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Arabella Insights Teleconference Series

 

Arabella Advisors periodically hosts teleconferences on timely issues for philanthropists. With both issue experts and donors on the panels, the teleconferences offer both an in-depth view and a donor perspective on a wide range of issues and current events. Arabella Insights Teleconferences are often coupled with Issue Briefs on the topics discussed.

 

 

How Funders Can Help America's Veterans

November 10, 2011 | Download a recording (mp3)


After more than 10 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, our returning service members and their families need a wide range of support services, from counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse to higher education and jobs placement. This teleconference will explore the critical role funders can play in helping connect grantees that provide needed services with veterans and their families.

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Moderated by Wayne Farmer, Managing Director, Arabella Advisors




Big Ideas from the Spring Conference Series

May 12, 2011 | Download a recording (mp3)


Few donors have time to attend all of the important philanthropy conferences that take place each spring across the country and around the world. So, this spring, we're bringing highlights of those conferences directly to you, through a teleconference designed especially for our friends and colleagues in the funder community.

 

Join the newly combined Arabella-Blueprint team as we cover current key topics in philanthropy and peer into the field's future. Our own Lucy Bernholz, Bruce Boyd and Eric Kessler will provide updates and insights on the big ideas being discussed at major conferences this spring, including the Skoll World Forum, Global Philanthropy Forum, Council on Foundations, Summit Series, Jewish Funders Network and more. Our call will help you make sense of where philanthropy is today and see where it is headed in the future. The call is free to join. Just click here to RSVP so we know to save you a seat.




Waiting for Superfunders: How Donors Can Leverage K-12 Education Reform

March 2, 2011 | Download a recording (mp3)

Presented in conjunction with the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Funders have critical roles to play in addressing America's education crisis. This teleconference explored those roles in the context of key recent events, from the fall elections to states' recent efforts to develop reforms worth billions in federal funding. In a period of recession and rapid change, funders have often been a bulwark -- working to ensure that all children have access to high-quality education and providing continuity to keep education reforms moving. Drawing on the recent innovative work of experienced education donors, this teleconference highlighted high-impact opportunities for would-be "superfunders": philanthropists who seek to improve schools across America or in their own neighborhoods.

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Moderated by Fawzia Ahmed, Director, Arabella Advisors

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Environmental Impact in the Post-Election World:
Insights and Strategies for Grantmakers

November 10, 2010

A teleconference presented by Arabella and Environmental Grantmakers Association


What impacts will the fall 2011 elections have on U.S. environmental policy? What can grantmakers do now to effectively pursue their environmental priorities? This teleconference looked at the causes and outcomes of the elections and focused on specific actions that donors can take to ensure their environmental priorities move forward. Bringing multiple viewpoints to the table through expert analysis from the philanthropy and policy communities, the call enabled donors to understand the new policy context and begin to plan their strategies accordingly.


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What Health Care Reform Means for Philanthropy

May 4, 2010 | Download a recording (mp3)


What does the biggest health care reform in decades mean for donors like you? How will it affect the hospital, clinic or health care providers you currently help? What impact will it have on your community and the needs of populations you support? What does it miss? And what new opportunities for strategic philanthropy does it create? Our latest teleconference explored answers to these questions and more.


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Moderated by Fawzia Ahmed, Associate Director, Arabella Advisors


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Grantmakers in Health


What’s with All the Disasters? Philanthropists Look for Opportunities for Impact

March 4, 2010 | Download a recording (mp3)


In the aftermath of tragic earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and with the recovery job still incomplete in the U.S. Gulf Coast, philanthropists are asking “what’s with all the disasters?” Arabella Advisors hosted this teleconference to help donors identify opportunities for impact in their disaster response, providing the latest situation reports from Haiti and Chile, a look inside disaster science, and strategies for effective giving.


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Katrina at Five Association of Small Foundations


The Climate for Philanthropists in Copenhagen

December 16, 2009 | Download a recording (mp3)


For many philanthropists, the climate change conference that began on December 7, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark was a watershed event. As world leaders convened and the conference unfolded, Arabella Advisors hosted this teleconference, offering on-the-ground perspective from Copenhagen, plus expert analysis and discussion about how decisions made in Denmark could impact philanthropy's future.


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Association of Small Foundations

Arabella Insights: The Impact of Obama’s First 100 Days on Philanthropy

April 28, 2009 | Download a recording (mp3)

 

Philanthropists and their advisors have had a wait-and-see approach to President Obama’s far-reaching pledges of reform. Now, with his senior leadership team in place, his first budget proposal released and several addresses to the nation under his belt, we have a strong basis for understanding if his promises are translating into action and how philanthropic strategies might adjust to support new initiatives and foster even stronger ideas.


We are pleased to host an Arabella Insights Teleconference: The Impact of Obama’s First 100 Days on Philanthropy. Several leading authorities and many of our closest partners will discuss proposed changes to the tax code, calls for foundations to partner with the government and initiatives in the President’s priority areas of education, energy and health. Before taking your questions, our experts will share up-to-the-minute news on the latest ideas coming from the White House and offer ideas for how philanthropists could most effectively respond.


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Election Insights: The New Administration’s Impact on Key Issues

November 10-14, 2008

 

Timed for the week after the presidential elections, these calls focused on helping philanthropists gain an understanding of how the election’s outcome would to affect the context of their giving. Calls featured a grant maker, policy expert, and political representative from the winning party, and each was planned in partnership with a leading grant-making association.

 

To view speakers and listen to recordings, please click here.

 

 

Investing to Re-Balance a Warming World

July 22, 2008 | Download a recording (mp3)

 

Evidence of climate change impacts is growing, countries are discussing development of a successor treaty to the Kyoto protocol and the United States is actively debating the issue. This teleconference offers a current look at climate change, providing donors with background information, trends, challenges and opportunities related to the issue. An issue brief on this topic is available for download (pdf).

 

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Disaster Recovery in Myanmar

May 12, 2008 | Download a summary (pdf) (recording unavailable)

May 16, 2008 | Download a recording (mp3) or summary (pdf)


Arabella Advisors held two emergency teleconferences immediately following the Cyclone Nargis disaster which hit Myanmar in early May. Relief NGO, governmental and multilateral leaders around the world provided an up-to-date status report of the situation. Experts in disaster philanthropy reflected on lessons learned from past disasters as participants considered their own approach to assistance.

 

The first teleconference briefed donors on relief and recovery needs and effective philanthropic strategies in response to the crisis. The second teleconference offered an update on the situation in Myanmar, as well as donor response in the wake of the earthquake in China which occured immediately after the Myanmar disaster.


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Investing in Financial Education

April 30, 2008


This teleconference was produced in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, one of the country's leading foundations in the field of helping low-income and working families build successful lives for themselves and their children. Experts from the Casey Foundation staff and grantees provided an overview of the field and advice on how to become involved. An issue brief on this topic is available for download (pdf).


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