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GFE Eleventh Annual Conference
 10/17/2007 to 10/19/2007
 New Mexico, Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort


How can we help transform an outmoded 19th century education system into one that prepares all students – especially those who are most disenfranchised – to thrive as global citizens? At GFE’s 2007 conference, we took a fresh look at this question using the Southwest as our vantage point. Poised near the U.S.-Mexico border, we learned from a region that has a long history of living and thinking beyond borders. The program offered insights on a range of education issues – from early education and after-school programming through K-12 schooling and higher education.

  • We learned from examples of powerful, 21st-century learning occurring in urban, rural and tribal settings, during and outside the school day.
  • We considered ways to walk many different pathways toward a common destination – adapting educational approaches to build on unique community and cultural assets while striving for common high outcomes.
  • We challenged ourselves to move outside of our usual ways of working, turning to new partners – including young people and community members – to join us in adapting our education system for a global era.
  • And we reflected on how “place” – the unique history, people and institutions of the place where we work – influences our efforts as grantmakers.




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  Read more and register for GFE's 14th annual conference, The Fierce Urgency of Now:  Fulfilling the Promise of Excellence and Equity. The conference is the nation's largest gathering of education grantmakers. 

  Read more and register for our web seminar, Making Education Matter: How Grantmakers are Building Public Will to Impact Education Policy.

  Read our new report From Access to Success:  A Funders' Guide to Ensuring More Americans Earn Postsecondary Degrees, which captures lessons from our recent member briefing.

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  Deepen your strategic grantmaking with Benchmarking 2009, GFE's annual report on trends in education philanthropy. Learn what Education Week says about the impact the report is having on the field of education reform.

Listen to Secretary Arne Duncan’s June 24th call with education grantmakers.

Access new GFE member benefits, including Philanthropy In/Sight, a dynamic mapping tool from the Foundation Center, and a discounted subscription to Foundation Review, the peer-reviewed quarterly from the Johnson Center for Philanthropy.

  View GFE's web seminar: Expanded Learning Opportunities: A Key Lever to Turn Around Low-Performing Schools. 07/15/2010 (~ 1 hr)

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  Watch provocative suggestions from Secretary Arne Duncan, Professor Nichole Pinkard, Matt Miller, and Larry Keeley on how grantmakers can transform education, by transforming their own funding strategies.

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