Check out our newly added speakers for the 2011 Independent Sector Annual Conference Oct. 30 - Nov. 1 in Chicago.

We’re happy to confirm that Mari Kuraishi, the co-founder and president of the GlobalGiving Foundation will be joining an impressive line-up for the opening plenary titled, “Risk, Failure, and Breakthrough.”

Mari Kuraishi	Bill Drayton	Paul Grogan	Julia Stasch

We’re also pleased to announce that Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, will be presented with the John W. Gardner Leadership Award. Drayton also recently received a Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's highest honor and Nobel Prize equivalent. The Gardner award will be presented during a dinner Monday, Oct. 31. One ticket to the dinner comes with full conference registration. Additional tickets may be purchased for $150 each.

The closing plenary, titled “Collaboration and Collective Impact” will feature organizations that have adopted an integrated approach to solving social problems by involving partners from the nonprofit and philanthropic community, government, and business. The speakers are Paul Grogan, president and CEO of The Boston Foundation, Julia Stasch, vice president of U.S. Programs at The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and David Egner, president and CEO of the Hudson Weber Foundation and executive director of the New Economy Initiative.
Ben Hecht, president and CEO of Living Cities will moderate the plenary.

James A. Joseph

Are you a nonprofit leader under 40? Then don’t miss the NGen: Moving Nonprofit Leaders from Next to Now pre-conference program. This year, Ambassador James A. Joseph, professor of the practice of public policy at Duke University and founder of the United States-Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke and the University of Cape Town, is giving remarks at the NGen luncheon. Joseph was also the founding president of the Council on Foundations. The NGen pre-conference is $90 for members and nonmembers.

Take a look at our conference schedule and register today!

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