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FIPR 2022 Annual Convening
Check out this recap video to see how our entire network enjoyed leaning in and co-creating together.
The 2022 Annual Convening broke all records of coming together to LEAN IN and CO-CREATE the present and future of the social sector in Puerto Rico! We are grateful to all the grantmakers, foundations and changemakers who came together these two days to start working, improve philanthropic practices, have strategic conversations, build capacity and strengthen powerful relationships within our philanthropic network. Once again, we confirmed that we are stronger when we support each other.
We had two amazing days full of learning, where we reaffirmed that as grantmakers we have a responsibility to continue improving our philanthropic practices and contribute to a more just and equitable social sector. Speakers and guests from all over Puerto Rico and the United States shared ideas, experiences and stories together. That’s what our Convening welcomed; opening our minds and creating a better and stronger ecosystem for everyone. By Lean In and Co-Create we mean actively accepting that challenge and seeking more responsibility to address it.
Internal Process
Come together
Be open
Be vulnerable
Be challenged
Assert yourself
External Process
Ideate
Lead
Imagine
Execute
Be inspired
During the days of the event, we aimed to have meaningful and playful interactions, but we also had mindfulness sessions, free style dancing, laughter, movement, fun conversations and a party with our network where we had a caricaturist and a DJ. In addition, we had the Expo Comunitario, where local shops offered their products. Check out some of our invitees:
- Alterfolio
- Armonía de la Montaña
- Asociación Agro-Mujer de PR, Inc.
- Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico
- EcoTienda La Chiwi
- Finca Pajuil
- Proyecto Guakiá
- Modo Consciente
- Proyecto Cabachuelas
In the end, the Annual Convening was our biggest and most successful event of the year! We were able to gather people, ideas, strategies and love from every corner of the island and beyond. We are grateful for everyone who attended, because if you were there, it means that you are actively working for the betterment and improvement of our beloved Puerto Rico. If you could not attend this year’s event, there’s always next year, and we hope to see you there!
A few key themes stand out when we look back on the dancing, conversations, dynamics, and people that defined this convening:
- Leaning In takes courage to show up fully.
- Co-creating is about engaging in an intentional relationship to make something together.
- It’s about focusing on connecting rather than correcting each other.
- Trust begins by reaching inward and trusting yourself.
- Sharing and recognizing our individual challenges builds trust, and from there, we can collectively reimagine.
- Collaboration is everyone working together. You don’t want your idea to win. You want the BEST idea to succeed.
- We need to have more conversations about describing the future that each of us is working towards creating in Puerto Rico.
- We are accountable to each other.
- Co-creating is making something from nothing, using the dynamics of the relationship to build it.
- Taking the risk to reimagine and pursue what is possible beyond what any one individual or organization knows or has experienced is co-creating.
See some of the best moments!
Wednesday, October 19
9:00am - 9:30am Welcome & Registration
9:30am - 11:00am Let’s Lean in to Co-Create
11:00am - 12:30pm Trust-Based Philanthropy Practices
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
Optional walkthrough: Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation
1:30pm - 3:00pm Strength through Solidarity - Management Commons and the Future of Nonprofit Resource Sharing
3:00pm - 4:30pm Learning to Listen: Workshop to Co Create
4:30pm - 6:00pm Networking Event
Thursday, October 20
9:30am - 11:00am Funders Alignment in Response of Disaster Recovery
11:00am - 12:30pm Collective Reimagining
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm Recent Outlook on Endowments
1:30pm - 3:00pm Peer Groups: Our People at the center
3:00pm - 6:00pm Expo Comunitario
3:30pm - 5:00pm Innovating: The why and what of co-creation
5:00pm - 7:00pm A party with our network!
Let’s Lean in to Co-Create
We’ll kick off our Annual Convening 2022 with a workshop of why we are ready to Lean In. We believe that it’s time to share those experiences and find ourselves in other people’s stories.
