Past Global Washington Events
Listed by year below are past Global Washington events. Click on a listing to find out more about the event:
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2023
- October 26 AI for Social Impact: Practical Applications and Opportunities
- October 17 Global Washington Roundtable Event – Ensuring Food Security: A Conversation with Gilbert Kamanga
- September 20 Q3 Final Mile Logistics Working Group featuring The Max Foundation
- September 7 Impact through Co-Creation: Transforming Global Funding Dynamics
- June 28 Building Bridges to Health: Advancing Global Access to Quality Healthcare
- June 21 Tech Solutions for Climate Action: Harnessing Innovation to Address Climate Change
- June 15 Storytelling to Leverage Mainstream Momentum, Yet Stand out From the Crowd
- April 19 Panel Discussion: New Academic Year Under the Taliban Rule: Millions of Girls Out of School
- March 2 Q1 Final Mile: World Central Kitchen
2022
- November 9 Global Food Crisis: The Ripple Effects of the War in Ukraine for Africa and Beyond
- October 27 Leading in Times of Transformation
- September 29 Q3 Final Mile meeting: AI Applications for Global Health and Supply Chains – Drew Arenth from MACRO EYES
- September 8 GlobalWA All Member Meeting
- August 25 Networking Happy Hour with Friends of GlobalWA, Global Leadership Forum, and World Affairs Council/YPIN!
- July 13 Effective Partnership In Global Health
- June 24 Human Rights Defenders at Risk – the 2022 Front Line Defenders Award Winners
- June 7 Q2 2022 Final Mile meeting: The Value of Exchange Programs
- April 28 Global Quality Education to Advance Gender Equality
- February 22 Q1 Final Mile meeting – From the Field to Your Living Room – Innovation during the Pandemic
- January 27 Book Tour: The Development Diplomat: Working Across Borders, Boardrooms, and Bureaucracies to End Poverty by Fatema Sumar
2021
- October 5 Q3 Final Mile – Impact through Partnerships: Emergency Response to the 2021 Haiti Earthquake
- September 23 Stewards of Humanity Book Discussion
- August 26 Reimagining Education in Light of COVID-19
- August 12 Decolonizing International Development
- June 24 Building and Strengthening Civil Society
- June 23 Q2 Final Mile: International Travel after COVID-19 Vaccinations
- June 8 Working with USAID
- April 29 Water and Peacebuilding
- March 24 From Global to Local: Informing Seattle’s Pandemic Response – Virtual Program
- March 10 Q1 Final Mile – Organization Pivots during COVID
- February 25 Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights
- January 13 Pandemic, Profits + Inequality
2020
- December 17 SDG Roundtable: Winter 2020
- December 17 Q4 Final Mile – COVID Vaccine Distribution to Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)
- December 3 SDG 16: Peace and Justice in the Time of COVID – panel
- November 23 SDG 14: Equity for Ocean-Dependent Communities
- November 20 SDG 3: Decolonizing Global Health
- November 20 SDG 5: Empowering Girls as Global Citizens
- November 17 SDG 6: Resilience versus sustainability: The United States’ Environmental Future
- November 12 SDG 7: Energy Africa Conference
- October 16 SDG 2: World Food Day 2020
- September 25 Child Labor Increasing Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
- September 16 Final Mile Event: Kicking off a US chapter of the International Association of Professional Health Logisticians (IAPHL) and the COVID-19 work of Restart Partners
- August 21 Education and COVID-19 in the Global South
- June 26 How to implement great online trainings and optimize remote workplaces
- June 2 Final Mile event: Lessons learned from Ebola to combat COVID-19
- May 28 Global Oncology Adaptations during COVID-19: A WGHA & GlobalWA Member Roundtable
- May 15 Refugees, Internally Displaced People, and COVID-19
- May 8 Food Security and COVID-19 in the Global South
- April 17 Overview of the CARES Act and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
- April 10 Contingency Planning for Fundraising
- April 8 Travel and Airport Restrictions During COVID-19
- April 3 Approaching Individual Donors During a Pandemic
- March 27 GlobalWA Webinar – Communications during COVID-19
- March 20 Executing a Virtual Gala in the Age of Coronavirus
- March 18 Virtual Event – Proven strategies for stopping gender-based violence
