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BPP LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Nearing a New Beginning: Border Community Foundations in Action Together
VIII Learning Community Notes and Resources
Hotel Encanto
Las Cruces, NM
April 18-20, 2007
Sessions below have been linked to individual session notes and relevant resources
Meeting Objectives:
1. Agree on shared vision for the Partnership post Phase II
2. Identify ways to collaborate across and along the border
3. Enhance skills to develop permanent funds to support work on border issues
4. Increase understanding of the vital role board leadership plays in sustainable community foundations
AGENDA
PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES: TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007
1:30 - 4:30pm The Impact of the Current Mexican Legal and Fiscal Framework on Mexican Community Foundations: Suggestions for Improvement, Facilitated by Jaime Bolaños Cacho, Fundación Comunitaria de Oaxaca and Cristina Parnetti, of The Synergos Institute
5:00 - 8:00pm Lessons Learned from the Mexican Community Foundations Facilitated by Magadalena Rubio
DAY ONE: April 18, 2007
9:00 - 11:00am Meeting of Texas Challenge Grant Foundations, Facilitated by Ann Tartre, Synergos
2:15 - 3:10pm Official Opening and Reconnecting Excercise, Facilited by Ann Tartre, Synergos Institute
3:10 - 4:00pm A Forward Looking Conversation on Partnership Building, Facilitated by Shari Turitz
4:15 - 6:30pm Where Are We as a Partnership?, Presentation by Shari Turitz, Synergos Institute and Mariano Diaz, San Diego Foundation
8:30 - 9:30pm Border “Author’s Café”: Book Reading in Collaboration with the Border Book Festival.
Facilitated by Denise Chavez, director of the Border Book Festival, and featuring Reyna Grande, author of “Across a Hundred Mountains”
DAY TWO: April 19, 2007
7:30 - 8:45am Corporate Funder Breakfast (optional), Facilitated by Synergos Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor Shannon St. John
9:30 - 1:00pm Concurrent Break-out Sessions - These sessions were designed to give border community foundation participants an opportunity to come together to identify potential collaborative action on BPP programmatic themes. Sessions included a combination of peer learning around each particular focus, skill enhancement on how to address the topic and how to raise permanent local funding to do soand time for interactive collaborative planning.
Youth Engagement - Jovenes Fronterizos
Grassroots Community Development
Building Financial Prosperity for Border Families
Border Community Health
2:30 - 5:30pm Post Phase II Discussion/Action Planning Led by Executive Committee
DAY THREE: April 20, 2006
9:00 - 10:15am Real Time Consulting Cases
10:45 -12:30pm Post Phase II Discussion/Action Planning Wrap Up Led by Executive Committee