2.3 How Philanthropy and Investing Can Drive Climate Impact at Scale
How can different forms of capital—philanthropic giving, impact investing, and commercial funding—be used strategically to address the urgent challenges of climate change? Join Mike Schroepfer, Founder of Gigascale Capital and Outlier Projects, and Patricia Bromley, Associate Professor of Education, Environmental Social Science and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University, for a dynamic discussion on leveraging different modes of capital allocation to tackle climate change. Grounded in a problem-first approach, they will explore how different funding models can be deployed to drive meaningful and lasting change.
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Mike Schroepfer has a 25-year track record in technology and science as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor. At Gigascale Capital, he backs early-stage climate technology companies that are modernizing the world’s largest sectors and making clean options a no-brainer choice.
As Meta’s CTO, he scaled products to billions of users, shipped millions of units of consumer hardware, constructed tens of millions of square feet of data centers, built teams of up to 35,000, and made breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. He’s currently a Senior Fellow focused on AI and developing technical talent.
Schrep’s philanthropic work includes Additional Ventures, the Carbon-to-Sea Initiative, and Outlier Projects, which funds grants aimed at accelerating climate science and policy responses to the crisis. He’s a Stanford computer science graduate, led engineering at Mozilla, founded a company acquired by Sun Microsystems, and is a decent skier and mediocre surfer.
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Patricia Bromley is Associate Professor of Education, Environmental Social Science, and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University. She is Co-Director of Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS), and Director of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR). Tricia’s research spans a range of fields including comparative education, organization theory, sociology of education, and public administration and policy. Her work focuses on the historical rise and globalization of a liberal culture emphasizing rational, scientific thinking and expansive forms of rights, as well as contemporary attacks on this culture. Recent publications examine pushbacks against liberal culture in the form of growing restrictions on civil society and declining emphases on education reform.
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