Embassy Suites Hotel O’Hare-Rosemont, 5500 North River Road, Rosemont, Illinois, near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (telephone: 847/678-4000).
A Brief History of USIG In 1996 a group of international grantmakers and legal experts met in New York with the Council on Foundations to discuss how they could work together to overcome obstacles to international grantmaking. Out of this initial discussion, the USIG Project was born. Four years ago the Council convened a USIG meeting in San Francisco where the input we received about barriers to international grantmaking as well as key legal and operational challenges was invaluable in shaping the USIG strategic plan for 2002-2005. It is now time to strategize about the next three years of USIG, and we hope that you will join with other international grantmaking leaders, program officers, grants administrators, board members, legal advisors, affinity groups, and others interested in this topic to advise us on how we can make the USIG Project even more responsive to your needs and the realities of international giving.
AGENDA
9:30 – 9:40
Welcome and Introductions
9:40 – 9:50
Review of USIG Project: History, Objectives and Accomplishments
9:50 – 10:45
Overview of International Grantmaking: Growth, Challenges, Change, and Opportunities
10:45 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 12:00
Current USIG Activities
Website: How can we make this tool even more useful?
Advocacy: Are we addressing the most critical legal and regulatory
issues?
Good Practices: Are we highlighting the right practices and doing it in the most useful way?
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch
Speaker: Andrea N. Keller, Policy Advisor, Terrorist Financing & Financial Crimes, Department of the Treasury
Topic: Anti-Terrorism Issues and International Grantmaking: Perspectives from the Treasury Department
1:30 – 2:30
Accountability in International Grantmaking: Discussion and Feedback on Draft Principles of Accountability for International Philanthropy
2:30 – 2:45
Break
2:45 – 3:45
Strategic Planning for USIG 2006-2008 Identification of Specific Issues and Priorities (breakout groups)
