Fellows Conference Information
Philanthropy Fellows Conference Information
We convened our 20th Philanthropy Fellows Conference in Milan, Italy June 28- July 2, 2009.
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Background
The Johns Hopkins International Philanthropy Fellows Program each year brings scholars or practitioners active in nonprofit and philanthropic work around the world to the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies for a semester or academic year of advanced study and research. To date, over 140 civil society leaders from 47 countries have taken part in this program, representing virtually every continent and region of the world. The result is a vibrant international network of nonprofit professionals who share a common set of experiences and a common base of knowledge about the operations of the nonprofit sector in different parts of the world, many of them now occupying senior positions in governments, foundations, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations around the world.
The Fellows Conferences
The Philanthropy Fellows Conferences are an integral part of the Fellows program. The Program convenes past and incoming Fellows, along with a significant group of nonprofit and philanthropic leaders from around the world, for an annual conference focusing on the nonprofit sector in a host country. These conferences are typically organized with the help of one of the Fellows in a host country overseas. Unlike many other conferences, which treat the local venue as merely a physical site for a meeting, each Johns Hopkins Philanthropy Fellows Conference focuses squarely on the civil society sector of the host country. The conferences thus provide extraordinary opportunities to learn about the nonprofit sector in the host countries, to meet their leaders, and to network with the exceptional group of civil society leaders from throughout the world who comprise the Hopkins Philanthropy Fellows network.
The purpose of these Conferences is to foster a vibrant and active network among all the participants in this program by gathering program alumni each year to welcome newcomers to the program, to provide a forum for exchanging experiences, and to provide a mechanism for foundations and corporations that are operating internationally to gain solid contacts with informed and able people involved in nonprofit work in a wide assortment of countries.
Past conferences have been held in Nairobi, Sao Paulo, Istanbul, Santiago, Melbourne, London, Krakow, Lille, Amsterdam, Rome, Jerusalem, Accra, Mexico City, Beijing, Moscow, and Barcelona. In addition to the Fellows, we typically invite a small group of other senior leaders in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector in the U.S. and around the world. Past attendees have included the president of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Japan, the presidents of the Charles Stewart Mott and Bush foundations in the U.S., the director of the NGO office of the Canadian Development Agency, the executive director of the Meyer Foundation in Australia, the executive vice-president and the program officer for nonprofit sector affairs at the Ford Foundation, the head of the European Foundation Center, the assistant director of the Fondation de France, the executive director of the Charities Aid Foundation in the U.K., the vice president for international activities of the Council on Foundations, the vice president for government relations of Independent Sector, the executive director of the National Council on Voluntary Organizations in the U. K., and many others.
Please see the Conference Action Statements for more information about past conferences.
