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Welcome Letter from Board President, Kenneth Wilson, Ph.D.
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Announcing IFIP's next conference
Save the Dates: May 15, 16, 17, 2010
post-site visits on May 18-23
CALL FOR SESSIONS: 2010 Conference
NOW CLOSED. Thank you for your submissions.
APPLICATION for Indigenous participants to attend Tofino conference
Read articles and watch YouTube videos from Indigenous Day in Copenhagen.
IFIP in 2009: A year of many accomplishments!
2009 marked IFIP’s 10th Anniversary. As this year comes to a close, we celebrate our many accomplishments and re-energize for the important work ahead. Thank you IFIP members and associates for your support of IFIP in these many ways:
IFIP’s 2009 Annual Conference was held in Santa Fe New Mexico. We brought together more than 100 donors and 70 NGO's and Indigenous representatives, while collaborating with three affinity groups to discuss Indigenous issues and how to develop mechanisms to increase funding. See also Conference Archives.
IFIP worked with Alaska Conservation Fund, Oak Foundation, Native Americans in Philanthropy and Seventh Generation Fund to organize “AK Seminar on Private Philanthropy, Indigenous Capacity, and Environmental Stewardship.” As a result of this gathering, a new fund is being formed, the Alaskan First Nations Capacity Fund.
IFIP led the first-ever session on Indigenous Philanthropy at Bioneers’ 2009 Conference—a leading-edge forum with environmental, social, scientific, and spiritual leaders, focusing on solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity. IFIP has been invited to take on an even larger role, next year.
At the Council on Foundations’ annual conference, IFIP co- sponsored with Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) a well-attended session:
Climate Justice: Understanding the effects of global warming on marginalized communities.
By serving as a juror, IFIP helped influence a major shift in Indigenous funding by the World Bank’s Development Marketplace. This year, Indigenous projects received $1.8 million, up from $400,000 the year before.
IFIP was on the Executive Planning Committee for a meeting “Building Real Partnerships with Indigenous Communities” held at the Tides Foundation and attended by 30 international funding organizations.
For this year's Environmental Grantmakers Association retreat in Anchorage, Alaska, IFIP acted as a member of the Host Committee and co-sponsored sessions on Indigenous Philanthropy and Climate Change.
IFIP spoke at two sessions during this year’s United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. This forum brings together more than 2,000 Indigenous representatives from around the world each year to discuss indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health, and human rights.
IFIP held a workshop at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies (AIATSIS) 2009 National Conference, in Canberra.
For the COP 15, IFIP launched an initiative, “Bringing Indigenous Voices to Copenhagen.” Thanks to a grant from the Arkay Foundation, nine Indigenous representatives traveled to Copenhagen from Ecuador, Kenya, Russia, Peru, the Arctic, the Philippines, and the U.S. You can read about Indigenous activities in Copenhagen by visiting the Issues Page of this website.
Leading up to Copenhagen, IFIP expanded donor communications and education about the carbon trading policy, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) by organizing several funders’ conference calls. IFIP also participated in two EGA funder webinars on Indigenous concerns at the climate talks.
IFIP presented the 2009 Annual IFIP Award to Garfield Foundation in recognition of consistent leadership in the philanthropic world that demonstrates the value of engaging directly with “effective guardians of biodiversity”. The 2010 IFIP Award will be presented during to an individual or institutional donor that exemplifies leadership in Indigenous Philanthropy. The awards ceremony will be held at our next conference.
In 2009, IFIP produced several publications including: The 4 R’s: Principles in Indigenous Giving, guidelines which came out of a joint day of conference meetings between IFIP and Native Americans in Philanthropy; A donors’ briefing paper with EGA on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples; An article called “Philanthropy and Indigenous Peoples: Ancient Wisdom for Today's Earth Challenges,” published in EGA’s donor magazine, as well as in Sacred Fire Magazine; And of course, IFIP’s newsletter, Sharing Circle, with 2000 copies distributed throughout the year.
We look forward to an even more exciting year in 2010!
Thank you again to all the wonderful IFIP donors. None of this would be possible without you!
International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is a recognized Affinity Group of the Council on Foundations.
Mission
IFIP convenes and educates donors to build capacity and enhance funding partnerships to improve the lives of Indigenous Peoples globally
IFIP accomplishes its mission by increasing knowledge and understanding of the unique issues of Indigenous peoples by facilitating dialogue both among its grantmaking members and between that membership and Indigenous communities.
This section includes:
International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) works to increase philanthropic investment in Indigenous communities around the world. We promote cross-cultural understanding, sharing of knowledge, and the cultivation of relationships among international donors and Indigenous grantseekers.
