Revolutionizing the Professional Conference Experience, The Women In Green Forum Grants Lifetime Membership To All 2010 Registrants
The Women In Green Forum, an annual sustainability conference, will include lifetime access to future Women In Green annual conferences in this year’s one-time registration fee.
In an unprecedented move, the Women In Green Forum just announced that it will grant lifetime membership to every registered attendee at the inaugural 2010 Forum, which is scheduled for September 1st and 2nd at the Pasadena Convention Center. This groundbreaking strategy will allow anyone who purchases a registration pass this year to be exempt from registration fees in future years, thereby granting 2010 Women In Green goers lifetime access to the yearly Forum for a modest, one-time fee.
Offering the added value of lifetime membership for 2010 registrants is likely to substantially boost the Forum’s attendance, serving as an innovative response to this year’s difficult economic climate. It will also create a loyal support base for future Women In Green Forums by granting conference-goers an enhanced event experience. The Forum organizers want all registrants to enjoy being members of a community versus participants in a one-time event. Unlike traditional conferences, the Women In Green Forum will continue to support the professional development interests of its members long after the Convention Center shuts down the evening of September 2nd.
“By promoting lifetime access to the Women In Green Forum, we are hoping to re-engineer the attendee experience,” says Jaime Nack, President of the event production company Three Squares Inc. (TSI) and Executive Director of the Women In Green Forum. “The purpose of the Forum is to connect professionals within the sustainability field in a meaningful way. Our lifetime membership offer will allow attendees to build upon their conference experience every year and cultivate long-term relationships, leading to career growth among individuals and the formation of a powerful Women In Green community. With so little time to solve the many critical environmental issues confronting us, we see an opportunity for the Women In Green Forum to become a driving force in shaping collaborative solutions to the environmental challenges ahead.“
The Women In Green Forum’s unique lifetime model is making a splash within the event production industry. Given the current economic climate, Three Squares Inc.—the Forum’s event production company—is diverging from the “business as usual” mode in conference production, which typically relies on sponsorships, registration rates, and short-term experiences lasting from one to three days. This unique approach provides more added value for the attendees, sponsors and speakers and will allow 2010 participants to stay connected with the Forum for years to come.
“Lifetime membership is a visionary move,” says Sarah Backhouse, Anchor of Planet 100 for Discovery’s Planet Green.com and master of ceremonies for the 2010 Women in Green Forum. “It’s an amazing opportunity for the Forum’s attendees to foster a sense of community, grow their networks and enhance job prospects. I envisage these exclusive memberships becoming highly coveted in the future.”
Serving one of the chief goals of the Forum—to create a community of professionals who share a passion for sustainability—lifetime memberships will be assigned to individual attendees rather than their affiliated companies. Lifetime memberships will also include priority invitations to other Women In Green Forum events throughout the year and future access to an online “members only” portal. By creating more opportunities to connect with others in the field, the lifetime membership strategy is anticipated to create a collaborative platform from which women can develop powerful professional networks and build upon each other’s successes. For more details and the terms of the membership offer, please visit the Forum web site at http://www.womeningreenforum.com.
TED Fellows program: International Call–Ages 18-40
February 5, 2009
Unveiling the TED Fellows program Greetings TEDsters – It’s my pleasure to share with you the first “Great Unveiling” of TED2009: our new TED Fellows program. At TEDGlobal 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania we were struck by the remarkable conversations and collaborations inspired by the 100 fellows who attended. We saw the founding of several companies, including Black Star Line SA by speaker Herman Chenery- Hesse and TEDGlobal fellow June Arunga; the emergence of new NGOs such as Ushahidi.com, founded by Fellows Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich and Ory Okolloh; and U.S. TEDsters setting up offices and hiring a TED Fellow in Tanzania.
Scientists met with artists and designers, tech bloggers spoke with environmental activists, and filmmakers bonded with economists. Those exceptional people continue to write Africa’s “Next Chapter.” Since then we’ve been seeking a way to bring the TED Fellows’ passion, energy and the ideas worth spreading to every TED conference, with the hope that their world-changing ideas and proven potential will meld with the talent and experience of the TED community. Introducing TED Fellows, our new international program that will bring 50 eclectic, up-and-coming world-changers to our Long Beach and Oxford conferences each year.
