2023 Agenda

Opening Plenary

• Welcome and Overview: Kristen Dailey, Executive Director, Global Washington

Opening Keynote Presentation: Trust-based Philanthropy

• Rebecca Darwent, Senior Advisor, Collaboratives, Philanthropy Together

Breakout Sessions:

• Breakout #1: Community-Driven Solutions: Insights from Type 1 Diabetes Leaders
• Breakout #2: Recasting the Table: How to Create an Enabling Environment for Community-based Organizations
• Breakout #3: Film screening of Among the Differences with the film maker Jai Jai

Community-Driven Solutions: Insights from Type 1 Diabetes Leaders

Featuring three grantee partners of The Type 1 Diabetes Community Fund, this session will showcase powerful stories on the impact that philanthropy can have in expanding important local solutions in low- and middle-income countries and discuss ways funders and private philanthropy can be a better partner in their work.

Speakers:

• Pilar Arrossagary, CUI.D.AR (Argentina)
• Emmanuel Kwafo Mintah, Ark Development Organization (Uganda)
• Laurien Sibomana, Pillar of Health (Rwanda)

Moderators: Julia Roper and Sierra Malia Fox-Woods, Panorama Global

Recasting the Table: How to Create an Enabling Environment for Community-based Organizations:

We need to do more than bring local voices to the table. We need to recreate the table so that community-based organizations have the opportunity to secure funding and thrive. During this session, hear from local leaders about what they need from funders so that they can make sustainable change in their communities.

Speakers:

• Rebecca Dali,The Center for Caring and Peace Initiatives (CCEPI) (Nigeria) 
• Nixon Ochatre, Founder and Head of Strategy, Amani Initiative (Uganda) 
• Gunjan Veda, Director, Collaborative Research, Policy and Practice, Movement for Community-led Development (MCLD)

Moderator: Anna Slattery, Manager, External Affairs, The Hunger Project

Among the Differences – Film Screening and Discussion with the film maker Jai Jai:

Partners Asia is supporting this film screening that sheds light on one of their remarkable partners dedicated to providing pathways to education for the children of migrant workers from Burma and Cambodia employed in the fishing industry in the restive south of Thailand. Among the Differences takes you on a poignant exploration of the life’s work of Sukkriyah, affectionately known as Kru (Teacher) Ayu. The documentary highlights the resilience and determination of this remarkable woman, who is dedicated to ensuring that every child feels a sense of belonging and envisions a brighter future, even after overcoming unimaginable hardships.

Speakers:

• Patty Curran, Executive Director, Partners Asia
• Jai Jai, Film maker, Among the Differences

Plenary Panel:

Disaster relief efforts must be coordinated with partners in close proximity to the disaster in order to be effective. Several organizations are setting up regional hubs for disaster response and building disaster preparedness units in the Global South. Additionally, decision-making during disaster response must be rapid and accurately reflect the local context. This system naturally shifts power to leaders in the Global South. What can we learn from this dynamic and the relationships needed before a disaster happens? Join this session to hear from Amazon and Give2Asia

Speakers:

• Kezia Fernandes, Lead, Disaster Relief & New Initiatives, Amazon (India)
• Sheena Agarwal, Vice President of Operations, Give2Asia

Moderator: Akhtar Badshah, Distinguished Practitioner & Senior Lecturer, University of Washington and Author, The Purpose Mindset

Plenary Keynote:

• Yawa Hansen-Quao, Author and Founder, Leading Ladies Network

Plenary Panel: The Changing Role of Funders

This session will discuss the recent trends of funders for global development and the desire to support local leaders and civil society building. Each organization seeks to partner with organizations to create lasting change. You’ll hear about the Global Fund for Women’s feminist approach to funding movements, the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation advocacy, and the Seattle International Foundation’s work in Central America.

Speakers:

• Aisha Jumaan, President, Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
• Obed Kabanda, Senior Director of Global Partnerships, Global Innovations & Accountability Lead, Global Fund for Women
• Mirte Postema, Senior Program Officer, Seattle International Foundation

Moderator: Fatema Sumar, Executive Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University

Closing Comments

• Kristen Dailey. Executive Director, Global Washington

Opening Remarks

• Kristen Dailey, Executive Director, Global Washington

Opening Plenary Keynote:

• Robert Rosen, Director, Philanthropic Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• In Conversation with: Akhtar Badshah, Distinguished Practitioner & Senior Lecturer, University of Washington and Author, The Purpose Mindset

Opening Plenary Panel: The Changing Role of Funders

This session will discuss the recent trends of funders for global development and the desire to support local leaders and civil society building. Each organizations seeks to partner with communities to create lasting change. You’ll hear about the Starbucks Foundation’s approach to philanthropy including its co-investment strategy with business partners, suppliers, and peer companies, USA for UNHCR’s cash assistance program, and the Global Fund for Women’s feminist approach to funding movements.

