What is the Feminist Philanthropy Forum?
What colors does it have?
What does it taste like?
What is it made of?
What is the Feminist Philanthropy Forum?
What colors does it have?
What does it taste like?
What is it made of?
June 6th – Welcome dinner
June 7th and 8th – Presentations and conversations
Venue: Camino Real Polanco México
Mariano Escobedo 700, Col. Anzures, Alc. Miguel Hidalgo, C.P. 11590, Ciudad de México
June 6th – Welcome dinner
June 7th and 8th – Presentations and conversations
Venue: Camino Real Polanco México
Mariano Escobedo 700, Col. Anzures, Alc. Miguel Hidalgo, C.P. 11590, Ciudad de México
It is a space to share knowledge and good practices around philanthropy. We want to make visible funding needs and experiences that promote informed decision making by donors.
Agenda
| 19:00 – 21:00 |
Welcome dinner |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Registration |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Inauguration speech and Forum goals
Welcome and Forum Objectives The Feminist Movement in Mexico and the country’s political, social and economic context |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Dialogue Panel:
Best practices for feminist financing: flexibility, trust and multi annual grants |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch Toy Salon |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Master Conference
Transfeminist fights against antigender neoconservadurism and its alignment with the transexclusive movement |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Master Conference:
The intersection between care economy and feminist activism |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Optional Activity:
Documentary screening: “El tiempo de la hormiga” (The Time of the Ant), Stephanie Brewster (director) |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Presentation: More and better financing for a dignified activism |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Dialogue Panel: The justice we want and the financing we need |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Dialogue Panel: Challenges of corporate philanthropy for feminist funding |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch Toy Salon |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Master Conference: Activist’s answers on violence |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Simultaneous Panels: 1) Overview of the abortion movement in Mexico and its funding challenges. (Morelia Salon) Panel registration here. Cesángari López (Global Fund for Women) and Dirce Navarrete (feminist political scientist) 2) Feminist response to emergency and crises. (Veracruz Salon) Panel registration here. Anaid Alcázar (Fondo Semillas) and Rodrigo Galindo (Oxfam México) |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Final conclusions PARTY! |
| 10:00 – 14:00 | Join us to visit Las Panas, one of the organizations financed by Fondo Semillas! This is a project that uses the craft of baking as a space to reflect on the violence experienced by women. We will have a round trip transfer from the forum venue. Space is limited to 20 people, food included. |
| 19:00 – 21:00 |
Welcome dinner |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Registration |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Inauguration speech and Forum goals
Welcome and Forum Objectives The Feminist Movement in Mexico and the country’s political, social and economic context |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Dialogue Panel:
Best practices for feminist financing: flexibility, trust and multi annual grants |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch Toy Salon |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Master Conference
Transfeminist fights against antigender neoconservadurism and its alignment with the transexclusive movement |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Master Conference:
The intersection between care economy and feminist activism |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Optional Activity:
Documentary screening: “El tiempo de la hormiga” (The Time of the Ant), Stephanie Brewster (director) |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Presentation: More and better financing for a dignified activism |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Dialogue Panel: The justice we want and the financing we need |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Dialogue Panel: Challenges of corporate philanthropy for feminist funding |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Lunch Toy Salon |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Master Conference: Activist’s answers on violence |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Simultaneous Panels: 1) Overview of the abortion movement in Mexico and its funding challenges. (Morelia Salon) Panel registration here. Cesángari López (Global Fund for Women) and Dirce Navarrete (feminist political scientist) 2) Feminist response to emergency and crises. (Veracruz Salon) Panel registration here. Anaid Alcázar (Fondo Semillas) and Rodrigo Galindo (Oxfam México) |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Final conclusions PARTY! |
| 10:00 – 14:00 | Join us to visit Las Panas, one of the organizations financed by Fondo Semillas! This is a project that uses the craft of baking as a space to reflect on the violence experienced by women. We will have a round trip transfer from the forum venue. Space is limited to 20 people, food included. |
Speakers
Gaby studied public accounting and received a Master’s degree in Business Administration. She has been a part of national and international organizations such as Oxfam, and the Latin American Association for Development and Services to Youth. She supervises budgeting and generates financial information for decision making.
Gabriela Toledo
Co-Executive Director at Fondo Semillas.
Tania holds a B.A. in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has participated in research teams on labor rights, migration, new technologies and systems theory. She is a Board member of Human Rights Funders Network, EDGE Funders Alliance and Empower.
Tania Turner
Co-Executive Director at Fondo Semillas
She has a PhD in Social Sciences at FLACSO Argentina and experience in projects of monitoring, evaluation and research. She worked as Coordinator of the Observatorio de Familia as part of the government of Buenos Aires city. Diana was also Manager of Monitoring and Evaluation in Fundación JUCONI and has made other research and evaluation projects in Mexico, Chile and Argentina.
Diana Medina
Analysis and Institutional Strengthening Coordinator at Fondo Semillas
He is a PhD in Sociology from El Colegio de México, an Economist and a Master in Social Sciences at the University of Guadalajara. Director of the Institute for Inequality Studies (INDESIG). He has been interested in research on perceptions of inequality, poverty and tax justice, measurement and analysis of these phenomena, as well as comparative social and tax policy.
