Event Name: Opportunity Collaboration
Event Date: October 11-16, 2015
Event Location: Playa Quiet Beach, Ixtapa, Mexico
Event Summary: Opportunity Collaboration is a five-day networking and problem-solving event that engages social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, social financiers and grant-makers to explore methods of collaboration, identify opportunities for leveraging resources across organizations and generate mechanisms for reducing poverty.
Cost: The all-inclusive fee for the event is USD 4,950 which includes registration, lodging and meals. A reduced fee of USD 3,950 is available to those who register by June 30, 2015.
Background on Organizers: Opportunity Collaboration is a community of 250 people who come together to network, foster collaboration and leverage resources with an ultimate goal of global poverty alleviation.
Event Theme and Topics: The event will be divided into the following sessions: (1) Conversations for Change: Conversations for Change are two-hour work sessions in which delegates describe missions, strategies and common challenges around a central question, policy issue or theme; (2) Colloquium for the Common Good: The Colloquium is a seminar on executive leadership, economic justice and the “good society.” It will address the principles that drive poverty alleviation and asks delegates to think pragmatically about the nature of their leadership; (3) Capacity-building Clinics: These are sessions in which delegates will coach each other on media relations, sales and marketing strategies, investor-donor relations, evaluating organizational and programmatic effectiveness, financial planning, business plan writing and other topics as proposed by the delegates; (4) Cluster Forks: These are discussions in small groups in which delegates will discuss a range of topics including policy, geographic, organizational, entrepreneurial and poverty-related themes.
Event Website: http://opportunitycollaboration.net/
For additional information, you may contact Tracie Hudgins via email at thudgins[at]opportunitycollaboration.net
By Alíz Crowley, Research Associate
Sources and Additional Resources
Opportunity Collaboration 2015, Event Website, http://opportunitycollaboration.net/
Microfinance Event, Opportunity Collaboration, October 12-17, 2014, Ixtapa Mexico
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