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Getting Involved: 2012 Women’s & Social Conferences

2012 is shaping up to be a year filled with exciting conferences, symposiums, and conventions for social change and female leaders, bringing together bright minds looking to create a better future. Here are just some of the opportunities that Connecther is looking forward to in the first half of the year:

Womensphere Emerging Leaders Global Summit 2012 - January 19-20, 2012. Held at Columbia University in New York, the 2012 Womensphere Conference, “Create the Future,” seeks to provide programming and resources to empower the next generation of female leadership by bringing together women from premier companies and organizations, leading graduate programs, and top undergraduate institutions to learn from and collaborate with one another.

Dynamic Women in Business Conference - February 25, 2012. The 21st annual Dynamic Women in Business Conference hosted by the Women’s Student Association at Harvard Business School promises to be an exciting event with three keynote presentations and panel sessions throughout the day, bringing together over 1,000 female students, faculty, and business leaders. 

Social Enterprise Conference - February 25-26, 2012. With this year’s theme as “Innovation, Inclusion, & Impact,” the 13th annual Social Enterprise Conference hosted in Boston by Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government is a leading forum for engaging in dialogue on some of our world’s foremost social issues and how enterprise is working to solve them.

Washington Nonprofit Conference - March 1-2, 2012. The Washington Nonprofit Conference will provide a keynote presentation and 30 educational sessions covering areas from relationship-building and donor engagement to social media in the nonprofit sector. 

Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship - March 28-30, 2012. Held in Oxford, England, the Skoll Forum is an innovative and inspiring gathering of the leading thinkers in the intersection of social change and enterprise. The conference provides ample opportunity to meet in small groups and network with other attendees to encourage collaboration on tackling social problems. 

Global Philanthropy Forum - April 16-18, 2012. The GPF Conference in Washington, D.C., connects donors to issues and attempts to create a global network of social investors who are committed to international causes and are informed and enabled participants in their work. 

Posted by Kerry Hammond