Glenisse Pagán
Glenisse Pagán Ortiz
Executive Director, Filantropía Puerto Rico
Glenisse was born, raised and lives in Puerto Rico where she leads a multi-passionate life learning, teaching, challenging others and being challenged. She also loves technology, nature, adventure, but above all, she lives to inspire people to take action and to help them find their purpose.
Upon graduating from Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus (UPRM), Glenisse began working with Kodak and later with Motorola, who granted her a scholarship for a Master’s degree at Georgia Tech. For the next 17 years, Ms. Pagán worked at Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems in a career that started as Systems Engineer and ended as a Business Developer Manager in charge of teams throughout all of Latin America. During this tenure Glenisse proved her impeccable integrity, leadership, analytical prowess and ability to work in a matrix organizational structure.
In 2011 Glenisse refocused her energy by offering personal and business consulting for clients in the construction, legal, retail and philanthropy sectors. She is the co-founder of Harimau Conservation, a nonprofit focused on empowering communities through conservation and education programs in Indonesia and Puerto Rico. Harimau won the Innovation prize at Fundación Banco Popular’s hackathon for developing a tool that calculates the contribution made by natural resources to an economy. Of note is Harimau’s significant contribution to Puerto Rican communities devastated by Hurricane María in 2017 through the installation of 41 water purification towers.
Glenisse has been a consultant to NetHope, a humanitarian organization working with the community-based initiative of Information as Aid. In 2018, she began working as Chief Operating Officer for Filantropía Puerto Rico (then called Foundation Network of Puerto Rico) and in 2019 she was named its Executive Director.
Anja Paonessa
Anja Paonessa
Membership & Operations Officer, Filantropía Puerto Rico
Anjanette began her professional career at Pao’s Carpet & Furniture, a family-owned purveyor of luxury furniture, and rose through the organization to become its General Manager in charge of operations, budgets and sales teams, and of developing marketing and sales strategies.
With a background in Business Administration and Interior Design, Anja spent time in Miami working with Aquazzura Firenze, an Italian luxury shoe retailer, who in 2015 promoted Anja to the retail manager position of its New York City flagship store where she managed sales teams, was responsible for store performance, and identified opportunities for brand awareness and positioning.
In 2017, Anja felt the need to be part of Puerto Rico’s recovery and returned to the island to work with Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency & Financial Advisory Authority. This experience made her aware of the nonprofit sector’s crucial role in the betterment of social and economic conditions and, soon after, she became Filantropia Puerto Rico’s Operation Officer.
Trust-Based Philanthropy Practices
In these times of dramatic change, as grantmakers we have a responsibility to examine our decision-making practices to see how they have contributed to systemic inequalities and how they contribute to a more just and equitable social sector.
Alexandra Hertell
Alexandra designs, implements, and directs all strategic components of the Segarra Boerman Foundation, Inc. Alexandra practices trust-based philanthropy, worked as a grantwriter for Beta-Local, and held a Fordham University fellowship to design and develop curriculum of environmental law for a public school in NYC.
Mynor Veliz
Mynor Alejandro Veliz
Chief Financial Officer, Headwaters Foundation
Networker, broker, spreadsheets guru and finder of best prices on anything, anywhere. Mynor (AKA Alejandro) brings more than a decade of progressive experience in financial stewardship, accounting leadership and operations management within the health and medical services sector. He has been consistently recognized not only for his financial acumen but also for his ability to apply a collaborative, modern leadership style to get employees fired up about their mission and working together in new and collaborative ways. Originally from Guatemala, Mynor holds a bachelor’s degree in business finance, a master’s degree in business administration and he is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Leadership Development Program. An avid long-distance runner and world traveler, Mynor lives in Missoula with his wife, daughter, and son.
Strength through Solidarity - Management Commons and the Future of Nonprofit Resource Sharing
Fiscal sponsorship is leading the way in promoting diversity, equity, and more efficient and inclusive access to backbone services and philanthropic resources. Funders are playing a critical role in the growth of the fiscal sponsorship field.
