Retreat at-a-Glance

September 15 –September 21

Overnight Pre-retreat Trips:
Winisk River Canoe Trip
Walk in the Clouds: Algonquin Park Tour/Haliburton Forest Canopy Walk
Montebello, Québec

Saturday, September 20

Daytrips:
Hiking in the Gatineaus
Mackenzie King Estate: Biking and Lunch Tour
Mackenzie King Estate: Stars and Delights Evening Tour
Visiting Rideau Hall
White Water Rafting on the Ottawa River

Sunday, September 21

Behind the Hedges Garden Tour at the Central Experimental Farm and Arboretum
Canoeing on the Canadian Heritage Rideau River
Sustainable Forest Tour and FSC Workshop: Forests, Food and Fun

9:30am – 5:00pm
Undoing Racism Workshop with the People’s Institute

Institute: 101 Basics

9:30 – 11:00am
Environmental Grantmaking in Canada: A Primer
Making a Difference Beyond Grantmaking: Community Foundations Show the Way

11:15am – 12:45pm
Moving Beyond Outreach: Building Diverse Coalitions to Win
The Precautionary Principle: An Innovative Framework for Advancing Public Health

12:45 – 1:30pm
Lunch

Institute: 201 Strategy Sessions

1:30 – 3:00pm
Get on the Bus, Gus: TEA-3 and Beyond
Life After Campaign Finance Reform: Fresh Tactics

3:00pm
Retreat registration begins

3:15 – 4:45pm
Building Media Muscle! Winning Strategies to Communicate Values and Shape Opinion

6:00 – 8:00pm
Opening Reception at the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Monday, September 22

5:30am
Birding

8:00am
Breakfast

8:45 – 10:45am
Featured Conversation
Beyond Borders: Time – The Next 10,000 Years

10:45 – 11:45am
Beyond Borders: Time
Participant Designed Dialogue

Noon – 1:00pm
Lunch

Noon – 1:00pm
Sustainable Consumption & Production Funders Lunch with David Suzuki

1:30 – 3:00pm
Featured Conversation
Beyond Borders: How North America is One

1:30 – 3:00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Changing the Rules on Ecolabels
Nanotechnology: Atom and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Turning your $1 Million into $1 Billion: Strategies for Leverage in Lean Times
Report from Cancun: What happened at the WTO Ministerial?

3:00 – 5:30pm
Ottawa’s Green Buildings – The Tour

3:00 – 4:30pm
Discover Ottawa Walking Tour
The Firestone Collection at the Ottawa Art Gallery Tour
Parliament Buildings Walking Tour

3:30 – 5:00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Conservation in Canada’s Boreal Forest: An Endangered Frontier
Doomed and Gloomed about Environmental Health? Join the Revolution!
Fuelling the Race to the Bottom: Export Credit Agencies and Environmental Destruction
Giv’em What They Want: Building Lasting Media Relations in Spite of the News
NAFTA and the FTAA: Legal Frameworks for Environmental Assault
Transforming a National Agriculture: The Cuban Experience and a Canadian Response

6:00 – 7:00pm
CEGN Reception at the Parliament Buildings with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (invited) and Environment Minister David Anderson (invited)

7:00 – 8:00pm
Dinner

8:00 – 10:00pm
Cultural Evening

Tuesday, September 23

5:30am
Birding

8:00am
Breakfast
Ad hocs

9:00 - 9:30am
Keynote Address
Paul Krugman

9:30 – 11:00am
Featured Conversation
Beyond Borders: Power

11:00 – 11:30am
Beyond Borders: Power
Participant Designed Dialogue

Noon – 1:00pm
Lunch

1:30 – 3:00pm
Featured Conversation
Beyond Borders: The Commons

1:30 – 3:00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Environment and Business: Winning Solutions for Change
Invasion of the Biodiversity Snatchers!
Moving for Change: Building Movements to Sustain Environmental and Social Justice
Salmon Farming: Boon or Bane?
Shutting Down Coal: A Health Campaign Success

3:00 – 5:30
National Gallery of Canada Walking Tour
The Byward Market Walking Tour

3:30 – 5:00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Corporate Accountability in a Globalized Economy
The Face of Climate Change: Stories and Strategies
Indigenous Voices: Perspectives on Globalization, Conservation, Self-Determination
Power to Shape the Debate: How Foundations Can Help Position Environmental Issues for 2004
What is Movement-Building Anyway? Making Collaborations That Work

5:00 – 6:00pm
Receptions:
Funders Network on Trade & Globalization
Funders Working Group on Sustainable Consumption and Production
Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders

6:30 – 8:00pm
Dinner

8:00 – 9:00pm
Fireside Chat

9:00 – wee hours
Dance Party

Wednesday, September 24
Funder only day

8:00am
Breakfast
Ad hocs

9:00 – 10:30am
Featured Conversation
Theories of Change in Changing Times

11:00am – 12:30pm
Concurrent Sessions
Australia's Conservation Paradox
Building a Better World: A Funder Discussion about the World Social Forum
Elections, Politics, Foundations and the Law
In Tough Times, We Need Leaders – Why Leadership Development is More Important than Ever
Is It Time for a Brave New World Order?
Strange but True: Model Collaborations among Funders
White Water to Blue Water: How Communities are Managing the Commons

1:00 – 2:00pm
Lunch and closing

September 24 - 27

Post-Retreat Trips
Cree-Village Eco-Lodge in Moose Factory
Temagami Tour and Canoe Trip