Twenty of those fifty will be invited back, starting the next year, as TED Senior Fellows, joining the community for a three-year term including six conferences. All TED Fellows will receive special benefits including pre-conference programs, training from world-class communications professionals, the opportunity to give short TEDTalks at TED University, the opportunity to spread their ideas on TED.com, a private social network and more. Of course, TED will cover their conference fees, travel and lodging.
We’re targeting individuals aged 21-40 from all of TED’s many disciplines, including of course, technology, entertainment and design but also science, humanities and the arts, entrepreneurs, NGOs and political and community leaders. We’re focusing on candidates from five regions of the world: Africa, Asia/Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East.
However, anyone 18 and over is welcome to apply. The first application cycle begins February 23rd, 2009. Meet our first 40 fellows here. The complete list is also at the bottom of this email. If you’d like to read more about them, you can download a PDF of the TED Fellows Program Guide. These men and women were selected for their achievement but especially for their promise. Each of them shows real potential to create positive change in their field — whether it’s technology, entertainment, design, music, art, science, business or the NGO community — in their country, and even around the world. I would like to thank the Bezos family, the Harnisch Foundation and Nokia for their visionary inaugural support of the program, with in-kind participation from TED friends Kodak, Livescribe, Lynda.com, ONE.org and SubscriberMail. There are many opportunities for TEDsters to get involved and contribute. If you’re interested in participating, have questions or comments or would just like to learn more about the program, please email fellows@ted.com. Find more information at http://www.ted.com/fellows Warmly, Tom Rielly TED Community Director
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The World Civic Forum (WCF), jointly initiated by Kyung Hee University and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), will hold its inaugural forum on May 5-8, 2009 at the COEX in Seoul, Korea under the main theme of “Building Our Humanitarian Planet.” The WCF 2009 emerges from the leading collaboration between the UN and institutions of higher learning, and aims to develop into an ongoing global institution with the partnership of like-minded actors such as NGOs, international organizations, governments, private enterprise, and the media. As a venue for global reflection and dialogue to enhance future civilizations, it will address the internationally agreed development goals including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from various perspectives of education, research, and practice. The WCF 2009, to be followed by succeeding ones bi-annually thereafter, will highlight the following themes.
Main Theme: Building Our Humanitarian Planet
Our Earth is calling for a humanitarian regeneration. Despite scientific and technological progress, today we are faced with global problems–in particular, national conflicts and insecurity, environmental destructions and climate change, global injustice and underdevelopment, and alienation between civilizations–due to the loss of values of humanity in the course of modern civilization. Redeeming humanitarian values fully to our lives, however, is a daunting task. It requires integrative collaboration across sectors, disciplines, and nations. As much as damage to humanity has generated complicated ills in every corner of our Planet, we need a holistic initiative transcending conventional boundaries and scopes and reflecting planetary consciousness in order to cure the ills. This integrative, collaborative, and trans-boundary initiative would complement the existing efforts that have been made within a more bounded range of interests and concerns.
Key Themes: Civic Values, Civic Engagement, Civic Action
- Civic Values for Global Justice
- Civic Engagement in Public and Global Governance
- Civic Action for the Global Agenda Including Climate Change
The themes suggest a necessity for reflection and dialogue to address the global challenges facing humanity and future civilizations. Civic Values have to do with people’s perception, understanding, belief, and judgment that typically promote but sometimes hamper a maturation of humanity and civilization. Civic Engagement refers to network, organization, alliance, and partnership in diverse levels and fashions that may contribute to public and global governance. Civic Action involves movement, campaign, and decision-making by a wide range of actors as a reflection of their endeavor to solve global problems including climate change.
Along with keynote speeches by globally renowned figures, the WCF welcomes applications for papers and panels. In an effort to substantiate the main and key themes, the WCF will pay particular attention to papers and panels on the following issues:
- Climate Change (Global Warming)
- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development
- Energy Shortage
- Economic Prosperity and Equality
- Poverty and Foreign Aid (ODA)
- Higher Education for Humane Purposes and Social Responsibility
- Global Justice and Social Harmony
- Political Development and Political Stability
- Human Rights Issues and Human Security
- Cultural Diversity and Tolerance
- Global Peace and Global Governance
- Dialogue Among Civilizations
- Humane Use of Technology
- Crisis Management such as Post-conflict and Disaster
The WCF invites and welcomes submissions for papers and panels on other related themes or topics so long as they emulate the main and key themes. The WCF will have preference for proposals that are interdisciplinary or have practical implications.