IFIP provides leadership, educational resources, and networking opportunities to donors who have developing or maturing interests in Indigenous Philanthropy. IFIP helps individual and institutional donors at all stages of involvement and investment to advance their goals while becoming leaders and role models to others entering this fascinating and fast-changing sector of philanthropy.
Through conferences, convenings, online communications, publications, and toolkits, funders learn how Indigenous Peoples are addressing the most prescient issues of our day. IFIP provides grantmakers and grantseekers with the means to bridge cultural differences; to improve the effectiveness of their Indigenous philanthropy, and to advance common interests.
IFIP sees a world in which philanthropic support of Indigenous Peoples, projects, and partnerships is considered a priority–indeed, an imperative– by all who seek to advance meaningful solutions to the greatest challenges of our modern age.
With exponential increases in funding, vast improvements are made in the lives and livelihoods of Indigenous communities. At the same time, we experience growing recognition of the models for good that are offered in Indigenous Peoples’ resiliancy, collaborative spirit in solution-making, and capacity to adapt to difficult conditions in a changing environment.
The benefits of applying Indigenous models to complex environmental, social, and economic challenges around the world leads to widespread investment, along with changing views, values, and indicators in how we measure the reach and relevancy of Indigenous Philanthropy.
IFIP honors the positive role that donors play in furthering the wisdom, creativity, insights, principles, imaginative thinking, and life-sustaining practices of Indigenous Peoples around the world.
IFIP values the "4-R's of Indigenous Philanthropy": Relationship, Respect, Responsibility, and Reciprocity.
These core values of Indigenous Philanthropy will be explored in greater depth as IFIP expands its website, toolkits, and resources.
International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) was born in 1999 as a project of First Nations Development Institute. As grantmakers voiced their need for support to be more effective in funding Indigenous development projects, IFIP became a donors' forum within which ideas could be exchanged and relationships developed.
Today, IFIP informs grantmakers and policy makers about the need for increased financial support of Indigenous causes; and provides a forum for Indigenous leaders to demonstrate how donors' contributions make a tremendous difference to their capacity to improve lives, strengthen communities, and protect the planet.
IFIP serves as a platform through which new and experienced donors share ideas about visionary philanthropic leadership and donors' roles in social change related to Indigenous peoples, communities, and concerns. IFIP provides international donors with relevant information, recommendations, and guidelines and offers a portal through which to connect directly with Indigenous grantseekers.
IFIP facilitates regular opportunities for donors to have direct personal interaction with representatives of Indigenous communities from around the world. By speaking directly with Indigenous leaders, donors are able to learn first-hand about the issues that impact these Indigenous communities, scale funding more appropriately to the aims and needs of projects, and explore cultural differences that inform grantmaking expectations, processes, and outcomes.
IFIP advances Indigenous Philanthropy by:
Raising awareness of the need for significant increases to international funding for Indigenous Peoples and the benefits that will be derived from these greater investments;
Providing information about global issues and local impacts on Indigenous communities around the world;
Building knowledge and understanding of issues particular to funding Indigenous projects;
Encouraging innovation and greater effectiveness in Indigenous grantmaking,
Fostering an appreciation for Indigenous People's long-term approach to solution-making and the holistic context in which they live and work
IFIP supports its members by:
Hosting IFIP's annual international conference on Indigenous Philanthropy;
Offering networking opportunities, webinars, conference calls, and educational programs throughout the year
Participating in plenary or panel sessions at conferences held by other major grantmaker organizations
Producing IFIP publications and reports
Disseminating news and other resources related to Indigenous causes
Celebrating champions in Indigenous Philanthropy with presentation of the annual IFIP Award
IFIP Staff
Evelyn Arce, Executive Director
IFIP Board
Ken Wilson, Ph.D., President
Evelyn Arce-White, Secretary and Vice-President
Jose Malvido, Jr., Vice-President
Theresa Fay-Bustillo, Treasurer
Dana Lanza
James Stauch
Rebecca Adamson
Josh Mailman
Tanya Hosch
Liz Hosken
Staff Profiles
Evelyn Arce, Chibcha (Colombian-American) descent, serves as Executive Director for International Funders for Indigenous Peoples and has been working for IFIP since Oct 2002. Evelyn is the Secretary and Vice President for IFIP’s Board. She is also a Board Member of United Way for Franklin County in New York State.
She obtained her Master’s of Art in Teaching Degree at Cornell University with a concentration in Agriculture Extension and Adult Education. She was a high-school teacher for nearly seven years and taught Science, Horticulture and Independent Living Curriculum in Lansing, NY. Evelyn worked as a Communications Consultant for the Iewirokwas Program, a Native American Midwifery Program for several years and coordinated the American Indian Millennium Conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. She has contributed as a diversity consultant for Cornell's Empowering Family Development Program Curriculum.
