the World Social Forum process itself.

EDGE Funders Alliance Learning Call
Strategies for Agro-Ecology: The Policy of Seed Laws, Seed Saving and Sharing
Tuesday, February 5 at 9:00 am PST/12:00 pm EST
A conversation with Mariam Mayet of the African Centre for Biosafety in South Africa hosted by Jennifer Astone of the Swift Foundation.

EDGE Funders Alliance Learning Call
A Special Interactive Webinar: How California Funders Joined Forces to Increase Impact
Wednesday, October 24th, 3-4pm EST / 12-1pm PST
How can foundations help build movements for opportunity and social change… and win? Facilitated by: Mary Manuel, Senior Advisor, McKay Foundation

EDGE Funders Alliance/Occupy Philanthropy Learning Call
Dreams, Obstacles & Opportunities for Occupying Philanthropy: Dialogue about Race, Class, Gender, and Power & Privilege
September 27th- 11:00-12:30PST/ 2:00-3:30 EST
What does it mean to “Occupy Philanthropy,” especially in relation to race, class and gender.