HEFN 2016 Annual Meeting - Building Power by Building Bridges: Spanning Divides to Achieve Environmental Health & Justice Solutions

Event Type: 
In-Person Meeting
This is a HEFN event.
Geographic Focus: 
National
When: 
November 14, 2016 - 12:15pm to November 16, 2016 - 5:00pm
Location: 

Oakland, California

Making connections across health, justice, and the environment can foster movements, expand power, and accelerate change.  But bridge-building on cross-cutting issues—from safe drinking water to climate change and from racial equity to healthy housing—is not for the faint of heart.  Just like building a bridge, making change at the intersection of issues requires long-term planning, investment, the right tools, and the right mix of people.  Bringing these elements together can build something bigger and stronger, something that takes us to a new place.
 
Join bridge-builders, problem-solvers, and visionaries from a diversity of sectors at the Health & Environmental Funders Network’s 2016 Annual Meeting. We’ll gather in Oakland, California, in a region connected by bridges and animated by innovation and change to:
 
  • Learn how environmental health initiatives and other movements are succeeding by transcending divisions and forging strategies with new partners.
  • Be inspired by innovative local work and cross-community connections that increase local power and spread change.
  • Strategize about building power through initiatives on safe drinking water, fracking, climate change, toxics, food, and agriculture. 
  • Experience new tools and technologies for working with allies in other sectors.
  • Explore how national politics can help and hinder bridge-building efforts.
Come to Oakland to dive deep, problem solve, and consider new collaborations that build bridges and power for environmental health and justice.
 
HEFN's 2016 Annual Meeting Program Committee includes: Diane Aranda (California Endowment), Vanessa Daniel (Groundswell Fund), Lauren Davis & Jake Mogan (11th Hour Project), Kathryn Gilje (Ceres Trust), Rashad Morris (Bullitt Foundation), and Amy Panek (Park Foundation).
 

 

 
Issue Area: 
Civic Engagement
Climate Change / Energy
Community / Economic Development
Environment (Air, Water, Land)
Environmental & Social Justice
Fracking
Green Chemistry / Safer Alternatives
Health
Toxics

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