In her IFIP role, her main responsibilities are to strategically increase donor membership, design and develop session proposals for various national and international grantmakers conferences, oversee the organizing of the IFIP Annual and Regional conferences, develop materials for the website and listserv, develop biannual newsletters and research reports, train and evaluate staff, and secure funds for IFIP.
Board Profiles
Ken Wilson, Ph.D., President, has served as Executive Director of The Christensen Fund since August 2002. Born in Malawi with a life spread rather across the world, Dr. Wilson studied zoology at the University of Oxford and anthropology at University College London where his doctorate focused on indigenous knowledge, health and human ecology in the agro-pastoral arid savannahs and woodlands of Southern Zimbabwe. During those years as an ethno-biologist he was particularly interested in linking participatory research on ecological histories with community-based landscape management. He then took a Research Officer position at the University of Oxford in the Refugee Studies Programme. During four years of field studies of war, famine, persecution and refugee movements he became increasingly interested in history, in traditionalist socio-cultural movements and resilience. Then followed nine years with the Ford Foundation. During seven years as Program Officer for Mozambique in their Office for Eastern and Southern Africa he focused on supporting Mozambican efforts to strengthen their higher education system, secure their artistic and cultural heritage, and launch environment and development efforts rooted in indigenous culture and participatory management (including ecotourism). Subsequently he came to New York as the deputy to the Vice President of the Education, Media, Arts and Culture Program, supporting Ford's effort worldwide to become a "learning organization".
Jose Malvido, Jr., VIce President, Xicano, Yoeme, and Tohono O’odham, has served as the Native American Programs Manager for the Seva Foundation since February 2005. In November 2000, Mr. Malvido began his tenure as the North American coordinator of the Peace and Dignity Journeys, which covers the territories, form Alaska to Panama, an intercontinental spiritual movement that works to unite Indigenous Peoples throughout North, Central, and South America. Mr. Malvido has also served as a multicultural fellow for social justice for the San Francisco Foundation. Jose brings extensive experience supporting the work of indigenous peoples internationally from a philanthropic as well as an active member in grass roots organizing.
Theresa Fay-Bustillos, Treasurer, has been the Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation and Vice President of Worldwide Community Affairs for Levi Strauss & Company since May 30, 2000 until January of 2009. Her responsibilities included leading the company's corporate social responsibility, philanthropic and employee community involvement activities globally. Ms. Fay-Bustillos previously worked as a trial attorney with a focus on labor and employment law, voting rights, education and immigrants' rights issues. She also served as an Administrative Law Judge and taught at the University of Southern California Law School. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (1975) and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (1980) and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA).
Dana Lanza (Approved March 2009) Dana is the former Executive Director of the Environmental Grantmakers Association and started working with Rockefeller Advisory Group. Her purpose is to help diverse member organizations become more effective and informed grantmakers in support of a more sustainable world. She has a long-standing and remarkable history in championing ecological and environmental justice. At the age of 28, Dana founded Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ), which brought free urban environmental education projects to more than 10,000 public school students, while employing hundreds of at risk youth as community advocates. During her tenure at LEJ, she acted as a lead organizer in the closure of San Francisco’s infamous Hunters Point Power Plant; later raising funds to supplant it with the region’s first off-the-grid Eco Center. She has taught in the Master's in Teaching Program in Critical Global Literacy at New College of California, and has been a fellow at the Donnella Meadows Leaders Fellowship Program in Systems Theory and the California Women’s Foundation Policy Institute.Dana has extensive experience working on issues of wetland conservation, sustainable building design, environmental education, food systems, and environmental health and justice. A recipient of several environmental awards, she has presented at Bioneers, the American Public Health Association, and the European Foundation Center, among others. In 2005, she contributed to the anthology titled Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World. Prior to these achievements, Dana lived and worked among the Samburu people in northern Kenya for many years, as well as the Lakota in South Dakota.
