Welcome to the EDGE Annual Conference 2019 website!

Our 2019 gathering offered us an opportunity to situate our work within the context of developments in Brazil, Latin America and the wider world, and to broaden perspectives on the systemic and global nature of today's challenges. We built on the Barcelona Commitment from our 2016 conference and gender justice framings in New Orleans last year, on the insights and efforts of our Global Engagement Lab cohorts and on the work of allied funder networks and initiatives as well.

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Just as significantly however, our 2019 gathering was organized in close collaboration with 50 leading thinkers and leaders from civil society organizations and networks across five continents, who met for three days in Systemic Alternatives Symposium to advance and consolidate their own work of renewal and development of alternative visions. A key part of the EDGE conference included a day-long "encounter" to delve deeply and learn from their analysis and strategies, followed by our own work lifting up values, approaches, tools and initiatives that can contribute in concrete and complementary ways. 

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Together we hope to have contributed to emerging debates and concrete strategies that advance an alternative philanthropy, moving from transactional to transformational grantmaking in support of deep and long term societal change.

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