- February 4 Seattle Global Networking Happy Hour with GlobalWA, Pangea, World Affairs Council, and WGHA
- January 23 Future-Proofing Global Emergency Response Systems
2019
- October 22 Food Security Panel – Community Led Development
- October 8 Final Mile Event – UAV / Drone Delivery in Global Health: Successes and Challenges
- September 13 A Conversation with Feminist Rukhshanda Naz from Pakistan
- September 5 The Fast Funding Fundamentals Workshop
- July 10 Tackling Trafficking: How to Put an End to Modern Slavery
- June 20 Final Mile Amazon’s Disaster Response
- June 11 Global Child Refugee Crisis: An Evening with Caryl Stern
- June 7 Disability Inclusive Development Initiative Workshop
- June 6 Illegal Wildlife Trafficking: Local Efforts on a Global Threat
- May 30 Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind – Book Tour by Alex Counts
- May 22 Mother, Baby, Provider: Completing the Triangle
- April 25 Failing Fast Forward: Learning to Build Water Systems that Last
- March 28 Fighting Extremism in Fragile States: From Crisis Response to Prevention
- March 27 A Vow to End Child Marriage by 2030
- March 21 Networking Happy Hour with Friends of GlobalWA, WGHA, and World Affairs Council
- March 17 Climate Change in the Global South – What can funders and their community partners do?
- March 8 Brave Girl Rising – Film Premiere
- February 20 Women’s Land Rights: A Transformational Tool for Agency and Empowerment
- February 7 Her Money, Her Voice: How Women’s Economic Empowerment Energizes Political Participation
- January 24 January 24: Escaping the Fragility Trap: Effective Approaches to Sustainable Development in Fragile Contexts
2018
- October 25 Centering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Effective Communications
- October 17 Voices from the Field: Suyheang Kry, Cambodia’s Women Peace Makers
- October 9 Feeding the World in a Changing Climate
- September 11 Defending the Defenders
- August 28 Building Their Future: How Girls’ Schools in Afghanistan Are Preventing Early Marriage
- July 20 Upaya 2018 Breakfast Briefing
- July 12 Networking Happy Hour with Friends of GlobalWA, WGHA, and World Affairs Council
- June 27 Up in the Air: Preparing for a Bumpy Ride in Global Travel
- June 21 Shaping the Future of Sustainable Sourcing
- June 14 “Where Love is Illegal” Gallery Opening at the Seattle Foundation
- May 30 Menstruation Matters: Innovations and Partnerships for Dignity, Health, and Opportunity
- May 29 Networking Happy Hour with Friends of GlobalWA, WGHA, and World Affairs Council
- May 16 Migration or Transformation: building the case for investing in vulnerable youth from Central America’s Northern Triangle
- May 10 Banking on Women – Financing the Future for Economic Growth
- May 8 Refugee Youth: A Force for Change
- April 25 How Data and Technology Can Advance the Sustainable Development Goals
- April 19 Women Hold Up Half the Cup – Empowering Women in Coffee-Growing Regions of the World
- April 2 How IDEO’s Design-Thinking Methodology Supports Innovative Solutions to Global Challenges
- March 27 The Ripple Effect: Clean Water Programs that Inspire Long-Term Behavior Change
- March 12 America’s Role in the World: Why Leading Globally Matters for Washington
- March 12 Dialogue with Social Leaders from Africa and Latin America
- March 7 Learning to Leap – Educational Advancement in the Digital Age
- February 15 Voices from the Field – Roundtable Discussion with David Masomo
- February 12 Displaced: Women and Children Seeking Safety
- February 1 Women in Global Health and Development Professions
2017
- November 29 GlobalWA Annual Conference – Renewing Global Leadership
- November 2 Financing Sustainable Agriculture
- October 26 Inland Northwest Conference for the Greater Good
- October 24 Communicating Data to Educate, Enlighten, and Inspire
- September 8 Voices from the Field: ACT for Congo
- September 8 NGO Roundtable with Congressman Adam Smith
- August 9 Managing Healthcare Logistics of the South Sudan Refugee Crisis in Uganda
- July 27 Serving Global Populations
- July 19 Careers in International Development
- June 14 Tech for Global Good: Maximizing Office Technology
- June 7 The Status of Reproductive Health Worldwide
- April 6 Book Launch – Take Me with You