Colibri Sanfiorenzo
Colibrí Sanfiorenzo-Barnhard
HASER, Executive Director
Colibrí has a background in ecology and administration. For the past 13 years, she has worked in the nonprofit sector with community groups that develop education, conservation, and cultural grassroots actions in Puerto Rico. She is co-founder of HASER. Her background in action-based field ecology research, and her experience with diverse community groups have shaped her vision for social change in Puerto Rico, which focuses on understanding that just and equitable actions done at neighborhood level can cause meaningful global change.
Josh Sattely
Josh Sattely
Chief Legal Steward, Social Impact Commons
Josh believes all social good initiatives deserve turnkey and equitable access to the nonprofit infrastructure they need to thrive. Josh manages the legal affairs of Social Impact Commons and works with our organization members to craft practical solutions to meet their evolving legal needs. Immediately prior to Social Impact Commons, Josh led the multifamily housing and nonprofit program at the NH Community Loan Fund and before that, spent 10 years providing legal support to TSNE MissionWorks (f.k.a. Third Sector New England), the first and one of the largest fiscal sponsors in the nation. Josh earned his Juris Doctor at Vermont Law School and LLM in Commerce and Technology at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
Thaddeus Squire
Thaddeus Squire
Chief Commons Steward, Social Impact Commons
Thaddeus has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit management field, focusing on arts and cultural heritage. Following government relations work for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he went on to found Peregrine Arts, a multi-arts producer, and Hidden City Philadelphia, among other curatorial projects. His significant work in nonprofit resource sharing began in 2010 as founder of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, the first comprehensive fiscal sponsor focusing on arts and heritage, which manages more than 120 independent organizations. Thaddeus’s creative practice is focused on systems design for nonprofit resource sharing, in particular practices based in commoning and commons management principles. His work is grounded in the fields of American Pragmatism, Common Pool Resource Economics, Cooperative Management, New Localism and the Applied Behavioral Sciences. Additionally, he has deep expertise in the history of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, nonprofit management, fine and performing arts, heritage preservation, and museum sciences. Thaddeus holds degrees from Princeton University, the University of Leipzig (J. William Fulbright Fellowship), and the Mendelssohn Conservatory of Music & Theatre.
Learning to Listen: Workshop to Co-Create
Through this session, we want to encourage entities to reflect on the collective they seek to support by critically analyzing the experiences and lessons learned by Filantropía Puerto Rico through the “Learning to Listen” project.
Lyvia N. Rodríguez Del Valle
Lyvia N. Rodríguez, El Enjambre
Lyvia is an urban and regional planner who has worked for 28 years in issues related to the right to the city, risk management, collective land tenure as a means to prevent displacement in self-built settlements, and participatory action-planning. She was the founding executive director of the internationally renowned Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín Peña, and the innovative, World Habitat Award recipient Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña.
As cofounder of El Enjambre, Lyvia accompanies organizations striving to strengthen their grassroots work as it connects to wider issues. She continues to explore the regularization of self-built settlements through collective land tenure and just transitions as a strategy of adaptation to climate change. Occasionally, Lyvia teaches at the Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico.
Alejandro Cotte
Alejandro Cotte
Co-Founder, El Enjambre
Alejandro Cotté Morales is a community social worker with 27 years of experience. He obtained a doctorate degree in Social Policy from the Graduate School of Social Work of the University of Puerto Rico, where he is an adjunct professor.
He has researched and published works on the politics of violence and crime, on community organization and participation. Alejandro has been a consultant to governmental and non-governmental entities, in the development of leadership skills, community organization in neighborhoods and public housing, and in the conceptualization and execution of projects and programs.
Together with other professionals and community leaders, he has successfully forged comprehensive community development projects, examples of which are the Martín Peña Caño Land Trust and the Martín Peña Caño ENLACE Project. It should be noted that the Trust received the World Habitat Award from the United Nations and in addition, the Enlace Project was distinguished as an Inspirational Practice of the New Urban Agenda (UN-Habitat), among other awards.
