Every two years the GIFE - Group of Institutes, Foundations and Companies, performs the main meeting on Brazil's social investment, GIFE Congress. In its seventh edition, the event will be held in São Paulo, on 26 to 30 March at the Sheraton Sao Paulo WTC Hotel. The theme will be the New Frontiers of Social Investment, incorporating key elements of Vision 2020 ISP: relevance, legitimacy, diversity, articulation and new frontiers. Registrations open for the following site of the congress.
The event brings together the main leaders of social investors in the country, as well as leaders of civil society organizations, academics, consultants and government representatives, providing a space for learning, relationship and exchange of experiences between the various actors involved in social, cultural and environmental.
GIFE is guided by the construction of a 10-year vision for the social investment sector, launched in the last Congress in Rio de Janeiro. The 7th Congress aims to bring together over a thousand people for a week, combining the official program with parallel activities promoted by members and partner organizations.
Congress GIFE precede the realization of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio + 20, which in addition to addressing a central issue for social investment in the coming decades, also symbolizes the 20th anniversary of a landmark building civil society Brazilian. The Rio + 20, to be held from 13 to 22 June 2012 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, presents itself as an opportunity to reflect on the role of social investment in the context of a new green, inclusive and responsible economy, which also demands a resizing the insertion of investors in this scenario.
GIFE is a non-profit network that brings together organizations of business origin, family, independent and community, investing in projects with public purpose. Its mission is to improve and disseminate concepts and the use of private resources practices for the development of the common good, thus contributing to the promotion of sustainable development in Brazil, through political-institutional strengthening and supporting the strategic actions of private social investors. In addition, the GIFE also organizes courses, publications, research, conferences, Affinity Groups, Thematic Panels, debates and other events.
Source site of the 7th Congress GIFE: http://www.congressogife.org.br/2012/
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What: 7 Cogresso GIFE New frontiers of social investment
Where: Sheraton Sao Paulo WTC Hotel - Av UN, 12559 - Brooklin Novo Sao Paulo.
Date 26 to March 30, 2012
Registration for the site http://www.congressogife.org.br/2012/
