FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY, AGING AND MEDIA'S INTERSECTION WITH PHILANTHROPY HIGHLIGHT COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS MONDAY PROGRAM

WHAT: As the Council on Foundations Annual Conference continues in Chicago on Monday, April 8, highlighted sessions will provide a platform for more than 1,000 of the nation's philanthropic and grantmaking leaders to convene on issues threatening food sources and sustainability, and opportunities to prepare our communities to meet the needs of an aging society. Monday's program also will examine the role of the media, and radio in particular, as a messenger on societal issues as well as recent communications policy challenges and their impact for the future.

Monday's breakfast plenary session, Food Justice: An Issue for All, features virtual remarks from His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales, who will share his perspective on the global challenges of food insecurity, malnourishment, and obesity, and the impact of non-sustainable approaches to farming and food production on the future of our society.

The simultaneous plenary session The Art of Listening, will feature WBEZ's "This American Life" host Ira Glass, along with Joe Richman of Radio Diaries, Inc. and Julie Shapiro with Third Coast International Audio Festival, to review radio's role as the world's most accessible and popular information source and its ability to provide global access and serve as a messenger of some of the greatest issues of our time.

In another simultaneous plenary, Media and Democracy: A New Look at Media Foundations, former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps will lead a discussion on major communications policy challenges and choices that are now facing our country.

The Honorable Henry G. Cisneros, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development and former mayor of San Antonio, will accompany Mudai Mukenge, program officer for Sub-Saharan Africa at The Global Fund for Women, to speak at Monday afternoon's session, Creating Communities to Grow Up and Grow Old: Meeting the Global Challenge of Aging, on the challenges and innovative solutions being offered to create age-friendly cities as our country's baby boomers approach retirement.

WHEN: Monday, April 8, Session Highlights:

Breakfast Plenary: Food Justice: An Issue for All, 8-9:30 a.m.

• His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales; LaDonna Redmond, senior program associate, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Barbara "Barbie" Izquierdo, hunger advocate, Drexel University; Art Smith, president and CEO, The Art Smith Company; Scott Cullen, executive director, GRACE Communications Foundation

The Art of Listening, 12:30-2 p.m.

• Ira Glass, host/managing producer, WBEZ's This American Life; Joe Richman, founder and executive producer, Radio Diaries, Inc.; Julie Shapiro, artistic director, Third Coast International Audio Festival

Media and Democracy: A New Look at Media Foundations, 12:30-2 p.m.

• Luis Ubinas, president, Ford Foundation; Eric Newton, senior advisor to the president, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Michael Copps, senior advisor, Common Cause; Elspeth Revere, vice president, media, culture, and special incentives, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Creating Communities to Grow Up and Grow Old: Meeting the Global Challenge of Aging,
4:30-6:00 p.m.

• Muadi Mukenge, program officer, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Global Fund for Women; Henry G. Cisneros, founder and chairman, The CityView Companies

WHERE: Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago

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The Council on Foundations (www.cof.org), formed in 1949, is a nonprofit membership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations. Members of the Council include more than 1,700 independent, operating, community, public, and company-sponsored foundations, and corporate giving programs in the United States and abroad. The Council's mission is to provide the opportunity, leadership, and tools needed by philanthropic organizations to expand, enhance, and sustain their ability to advance the common good.