Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is the Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former Chairman of the Silicon Valley Social Ventures (SV2), the Founder and Board Chairman of Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) and the Founder and President of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF). She is also the Co-Founder and President of the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation, the Co-President of the Arrillaga Foundation and the Co-Founder of the Guild Theatre. A Lecturer in Business Strategy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB) since 2000, Laura created and teaches Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB) courses on Strategic Philanthropy and Philanthropic Institutions and Justice. She has also developed and teaches Power of You: Women in Leadership to prepare students to meet the challenges that currently exist for women leaders in the workplace, as well as promote inclusivity and advance impact with Laura’s “accessible leadership” model. Laura is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World (Wiley, 2011) and a contributing author to Frontiers in Social Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022). She has written for The Washington Post, Worth Magazine, T Magazine – The New York Times, the Huffington Post and SSIR.
LAAF’s Resource Library brings a fresh approach to the philanthropic field, educating individual givers, donors and corporate leaders via a series of tools and guides. These resources provide tactics and information about how to deploy an individual’s or organization’s unique assets and make more strategic and impactful giving decisions. The pages linked here highlight LAAF’s educational materials that help all givers and professionals—regardless of career or life stage, background, profession, role or passion—to achieve greater impact, create access for and empower women and individuals of all identities, and help them actualize their potential. These materials are informed by Arrillaga-Andreessen’s 25 years of professional experience as a founder, social entrepreneur, Stanford Graduate School of Business educator, board member, individual giver, investor and foundation president. They complement EPLI’s offerings, providing additional insights into the practice of giving and effective philanthropy.