Grantmakers Without Borders (Gw/oB) 2010 Conference Blog
Welcome to the 2010 Grantmakers Without Borders Conference Blog hosted by the Firelight Foundation.
Get impressions, take-aways, and recommendations from experienced philanthropic commentators who are covering the meeting. Join the dialogue by adding your comments to the blog throughout the conference. To Tweet about the conference, use the following tag: #gwob10. If you would like to contribute a blog posting, please contact Jennifer Astone at jen@ebold.com.
Blog Postings
Shouldn’t All Grantmakers & NGOs Work Harder to Fail Forward, Hand-in-Hand?
by David Kramer on June 11, 2010
Some themes surfaced again and again this week at the Grantmakers Without Borders 2010 conference.
Failures. Structural change. Impact. Learning. And all of them go together.
Networking on Steroids: A Reciprocity Web Defined
by Jennifer Astone on June 10, 2010
How do you shake information out of a conference room full of smart and well-connected people? Try the reciprocity web.
As the facilitator for the Africa Meeting at the recent Grantmakers Without …
Raised at Gw/oB: Critical Issues in International Grantmaking
by Adin Miller on June 10, 2010
This week foundations, international grantmaking institutions, individual donors and global Southern activities have gathered in San Francisco for the Grantmakers Without Borders (Gw/oB) annual conference. …
Anatomy of a Global Donor
by Jennifer Astone on June 9, 2010
“To move from a checkbook donor to a strategic donor, you must have a theory of change.”
John Harvey, outgoing Executive Director of Grantmakers Without Borders, shared this nugget of wisdom …
The Power of One, or the Momentum of Many?
by Peter Laugharn on June 9, 2010
A few of us Firelight staffers are at the Grantmakers Without Borders (GwoB) 2010 Conference this week. GwoB is a gathering of funders who are mostly focused on funding grassroots groups. The watchwords …
Do Funders Exploit Community-Based Organizations?
by Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg on June 8, 2010
Funders need to take community-based organizations much more seriously
Horizontal philanthropy–a reference to how the poor help each other–is strong in Africa. Indeed, we should …