Alejandro has supervised professional practice programs in social work administration and community social work at the University of Puerto Rico, and has mentored dozens of interns. He is the recipient of the Recognition of his Commitment to Professional Service and Community Social Work (College of Social Work Professionals) and the Youth of the Year Award in Civic and Sports Leadership (UNESCO-Puerto Rico). His personal experiences, having been raised in a public housing project in San Juan, his academic training and experience enrich his professional practice.
Funders Alignment in Response of Disaster Recovery
As grantmakers we have the mission to continue supporting the efforts of the social sector by joining strategies, objectives and specific actions within us.
Glenisse Pagán
Glenisse Pagán Ortiz
Executive Director, Filantropía Puerto Rico
Glenisse was born, raised and lives in Puerto Rico where she leads a multi-passionate life learning, teaching, challenging others and being challenged. She also loves technology, nature, adventure, but above all, she lives to inspire people to take action and to help them find their purpose.
Upon graduating from Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus (UPRM), Glenisse began working with Kodak and later with Motorola, who granted her a scholarship for a Master’s degree at Georgia Tech. For the next 17 years, Ms. Pagán worked at Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems in a career that started as Systems Engineer and ended as a Business Developer Manager in charge of teams throughout all of Latin America. During this tenure Glenisse proved her impeccable integrity, leadership, analytical prowess and ability to work in a matrix organizational structure.
In 2011 Glenisse refocused her energy by offering personal and business consulting for clients in the construction, legal, retail and philanthropy sectors. She is the co-founder of Harimau Conservation, a nonprofit focused on empowering communities through conservation and education programs in Indonesia and Puerto Rico. Harimau won the Innovation prize at Fundación Banco Popular’s hackathon for developing a tool that calculates the contribution made by natural resources to an economy. Of note is Harimau’s significant contribution to Puerto Rican communities devastated by Hurricane María in 2017 through the installation of 41 water purification towers.
Glenisse has been a consultant to NetHope, a humanitarian organization working with the community-based initiative of Information as Aid. In 2018, she began working as Chief Operating Officer for Filantropía Puerto Rico (then called Foundation Network of Puerto Rico) and in 2019 she was named its Executive Director.
Collective Reimagining
Together we will explore how the commitment to “Collective Reimagining” can support the Filantropia network’s with generating more equitable opportunities and outcomes in Puerto Rico.
Bianca Casanova Anderson
Bianca Casavoca Anderson
Co-CEO, ProInspire
Bianca Casanova Anderson, educator, nonprofit leader, and social justice practitioner, with expertise in interpersonal communication, racial equity facilitation, and human development. As an educator for almost a decade, Ms. Anderson found her passion for human-centered change in the classroom. She built a unique background by cultivating inclusive learning environments that center relationships, uplift marginalized voices, and disrupt racism. As the founding Director for the Dallas-Fort Worth site of the Center for Racial Justice in Education, she trained and advised over 3,000 community leaders and educators around the nation in effective racial equity policies, practices, and procedures.
In 2021, Bianca was promoted to Co-CEO, where she supports nonprofit organizations and foundations by leading a portfolio of training programs and services that center race equity and leadership development.
Most importantly, Bianca loves people. She lives and leads through a lens of radical love, deep inquiry, and transformative justice. She is committed to creating spaces where every person feels safe, smart, and significant.
Rachel Leonidas
Rachel Leonidas
Senior Communications Manager, ProInspire
Rachel Leonidas is a marketing and advancement professional, with a decade of experience in elevating brands, engaging donors, and managing programs for non-profit organizations on a range of issues including closing the achievement gap to addressing food insecurity in school-age children.
Rachel joined the ProInspire team in March 2021 and proudly serves as the Senior Communications Manager. Prior to ProInspire, Rachel spent six years impacting education in the public charter school sector with a career highlight of helping to establish Washington DC’s first school-based My Brother’s Keeper program at Paul Public Charter School.
In 2016, Rachel directed her experience to raise awareness and resources, to help families still rebuilding from the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Her campaign resulted in over seven successful impact trips rendering medical support and establishing a sustainable food ecosystem for nearing schools in the remote regions of Les Cayes, Haiti. In 2019, Rachel moved to southern Africa and spent a year living and working on similar projects in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
Rachel holds a Bachelor’s and Master of Arts in Communication and Public Affairs from Columbus State and Bowie State University respectively. Rachel is also an educator who teaches interpersonal, intercultural, and public speaking courses to first-generation college students.
