Location: The Yale Club of New York City
Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance 2025 Social Impact Conference
CHIP’s founding executive director, Kat Rosqueta, will be a featured speaker at the Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance Social Impact Conference. The event will explore practical strategies for navigating change during challenging times, strengthening financial sustainability, leveraging volunteer talent, and building powerful partnerships that drive lasting impact.
Connect with cross-generational leaders and fellow Yale alumni committed to mission-driven work. Leave empowered with fresh strategies and actionable tools to build your organization’s resilience and create stronger communities together.
Location: 133 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
4:30 PM – 6 PM ET
Civil Society and Well-Being
What role do civil society organizations play in shaping well-being? Join us as we explore how nonprofit institutions, faith-based organizations, and philanthropic foundations contribute to — and sometimes complicate — efforts to improve public welfare. Drawing from real-world examples, our panel will consider how resource distribution, civic engagement, and policy implementation intersect in pursuit of collective well-being.
With Ram Cnaan, Fedmida Handy, and Katherina Rosqueta. Moderated by Carleigh O’Neill
Location: Philadelphia
Advising for Impact
Philanthropic advisors have the power to help clients create greater impact. In June 2025, CHIP will launch Advising for Impact, a certificate program that will teach philanthropic advisors to use high impact philanthropy with their clients. Our program has been certified as a Continuing Education Sponsor by the CFP Board. Participants who are Certified Financial Planners will be eligible for 24 hours of CE. Advising for Impact is a cohort-based program where participants learn the principles of high impact philanthropy and to apply them to the real-world situations their clients face. To learn more about this program and apply, contact Nick Matlin, nmatlin@upenn.edu.
Location: Private Event
Private dinner with XPRIZE Foundation
This intimate gathering will focus on how we can address global environmental challenges in resource management, food, water, and waste. Conversation will include discussion of cutting-edge technologies, breakthrough innovation frameworks, and collaboration strategies that aim to reshape our approach to sustainability.
Location: Steinberg-Dietrich Hall Room 213, University of Pennsylvania
Philanthropy as a Life Strategy: A Conversation with Mona Sinha, Global Executive Director of Equality Now
Join the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, the School of Social Policy and Practice, the Opportunity Lab at Wharton, and the Wharton Social Impact Club for a fireside chat with Sharmila (Mona) Sinha, global executive director of Equality Now, and Katherina Rosqueta, founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy.
The conversation will focus on Mona’s personal philanthropic journey, her work with Equality Now, and how philanthropy can serve as society’s risk capital.
Location: Online
Collective Giving: Emerging Topics in Philanthropy series
Join the Center for High Impact Philanthropy for a panel discussion on how the tool of collective giving can increase your impact while growing community connections and grantmaking knowledge.
Collective giving, where donors pool their money so they can make grants together, has grown significantly in recent years. Panelists include Tyeshia Wright of Philanthropy Together and three funders who participate in collective giving in different ways: Carmen Davis, Anu Gupta, and Teo Valdés. The event will be hosted by CHIP founding executive director Kat Rosqueta.
Location: Online
GreenLight’s Annual Investor Briefing
As we celebrate GreenLight’s 20th anniversary, join us for an exclusive look at this past year’s growth and impact in communities and nationally and what’s next. Leaders from GreenLight’s first three cities will engage in a roundtable discussion sharing findings and reflections from recently completed case studies examining GreenLight’s longer-term impact in communities followed by a Q&A.
Location: Online
SP2 Alumni Panel on Social Workers in Philanthropy
The School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2) at the University of Pennsylvania will host a conversation moderated by Kat Rosqueta, Founding Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, for alumni of the school. Speakers will include:
- Aldustus (A.J.) Jordan, Head of Community Stewardship & President, The Vanguard Group Foundation
- Carla D. Thompson Payton, Chief Strategist and Impact Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Chekemma Fulmore-Townsend, President, Hamilton Family Charitable Trust
- Kasia Malinowska, Director, Drugs Policy, Open Society Foundations
Location: Online
January 23, 12 – 1 PM EST
2025 High Impact Giving Toolkit Launch Webinar
The 2025 High Impact Philanthropy Toolkit is a primer on the practice of intentionally using private, philanthropic resources to serve the public good. This launch webinar from the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) explores how to practice high impact philanthropy — philanthropy for social impact.
CHIP founding executive director Katherina Rosqueta will discuss high impact practices donors can use to achieve more impact. In conversation with Tony Bowen, Executive Director of the Catalyst Fund at Fidelity Charitable, Kat will present four philanthropic plays and emerging tools that can use for any issue area, and introduce 12 nonprofits that are putting effective strategies into practice for education, public health, housing, and more.