Máximo Jaramillo-Molina
Director of “Gatitos contra la Desigualdad” (Kittens Against Inequalities)
She works to support and develop stronger, more sustainable, more effective social justice organizations in the Andean Region, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and Central America. She also partners with other members of the BUILD team’s Cohorts, Convenings, and Technical Assistance in the Global South. She is based in Ford’s Mexico City office and is BUILD’s first team member based in the Global South.
Sophia Hernández
Program Officer at the Ford Foundation BUILD team
In this role, Medina supports women’s rights organizations around the world through grantmaking and accompaniment. Her portfolio of grants is focused specifically on ending trafficking and exploitation, advancing reproductive justice and strengthening women’s rights movement building in Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States.
Medina Haeri
Programme officer with the Issues Affecting Women programme at the Oak Foundation
For nearly twenty years, Maitri has leveraged resources in support of global women's rights movements through grantmaking, fundraising, and philanthropic advocacy. She serves as the co-chair of the steering committees for Human Rights Funders Network and the Research Consortium on Women’s Land Rights. A native of India and Sweden, Maitri has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Maitri Morarji
Director of Programs at Foundation for a Just Society
Her background is in multispecies Anthropology and environmental research. Through her work in the non-profit world, she realized how unjust the field of philanthropy is: money is not reaching those that deserve it most. To redirect her frustration, she works with EDGE Funders Alliance on their funder organizing programs to get funders to move more of their money towards the grassroots in a way that centers justice, systemic change and equity.
Hana ElSafoury
Program and Engagement Officer at EDGE Funders Alliance
Philosopher, transfeminist and queer. Sayak has a PhD in Philosophy, Theory and Feminist Criticism from the Universidad Computense de Madrid, and has previous studies in aesthetics, contemporary art and feminist epistemologies. She is currently a full-time professor and researcher at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Baja California. Among her outstanding works is Gore Capitalism (2010).
Sayak Valencia
Fondo Semillas’ Board Member
Siobhan holds a degree in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a master’s and a PhD in Philosophy of Science from the UNAM. She is currently a Titular B Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Science and Humanities (CEIICH-UNAM). Her areas of expertise are gender and science studies, philosophy of biology and transfeminism.
Siobhan Guerrero
Researcher at CEIICH-UNAM
She has dedicated her career to the development and implementation of legislative and public policy initiatives with a human rights perspective, working for international, governmental, and social organizations in Mexico, the United States, Guatemala and Argentina. She was president of the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (CONAPRED) from 2015 to 2019.
Alexandra Haas
CEO of Oxfam Mexico
Ana is a feminist and social justice activist. She has more than 20 years of experience working to promote non-discrimination and gender equality from different platforms: civil society, international organizations and philanthropy. She is a winner of the 2016 National Journalism Award.
Ana Pecova
Director of Advancement at Women First International Fund
Denisse Vélez Martínez is a specialist in feminist economics with experience in qualitative and quantitative research and technical support related to public policies and budgets with a gender perspective, women's economic rights and the analysis of the current global economic structure from a feminist macroeconomic thinking framework. Her research interests have included the analysis of rural value chains in Mexico and Costa Rica.
Denisse Vélez
Responsible for Research on Policies and Budgets for Gender Equality and Sustainable Development at Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia
She is a lawyer from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, specialized in the rights of indigenous people, agrarian law and legal defense against megaprojects and extractive projects. She now belongs to the Berta Cáceres" Environmental Justice Clinic, part of the Universidad Iberoamericana, where she shares her knowledge as a professor. She is in charge of the El Zapotillo Dam case and built the Justice Plan for Temacapulín, Acasico and Palmarejo, all rural communities.
Claudia Gómez
Grupo Territorio, Género y Extractivismo (Territory, Gender and Extractivism Group)
Maya Kiche' from Guatemala, Sara is social therapist with a community, intergenerational, ancestral and systemic approach. With more than 20 years acting and accompanying indigenous women, activists, defenders in the exercise of rights and recovery of well-being from the Mayan cosmovision. Founding partner of Mujeres Mayas Kaqla, committed to open paths to fullness of life for women and their peoples.
Sara Beatriz Álvarez
Consultant
The Institute is a leading feminist civil society organization in Mexico that promotes the gender equality agenda by strengthening women's and youth social movements. Friné holds a degree in Physical Anthropology and a specialty in citizen participation, public budget analysis, and project evaluation issues.
Friné Salguero
Director of the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir
With more than 15 years of experience in designing global social responsibility strategies and campaigns, she leads the brand’s global commitment to inspire the next generation to be active and build more equitable communities through the power of sports. Her job has been focused on diversifying and strengthening Nike’s community partnership in Mexico City, as well as launching a new initiative to provide more and better experiences for girls in play and sport.
