Upcoming Events


Reproductive Rights Movement

Thursday, May 17, 2012
Tresidder Memorial Union, West Oak, Second Floor

Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Tides

Leading, Mobilizing and Funding the Reproductive Rights Movement for the 21st Century

Session Overview:

Leading, Mobilizing and Funding the Reproductive Rights Movement for the 21st Century. Please join Stanford PACS and Tides on Thursday May 17 at 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Doors Open at 3:00 pm. Featuring Cecile Richards, President-Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Melissa Bradley, President-Tides and Ruth Levine, Director-Global Development and Population Program-Hewlett Foundation. Program moderated by Kim Meredith, Executive Director Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). Keynote by Cecile Richards, introduced by Kavita Ramdas, Executive Director Program on Social Entrepreneurship, CDDRL, followed by facilitated dialogue with speakers then open Q&A with the audience.

These three leaders offer their vision and highlight current challenges from their own contexts on how to overcome barriers, leverage leadership, resources and funds to mobilizeand build a strong movement for reproductive rights in the 21st Century. Closing insights will focus on how to develop new strategies to catalyze next generation leaders and drivers of the movement, this plenary panel promises
to be thought provoking and forward-looking.

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Alleviating Poverty

Wednesday, May 23, 2012
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Knight Management Center Gunn Building Room 101

Alleviating Poverty through Venture Philanthropy

David Saltzman, Executive Director of The Robin Hood Foundation and Kevin Starr, Executive Director of The Mulago Foundation. Join Mr. Saltzman and Mr. Starr as they are interviewed by Fay Twersky,Senior Fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

David Saltzman has been the Executive Director of Robin Hood since 1989. Prior to joining Robin Hood, he served as the Special Assistant to the President of the Board of Education of the City of New York for three years. Before working at the Board of Education, he ran AIDS education programs for the New York City Department of Health. Saltzman began his career in public service working with homeless families for the Human Resources Administration of the City of New York, the city's Department of Social Services. He earned a Masters of Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelors degree from Brown University. In 2001, Saltzman was named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Innovators.

Kevin Starr directs the Mulago Foundation and is the founder and director of the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program.  Mulago spends its money to drive forward the most promising ideas in health, development, and conservation in poor countries. The Foundation is unabashedly obsessed with impact: designing for it, measuring it, investing in it, and taking it to scale.

The Rainer Arnhold Fellows program is an outgrowth of the Foundation, and works with the best emerging social entrepreneurs with solutions for the less-than-$2-a-day world.  The Program uses a clear understanding of impact and behavior change as the raw material to drive a systematic process of design for maximum scalability.

Kevin’s stint in Cambodian refugee camps at age 19 propelled him on the path to his current work. He had a perfectly good career in medicine and international health when he stumbled into philanthropy in the early 1990’s.  Since then he’s gotten deep into dozens of projects ranging from forest conservation by monks in Tibet to micro-franchise clinics in Kenya to one-acre farming in Burma.  He still practices medicine (very) part-time.

 

 

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Giving 2.0

Wednesday, May 30, 2012
AS/COA, New York, NY

Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 5:45 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
Doors open: 5:45 p.m.  | Registration and Reception: 6:00–7: 00 p.m.  |  Program: 7:00–8:15 p.m.  |  Book Signing: 8:15–8:30 p.m.

Cost: $25, $15 for young alumni ('01-'11)

Venue: The Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY  |  Map of location

In Partnership with the Stanford Alumni Association and the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Be the first to hear Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen,’92, MBA ’97, MA ’98, founder and advisory board chair of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) as she launches her new book, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World. Giving 2.0 balances personal stories, inspirational profiles and practical information to empower your own giving life. Laura has been interviewed on Charlie Rose and her presentation has been very well received by alumni groups throughout the country. This event is presented by PACS and co-sponsored by the Americas Society/Council of the Americas.

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Commencement Weekend

Thursday, June 14, 2012
TBD

Commencement at Stanford

Stanford's 121st Commencement Weekend is June 14-17, 2012. This site provides a complete schedule and description of ceremonies and events, as well as planning instructions for students, parents, and faculty. We encourage you to visit this website often for continued updates on this year's Commencement speaker and other details as they become available.

UPDATE:

Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J. since 2006 and a Stanford graduate, will be the 2012 Commencement speaker.

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Digital Public Goods

Thursday, June 21, 2012
30 Alta Road at IRiSS

Invitation only

Philanthropy, Policy and Technology Charrette: Digital Public Goods

IACMR Keynote Panel

Thursday, June 21, 2012
Hong Kong

International Association for Chinese Management Research, Hong Kong, Keynote Panel

Organization Studies

Thursday, July 5, 2012
Helsinki

European Group for Organization Studies, Helsinki – On the Professionalization of the Nonprofit Sector

TBA

Monday, July 9, 2012
University of Hamburg

Institutional Analysis

Monday, August 27, 2012
WU-Vienna

Workshop on Institutional Analysis, WU-Vienna, Public Lectures every morning, classes in afternoon

Nonprofit Management Institute

Tuesday, September 11, 2012
TBA

Save the date for the 2012 Nonprofit Management Institute, on September 11 and 12! The program will be posted by June 1.

The Nonprofit Management Institute is for senior-level nonprofit executives including CEOs, executive directors, board members, and others with significant leadership responsibilities. Every year the Nonprofit Management Institute features an all-new program, so many attendees come again and again.

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