8:30 am – 10:00 am   

Welcome by forum co-chairs Fred R. Harris, Professor, University of New Mexico

Alan Curtis, President, Eisenhower Foundation

Panel 1:  A Public-Morality Framework

for American Policy and Conventional Wisdom

Lawrence O’Rourke

Author of Geno:  The Life and Mission of Geno Baroni

Joseph D. Duffey

Former Director

United States Information Agency

Joseph B. McNeely

Founder

Development Training Institute

Gary Younge

New York Correspondent

The Guardian

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad

President

Minaret of Freedom Institute

Dennis DeLeon

President

Latino Commission on AIDS, New York

10:00 am – 10:30 am      

Break

10:30 am – 11:30 am      

Discussion of Panel 1 Presentations

11:30 am – 12:30 pm 

Lunch

12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Panel 2:  A Public Morality Framework

for American Policy and Conventional Wisdom

Marcy Kaptur

Member

United States House of Representatives

William J. Byron

Research Professor of Management and International Business

Loyola College of Maryland

(Former president, Catholic University)

Celinda Lake

President

Lake, Snell, Perry, Mermin and Associates

William J. Linder

Founder

New Community Corporation

3:15 pm – 4:30 pm

Panel 3:  A Public-Morality Framework

for American Policy and Conventional Wisdom

J. Bryan Hehir

Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor

of the Practice of Religion and Public Life

John F. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard University

David Saperstein

Director and Counsel

Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism

E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Senior Fellow

The Brookings Institution

George Hunsinger

Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology

Princeton Theological Seminary

Stephen John Thurston

President

National Baptist Convention of America

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm          

Remarks by Rose Baroni Hebda 

Songs by the St. Augustine Gospel Choir

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

8:30 am – 9:45 am         

Panel 4: The Re-Creation of Coalitions: 

Minorities and Urban Ethnics, Faith-Based and Secular

Stuart E. Eizenstat

Former Chief Domestic Policy Advisor

to President Jimmy Carter

Robert W. Edgar

General Secretary

National Council of Churches

John L. Carr

Secretary

Department of Social Development and World Peace

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Mahdi Bray

Executive Director

Muslim-American Society Freedom Foundation

John A. Kromkowski

Executive Director

National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs

11:15 am – 12 noon

Panel 5:  Grassroots Nonprofit Organizations: 

Evaluation and Capacity Building, Religion and Politics

Robert W. Tuttle

Professor

School of Law

George Washington University

Ram Cnaan

Professor and Associate Dean

School of Social Policy & Practice

University of Pennsylvania

Robert J. Wineburg

Professor

School of Social Work

University of North Carolina

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm

Panel 5 Continued:  Grassroots Nonprofit Organizations:                      

Evaluation and Capacity Building, Religion and Politics

Peter S. Ujvagi

Member

Ohio State House of Representatives

Timothy McDonald, III

Chairman

African-American Ministers in Action

C. Welton Gaddy

President

Interfaith Alliance

Robert Michael Franklin, Jr.

Presidential Distinguished Professor of Social Ethics

Candler School of Theology

Emory University

Robert F. Drinan

Professor of Law

Former Member

U.S. House of Representatives

Pablo Eisenberg

Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute

Georgetown University

Former Executive Director

Center for Community Change

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Discussion of Future Strategic Action

Facilitated by Leila McDowell

Director for Capacity Building

Eisenhower Foundation