Northern California Grantmakers

The Momentum Leadership Conference, presented by NCG member the Tides Foundation, will take place September 7 – 9 in San Francisco.

Billed as “more than a conference,” organizers at Tides envision this event to be an intersection of creativity that will break down boundaries and build new bridges by bringing together leading activists, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs, to provoke conversation, invite debate, and inspire.

Momentum’s 2009 presenters and keynote speakers include:
Donna Edwards, D-Maryland
Ben Jealous, NAACP
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Anna Burger, SEIU
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Green for All
Kate Kendell, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Ethan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance
Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum
Manuel Pastor, USC professor & author
Bishop Gene Robinson, Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Marjorie Torres, GreenSpace Developments
Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute
Adam Werbach, Author of Strategy for Sustainability
Malika Saada Saar, The Rebecca Project
Jessy Tolkan, Power Share

For more information on the Momentum Leadership Conference visit the Tides Foundation website.

The Council on Foundations annual conference begins today in Atlanta and for those unable to attend you can find commentary by conference attendees on the newly launched COF blog RE: Philanthropy.

The blog will feature a mix of philanthropic leaders, both established and next-generational.

Check out the conversation online.

Grantmakers Without Borders are convening in San Francisco June 8-10 for their eighth annual conference.

The conference will bring together a diverse assembly of foundation staff and trustees, individual donors and global Southern activists to learn about, discuss and debate social change grantmaking practices and explore some of the most critical issues facing grassroots communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America today.

For more information on the conference visit here.