Events

Women in Philanthropy Breakfast

Date: Thursday December 1st, 2011 (Only a small number of places remain)

Time: 7.45 – 9.15am

Venue: Royal College of Physicians, No. 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

The final event in the Women’s Fund calendar for 2011 will be a Women in Philanthropy Breakfast, hosted by The Women’s Fund and The Community Foundation for Ireland. The event is part of an ongoing series of successful breakfast events promoting engagement by women in philanthropy. It will also be of interest to advisors.

Programme:

7.45   Registration & Breakfast
8.15   Welcome and Introduction to the Women’s Fund, Tina Roche, CEO, The Community Foundation for Ireland

Keynote address
8.20   Emma Turner, Head of Client Philanthropy, Barclay’s Wealth: Fostering and increasing a culture of philanthropy

Spotlight on one of the priorities of the Women’s Fund – preventing violence against women
8.40   Sharon O’Halloran, Director Safe Ireland
8.50   Grant recipient; Margaret Martin, Director, Women’s Aid

9.00   Reflections from a donor

9.10   Closing remarks

9.15 Close

How does Ireland fare in global philanthropy terms? Our keynote speaker Emma Turner, Head of Client Philanthropy at Barclay’s Wealth will present Barclay’s Wealth’s recent report 'Global Giving: The Culture of Philanthropy' which measured the resources being invested into charity and causes by wealthy people across the world, using both money and time as gauges for the first time. Emma Turner was appointed in 2009 as Barclays Wealth’s Director and Head of Philanthropy for its UK & Ireland Private Bank. She joined from Goldman Sachs where she was executive director of the Charitable Services Group in EMEA and Asia. Prior to her eleven years’ service at Goldman Sachs, Emma had spent ten years with a major London charity.

The Women’s Fund at The Community Foundation for Ireland, was established in April 2010 and it is the first of its kind in Ireland, solely dedicated to supporting women’s causes and charitable initiatives across the country. It is intended to grow the Women’s Fund into a long term fund which will become a permanent source of funding for women’s causes. The Fund is already approaching €250,000 in value. In addition, the Women’s Fund is a mechanism for flow through grants to projects in the short term and over €40,000 has been distributed in two grant rounds to date. Current priorities of the grants are aimed at preventing violence against women and also empowering women to take leadership roles in their communities.

For further information or to reserve a place, please contact: Jackie Harrison (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 087 2940842)