Retreat at-a-Glance

Pre-Retreat Overnight Trip

October 2 – 3

• Kōke‘e State Park

Day Trips

Saturday, October 2

• Na Pali Coast Hike
• Waipā

Sunday, October 3

• McBryde & Allerton Gardens
• Kōke‘e State Park
• Limahuli Preserve and Gardens
• Maha‘ulepu
• Na Pali Coast Hike

Fall Retreat

Sunday, October 3

9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Undoing Racism Workshop with the People’s Institute

Institutes

8:30 – 10:00 am

• Climate Change and Grantmaking: What You Should Know, What You Can Do
• Delicious Events: Eating Well, Eating Sustainably

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

• Beyond Neoliberalism: Replacing TINA with TATA
• Healthy Portfolios: Environmental Health Grantmaking

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 pm

• Cultivating a Sustainable Economy
• Protecting the Future of Public Lands Heritage

3:30 – 5:00 pm

• Protecting the Global Commons
• Water Down the Development Drain

6:00 – 8:00 pm

• Opening Reception on Shipwreck Lagoon Beach

Monday, October 4

7:00 – 8:00 am
Breakfast
Ad hocs

8:00 – 9:00 am
Welcoming Chant by Sam Gon III
Keynote address: Nainoa Thompson

9:00 – 10:00 am
Keynote address: Jane Lubchenco

10:00 – 11:30 am
Featured Conversation: Building a Majoritarian Environmental Movement: Why Environmentalism is Hip but It isn’t Happening… Yet

Noon – 1:00 pm
Lunch
Political Lunch: What Will It Take to Win, No Matter Who Wins in November?

1:00 – 2:00 pm
Keynote address: Enrique Peñalosa

2:00 – 3:30 pm
Featured Conversation: Fantasy Island? Transforming the World’s Most Powerful Institutions

3:30 – 4:00 pm
From Kenya to Kona: Coffee Break with the Sustainable Consumption & Production Funders

4:00 – 5:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• Mapping Mining’s Threat to Critical Ecosystems
• Megacity Transport
• No Body is an Island
• November 2004 and Beyond: Political Realities in the Judicial and Regulatory Realms
• Weaving the Threads of Democracy: Social Movements Respond to Globalization
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: Understanding Metaphor and Framing

6:00 – 7:00 pm
Receptions

7:30 – 8:30 pm
Dinner: Lu‘au

8:30 pm
Cultural Evening

Tuesday, October 5

7:00 – 8:00 am
Breakfast
Ad hocs

8:00 – 8:45 am
Keynote Address: Klaus Toepfer

8:50 – 10:20 am
Featured Conversation: Breaking the China Pattern—East Asian Approaches to Sustainable Development

10:30 am – noon
Concurrent Sessions

• Apollo Has Landed: An Emerging Alliance for Clean Energy Jobs
• Are Humans Good for the Environment? The Importance of Bio-Cultural Diversity
• China’s Global Warming Challenge
• Fishing for the Future: Locally Managed Marine Areas
• GMOs: Who is Minding the Store?
• The Sweet Taste of Water

Noon – 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• Change the Frame of Reference: New Tools for Effective Grantmaking
• Linking Environment with Democracy and Social Justice in South East Asia and the Pacific: Forestry and the Timber Industry
• Science for Sale

3:30 – 5:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• Scoring an All Access Pass to the World Stage
• Successful Strategies for Understanding Conservative States
• The Precautionary Principle Gets Real

1:15 – 6:00 pm
Site Visit Sessions

• Cultural Survival: The Future of Hawaiian Flora
• Maha‘ulepu: Walking along Kauai’s Coastal Heritage
• How the Gobi Desert Shaped the Hawaiian Rainforest: Koke’e State Park
• Witnessing the Aqua-Cultural Revolution

6:00 – 7:00 pm
Dinner

7:00 – 8:00 pm
Beachside Chat

7:00 – 9:00 pm
Film - Thirst

10:00 – wee hours
Dance Party

Wednesday, October 6
Funder only day

7:30 – 8:30 am
Breakfast

9:00 – 10:30 am
Concurrent sessions

• Collaborate This!
• Enhancing the Craft of Grantmaking
• Escape from Grantmaker Island: Unlocking Portfolio Power for Environmental Protection
• Working the State: Roundtable on State-based Grantmaking Strategies

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Featured Conversation: Grantmaking Uninhibited—If the Money were Mine

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch

1:30
Closing

Post-Retreat Overnight Trips
October 7 - 9
Hawai‘i: The Big Island

October 8 - 9
Moloka‘i