James Stauch (Approved March 2009) Prior to joining the Gordon Foundation in 2002, James managed the Community Grants Program at The Calgary Foundation. Before joining the Calgary Foundation as staff, he helped design a community-building strategy for the Foundation, which spawned a neighbourhood small grants programme, among other initiatives. James has a Masters in Environmental Design (Planning) from the University of Calgary and did his undergraduate work in Geography. He has researched and consulted in the areas of housing, public consultation and community development. His past projects include a housing trust fund feasibility study, mainstreet revitalization plan for Drayton Valley, Alberta, designing a culturally-based community development process with the Dene Cultural Institute in Hay River, NWT and facilitating organization development workshops with the Arctic Institute of North America, Dene Cultural Insitute, Calgary Community Development Council and other non-profit organizations. He also worked with the firm Praxis Inc. on various public consultation and parks planning projects and on contract with the firm Plan-Net 2000 Ltd. He was a grants advisor to the Calgary Community Adult Learning Association and the Community Lottery Board.In his volunteer life, James served as President of the Norfolk Housing Association, where he helped advocate for commitments to affordable housing at the neighbourhood, municipal and national levels. Other volunteer experience includes United Way of Greater Toronto, Citizens Advisory Roundtable for a Canadian Forces Base Master Planning process, the Calgary Immigrants of Distinction Awards committee and Environmental Design Students' Association. He currently serves as Chair of the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Network.
Rebecca Adamson is Cherokee and is President Emeritus of First Nations Development Institute (1980) and Founder of First Peoples Worldwide (1997) and IFIP (1999). She has worked directly with grassroots tribal communities, and nationally as an advocate of local tribal issues since 1970. Ms. Adamson holds a Masters in Science in Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University (formerly New Hampshire College) in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she also teaches a graduate course on Indigenous Economics within the Community Economic Development Program. Ms. Adamson is on the Board of Directors for the Calvert Social Investment Fund (the largest socially responsible mutual fund). She serves on the Calvert Group Governance Committee, and Co-chairs the Calvert Social Investment Fund Audit Committee. Ms. Adamson is very active in many non-profit organizations and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for Corporation for Enterprise Development, The Bay Foundation, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, The Bridgespan Group, and First Voice International. Ms. Adamson's most recent honor is her selection as a 2004 Schwab Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. Ms. Adamson was recently honored with a Doctor in Humane Letters degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. She was selected by the National Women's History Project as one of their 2003 honorees, and in 2002 she was selected by the Virginia Foundation for Women as one of eight Virginia Women in History honorees. In 2001 she was the recipient of Independent Sector's John W. Gardner Leadership Award, which honors outstanding Americans who exemplify the leadership of individuals working in the voluntary sector who build, mobilize, or unify people, institutions, or causes. In 1996 she was awarded the Council on Foundations Robert W. Scrivner Award for creative and innovative grantmaking, and she was awarded the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development's 1996 Jay Silverheels Award.
Josh Mailman, President of the Joshua Mailman Foundation, Board member Sigrid Rausing Trust, U.K., Board member of the following non profits- Human Rights Watch, Witness, the Fund for Global Human Rights, Blacksmith Institute, Afropop Worldwide, Sierra Madre Alliance, Advisor to RSF Social Finance, Director Serious Change Fund, L.P. , Active Private Investor In Socially Driven Enterprises, Founder Social Venture Network, Threshold Foundation, Business for Social Responsibility.
Tanya Hosch has spent much of her working life in Adelaide, South Australia. Most of this time Tanya was employed in the State Public Sector across a broad range of service and policy organizations. This included working in diversity policy and human resource management, women’s services, and Aboriginal employment programs.Since then Tanya has worked in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Unit of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Sydney, for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in Canberra, and then with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in both Canberra and Adelaide.During this time Tanya has also been actively involved in developing and delivering Leadership Programs for young Indigenous people and is a Board Director for the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre and the Foundation for Young Australians. Tanya was a co-founder and former Trustee and inaugural Chairperson of the National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia.Tanya has also worked for Reconciliation Australia on designing a process of consultation and research on alternative models for a National Indigenous Representative Model for Australia and on the establishment of the National Indigenous Money Management Agenda project concerned with improving financial literacy of Indigenous Australians. In addition, Tanya sits on the Rio Tinto Aboriginal Foundation, is a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Technology, Sydney and is a member of a newly formed 30 Something’s Indigenous Policy Think Tank run out of the University of Technology, Sydney.
Liz Hosken (Approved July 2008) Born near Johannesburg, South Africa, Liz Hosken was active from a young age in both environmental issues and the anti-apartheid movement. She was exiled to the UK in her early 20s, and co-founded the Gaia Foundation in 1984. As Director of Gaia she works with pioneers and visionaries for ecological and social justice. In 1991, Liz Hosken received the Jameson Award and, on behalf of Gaia, has received the Schumacher Award and a One World Award for media work on biodiversity related issues. She is a fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and advisor to the Goldman Environmental Prize.
Photo Gallery and Photo Credits
Thank you to the following for use of their photographs on IFIP's website:
Patricia Cochran of Inuit Circumpolar Union
Ken Wilson of The Christensen Fund
Jessica Brown of New England Biolabs Foundation
Angela Sevin of LEAP
Liz Hosken of Gaia Foundation and Sacred Land Film Project
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