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Bruce Thao

From April 25-28, 2017, five Ron McKinley Philanthropy Fellows and Trista Harris, President of the Minnesota Council on Foundations, traveled to Barcelona, Spain, to attend the EDGE Funders Alliance Just Giving Conference. Over 260 participants from 34 countries convened in Barcelona around the theme “Re/Organising Power for Systems Change.” A moment that stood out for me was listening to one of the plenary speakers, Rosalinda Guillen, executive director of Community 2 Community Development

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Bruce Thao

I recently returned from Mexico City, Mexico, where I attended the WINGS Forum 2017, a gathering of global grantmakers, grantmaker-support associations, and NGOs. The focus of the conference was Critical Philanthropy, and several themes that cut across the workshops and plenaries were regarding social justice, digitization, and the intersections of philanthropy and social business to address inequality. For me, the political and geographical context within which the conference was taking place

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Bruce Thao

Often we think we don’t have a voice or can’t impact the onslaught of issues surrounding us. Despite what the world tries to tell us, we have much more power than we think...

Tuesday, February 21, 2017