Submission Instructions
This Call for Papers and Panels is open to all members of the global community–scholars, international organization leaders, NGO leaders, government officials, corporation representatives, journalists, etc. Individuals, institutions, or groups may propose papers or panels by completing the Paper and Proposal Submission Form. Click here to view the WCF 2009 official website, and for on-line submission.
A panel consists of three to four paper presentations, a chairperson, and discussant(s), or it can take the form of a roundtable. Individually submitted papers, upon acceptance, will be assigned to appropriate panels or poster sessions. The WCF reserves the right to refuse proposals or alter panel proposals. All submissions should be in English. Accepted presenters must register as conference delegates. All presentations and papers will be published on the conference website. Presentations and papers may also be published (with agreement of authors) in the conference proceedings. Registration fee and incentives for speakers will be announced shortly.
The deadline for proposal submissions is January 31, 2009. The WCF will confirm acceptance of submissions, at the latest time, by February 28, 2009. Acceptance process will proceed on the first-come-first-serve basis. Proposals received after the deadline may be considered but are unlikely to be included in the program.
Contact Information for Inquiries
WCF 2009 Secretariat, Kyung Hee University
1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, Korea
E-mail: wcf2009papers@khu.ac.kr
Official Site: http://www.wcf2009.org/
Making the Case for Your Marketing Budget (online webcast FEB 3)
January 21, 2009
This online webcast might be useful for those of you doing marketing for nonprofits and small businesses. It will also help you understand all the work involved in marketing and why it is key to any PR, communications, or fundraising campaigns.
February 3 2009
Online Webcast, United States
| Website: https://www.academicimpressions.com/web_conferences/0209-marketing-case.php Contact name: Kevin Kientz |
Learn how to develop and present an effective argument for the value of your institution’s marketing and branding initiatives.
Organized by: Academic Impressions
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.
Check the event website for latest details.
Free Series on “Power of Partnership” in San Francisco (Feb 10)
January 21, 2009
Join Craigslist Foundation, The Foundation Center, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, and Northern California Grantmakers for the third “Power of Partnership” quarterly program series. This free series showcases successful models of collaboration, with an emphasis on lessons learned, pitfalls to avoid, and opportunities to network with other professionals. Refreshments will be provided. The current economic crisis has brought nonprofit mergers and other forms of partnership into the spotlight, and many in the nonprofit sector are looking at these forms of strategic restructuring as an economic solution. However nonprofit partnerships are not just a last ditch survival tactic during an economic downturn. Partnerships provide a strategic opportunity for compatible organizations to join forces for greater social impact. For our third event we welcome David La Piana, author of the Nonprofit Mergers Workbook, The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution, and founder of La Piana Associates, a management-consulting firm specializing in nonprofit strategic restructuring. From informal partnerships and knowledge/resource sharing to formal mergers, David will address what to expect from a partnership and when it is a good strategic choice. David will discuss the practical tools and processes that lead to successful partnerships, as well as the role of funders in fostering and supporting partnerships. Program 5:30 – 6:00PM: Registration & Refreshments 6:00-6:45PM: Presentation by David La Piana: The Spectrum of Partnerships 6:45-7:30PM: Interactive Q&A Session 7:30-8:30PM: Networking Location: World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 200 Date/Time: Tuesday, February 10, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (PST) Attendance: Venue capacity is 150, so RSVP now! Cost: FREE
visit http://ga1.org/craigslistfoundation/events/popfeb10/details.tcl to RSVP!!!
Poverty and Social Protection Conference 2009 (Bangkok)
December 10, 2008
11th- 13th of March 2009, Bangkok, Thailand. Early registration (discount) deadline: December 15, 2009.
Poverty and Social Protection Conference 2009
will focus on issues of poverty and its eradication, social inequality, race relations and policy management and mismanagement with an international perspective. As poverty continues to be an ongoing, often-inhumane problem, this conference aims to provide a comparative perspective in analyzing past/current trends and conditions to better understand the never-ending downward spiral many individuals and families find themselves in.
The 2009 Poverty and Social Protection Conference (P.S.P) will address questions regarding the role and importance of equal distribution of resources and social inclusion. The potential roles and impacts less-developed countries have on politics, business, education and the public sector. In addition, major social and economic trends and their potential for poverty reduction.
The 2009 P.S.P Conference will focus on how poverty is measured, the effects of welfare states, the major causes of poverty including environmental and economic factors such as the World Bank as well as governance, demographics and social factors. P.S.P Conference 2009 will also address the many effects of poverty, including social isolation, human trafficking, displacement, suicide and homelessness. Poverty reduction strategies, economic growth, free market, fair trade, social aid and the unavoidable effects of globalization.
