Schedule at a Glance

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
8:00 am	New and potential member breakfast
9:00	Registration Opens
10:00 - 11:45	Pre-conference Seminar
Noon - 1:45	Lunch and Opening Plenary Local Pebbles, National Ripples Fiona Ellis, Northern Rock Foundation, UK
2:00 - 3:30	4 Concurrent Sessions A1 Sport and Philanthropy: Beyond Making Kids Sweat B6 Stepping Back to Move Forward: Reflecting on Mission and Practice B5 Drowning in Paperwork? Streamline the Grants Process B3 What’s Going on in the World of Charities Regulation?
3:30 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 5:15	Plenary 2 The Power of Sport and Play to Develop Community Johann Koss, Right to Play Beckie Scott, Right to Play Eric Young, E.Y.E. Philanthropy in Action 1
5:15 - 7:00	Reception and Resource Sharing
Evening	10th Anniversary Dinner Philanthropy in Action 2

Thursday, October 29, 2009
7:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:15 - 9:00	Plenary 3 The Essential Elements of Foundation Effectiveness Phil Buchanan, Center for Effective Philanthropy
9:15 - 10:45	4 Concurrent Sessions A2 Water, Water Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink? A Challenge for Canada’s Funders A5 Bridging the Worlds of Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples through Respectful Engagement C2 From Partnership to Project to Policy C3 The Art of Partnership
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:45	4 Concurrent Sessions A3 International Philanthropy: Easier Than You Think B4 Investment Strategies: It’s All About Asset Allocation C1 More Cooks in the Kitchen – Foundation Collaboration on Immigration A4 Investing in Early Childhood to Connect the Dots
1:00 - 2:15	Lunch and Issue Roundtables
2:30 - 4:00	4 Concurrent Sessions B1 Working on the Edge: Helping Charities Engage in Policy Work B2 Show Me the Money: Leveraging Assets for Social Change C4 Harnessing the Market Place: Hard Fought Success A6 Engaging in Social Change: Youth Organizing
4:15 - 5:00	Closing Plenary 4 Philanthropy in Action 3
Evening	Evening Options Skyworks Event: Painting portraits of changing communities… the good parts, the hard parts and the power of philanthropy.

Friday, October 30, 2009
8:30 - Noon	Calgary Site Visits

Lunch issue roundtables

Roundtables are issue specific discussions facilitated by PFC members and/or other experts on specific funding areas or issues that involve affinity groups and other conveners.

If you wish, you may join colleagues for lunch (buffet) at one of the designated tables for discussion of one of the following topics:

RT1 Making the Case for Environmental Philanthropy
Convener: Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network

RT2 Undertaking a Strategic Reflection: A Case Study of the Fondation Lucie et André Chagnon
Convener: Fondation Lucie et André Chagnon

RT3 Can We Jump Start Canadian Investment in Early Childhood?
Convener: The Lawson Foundation

RT4 Circle on Aboriginal Grantmaking
Convener: Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation

RT 5 Shared organizational models for the common good: the benefits of
leveraging a single infrastructure
Convener: TIDES Canada

RT 6 Issues in International Grantmaking
Convener: Harbinger Foundation

Detailed descriptions of the roundtable topics and facilitators will be available on site.