Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Pre-conference Sessions

• By the Numbers: New Research Highlights the Impact of Organizing, Advocacy and Civic Engagement

• Where Funders Fear to Tread: Funding Community Organizing in the Hardest-Hit Communities

• Stemming the Tide: Funder Responses to the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis and its Ripple Effect on Neighborhoods and Families

• Have We Mistaken Development for Community?

Additional Pre-Conference Activity

• Microenterprise Funders Group Fall Meeting

Dialogue Sessions

• The Face of the New Labor Movement: A Budding Relationship between the Immigrant Worker Rights Movement and Organized Labor

• Organizing for Educational Equity: Democracy in Action

• Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

• From Voter Engagement to Base-building to Policy Victories: The Role of Integrated Voter Engagement in Building Grassroots Power

• Is Poverty Alleviation a Matter of Faith…and Faith Community Organizing?

• Making It Green

• Envisioning New Housing Policies: Recommendations for a New Administration

Thursday, October 2, 2008

• Evolution or Death of the Community-Based Development Organization: Implications for a Continuing Role in Poverty Elimination

• Passion Won’t Pay the Bills: Sustaining Movement Anchors through Capacity Building

• Race, Class and Power: Structural Analysis to Redefine the New American Dream

• Mortgage Foreclosure Meltdown! Danger and Opportunities for Funders, PRI Makers, Nonprofit Intermediaries and the Hardest-Hit Communities

• Overcoming Wedge Politics: Building Successful Cross-Movement Alliances

• Closing the Gap on Poverty and Race in Rural America

• 40 Years After the Poor People's Campaign: Low Wages, Persistent Black Joblessness, and Real Black/Brown Alliance Building

Learning Tours (off-site)

• Staples Center to South L.A.: Organizing for Opportunity

• Downtown’s Back Door: Immigrant Labor’s Journey from the Street Corners to the Halls of Congress

• A Star Reborn: Hollywood’s Renaissance

• East L.A.: Creating An Environment Where Youth Can Thrive

• L.A.: The Homeless Capital

• Port of L.A.: Making the Global Economy Green

Friday, October 3, 2008