As a P.S.P conference participant you will have the opportunity to learn and discuss these and many additional issues of importance in creating strategies for the eradication of poverty, particularly amongst underdeveloped countries and within disadvantaged groups.
The 2009 P.S.P. Conference will welcome scholars, NGO representatives, corporate and Governmental representatives gathered with a common goal- that of poverty reduction and to increase social responsibility. Fostering partnerships and international cooperation are integral steps towards notable change.
Tomorrow People Non-Profit Organization hopes you will have the opportunity to join us as we embark on this international event, combing perspectives, underlining goals, and networking for positive change. We look forward to meeting you in Bangkok in March!
Key objectives:
* Identify main players as well as affected groups and sub-groups
* To better understand the role of civil society in poverty eradication
* To better understand the governmental role in poverty eradication
* Analyze & develop specific policies & targeted groups
* Build a knowledgeable global network committed to change
Poverty and Social Protection Conference 2009
11th- 13th of March 2009, Bangkok, Thailand
Dates
* Poverty and Social Protection Conference 2009 will be held from 11th- 13th of March 2009
* Applications and abstract submissions will be accepted starting from September 15th 2008
* Deadline for abstracts submission is February 1st 2009
* Deadline for final papers submission is February 15th 2009
Location
Poverty and Social Protection Conference 2009 will take place in the city of Bangkok, Thailand. All sessions will be held in the “Royal Benja Hotel” conveniently located in one of the best commercial areas in Bangkok and only 20 minutes away from the Bangkok international airport.
Global Symposium on Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Equality
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Event Summary
The Global Symposium on Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Equality will take place in Rio de Janeiro, March 30 – April 3, 2009. Four hundred fifty participants from around the world will share their work in applied research, policy, and program development. Their work challenges rigid gender norms and engages men and boys in reducing violence against women and girls, promoting sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, and fatherhood and caregiving.
The four day Symposium will promote exchange, debate, and planning for action. The event will include:
Plenary and breakout sessions on men and violence; men and health; and men, caregiving, and fatherhood;
- Skills building workshops, abstract presentations, and a Global Village showcasing the work of NGOs, United Nations agencies, governments, foundations and universities; and
- An analysis of current advances in policy that engages men and boys in gender equality. The Symposium will include presentations by policymakers from countries including Brazil, Canada, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden.
- The Symposium will also develop a “Call to Action” for governments to implement policy that engages men and boys in gender equality. The final results of the Call to Action as well as key conclusions from the Symposium will be available after the event on the MenEngage website.
The Global Symposium is hosted by an alliance of non-governmental organizations including Promundo (Brazil), Instituto Papai (Brazil), White Ribbon Campaign Canada, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the MenEngage Alliance, and Save the Children Sweden. The Symposium is organized by a steering committee of 22 organizations from different countries.
2nd Global Conference
Intellectuals – Knowledge, Power, Ideas
Friday 8th May – Sunday 10th May 2009
Budapest, Hungary
Call for Papers
Following last year’s very successful inaugural
conference, the Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power,
Ideas Project will hold its second annual
conference in Budapest in May 2009. The conference
is a keystone of the ‘Intellectuals’
Inter-disciplinary.Net project that seeks to
explore the role, character, nature and place of
intellectuals and intellectual work in
contemporary society. Whilst the ‘intellectual’
emerges as a particular category with the
development of modernity, the ‘knowledgeable’ and
knowledge producers have been an important
historical agent and social actor since the early
Greek philosophers, and knowledge production,
whether religious, scientific or philosophical,
has been important in shaping social, political,
economic and cultural change. Intellectuals and
the knowledge they produce have been subject to
competing representations: from an ‘elect’
producing knowledge for its own sake to different
forms of philosopher king, servant of the state or
dissenting movement intellectuals connecting
politically with change in the social world. In
contemporary ‘knowledge’ societies, much of the
focus on the intellectual as a ‘public’ figure,
residing within the media intelligentsia or
institutions of higher learning, but competing
theories of intellectuals and their work identify
elitist, meritocratic and radical alternatives
about who intellectuals are, what they do, how
they are connected to and divided from other
social institutions, and why we understand them
the way we do. The Project seeks to build, by
annual conferences and network activity,
both an evidenced and critical understanding of
the intellectual and intellectual work in the past
and a critical understanding of intellectuals and
intellectual work in the present, and its
prospects for the future. In doing so, it
recognises that the interdisciplinary basis of
such an analysis will take in the fields of
cultural studies, education studies (with a
particular focus on higher education), history,
literature, philosophy, politics, sociology,
social theory and open avenues to wider and more
diverse disciplinary connections, and the project
welcomes interdisciplinary explorations. Some
indicative themes are suggested below to indicate
the types of issues that might be addressed in
conference papers and workshops. The first of the
themes is one we particularly wish to emphasise at this
conference.
