EDGE Webinars
We hope to facilitate systemic, seismic shifts in the sector by setting agendas related to the ending of extractive systems, including philanthropy, and the alternatives that are being built by Movements.
EDGE Political Education Webinars operate as EDGE’s ideological/theoretical space, where we set agendas via invited speakers and honest, political conversations that challenge our thinking about the sector.EDGE collaborates with actors in the progressive philanthropic sector and Movement representatives on these offerings.
Geoengineering: Promising Panacea or False Climate Change?
Geoengineering is one of the most urgent and under-discussed topics impacting our planet today. It is not a distant, speculative issue but one that is actively shaping the future of our environment—and not in a way that benefits communities or the planet.
Mission-Related Investments: Is there a place for them
Global Engagement Lab participants organized this webinar about the value, if any, of mission-related investments and where they can fit in a progressive approach to philanthropy.
Philanthropy’s role (past and future) on racial equity
Why DEI measures and pledges continue to fall short on achieving racial justice and equity in global development.
EDGE Funders Alliance and the Racial Equity index organised a webinar on the state of racial equity. The program will be facilitated by Bridget Brehen and Hana ElSafoury, and will feature guest speakers from a range of global movements and philanthropic organizations. Additional speakers will be announced soon.
Global development, and how this issue is reflected within philanthropic organisations. While exploring how philanthropy itself is rooted in issues of racial inequity, this conversation presented some key alternatives and visions that are key to lasting systemic change in the sector at large.
Global Engagement Lab Webinar Series 2021
We are pleased to announce that the Global Engagement Lab Webinar Series has finally returned! This July, join us for three webinars curated by current GEL participants as part of a nine month virtual training. This year, we are focusing our GEL learning and organizing on structural and systemic racism by examining how these issues show up in our organizations and grantmaking practices by exploring various histories and considering regional and cultural contexts.
EDGE Funders Webinar — The Climate-Agrifood Nexus
Building on the EDGE conversations on climate justice at the 2021 annual conference, this 90 minute webinar featured concrete examples of how organizations and campaigns are pushing back on corporate climate washing, working to redirect public investment and financial flows away from industrial agriculture, and supporting more climate-friendly agro-ecological solutions.
A Necessary Shift: Build a Better World with the Right to Housing
This webinar introduced The Shift, an international initiative working at the intersection of human rights, housing, cities and finance. Participants are challenged to explore one of the least talked about drivers of inequality: the financialization of housing.
Rather than matters that can be left to charity or political beneficence, housing inadequacy, unaffordability, evictions, and homelessness are revealed for what they are: an urgent assault on fundamental human rights.