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Rachel grew up in a bustling household with eight siblings. She is a proud Haitian-American whose humble upbringing keeps her grounded and committed to the work of accelerating equity.
José Ortiz Pagán
José Ortiz Pagán
Consultant, ProInspire
José Ortiz-Pagán is a Puerto Rican multi-disciplinary artist and cultural organizer residing in Philadelphia. Ortiz-Pagan creates platforms to question, activate, heal, and consider alternative options for a hopeful future. The use of visions, rituals, crafting, gatherings, games, installations and more serve as strategies to consult and activate community power while negotiating their cultural presence in the context of the transitional and migratorial.
As part of his career José has developed and orchestrated various community based projects around Philadelphia including La Sombrilla Block Party, part of the Heat Response project in South Philly which sought to understand how art could bring solutions to heat impact, A Solitary Procession in which he collaborated with artists, activists and organizations to create a ritual that allowed local folks to mourn their loved ones in dignity. This process resulted in Ortiz-Pagan creating a large-scale suit called “El Vinculo” to play the role of a spirit of death walking across the city of Philadelphia. Currently he is working with Taller Puertorriqueno in the initiative Memorializing Fairhill, which seeks to create a series of monuments celebrating the history of activism and struggle in the Fairhill neighborhood.
Most recently, Ortiz-Pagán was selected to be the recipient of the Artworks grant given by the Philadelphia Foundation & the Forman Arts Initiative which recognizes the work of community based artists.
As a curator José Ortiz-Pagan has been responsible for projects that include; Portales, the most recent survey of work of the renowned artist Samuel Lind, and which focuses on the juncture between his spiritual framework and how it impacted his local culture of his local community in Loiza, Puerto Rico.
His artwork has been featured in several exhibitions including; Atolón, a solo show at the Art Gallery of the Sagrado Corazón University in Puerto Rico, The Trienal Poligráfica in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the International Printmaking Biennial in Taiwan ROC, the Bronx Latin American Biennial, among others. In addition to his studio and curatorial practice, Ortiz-Pagán has been a lecturer at Temple University, the Barnes Foundation and Haverford College.
Recent Outlook on Endowments
A conversation on the effects the changing market environment has on endowments.
Hector González
Héctor Gonzaléz, CPA, CFA
Senior Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor, Merrill Lynch in San Juan
Héctor González currently works as Senior Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor for Merrill Lynch in San Juan where he specializes in providing investment advice for nonprofit institutions and affluent investors.
He has been actively involved in the Puerto Rico Certified Public Accountants Chapter, where he has served in several committees and in the board of directors. Additionally, Héctor served as Treasurer of Habitat for Humanity from 2009 through 2011. Blending his passion to serve Puerto Rico and his interest for the arts, Héctor chaired the audit committee for the School of Fine Arts and Design in Puerto Rico from 2015 to 2017.
In 2016 he was invited and currently serves on the development committee of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, where he collaborates in the strategy and execution for fund raising efforts. On December 2017 he joined the Board of Asesores Financieros Comunitarios where he currently serves in its executive committee. He frequently visits high schools and universities in Puerto Rico where he facilitates a dialogue on the importance of financial planning, government finances, socially responsible investing, strategic philanthropy and the interplay among these.
On 2020 he was awarded the distinguished CPA in community service award and in that same year he was also selected among thousands of nominees to the Global volunteer award of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Peer Groups: Our People at the Center
As grantmakers we need to continue listening among peers in the ecosystem to share experiences, perspectives, interests and strategize together to further advance the mission and agenda for the social sector.
Dayani Centeno Torres
Dayani Centeno Torres
Voz Activa
Dayani is a licensed professional relationist in Puerto Rico. She has specialized her practice in communication for social change and community outreach strategies, supporting both businesses and non-profit organizations.