A. The Intellectual, War and Conflict
How do we understand the rights, responsibilities
and duties of intellectuals in times of conflict
and war? To who or what do intellectuals owe
duties and responsibilities in war and conflict?
What constitutes loyalty and disloyalty when
intellectuals speak to truth? Should intellectuals
be detached or committed in their approach to
conflict and war? What constitutes complicity
intellectual work about war and conflict and how
should we judge both? How do we distinguish
intellectual honesty from strategic opportunism in
intellectuals’ interventions in war and conflict?
What is the scope and limits to free speech and
intellectual commentary during war and conflict?
B. The Making of the Modern Intellectual and
Intellectual Work.
How do we understand the role and impact of
intellectuals and intellectual work in the past in
shaping intellectuals and intellectual
work in the present? What historical
categorisations, roles, models and places in
conceiving the intellectual influence how
intellectuals see themselves and their work today?
How have the roles, natures and places
of intellectuals changed through history? What do
historical understandings of the intellectual tell
us about the intellectual today?
C. Intellectuals and the 21st Century Academy.
What roles, functions and positions do
intellectuals take within learning institutions
and what has the impact of change in learning
institutions made on intellectuals? What overlap
and interplay is there between the academy and the
intellectual? What moral, cultural, political and
educational principles underpin the academy and
the learning institution today? How has the
association between academy and intellectual been
impacted on by recent change in society, economy
and politics in the 21st century?
D. Intellectuals and the Knowledge Society
How has the intellectual changed in their role,
character and place in the knowledge society? How
have the internet and ICT’s changed the way
intellectuals work and intellectual work is
produced, distributed and exchanged? How has the
knowledge society changed our understanding of
the intellectual in society? Have we moved from
the primacy of the mode of production to the
primacy of the mode of information?
E. Public Intellectuals and the Intellectual in
Public and Political Life.
What is a public intellectual and how is a public
intellectual distinguished from other
intellectuals and knowledge producers? What roles
and places do public intellectuals have in past
and contemporary societies? Are intellectuals and
is intellectual work always political? What
political and public roles do intellectuals play?
F. Intellectuals and Cultural Life.
How have intellectuals impacted on cultural life,
in shaping everyday experience, providing
frameworks for understanding and producing
cultural enrichment? In what ways have
intellectuals played a role in shaping the
cultural milieu? What is the relationship between
the intellectual and the artist or producer of
cultural knowledge and products? What is the
relationship between intellectuals and the aesthetic?
G. Intellectuals and the Development of Bodies of
Knowledge.
How do intellectuals produce and create knowledge?
How should we understand the processes of
knowledge production and creation as social
and political and well as research processes? How
should we understand notions of discovery,
exploration and speaking truth in the context of
critical perspectives on knowledge creation? How
have particular bodies of knowledge developed
historically and come to play determining roles
in social, cultural, political and economic change?
These themes are intended as illustrative and
proposals on related areas are welcomed. Panel
proposals, workshops and joint presentations are
also welcome. The conference aims to bring
together people from different areas, disciplines,
professions and interests to share ideas and
explore questions in a way that is innovative and
exciting.
Papers will also be considered on any related
theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 9th January 2009. If an abstract is
accepted for the conference, a full draft paper
should be submitted by Friday 10th April 2009. The
draft paper should be of no more than 8 or 9
pages long and ready for a 20 minute (maximum)
presentation during the conference.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
author(s), affiliation, email address, title of
abstract, body of abstract.
We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did
not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Paul Reynolds
Social and Psychological Sciences,
Edge Hill University
United Kingdom
E-mail: reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk
Rob Fisher
Network Founder & network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
E-mail: ikp2@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Critical Issues
programme of research projects. It aims to bring
together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting. All
papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume.
For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int.html
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/intellectuals/int2/cfp.html
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