WINGSForum
WINGSForum 2010
Innovation and Impact: The Role of Grantmaker Associations in Changing Society
November 18-20, 2010, Como, Italy
The WINGS network gathers together every four years for the global WINGSForum.
WINGSForum 2010 will be hosted by the Associazione Italiana Fondazioni e Enti di Erogazione (Association of Foundations and Grantmaking Organizations) or Assifero and the Associazione di Fondazioni e di Casse di Risparmio Spa (Association of Italian Foundations and Savings Bank) or ACRI.
Philanthropy is working in an environment where the challenges the world is facing are age-old. What is different is that they are more complex and evolve at a faster pace; they are intertwined, interconnected, interdependent and global/moving across borders.
Why attend?
"For me as an activist in philanthropy in the Arab Region and founder of the Arab Foundations Forum, a key reason to attend WINGS meetings is to network with peers to learn of latest development from other regions and the relevance to the Arab Region, exchange ideas, and learn from each other.
WINGSForum has special importance that one cannot afford to miss because it is held once every four years. Its rarity as an event coupled with the fact that WINGS is a network of networks makes it a necessity to attend such a meeting.
I hope in the upcoming meeting we will be able to tackle the three key issues: legal & enabling environment, effective philanthropy collaborations, and engaging strategically with policymakers. Also, I hope we will be able to define the role of each region in the world in contributing to those three issues."
Dr. Atallah Kuttab
Director General, Welfare Association, Founder of the Arab Foundations Forum
With the current status of global philanthropy, three primary areas are important for the future of philanthropy:
- Improving the legal and enabling environment for global philanthropy,
- Developing models for more effective philanthropic collaborations to address global challenges, and
- Engaging philanthropy more strategically with policymakers and multilateral organizations.
WINGSForum 2010 is planned to address these three key areas, hearing case studies, sharing promising practices, and learning from content experts on how grantmaker associations can support global philanthropy's future.
At a time when philanthropy needs to muster all its resources to deal with these difficulties, associations of grantmakers have a special role in helping philanthropy to become more effective. Grantmaker associations need to think both creatively and deeply about new solutions, innovate, and how to scale up new methods and solutions.
A Powerful Opportunity
WINGSForum 2010 promises to be a powerful opportunity to:
- Build the field of grantmaker support, strengthening and reinforcing the role it plays in developing networked, effective philanthropy and bringing new donors to the table.
- Demonstrate (through cases) how associations and philanthropy support organizations contribute to social change and promote the scaling-up of creative/innovative solutions to social issues for greater impact.
- Examine new strategies and their applicability across different cultures which address poverty, racial discrimination, gender inequity and other issues that threaten our societies.
- Gather a broad-based global network to share stories and promising (best) practices.
- Give visibility to philanthropy and what philanthropy does for the world.
