The 2013 Pacific NW Global Donors Conference will be held on Friday, May 17 at the NW African American Museum (2300 S. Massachusetts Street / Seattle 98144).
Click here to view a working agenda for the day! We are confirming new speakers each day and hope to release the full agenda in mid-April.
We also invite you to follow along on Facebook and Twitter for updates.
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The day will kick off with a series of “Quick Talks” on new models and methods relevant to individual, foundation and other global donors. This first session will provide summaries of some of the “new ideas” in global philanthropic giving. Each Quick Talk will provide:
PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
Shannon Farley, Executive Director, SPARK. “Networked Philanthropy – a Next Generation Solution”
Katherine Zavala, Manager of Alliance Building, IDEX. “Long-term flexible support for locally determined solutions”
Michael “Luni” Libes, Business and Social Entrepreneur; Organizer #SocEnt Weekend. “A new approach to investing in companies that do social good, while doing good business”
Abby Sarmac, Program Officer, Lemelson Foundation: “Innovation and Invention in Global Giving”
Julie Sunderland, Director, Program Related Investments. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mauricio Vivero, Executive Director, Seattle International Foundation
Sarah Schacht, PhilanthroGeek. “Social giving applications in development: crowdfunding and giving circles for global health”
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We are pleased to announce our closing panel speakers for GDC13. These experienced philanthropists and thinkers will reflect on how to negotiate and navigate through the many new choices in philanthropic practice.
At Kordant Philanthropy Advisors, Dien oversees the strategic direction of the firm and leads our consulting and research engagements on the west coast and in Asia. With her philanthropic, legal and tax planning background, she brings to her client’s a balance between theoretical concepts of philanthropic advising and on-the-ground knowledge in the effective practice of global philanthropy.
Dien is a recognized leader in the philanthropic sector and is especially known for her work with Asian American donors and donors with philanthropic interests in Asia. She speaks on the subjects of diaspora philanthropy, strategic giving, family philanthropy, global philanthropy, trends in Asian philanthropy, and Asians as donors. Dien is featured or quoted in many media outlets including Forbes Asia, The New York Times, Family Office Review, San Francisco Business Times and Economist Intelligence Unit reports.
Dien has been committed to the philanthropic planning and non-profit sectors all through her career. She was most recently Chief Philanthropy Officer at Give2Asia, where she served as a resource to donors wishing to give overseas and built the organization’s business development unit. Prior to that, she managed the portfolio of large and complex planned giving programs as Vice President & Senior Trust Officer at U.S. Trust.
Dien serves as chair of OneVietnam Network and is on the board of 1990 Institute. She is on the advisory board ofPhilanthropic Ventures Foundation. Previously, Dien served on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including AAPIP(Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy) and NCPGC (Northern California Planned Giving Council). Dien holds a J.D., LL.M. in International Law, and Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP) designation.
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Many thanks to our sponsors, speakers, planning committee and volunteers who made the 2012 Global Donors Conference a success. Please take a look at photos from the event!
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This year’s workshop topics and full session descriptions are available to download by clicking here!!
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We are excited to announce that Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, author of Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World, will open our 2012 conference with a keynote speech.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is the Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former Chairman (1998-2008)
of SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund), a venture philanthropy fund that leverages its partners’ financial, intellectual, and human capital to make a measurable impact in the Silicon Valley community. Under her leadership, SV2 built a portfolio of 25 grantees and nearly 400 investors, and it won the Silicon Valley Association of Fundraising Professionals Philanthropic Organization of the Year in 2008.
Laura is the Founder and Board Chairman of Stanford PACS (Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society), a global research center committed to exploring ideas to create social change and publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). Laura has created and teaches Stanford Graduate School of Business’ first course on Strategic Philanthropy and Stanford University’s first course on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. Since 2000, Laura’s faculty appointments include Lecturer in Business Strategy at Stanford GSB; Lecturer in Public Policy; and Lecturer at Stanford School of Education.
Her New York Times bestselling book on individual giving, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World (published by Wiley’s Jossey-Bass 2011) as well as her blog and website (www.giving2.com) empower individuals of all backgrounds, ages, and passions to make their giving matter more. Laura is also a contributing writer to Worth Magazine, the Huffington Post, SSIR and the book, Local Mission, Global Vision, and she has been featured on Charlie Rose, CNN with Erin Burnett, MSNBC with Dylan Ratigan, and CNBC Power Lunch.
Laura is the President of the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation. She is a director of the Arrillaga Foundation and a board member of Sand Hill Foundation, Stanford University School of Education, SIEPR (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research), Women’s Health at Stanford Medical Center, and an Advisory Council Member of the Global Philanthropy Forum. In 2008, Laura was selected as the only individual philanthropist in the Aspen Institute Philanthropy Group—an agenda-setting body of twenty national philanthropy leaders, who come together annually to identify issues that would benefit from sector-wide deliberation among grantees and grantors and among social enterprises and their investors—and the Donor Effectiveness Network—a group of 20 leaders committed to furthering the donor education field. Laura is a former Public Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is a former trustee of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Hoover Institution, Community Foundation Silicon Valley, Castilleja School, Menlo School, Eastside Preparatory School, San Francisco Art Institute, and Children’s Health Council.
Laura holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MA in Education from Stanford School of Education, and a BA and MA in Art History from Stanford University. A native of Palo Alto, California, Laura is a graduate of Castilleja School and was honored with its Distinguished Alumna Award in 2010. She received the 2001 Jacqueline Kennedy Award for Women in Leadership, and in April 2005, she became a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. She was also awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award from the Points of Light Foundation in June 2005 and Children and Family Services’ Outstanding Silicon Valley Philanthropist Award in 2009. In 2010, Laura was the first individual awarded SV2’s “Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Social Impact Award,” and in 2011, the World Affairs Council and its Global Philanthropy Forum honored her and her husband with the Global Citizen Award. Laura lives with her husband, technology entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, near Stanford University, and together they enjoy reading, art, writing, movies, yoga, athletics, and laughing as much as possible.
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The 2011 Pacific NW Global Donors Conference was held on April 1-2, 2011. To sign up to receive email updates about future events and conferences, please email info@globaldonorsconference.org.
Thank you to all of the 2011 conference participants, speakers, partners and sponsors – we couldn’t have done it without you!
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The conference received great feedback from attendees and several articles have been written about the conference and sessions:
“Nonprofits examine climate-change roles” – Kristi Heim, The Seattle Times (4/2/11)
“We Are the Solution: Women’s Farm Organizations Thrive in Africa” – KBCS radio segment (4/7/11)
“Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Global Donors Conference” – George Durham, Microsoft Unlimited Potential blog (4/17/11)
“Giving For Sustainable Change in the Pacific Northwest” – Betsy Brill, Alliance Magazine, (4/12/11)
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