The IEFG holds regular learning and networking events to allow grantmakers to connect, share challenges, and learn from each other. In addition to the Steering Committee, our meetings and webinars are guided by members of the group. Our member meetings are generously hosted by one or more IEFG members, and the agendas are co-created through planning committees composed of members who are interested in the meeting’s theme. Calls for participation are through the members’ IEFG Update, a monthly newsletter. Members also approach the Secretariat directly with ideas on meetings, site visits, etc. as well as interest in leading thematic or regional discussions.
Participants of an IEFG event in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
UPCOMING EVENTS
| Event Type | Title | Date | Location |
| IEFG in person event | IEFG Together: The Future of Teachers and Teaching | 8 – 10 April 2025 | Singapore |
PAST EVENTS
| Event Type | Title | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEFG workshop | The Power of Collective Intelligence | 21 October 2024 | Singapore |
| IEFG webinar | IEFG Asia Circle | Examining the Great Divide: Employers and School Systems | 13 August 2024 | – |
| IEFG webinar | IEFG Asia Circle | The Learner of the Future – Skills and Mindsets: What do we need to get there! | 09 July 2024 | – |
| IEFG webinar | IEFG Asia Circle | Teachers & Tech – Challenges & Possibilities | 28 May 2024 | – |
| IEFG webinar | IEFG Asia Circle | Bridging the Gap: How do we get EVERY child learning? | 30 April 2024 | – |
| IEFG in-person event | IEFG Together: Navigating Transitions in Education | 23 – 25 April 2024 | Bogota, Colombia |
| IEFG webinar | IEFG Asia Circle | Getting the Basics Right | 21 March 2024 | – |
| IEFG in-person event | IEFG Immersion Visit | 5 – 9 November 2023 | Sobral, Brazil |
| IEFG in-person event | IEFG Together: All Systems Go | 22 – 24 May 2023 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| IEFG Breakfast | Gender Transformative Education Collective Action Breakfast | 21 February 2023 | Washington DC, United States |
| IEFG virtual Session | Changemaker: Candid conversations between grantmakers – Climate | 8 February 2023 | – |
| IEFG workshop | Collective Action Workshop – Girls’ / Gender Education | 15 December 2022 | Salzburg, Austria |
| IEFG virtual Session | Changemaker: Candid conversations between grantmakers – Crises | 3 November 2022 | – |
| IEFG workshop | Principles for effective education philanthropy | 20 September 2022 | New York, United States |
| IEFG co-hosted event | Philanthropy’s Role in Transforming Education: A High-Level Event in the margins of the Transforming Education Summit | 18 September 2022 | New York, United States |
| IEFG in-person event | IEFG Together: Tanzania 2022 | 24 June 2022 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| IEFG BIG Series | Crises: Political Closure | 13 June 2022 | – |
| IEFG BIG Series | Crises: Corruption | 6 June 2022 | – |
| IEFG BIG Series | Crises: Financial Crashes | 30 May 2022 | – |
| IEFG BIG Series | Crises: COVID | 23 May 2022 | – |
| IEFG BIG Series | Crises: Climate | 16 May 2022 | – |
| IEFG Breakfast | Working Breakfast | 11 May 2022 | Berlin, Germany |
| IEFG BIG Series | Crises: Conflict | 9 May 2022 | – |
| IEFG webinar | What are the characteristics of Global South education philanthropy? | 10 February 2022 | – |
| IEFG webinar | What do we know about education philanthropy? | 3 February 2022 | – |
| IEFG virtual session | Presentation of the GEM Report on non state actors | 1 February 2022 | – |
| IEFG co-hosted webinar series | Shifting Power in Grantmaking | 7 September – 12 October 2021 | – |
| IEFG eCafé | Lemann Center for Leadership and Equity in Education: a response to learning inequalities | 15 July 2021 | – |
| IEFG Virtual Conference | Out of School Children and Learning Loss | 18 – 20 May 2021 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning from each other: From Covid-19 to collaboration, partnership and progress | 28 January 2021 | – |
| IEFG eCafé | Middle East North Africa (MENA) | 9 December 2020 | – |
| IEFG Virtual Session | Presentation of GEMR inclusion and gender report findings | 24 November 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning from each other: Adjusting to the “new normal” – organizational adaptations and innovations to the pandemic | 12 November 2020 | – |
| IEFG Virtual Session | IEFG Education in Emergencies Working Group: Research Trends & Approaches in EiE | 3 November 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Lecture | Decolonizing Development: A participatory lecture with Stephanie Kimou at PopWorks Africa | 28 October 2020 | – |
| IEFG Virtual Session | UNESCO GEM Report: What role for foundations in the post COVID era? | 20 October 2020 | – |
| IEFG e-Café | Middle East North Africa (MENA) | 20 October 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Philanthropy in the Evolution of a Crisis: Centering Equity | 8 October 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Education Financing and Coordination in response to COVID-19 | 10 September 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Centring education in Covid response: Global coordination and advocacy | 16 July 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Multi-stakeholder collaboration at country-level: How can we work together to build back better? | 30 June 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Inclusion and Equity during and after COVID-19: how are we addressing education inequity in this crisis, and what is the path ahead? | 11 June 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Supporting Civil Society and Community-based Initiatives under COVID-19 | 28 May 2020 | – |