In addition to attending her public relations practice, Dayani leads the organization Voz Activa, which supports community projects focused on solidarity economy and citizen participation. From Active Voice facilitates dialogue processes aimed at the transformation of groups and organizations. To do this, it uses tools from Theory U, Strategic Doing and Nonviolent Communication, among other methodologies that facilitate listening and collaboration.
Centeno Torres with several certifications in Theory U from the Presencing Institute at MIT, and is the only Caribbean graduate of the Ecosystem Leadership Program of the Presencing Institute (Germany, 2019), a global training program on systemic change.
She is part of the Latin American team of Theory U in Spanish, through which she has connected with projects and agents of change in the region. He also belongs to the board of directors of the Institute for Agroecology in Puerto Rico.
Anja Paonessa
Anja Paonessa
Membership & Operations Officer, Filantropía Puerto Rico
Anjanette began her professional career at Pao’s Carpet & Furniture, a family-owned purveyor of luxury furniture, and rose through the organization to become its General Manager in charge of operations, budgets and sales teams, and of developing marketing and sales strategies.
With a background in Business Administration and Interior Design, Anja spent time in Miami working with Aquazzura Firenze, an Italian luxury shoe retailer, who in 2015 promoted Anja to the retail manager position of its New York City flagship store where she managed sales teams, was responsible for store performance, and identified opportunities for brand awareness and positioning.
In 2017, Anja felt the need to be part of Puerto Rico’s recovery and returned to the island to work with Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency & Financial Advisory Authority. This experience made her aware of the nonprofit sector’s crucial role in the betterment of social and economic conditions and, soon after, she became Filantropia Puerto Rico’s Operation Officer.
Innovating: The why and what of co-creation
This final session will focus on co creating the future of our collective. We will share FiPR future plans and unpack the different ways we come together that inspire us to innovate the present and future of Puerto Rico.
Glenisse Pagán
Glenisse Pagán Ortiz
Executive Director, Filantropía Puerto Rico
Glenisse was born, raised and lives in Puerto Rico where she leads a multi-passionate life learning, teaching, challenging others and being challenged. She also loves technology, nature, adventure, but above all, she lives to inspire people to take action and to help them find their purpose.
Executive Director, Filantropía Puerto Rico
Glenisse was born, raised and lives in Puerto Rico where she leads a multi-passionate life learning, teaching, challenging others and being challenged. She also loves technology, nature, adventure, but above all, she lives to inspire people to take action and to help them find their purpose.
Upon graduating from Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus (UPRM), Glenisse began working with Kodak and later with Motorola, who granted her a scholarship for a Master’s degree at Georgia Tech. For the next 17 years, Ms. Pagán worked at Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems in a career that started as Systems Engineer and ended as a Business Developer Manager in charge of teams throughout all of Latin America. During this tenure Glenisse proved her impeccable integrity, leadership, analytical prowess and ability to work in a matrix organizational structure.
In 2011 Glenisse refocused her energy by offering personal and business consulting for clients in the construction, legal, retail and philanthropy sectors. She is the co-founder of Harimau Conservation, a nonprofit focused on empowering communities through conservation and education programs in Indonesia and Puerto Rico. Harimau won the Innovation prize at Fundación Banco Popular’s hackathon for developing a tool that calculates the contribution made by natural resources to an economy. Of note is Harimau’s significant contribution to Puerto Rican communities devastated by Hurricane María in 2017 through the installation of 41 water purification towers.
Glenisse has been a consultant to NetHope, a humanitarian organization working with the community-based initiative of Information as Aid. In 2018, she began working as Chief Operating Officer for Filantropía Puerto Rico (then called Foundation Network of Puerto Rico) and in 2019 she was named its Executive Director.
Anja Paonessa
Anja Paonessa
Membership & Operations Officer, Filantropía Puerto Rico
Anjanette began her professional career at Pao’s Carpet & Furniture, a family-owned purveyor of luxury furniture, and rose through the organization to become its General Manager in charge of operations, budgets and sales teams, and of developing marketing and sales strategies.
