Conference sessions 

Thanks to all of you who have submitted session ideas for the 2012 conference programme.

Through online voting and Programme Committee selection the following 20 sessions have been selected for inclusion in next year's programme:

 

CAPACITY BUILDING

  • Evaluating the impact of grant making in times of austerity and lessons learned
  • Learning from partners to increase effectiveness
  • Risky business
  • Storytelling with data: Visualising philanthropy
  • Structural Funds: A leveraging tool for foundations
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    CURRENT ISSUES FOR FOUNDATIONS

  • Advocating for a European Foundation Statute: Get involved!
  • A path to social justice: Reaching Europe’s invisible children
  • At risk: Our assets, our beneficiaries
  • Funding blind: Do we know enough?
  • Global Philanthropy Leadership Initiative: Outcomes and opportunities
  • Investing in women and girls: Moving from theory to practice
  • Investments: Thinking long-term in a crisis
  • New strategies for foundations: When, why and how to use venture philanthropy
  • The financial crisis: A never-ending story?
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    PEACE THROUGH SOCIAL JUSTICE

  • Europe@debate: Justice through unconditional basic income? A debate on European Social Policy
  • How can philanthropic investment in education make a difference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
  • Local philanthropy and a peaceful transition to economic and social justice in the Arab region
  • Populism and radical right wing parties in Europe: How should foundations respond?
  • Roma inclusion in Europe today
  • When the global meets the local: Philanthropic interventions in community-based peacebuilding
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    **Please note session titles are subject to change**