Location: G06, Huntsman Hall
Lauren & Bobby Turner Executive Speaker Series featuring Gregg Renfrew, Founder & Executive Chair of Beautycounter
The Lauren & Bobby Turner Executive Speaker Series will return to Penn’s campus for the first time since the pandemic. Co-hosted by the ESG Initiative, Jay H. Baker Retailing Center, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, and Venture Lab, this year’s event will feature a fireside chat between social impact entrepreneurs Bobby Turner, W’84, CEO of Turner Impact Capital, and Gregg Renfrew, Founder and Executive Chair of Beautycounter. They will share insights, lessons learned, industry advice, and much more.
This event is open to Penn and Wharton students. Registration is required but does not guarantee admission; seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. We suggest arriving early to secure a seat.
Location: Cafe 58, Houston Hall
Unlocking higher returns and lower risk through gender-focused investing: A book talk with the authors of ‘The XX Edge,’ moderated by Kat Rosqueta
Join us for a fireside-chat-style conversation with the authors of “The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk,” moderated by The Center of High Impact Philanthropy co-founder Kat Rosqueta. In their brand-new book, authors Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber unpack the evidence that inherent gender differences between women and men make the former excellent financial decision makers and investment collaborators. If you are interested in investments or manage yours or those of others, The XX Edge provides exciting insights into a simple but often overlooked investment strategy to earning higher returns: including women as financial decision-makers.
Location: Private Event
2022 Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Forum
CHIP’s Founding Executive Director, Kat Rosqueta, will present at Goldman Sachs’ Philanthropy Forum, which will convene 300 clients and friends of the firm who have a significant philanthropic interest and capacity in giving.
Location: 2022 Annual Exponent Philanthropy Conference, Minneapolis
Exponent Philanthropy Forum Special Breakfast – Equitable Learning Recovery: Bright Spots, Silver Linings, More Work to Do
Accelerating equitable learning recovery for the children who need the most support is possible. Donors like you can make a real difference. Please join the Campaign for Grade Level Reading and the Center for High Impact Philanthropy for a special breakfast to discover how.
Be introduced to Early School Success: Recover learning and accelerate gains, a guide for individual donors and professional grantmakers developed by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy and informed by the Campaign for Grade Level Reading’s 46-state network, dozens of experts and the best available research. Learn about the Campaign’s Funder-to-Funder Conversations, a monthly series of webinars designed to provide space for shared learning about the latest developments, collaboration and coordinated investments.
Location:
Total Impact Summit 2022: Investing For New Economies
What solutions will your investments drive forward? Our local, national, and global economies face significant challenges and opportunities – from public health to racial equity, disruptive technology to climate action. As hundreds of billions of dollars in individual and institutional capital seek financial returns and positive impact, the collective values, best practices, and investment decisions enacted today will shape future generations to come.
From integrated investments in local communities across the U.S. to global ESG alignment, leaders and practitioners are deepening proven practices and paving new paths to design the economies of our future. The Total Impact Summit 2022: Investing for New Economies is a two-day, dynamic summit for individual and institutional investors, fund managers, and financial advisors to connect with aligned peers, learn about local and global innovations, discover investable solutions, deploy capital, and generate social impact.
CHIP Senior Fellow, Richard Henriques, will be a featured speaker.
Virtual Event:
Wednesday, May 25.
12 – 1 PM ET
Early School Success: Webinar on Helping Young Children Recover Learning and Accelerate Gains
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted learning for children of all ages. For children ages 0 – 8, brain development and social and emotional learning are especially critical. Early school success predicts later school success and a host of positive life outcomes. Unless we can recover learning lost during the pandemic and accelerate gains, we risk losing a generation of children. Here’s how to help.
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Campaign for Grade Level Reading present Early School Success, a primer and webinar to help donors and grantmakers support learning for young children during COVID-19 and in years beyond.
Register for our free webinar to:
- Learn how support the whole child at school and home
- Hear to expand learning opportunities so that learning happens everywhere
- Find strategies to ensure digital equity for all learning communities
- Hear from leaders at nonprofits and funders in early childhood and K-5 education
Virtual Event:
Monday, May 2.
2 PM – 3 PM ET
Choosing Change: Webinar on reducing structural inequality
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Lever for Change present Choosing Change: How to Assess Proposals for Their Potential to Reduce Structural Inequality, a toolkit to help donors and funders at all levels identify proposals and teams that have potential to advance more systemic change.
Individual donors and institutional grantmakers in all fields have sought to address the structural inequalities that prevent people from surviving, let alone thriving. We identified five dimensions funders can use to assess whether a proposal has potential to reduce structural inequality — or reinforce it.
Location: Kleinman Center Energy Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library
Thursday, April 28
2 PM – 3 PM ET
Stuart Weitzman Speaker Series on High Impact Philanthropy
Designing a Life: Community, history, and why I give
Presented by the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, the Stuart Weitzman Speaker Series on High Impact Philanthropy celebrates and explores the personal paths of some of the world’s most committed philanthropists.
The inaugural event will feature philanthropist and award-winning footwear designer Stuart Weitzman, W’63, in conversation with the Center for High Impact Philanthropy’s founding executive director, Kat Rosqueta with an introduction by Chaz Howard, Vice President of Social Equity & Community, and a welcome from Sara Bachman, dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice.
Virtual Event:
Friday, January 28.
9 AM – 10 AM EST
The Association of Fundraising Professionals New York City (AFP-NYC) Keynote Address
CHIP’s Founding Executive Director, Kat Rosqueta, will be delivering a keynote address at AFP-NYC’s Annual Meeting, a gathering of 75-100 development professionals in the New York City area.
Webinar:
Wednesday, January 26.
12 PM – 1 PM EST
Inspiring Impact Faculty Series: Social Policy, the Workforce, & the COVID Economy
First came mass layoffs in some industries, and remote work and overburdened frontline workers in others. Next followed labor shortages and workplace disputes over vaccines and masks. COVID continues to disrupt labor markets in the U.S. and worldwide. Professor Ioana Marinescu of the School of Social Policy & Practice will have a conversation with her “Just Economics” podcast partner Katherina ‘Kat’ Rosqueta to uncover how social policies can be responsive to real-world conditions and create alignment between unemployment and staffing shortages, and how philanthropy at a local level can effect change.
Webinar:
Thursday, January 20.
12 PM – 1 PM EST
2022 High Impact Giving Guide Launch: How to Support a Just Recovery from COVID
As the COVID-19 crisis continues and we move from initial response to repeated waves and eventual recovery, many donors are looking for opportunities to not only recover to where we were before the pandemic, but to build back a stronger, more just world. Join a panel discussion, sponsored by Fidelity Charitable and presented by CHIP’s founding executive director Kat Rosqueta.
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Hear:
- Best practices for supporting COVID recovery amid ongoing response
- What factors to consider for a more just recovery
- Key areas donors can support for COVID recovery in any community, including early school success, mental health, youth and young adults, and sustainable livelihoods.
The expert panelists from our project partners include: Dr. Johanna Greeson, The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research; Casey Johnson, GreenLight Fund; Euria Min, Lipman Family Prize; Ralph Smith, Campaign for Grade Level Reading; Jeff Ubois, Lever for Change; and Kristen Ward, Mindful Philanthropy.