| IEFG Virtual Meeting | “Exploring the Field of Child Care: Reflecting on the Impact of Early Childhood Interventions on Mothers and Others”: What does this mean for IEFG members? | 26 May 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Education innovations under COVID-19 | 14 May 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Grantcraft strategy workshops | 7 May 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: Global Education Responses | 29 April 2020 | – |
| IEFG Online Discussion Series | Learning From Each Other: How is our education grant-making shifting in light of COVID-19? | 23 April 2020 | – |
| IEFG Webinar | RewirEd | 20 April 2020 | – |
| IEFG Webinar | Speaking the Unspeakable: Trauma through crisis and displacement in early childhood | 12 March 2020 | – |
| IEFG Webinar | Funding Civil Society Advocacy and Social Accountability in Education: Why does it matter and what have learned about how to do it well? | 9 March 2020 | – |
| IEFG Webinar | Using Minimum Standards in our humanitarian grantmaking: guidance for funders in education and child protection | 25 February 2020 | – |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | How can philanthropy facilitate government adoption? | 13 – 15 November 2019 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| IEFG Regional Meeting | Systems Change Approaches in Education | 4 November 2019 | Zürich, Switzerland |
| IEFG Regional Meeting | The Role of Philanthropy in Education in Emergencies: Dialogues around Engagement | 24 September 2019 | New York, United States |
| IEFG Webinar | Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Emergencies: a bridge between education and child-protection | 25 June 2019 | – |
| IEFG Webinar | The Abidjan Principles | 17 June 2019 | – |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | The Role of Foundations in SDG4 | 1 & 2 April 2019 | – |
| IEFG Regional Meeting | Education and Child Protection in Contexts of Migration, Displacement and Humanitarian Emergencies | 20 February 2019 | Paris, France |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Social-emotional Learning | 13 – 15 November 2018 | San Francisco, USA |
| IEFG Funders Roundtable | Joint Meeting of INEE and the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action | 16 October 2018 | Nairobi, Kenya |
| IEFG Webinar | Investing in Knowledge Sharing to Advance SDG 4 | October 11, 2018 | – |
| IEFG Funders Roundtable | Beyond numbers: Ways of Understanding Impact for Private Foundation Education Programming | September 21, 2018 | New York, USA |
| IEFG Regional Meeting | – | June 18, 2018 | Oxford, UK |
| IEFG Regional Meeting | – | May 18, 2018 | Washington DC, USA |
| IEFG Webinar | Designing for Scale and Replicability: A Discussion with MacArthur’s 100&Change Grant Award Recipients | April 18, 2018 | – |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning: Strengthening our practice and our field | February 26-28, 2018 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| IEFG Webinar | Applying an Equity Lens to Education Programming | January 25, 2018 | – |
| IEFG Meeting | Regional Meeting | December 7, 2017 | Washington, DC, USA |
| IEFG Meeting | Regional Meeting | November 27, 2017 | London, UK |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Equity in and Through Education | September 25–26, 2017 | Toronto, Canada |
| IEFG Webinar | Protecting US Investments in Global Education | August 23, 2017 | – |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Education in an Uncertain World: Response, Resilience and Development | April 10–12, 2017 | Amman, Jordan |
| IEFG Mini-Meeting | New Knowledge and New Approaches in Global Education: How do these impact our work? | January 23, 2017 | London, UK |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Monitoring and Accountability in Education | November 2–4, 2016 | Chicago, USA |
| IEFG Teleconference | Consultation on “Global Education Financing Commission” | April 27, 2016 | – |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Scaling up for Quality Learning and Teaching | February 22–24, 2016 | Delhi, India |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Implications and Opportunities of the Post-2015 Education Agenda | October 8–9, 2015 | New York City, USA |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Raising the Quality of Teaching | April 22-24, 2015 | Lisbon. Portugal |
| IEFG Webinar | Education and the Refugee Crisis | February 17, 2015 | – |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Technology and Education | October 23-24, 2014 | Menlo Park, USA |
| IEFG Webinar | Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR) | September 3, 2014 | – |
| IEFG Networking Breakfast | Networking Breakfast | March 12, 2014 | Toronto, Canada |
| IEFG Bi-Annual Meeting | Financing Education | February 10-12, 2014 | Weinfelden, Switzerland |