Exploring High-Impact International
Funding Opportunities
Date: Monday, June 11, 2007
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Location:
Minneapolis Club
Cost: $35 (includes lunch)
Audience: Minnesota donors and grantmakers interested or
experienced in international funding strategies and opportunities
Moderators:
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Marc Ross
Manashil, executive director, The Clarence Foundation |
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Maggie
Kamau, regional director, International Child Resource Institute - Africa |
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Karen
Rauenhorst, tustee and vice president, Karen and Mark Rauenhorst Family Foundation |
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Susan Cornell Wilkes, Adventures in Giving |
Join grantmakers interested in international grantmaking for this panel
discussion on creative options for individual donors and foundations to support
non-U.S., grassroots organizations in African countries and elsewhere through
grantmaking, giving circles, micro-lending and other methods.
About the moderators:
Karen Rauenhorst has worked as a nurse in several hospitals and was a camp nurse for five years.
Rauenhorst has severed on several boards in the community, including Benilde-St. Margaret's High
School, where she was a member and board chair; St. Paul and Minneapolis Catholic Charities board,
serving 11 years with three years of service as board chair; and the Catholic Charities USA national
board from 1999-2002.
Marc Ross Manashil is cofounder and executive director of The Clarence Foundation, a California-based public
foundation that promotes donor engaged international philanthropy by catalyzing globally focused
giving circles. Manashil previously served as a regional coordinator for Amnesty
International and as a consultant to The Seva Foundation and as program director of
volunteers for Inter-American Development Assistance, an international medical relief organization.
He serves on the member services committee of the Association of Small Foundations and the
advisory
board of the International Child Resource Institute - Africa. His writings have been featured in The
Chronicle of Philanthropy, Foundation News and Commentary, Alliance Magazine, The San Francisco
Chronicle and The San Jose Mercury News.
Maggie Kamau is the founding regional director of ICRI-Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya. She
oversees all the ICRI-Africa projects, including the Grassroots Advocacy Project, Community Incubator
Project, Early Childhood Education, Donor Recruitment and Advising Project and the Forum for the
Advancement of Reforms in the Justice Institutions (FARIJI Project). Kamau works closely with
grassroots organizations in Kenya, providing training, mentoring and technical assistance. A strong
proponent of grassroots approach to development, she has written and spoken extensively about the
role of grassroots approaches and advocated for donor support. Kamau has consulted and advised
multiple international organizations working in Africa as well as donors interested in funding
African programs. She has made numerous presentations on Africa issues, most recently at the
United States International University (USIU), Global Philanthropy Forum on the Next Generation Panel,
and World Affairs Council on Appropriate International Development Series and has participated in
several taskforce groups and round-table discussions. Kamau sits on the board of
Project Baobab, an organization that provides opportunities for marginalized
youth in Kenya through vocational and life-skills training and on the advisory
boards of KIVA and Women of Africa, and she also advises The Clarence
Foundation.
Susan Cornell Wilkes is the founder and president of Adventures in Giving, LLC. She was managing director of philanthropy for Family Financial Strategies Inc., where she served as executive director of several family foundations, and has also collaborated with community foundations in San Francisco, Buffalo, Little Rock and Minneapolis during her 30-year career as a leader and innovator. She was a co-founder of Up With People as well as 10 other local and national organizations. She is a trustee of the New York-based Peter C. Cornell Trust, established by her great-uncle. She and her husband, Jim Klobuchar, published a book, “The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism,” the story of microcredit organizations, clients and programs that they visited and interviewed on three continents.
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