Meeting Reports

PoC Mexico 2002

A report from the annual Pioneers of Change meeting held in Mexico in 2002.

Conversations at The Home of Time

Report from the first Cultivation Unit team meeting held in Greenwich, 2002.

World Summit on Sustainable Development

From the Pioneers of Change Involvement in the World Summit on Sustainable Development. August 24 – September 5, 2002 Johannesburg, South Africa

African Treasures, South Africa

A gathering of the African Treasures Community of Practice at Mbonise. December 2002 Hluhluwe, South Africa

A Call to Arts Toolbox

A set of arts-based facilitation tools and outputs from “A Call to Arts” a gathering in Johannesburg, South Africa April 2003

Self Rule, India

The outcomes from "Experiments in Self Rule" an experiential inquiry into Gandhi’s vision of Hind Swaraj. India February 2003

Summer School 2004 South Africa

The report from the 2004 Annual Meeting of Pioneers of Change, held in Kosi Bay, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Arts for Social Change, South Africa

Output Arts for Social Change Johannesburg, South Africa. February 25 - March 6, 2005. A Journey into the power of creativity

Learning for Action, Brazil

An evaluation report of the first learning journey in Brazil. September 9-16, 2001

First Learning Journey Report - Bangladesh

Our first learning journey was in partnership between Pioneers of Change and the Common Futures Forum, an international fellowship of social entrepreneurs and was hosted by Working for Better Life in Bangladesh in March 2001. The program focused on exploring local practices of micro-finance, micro-enterprise and non-formal education as a means towards poverty alleviation. Local partners included BRAC, The Grameen Bank, ASA, and Proshika. 30 young change-makers and Pioneers came together to explore, interact with and reflect on local practices as a basis for improving their own socially entrepreneurial practices of social change, poverty alleviation and microcredit in Sri Lanka, South Africa, brazil, the USA, India and more. We spent a day at the Grameen bank, meeting Mr. Yunus and learning about the various initiatives being spun out from the Grameen model to make available affordable communications, energy, textiles, financing in rural communities through women cooperatives and entrepreneurial endeavours.