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Subject: Astraea LGBTI Giving & Activism Retreat Invitation
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Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
 
You are Invited to Astraea's Second
LGBTI Giving and Activism Retreat
 
Join Us in March!
 
Share Your...
Interest, Passion, and Skills
Support LGBTI activism around the world

JOIN WITH organizational leaders, entrepreneurs, activists, academics, artists and others from around the world including:

Katherine Acey • Chela Blitt • Trishala Deb • Cheryl Clarke • Marta Drury • Naomi Fine • Tracy Gary • Susan Gore • Alice Y. Hom • Trish Houck • Joo-Hyun Kang • Mara Keisling • Jody Laine • Kathy Levinson • Kerry Lobel • Shaya Mercer • Nancy Meyer • Hez Norton • Shad Reinstein • Diane Sabin • Graciela Sanchez • Léonie Walker
and more....

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A retreat for women and trans people committed to providing ongoing financial support for progressive, feminist and LGBTI social justice organizations.

Funding Change & Strengthening Communities Around the World

Join some of the world’s best thinkers and organizers as we analyze global political and cultural trends; explore successful organizing initiatives; examine innovative grantmaking strategies; and strengthen Astraea’s efforts to continue as an important vehicle for making change.

DATE: March 9-12, 2006
TIME: 4pm Thursday thru 2pm Sunday
LOCATION: Dallas, Texas
HOST HOTEL: Omni Mandalay Hotel

More Info & Register Now

 

Retreat Workshops & Roundtables

Participate in invigorating discussions addressing some of the most cutting-edge issues facing the LGBTI community today:

• Countering the Right and Mobilizing Our Communities
• Spanning the Globe: Issues, Trends and Opportunities (featuring speakers from around the world)
• ABCs of International Funders and Changemakers
• 21st Century Feminisms: Varying Perspectives and Strategies
• Giving That Sustains Social Change
• Socially Responsible Investing
• Trading Places: Once Activists, Now Philanthropists
• Astraea Retreat 06: Drafting Our Collective Principles
• Faith, Feminism and Fundamentalism
• Same-Sex Marriage
• Health and Reproductive Rights as Human Rights Issues
• Diasporic Giving: Connecting Our Community
• Philanthropy and Homeland Security: “The New War on International Grantmaking”
• Funding LGBTI Peacemaking

Read about the first retreat and view the photo gallery

 

Astraea wishes to thank the following
for providing partial funding:

Many thanks to our Strategic Giving Circle:
Katherine Acey, Carol Alpert, Chela Blitt, Tucker Farley, Karen Zelermyer, Kathleen Russell and Mai Kiang

 

This retreat makes every effort to be accessible to all participants.

About Astraea:
Astraea is the world’s only lesbian-led, feminist foundation focused on both U.S. and international LGBTI human rights. Astraea is a dynamic global foundation providing critically needed financial support to lesbian-led, LGBTI and progressive organizations. Separated by continents, language and culture, Astraea grantees are seizing opportunities and laying the groundwork for women and LGBTI people to claim their human rights.


RETREAT CONTACT:
Shaya Mercer

phone: 212/529-8021 x14

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