Speakers:

• Suzanne Ehlers, Executive Director, USA for UNHCR
• Rufaro Kangai, Director, Global Fund for Women
• Alicia Vermaele, Executive Director, Starbucks Foundation

Moderator: Elizabeth Dale, Director and Associate Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, Seattle University

Breakout Discussions: 

• Breakout #1: The Role of Leadership in Localization
• Breakout #2: Philanthropy and Funders Based Outside the U.S.
• Breakout #3: Trust-based Philanthropy: Pangea Giving
• Breakout #4: The Future of Work and Funding Capacity Building

The Role of Leadership in Localization

Advancing transformative philanthropy depends on transformative leadership. We need leaders fueled by curiosity, a growth mindset, and values of equity and justice. In this session, we will discuss emerging notions of leadership and the role of leaders in the north in shifting resources and power, and leadership development. We will use co-creation to imagine what’s needed and what’s possible for the next generation of global, social impact leaders in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Speakers:

• Suman “Sumi” Bhat-Kincaid, Founder, Principal Consultant, Sukara LLC
• Claire Gwayi – Chore, Associate Director, Health and Life Sciences, Gates Ventures

Moderator: Bindiya Patel, Co-Director & Faculty, Global Leadership Forum

Philanthropy and Funders Based Outside the U.S.

As international development trends toward localization of programs, parallel trends are underway in giving.  This panel explores philanthropy outside the U.S.  Among funders in the public sector, corporations, family foundations, and individual philanthropy, what changes are afoot?  And, how do these changes intersect with localization of program decision-making and overall implementation?  Our panelists will discuss these trends from the diverse topical perspectives of climate change, global health, and education, as well as with geographic perspectives from work in Africa and South and Southeast Asia.

Speakers:

• Devindra Chainani, Co-President of Seattle Chapter, Pratham
• Tamara Madenwald, Associate Director of Clinical Operations, Curevo Vaccine
• Juan Jose Robalino, Climate Change & Land Tenure Specialist, Landesa

Moderator: Mark West, Regional Program Director for Southeast Asia, Landesa

Trust-based Philanthropy: Pangea Giving

Pangea Giving is a giving circle that provides donors in the Seattle-area with direct, thoughtful, and effective ways to engage in trust-based partnerships with grassroots organizations in the Global South to improve the quality of life in their communities. This session will discuss why trust-based philanthropy is unique in its support of self-defined needs of local communities, capacity building, and enabling lasting change from the ground up. Hear from Pangea Members and Partners about the power of this model.

Speakers:

• Khaing Zar Oo (“Nge Nge”), Current Pangea Partner, Muditar
• Paul Silver, Pangea Member

Moderator: Anne Sivley, Pangea Member

The Future of Work, Investments, and Funding Capacity Building

Sustainable Development Goal 8 aims to create lasting, inclusive economic prosperity and decent jobs for everyone. However, we are not on track with creating sustained economic growth in many countries around the world. We are at a moment of time to prepare for the future and train youth in jobs that will provide a decent wage and allow communities to thrive. How are private investments and philanthropic funds supporting job growth in the Global South? What are the jobs of the future that we should invest in now? How can we ensure that youth in these underrepresented areas are prepared for job opportunities? Are there jobs that can better utilize technology to create decent wage employment and stronger economic growth? Join the speakers of this session to explore how funding can support good employment opportunities in the Global South.

