Dine Arounds - 2017
Dine Arounds are informal conversations over dinner around a particular topic, organized by and sponsored by an individual or group of funders.
Harnessing the power of faith to fight religious extremism
Organiser:
Randal Miller - Arcus Foundation
This an opportunity for donors and activists to share intelligence about the Religious Right's efforts to undermine crucial human and civil rights. We will also (hopefully) identify promising faith-based strategies and initiatives to combat these campaigns.
Human Dignity and LGBTI People
Organiser:
Relu Adrian Coman - Arcus Foundation
An opportunity for an LGBTI-related conversation. One thing you can share from your experience towards ensuring a dignified life, without discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.
Innovation with Purpose
Organiser:
Fernando Rueda - Fundación Avina
A dine Around on “Innovation with purpose” will be centered on the process that articulates social innovation with technological innovation and innovation in business models to generate ethical transformations in the society, technologically sustainable and economic integrative to ensure that systemic changes are accelerated, which the Impacts are integral and that the achievements have a massive scale for the generation of public goods and the care of ecosystem goods.
What’s Gender Got To Do With It?
Organiser:
Amanda Gigler - Mama Cash
Feminists love justice, good food and good conversation. We are also acutely aware that social movements are increasingly interconnected. Gender and the environment. Women and food security. LGBTQI and labour rights. Gender Justice is a common thread in many people’s and groups’ experiences of the world. This dine around will be a space to strategise about how we are all dismantling patriarchy and building gender-just futures in our everyday work – within our organisations, through our programmes, and in our networks. Some of us will share practical examples, others will ask hard questions. All genders and peoples are welcome.
Participatory grantmaking
Organiser:
Dennis van Wanrooij - Red Umbrella Fund
The definition of participatory grantmaking itself merits further explication and conversation in the field, because it exists as a spectrum of engagement. At its core, the idea of participatory grantmaking recognizes that lifting up the point of view of stakeholders in the populations a funder seeks to serve can usefully inform strategic decision making. This dine around is about the meaning, intention, entry points, and practice of participatory grantmaking.
How can we strengthen food systems based on agroecology?
Organiser:
Daniel Moss - AgroEcology Fund
Want to learn more about agroecology? Would you like to share a meal with agroecology movement activists from around the world and a community of donors who provide support to their organizations and campaigns? Join us in forging a transition to agroecology for a more humane, sustainable, healthy and just future. Key questions over dinner: What are the key challenges to building food systems based on agroecology? What are your creative ideas and strategies to amplifying agroecology? How can we strengthen and support alliances to do so?