Last year Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) initiated the New Frontiers in Philanthropy and Investment conference, with 900 people total attending across two days. There were 57 speakers from around the world, pushing the boundaries of philanthropic and investment practice. ‘We wanted to create an event that felt expansive and challenging, inspirational and practical and the feedback we received afterwards points at that,’ said Cassie Robinson, Associate Director of Emerging Futures at the foundation.
You can see last year’s programme (and watch back all the sessions too) as well as JRF’s reflections. This year’s conference has partnered with Lankelly Chase, ThirtyPercy, Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation, Be The Earth, Good Ancestor Movement, Blagrave Trust and the Impact Investing Institute. Resource Transformation will also be joining for the co-design sessions.
‘We want to preserve the radical ambition of 2022’s conference, platforming people who are thinking deeply about the edges of practice,’ said Cassie. ‘Ideas around new vehicles for building economic democracy, post-endowment philanthropy, and looking for ways to influence where resources flow in the Great Wealth Transfer, whilst also recognising that some of this work is about the practices of transition. And transitions require plurality. This means different approaches, different people and organisations, across a whole ecology of funding, finance and investment – all of whom will have different theories of progress, and be working with different time horizons. We are explicit that a commitment to doing radical and ambitious work needs to be as accountable to transformative, liberatory and system-shifting intentions, as it is to equity and justice.’
You can see 2023’s programme here, and read about their speakers here.
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