ICFO Annual General Meeting – Open Conference
In cooperation with Confío, A.C., México
DEVELOPING & MAINTAINING DONORS TRUST
The Role of Monitoring Agencies
Friday 18 May 2018
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome
Enrique Hernandez, Confio’s board president and Homero Apodaca, from the Social Action Movement of Memory and Tolerance Museum
9:10 ICFO Presentation
Martina Ziegerer, President ICFO
9:30 Perceptions and feelings towards the U.S. charitable sector
Ezra Vazquez – D’Amico, Better Business Bureau, Wise Giving Alliance
10:00 Building confidence in corrupt environments
Jesus Gonzalez Arellano, Pacto Mundial en Mexico, President of the Board
10:40 Break
10:55 Whom do you trust? The central challenge for philanthropy in Mexico and Latin America
Dr. Michael Layton, Arizona State University, Senior Research Fellow
11:35 The Spanish experience in the development of a prosperous environment towards external assessment in Civil Society Organizations
Ana Benavides, Fundación Lealtad España, Executive Director
11:55 Finding Success in DZI Germany: 125 Years Encouraging Charity
Burkhard Wilke, Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Executive Director
12:15 Lunch
13:10 Panel 1 | Contributions to third sector through assessment and monitoring of CSOs
Sharing experiences: Curtis Towns from Canadian Charity Council, Lena Hörnblad from Svensk Insamlingskontroll, Sweden and Nathalie Blum from Comite de la Charte, France
14:00 Panel 2 | Citizen participation grounded in information and public disclosure
Sharing challenges: Ales Mrazek from Asociace verejne prospesnych organizad (AVPO), Czech Republic and Art Taylor from BBB Wise Giving Alliance, USA and Eduardo Bohórquez, Executive Director form Transparencia Mexicana
14:50 Closing remarks
Martina Ziegerer, President ICFO