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Issue 8 | June, 2018
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Register Now for the Next Global Engagement Lab!
EDGE Funders is happy to announce the opening of the
next registration for the second Global Engagement Lab. GEL 2 is an amazing opportunity for co-learning, collaboration, wisdom-sharing and practice building. If you are interested and want to know more about GEL, have a look at the
report
of the first session, visit our
Looking forward to hear from you!
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Ana Valéria Araújo Jovanna Garcia Soto
Building on conversations and reflections within EDGE's Global Engagement Lab and following discussions with civil society leaders and a broad range of foundation members and allies there, EDGE's next annual gathering will be organized in Brazil in early April 2019. We are now very pleased to announce that
Ana Valeria Arajo, who has served as the Executive Director of the Brazil Human Rights Fund since 2006, and
Jovanna Garcia Soto, Grassroots International's Program Officer for Latin America (and GEL graduate!), will serve as co-Chairs for our gathering. With their support next year's event will be organized not as a traditional conference but as a "Funder-Movement 'Encontro'" focusing on systemic alternatives, and on efforts to build "systemic change philanthropy" to support such efforts worldwide. Details to follow soon!
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During the first week of July, La Bergerie de Villarceaux,
an organic farm close to Paris owned by the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation, welcomed EDGE Europe friends and members for the Annual Retreat. Participants were involved in a series of activities and discussions aimed at building community, co-learning and changing philanthropy. As greatly summarized by our new Board of Directors Co-chair Amanda Gigler: "Participating in EDGE is one of the space that gives me juice".
Early the same week, La Bergerie also hosted the first workshop on "Organizing Young People with Wealth or Class Privilege in Europe". Following a first conference call and the decision to launch a six months praxis group process, eight young people with wealth and class privileges, supported by EDGE members, decided to participate to explored the possibility of creating a European network and to discuss on issues related to white privileges and inequality.
Report on the EDGE Retreat will be online soon. Stay tuned!
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ast April, New Orleans hosted the EDGE Funders Alliance Conference. More than two hundred foundation members and allies accepted an invitation as our short opening film had it, to "
Come to the Edge
" to discuss and strategies on climate justice, human trafficking, shifting power, racial justice, indigenous rights, participatory philanthropy, human rights defenders, urban systemic change, and many other systemic alternatives.
"Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center"
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New EDGE Board Composition
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Amanda Gigler i
s the Director of Partnership and Communication at Mama Cash. She was already part of the Board, and recently became Co-Chair.
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Conniel Malek is Executive Director of True Costs Initiative, and she recently joined the Board.
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Ryan Canney is a Program Officer at Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, and he recently joined the Board.
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We would like to thank Nikhil Aziz (AJWS) and Shalini Nataraj (Ing Foundation), who have completed their mandate on the Board; and Nicolaz Krausz, who left his position as Co-Chair but remains part of the Board. Thank you all for your many years of winsdom and dedication.
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Martina Fin, Communications and Events Trainee
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Martina has experiences in working with NGOs involved in the protection of Human Rights Defenders and torture survivors. She is an advocate of women's rights, social justice and environmental rights.
Many thanks to Luciana Nemeth for her great commitment and efforts organizing our communications strategies over the last few years. We'll miss her but are happy that she's moved full time to devoting herself to her other passion, in her new role as Americas Regional Coordinator with the
Global TB Caucus. We know she'll stay in touch and we wish her all the best in her new endeavors.
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Leave No Worker Behind
Will the just transition movement survive mainstream adoption?
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Twenty-three funders from around the world met to launch a six-month process aimed at how we, and philanthropy, can better address systemic crises through systemic alternatives.
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BothEnds would like to invite you to take a look at the concise and colourful overview of their 2017 highlights and at their new website, with a fresh new look, search filters and related content.
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A compelling article on agroecology published by Daniel Moss and Mark Bittman in the NYT.
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The funds and community foundations that make it up represent an effective alternative for financing and strengthening small and medium-sized organizations and movements operating in the field of rights.
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The European Cultural Foundation's 2017 Annual Report is here. It does not only present an overview of the activities of the European Cultural Foundation, but also includes our 'Declaration of Responsibility'.
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Location: United States of America, city is flexible
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United Philanthropy
Forum
16 - 18 July
Boston, MA, US
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Gaia Foundation
17 June
London
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MamaCash
19 September
Amsterdam, The Netherland
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Right Livelihood Award
08 - 13 September
Bonn, Germany
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Ariadne and Diversity Migration Integration Thematic Network of European Foundation Centre
25-26 June
Brussels, Belgium
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United Philanthropy Forum
16-18 July
Boston, MA, US
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The Leading EDGE is produced by EDGE Funders Alliance as a service to our members and the wider EDGE Funders community. To request a posting in an upcoming edition, email
martina@edgefunders.org
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