Annemarie Elsom
Director of Social and Community Impact for Nike in Mexico and Latin America
An international corporate foundation dedicated to improving the economic and social conditions of women and girls. Adeline also supports corporate initiatives, including diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and employee engagement and communications. She spent over 10 years working with the UN, governments and NGOs in the Caribbean, South Asia, East and West Africa and the United States as a specialist and team manager in social justice and health justice movements, global maternal and child health, health economics and operational research and evaluation.
Adeline Azrack
Managing Director at Fondation Chanel
Cecilia is a strategic communication specialist. She has more than twelve years of experience in security, justice, and human rights issues, previously in civil society and the government. She has a degree in Communications with studies in Political Science from the University of California Berkeley and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Cecilia Román
Communications and Security Alliances Coordinator for Uber in Mexico
Fundación ADO promotes the strengthening of women’s groups in community environments through collective projects that with a gender focus, generating social investment that scales positive impacts and contributes to the reduction of inequality gaps. With 14 years of expertise, she has coordinated different programs on social development, social inclusion, cultural diffusion, and volunteering.
Carmina Galicia
Head of Social Investment and Projects at Fundación ADO
As the Executive Director, Céline engages the Foundation in long-term partnerships with local organizations in order to develop programs to support women survivors of violence and to change behaviors and attitudes, working with diverse audiences. She encourages a collaborative and transversal approach to increase the impact of the actions carried out for the benefit of women. She has worked in non-profit and philanthropy for the past seventeen years.
Céline Bonnaire
Executive Director at Kering Foundation
Intersecta is a feminist organization that promotes equality in the effective exercise of human rights through research and the promotion of redistributive, intersectional, non-punitive and evidence-based public policy solutions to the problem of discrimination. Estefanía studied law and has dedicated her life to research, teaching and activism.
Estefanía Vela
Executive Director at Intersecta
Equis is a feminist organization that works for the access of diverse women to justice, transforming power structures that generate oppression and exclusion. Tania has experience in fundraising and liaising with private international foundations.
Tania Hernández
Institutional Development Coordinator at Equis: Justicia para las Mujeres
Organization based in Guanajuato made up of more than 70 women who are looking for their missing family members.
"When it seemed that everything had been taken from us, between fear and grief, flourished the courage to take to the streets to say out loud that we are missing our loved ones. The memory is the only thing that can overthrow the power of the indolent, because the memory come from the truth, they are born from the thousands of victims who want a country with justice."
Bibiana Mendoza
Founder of Hasta Encontrarte
Artemisa has a Law Degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, a Specialist in Human Rights from the Universidad de Castila-La Mancha and a Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democracy from FLACSO. She is co-founder of the consultancy Recrea, Construyendo Estrategias para la Igualdad, which specializes in issues of equality, inclusion and non-discrimination in the workplace.
Artemisa Cabrera
Co-Founder of “Tu Historia Importa” (Your Story Matters)
She leads the development of tools and data analysis to accompany partners and social movements. She has ten years of experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection, mixed methods evaluations, and experimental and quasi-experimental research designs.
Cesángari López Martínez
Learning and Evaluation Officer at the Global Fund for Women
Political scientist with a major in Political Analysis from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma de México. She is a member of the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico. She worked in the Programs area at Fondo Semillas and accompanied the organizations of the abortion portfolio for five years.
Dirce Navarrete
Feminist political scientist
Anaid is a political scientist and human rights defender with experience in feminist philanthropy, movement building, and emergency response. Her interest lies in the collective strength of feminist movements to transform power structures and wealth distribution towards social justice.
Anaid Alcázar
Partnerships, Emergency and Crisis Response Coordinator
This program aims to strengthening community systems for the use and protection of common natural assets, from an active citizenship, exercise of rights and climate justice approach. Rodrigo is an economist from UNAM and has a diploma in Urban and Regional Development from the University Program for City Studies, UNAM.
Rodrigo Galindo
Manager of the Common Goods and Territory program at Oxfam Mexico
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Mariano Escobedo 700, Anzures, Miguel Hidalgo, 11590 Ciudad de México, CDMX
Phone number: 55 5263 8888
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Walking distance from Camino Real Hotel, 500 meters
Tolstoi 22, Anzures, Miguel Hidalgo, 11590 Ciudad de México, CDMX
Phone number: 55 5262 0840
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Walking distance from Camino Real Hotel, 400 meters
Leibnitz 120, Anzures, Miguel Hidalgo, 11590 Ciudad de México, CDMX
Phone number: 55 5249 8080
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Places to visit in Mexico City
Monumento a la Revolución (Monument to the Revolution)
Palacio de Bellas Artes (The Palace of Fine Arts)
Zócalo (The Constitution Square)
Would you like to acquire products made by organizations supported by Fondo Semillas?
Corazón Verde is a network made up of eight organizations of women artists and craftswomen from Chiapas, Puebla, Hidalgo, Estado de México, and Mexico City.
Creama is a group of women that promotes economic autonomy by creating amaranth products so that they can earn their own income.
Las Panas is an organization that train women in the craft of baking while they also create a space to reflect on the violence they experience.
Illustrations: Viridiana Montiel and Tania María Carrillo
Illustrations: Viridiana Montiel
and Tania María Carrillo