With a background in Business Administration and Interior Design, Anja spent time in Miami working with Aquazzura Firenze, an Italian luxury shoe retailer, who in 2015 promoted Anja to the retail manager position of its New York City flagship store where she managed sales teams, was responsible for store performance, and identified opportunities for brand awareness and positioning.
In 2017, Anja felt the need to be part of Puerto Rico’s recovery and returned to the island to work with Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency & Financial Advisory Authority. This experience made her aware of the nonprofit sector’s crucial role in the betterment of social and economic conditions and, soon after, she became Filantropia Puerto Rico’s Operation Officer.
Wednesday, October 20
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Exploring Diversity to Lead Social Change
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Gender Violence
3:00 pm – 4:45 pm
Education: The power of change
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Opening Cocktail Hour
In-person event at Jungle Bird La Placita de Santurce
Thursday, October 21
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Let’s talk about FiPR
1:00 pm – 2:15 am
Sustainable Future from anti-racism
3:00 pm – 4:45 pm
Civic Engagement
Friday, October 22
In-person event at Comunidad El Gandul, Calle Cerra, San Juan, PR
9:00 am – 9:45 am
The Art Walk PR
Meeting point – #622 Calle Cerra. Restaurant Axolote
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Community Activity: Re-planting the seed of El Gandul + Mural Painting
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Closing
Wednesday, October 19
9:00am - 9:30am Welcome & Registration
9:30am - 11:00am Let’s Lean in to Co-Create
11:00am - 12:30pm Trust Based Philanthropy Practices
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm Fiscal Sponsorship
3:00pm - 4:30pm How Philanthropy collaborates with the Public Sector
4:30pm - 6:30pm Networking & Cocktails
Thursday, October 20
9:30am - 11:00am Decolonizing Philanthropy
11:00am - 12:30pm Collective Reimagining
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm Changing Market Environment: Navigating Liquidity and Liability Needs
3:00pm - 4:30pm Learning to Listen: Workshop to Co-Create
4:30pm - 5:45pm Power Within the NGO’s: Inserting Youth
Friday, October 21
10:00am - 1:00pm [Learning Journey] Convening Edition
1:30pm - 4:30pm Special Event
Wednesday, October 19
9:00am - 9:30am Welcome & Registration
9:30am - 11:00am Let’s Lean in to Co-Create
11:00am - 12:30pm Trust Based Philanthropy Practices
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm Fiscal Sponsorship
3:00pm - 4:30pm How Philanthropy collaborates with the Public Sector
4:30pm - 6:30pm Networking & Cocktails
Thursday, October 20
9:30am - 11:00am Decolonizing Philanthropy
11:00am - 12:30pm Collective Reimagining
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm Changing Market Environment: Navigating Liquidity and Liability Needs
3:00pm - 4:30pm Learning to Listen: Workshop to Co-Create
4:30pm - 5:45pm Power Within the NGO’s: Inserting Youth
Friday, October 21
10:00am - 1:00pm [Learning Journey] Convening Edition
1:30pm - 4:30pm Special Event
Culture, Participation & Privacy Guidelines
We want you to experience our annual convening as a chance to continue building our philanthropic community by enabling collaborative discussions that allow diverse grantmakers to work together and scale up their impact in Puerto Rico. Discussions should be lively, yet respectful, and always seek to bridge the gaps between diverse opinions, cultures, interests, and backgrounds, while staying focused on our mission to improve the lives of the marginalized.
You may tag us on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, and use the #convenePR hashtag so other attendees can find your posts.
Sessions might be recorded for archival purposes and available for our members.
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While fundraising is prohibited, we do encourage you to share what you learn and to refrain from doing so if the speakers explicitly request confidentiality.
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COVID-19 Guidelines
Vaccination and masks are not required. The meeting room should allow us to be comfortably spaced. We understand that there will be a mix of perspectives and needs among group members, and we trust that we can all respect and support that diversity.
Stay at home if you’re sick or have been in close contact with anyone who tested positive for COVID-19.
Be respectful of anyone’s desire for space, face coverings or a touchless experience.
