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September 17, 2020

Guest post by Kimberly McClain, Regional Program Director for the Americas, Global Fund for Children As the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic set in,...

September 14, 2020

Our first  Virtual Convening Platform Test Drive session featured Gather.town, a proximity audio virtual space that offers a unique online networ...

September 4, 2020

During our recent August member call, we shared feedback and thoughts on the wide range of virtual convening tools that have come on the market. Many ...

July 23, 2020

During this month’s Member Call, we were so pleased to have the co-founder of Conveners.org and of Opportunity Collaboration, Topher Wilkins, join u...

During this month’s Member Call, led by Kate Czarniak of Synergos, we focused our discussion on sharing the challenges and opportunities associated ...

Journeying together: GFC partners explore power and transformation By Corey Oser  To see the original article for this post, please visit the link h...

June 5, 2020

Before COVID-19, our ecosystem’s packed, year-round convening cycle always had us bouncing around the globe to meet, connect, and network with stran...

May 25, 2020

By Sarah Sterling & Avary Kent During our last Member Call, we discussed the components of what it actually takes to have participants connect and...

May 11, 2020

With our world moving more and more into virtual interaction and convening, we’re seeing some enticing myths start to propagate. Like many myths, th...

We recently participated in an excellent webinar hosted by Peter Klebanow from Tendrel with guest Dr. Eva Kedar on Strategies for Hosting Virtual Foru...

April 27, 2020

As we write this, it is April 23, 2020 and Spring conference season has effectively been canceled. What started as a ripple of event cancellations and...

February 25, 2020

What’s the true purpose of bringing people together into the same space to exchange ideas and resources? The definition of the verb “to convene”...