Speakers:

• Devika Batra, Manager, CSR and Fundraising, Sehgal Foundation
• Jon Browning, CEO, Global Mentorship Initiative
• Kate Cochran, CEO, Upaya Social Ventures
• Greg Nelson, Chief Technology Officer, Opportunity International

Moderator:  Greg Snyders, Partner, Dalberg

Lunch Program

• Keynote: Radha Friedman, Author and Philanthropy Advisor
• Keynote Conversation: Radha Friedman and Sumi Bhat-Kincaid
• Presentation of the 2023 Global Hero Award

Breakout Discussions:

• Breakout #1: ED/CEO only roundtable
• Breakout #2: The Localization Imperative – shifting power, ceding voice?
• Breakout #3: Sharing Power & Influence: Collaboration for Effective Partnership
• Breakout #4: Transforming Impact Philanthropy: The MacKenzie Scott Grant Recipient Experience

ED/CEO only roundtable:

A closed-door conversation about the future role of funders and U.S. based NGOs for global development. Is this role evolving over time to shift resources and leadership to low and middle income countries? What will this look like five, ten years from now?

The Localization Imperative – shifting power, ceding voice?

This session will dive into the dynamics of localization: an attempt by many funders increasingly to put local actors in the lead in defining needs, designing solutions, and influencing priorities in global development. Efforts such as the Paris Declaration in 2005 to center global development around country-defined priorities have attempted to shift power in the past, with mixed results. Yet renewed focus and attention in recent years on the localization agenda has created a watershed moment that has touched everyone involved in global development. Our discussion will include perspectives from those involved in funding and resource allocation, program implementation, and policy advocacy.

Speakers:

• Walter Kerr, Co-Founding Executive Director, Unlock Aid
• Mariam Zameer, Director and Global Team Lead, Health Systems, VillageReach

Moderator: Kirsten Gagnaire, Founder & CEO, Kati Collective

Sharing Power & Influence: Collaboration for Effective Partnership

The global development sector is seeing major shifts in the way funding reaches communities. From localization efforts to co-creation and collaboration, there has been a profound change in the way philanthropists, funding institutions, NGOs and community-based organizations work together to drive development priorities. In this panel, we will hear from organizations who have successfully co-created community-led development projects around the world and those who have found unique ways to share power and space with their partners. They will share the lessons they learned along the way and provide takeaways that can be integrated into the audience’s own work.

Speakers:

• Danielle Pearl, Evidence & Learning Lead, Locally Led Development Initiatives, USAID
• Robert Hokanson, Senior Manager, Global Priorities, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Roman Nelson, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Airband Initiative, Technology for Fundamental Rights, Microsoft

Moderator: Megan Nykyforchyn-Clark, Senior Director, New Business Development, The Hunger Project

Transforming Impact Philanthropy: The MacKenzie Scott Grant Recipient Experience

When Mackenzie Scott invested nearly $1.5 billion of unrestricted, flexible funding in almost 200 organizations working in the Global South, there was an opportunity to see how the philanthropic sector would transform its funding and partnership practices with organizations in the Global South. Through Panorama Global’s Collaborative Learning for Impact Philanthropy initiative, 42 global development organizations convened to share their strategies with peers on managing a large gift and what is required from philanthropy to make meaningful change at the local level. Join Panorama Global and three MacKenzie Scott grant recipients to discuss how a large gift enabled key programmatic decisions, informed the need of game-changing grants, and what makes a large gift transformational.

Opening remarks: Elaine Gibbons, Chief Impact Officer, Panorama Global

Speakers:

• Jennifer Crouch, Director, Development, VillageReach
• Chris Jochnick, CEO, Landesa
• Margarita Mora, Senior Managing Director, Partnerships, Nia Tero

Moderator: Ankita Patel, Director, Collaboratives, Panorama Global

Fast Pitch

• Jon Browning, CEO, Global Mentorship Initiative
• Peter Kelly, President, CEO, Grow Further
• Laura Baerwolf, COO, Mona Foundation
• Paul Essene, Head of Product and Innovation, Opportunity International
• Carrie Schonwald, Director, Global Programs, Providence
• Donna Shively, President, US, Save Kids Trust
• Kathleen Davis, Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, Worldwide Fistula Fund

Afternoon Plenary Conversation: How to co-create a program with a funder.

In this session, funders and NGO partners will talk about using the co-creation model to create powerful programs in global development. Opportunity International will talk through their partnership with the Visa Foundation to create economic opportunities for women, and Heifer International will discuss their long-term relationship with MasterCard Foundation that lead to a new project to support youth in Uganda.

Speakers:

• Atul Tandon, CEO, Opportunity International
• Surita Sandosham, President & CEO, Heifer International

Moderator: Jennifer Butte-Dahl, Senior Director, APCO Impact

Afternoon Keynote:

• Erik Arnold, General Manager & Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Philanthropies

Closing Remarks

• Kristen Dailey, Executive Director, Global Washington