Discover practical ways to turn generosity into lasting impact, plus a first look at our Community Resilience Framework
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 21, 12 PM to 1 PM ET
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In times of uncertainty — economic struggles, health crises, natural disasters, and eroding trust in institutions — it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or even paralyzed. But there is another path: deciding how you can help.
Join the Center for High Impact Philanthropy for an engaging panel discussion and introduction of the 2026 High Impact Giving Toolkit, a free digital resource designed to help donors of all sizes make a meaningful difference.
This webinar will share a first look at our new framework on how funders can support resilient communities. You’ll also learn about concrete examples and best practices to meet basic needs, strengthen systems, support better policy, and spark game-changing innovation for stronger communities, now and in the future.
Who should attend:
Anyone interested in making their giving more impactful: individual donors, professional grantmakers, and philanthropic leaders.
About the speakers
Katherina ‘Kat’ M. Rosqueta is the founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, faculty co-director of High Impact Philanthropy Academy, adjunct faculty in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), and a senior fellow at the Wharton Center on Leadership & Change Management. Founded as a collaboration between SP2 and alumni of the Wharton School, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy is the premier source of knowledge and education on how philanthropy can do more good.
Before accepting her appointment to launch the Center, Kat was a consultant with McKinsey & Company; a consultant to the founding team of New Schools Venture Fund; founding director of Board Match Plus, a San Francisco program dedicated to strengthening nonprofit boards; and program manager of Wells Fargo’s Corporate Community Development Group.
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Kat serves on the national board of Greenlight Fund, a venture philanthropy fund dedicated to addressing urgent social needs in cities around the United States, and co-chairs Greenlight Fund Philadelphia. She is a member of the Capitalization Committee of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation. She is the former chair of the board of Candid (merger of Foundation Center and Guidestar), the world’s largest source of information on nonprofits and foundations. Her past civic leadership positions include board president of La Casa de las Madres (San Francisco’s oldest and largest shelter for battered women and their children), chair of the United Way’s Bay Area Week of Caring, and co-founder and executive committee member of the Women’s MBA Network.
Her work and comments have been cited in numerous publications including the New York Times, Slate, Money Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She speaks frequently on social impact management and philanthropy and has lectured at the Wharton Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of California Haas School of Business, and the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management.
Kat received her a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 2012 recipient of the Wharton Women in Business Kathleen McDonald Distinguished Alumna Award, a 2011 recipient of the Brava! Women Business Achievement Award, the 2020 recipient of the Margaret Bailey Speer Award, and named one of Unboxed Philanthropy’s Philanthropy 100, a list of people, organizations and companies making a positive difference in our world.
Kate Barrett is President of The Campbell’s Foundation and Director of Community Affairs at The Campbell’s Company. In her role, she is responsible for setting the strategy and direction of Campbell’s community affairs and foundation work, including philanthropy, employee volunteerism and giving, and disaster relief. Campbell’s community work focuses on the communities where the company has operations across North America, with particular emphasis on increasing food and nutrition security. Kate oversees the growth and expansion of the company’s signature program, Full Futures, which aims to advance school nutrition through cross-sector community partnerships. Kate is passionate about the intersection between the private and social sectors, and the role that companies can play in impacting social change while driving business strategy.
Prior to joining Campbell’s in 2017, Kate was a program director at The Center for High Impact Philanthropy, and before that, she spent many years working in the private sector for a variety of companies, including roles leading talent strategy and as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Kate received her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her bachelor’s degree from Brown University. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.
Blair Glencorse is Co-CEO of Accountability Lab– a translocal network that makes governance work for people around the world. In 2025, Blair and allies also set up Civic Strength Partners, a new facility to help social change organizations plan strategically for organizational succession, mergers and partnerships, and protection of assets. CSP preserves the lessons, tools, and relationships that drive the mission and impact of development organizations globally.
Blair is also the outgoing Co-Chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) through which he represents civil society as part of the largest global effort to make governments more transparent and effective. Blair was previously a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Good Governance and a member of the World Bank’s Expert Advisory Council on Citizen Engagement.
Alvin Irby is an award-winning early childhood educator, social entrepreneur, and author committed to helping children identify as readers. As the Founder and Chief Reading Inspirer at Barbershop Books, he has built a national network of barbershops with child-friendly reading spaces that inspire Black boys and other vulnerable children to read for fun.
A recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Innovations in Reading Prize, a CNN Hero, and a UPenn Wharton Lipman Family Prize honoree, Irby is nationally recognized for his strengths-based approach to literacy. His TED Talk on reading identity development has been viewed over 1 million times, sparking global conversations about the social and emotional drivers of literacy success.
Irby holds degrees from Grinnell College, Bank Street College of Education, and NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. Through humor, insight, and research-backed solutions, he addresses systemic literacy challenges with bold, transformative impact.
Katherine Lorenz is President of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation (www.cgmf.org), a grantmaking foundation focusing on environmental sustainability in Texas. She is the Leader of the Next Gen of the Giving Pledge, and Inside Philanthropy recently named Ms. Lorenz one of the most powerful heirs in philanthropy. In 2025, she was named to the inaugural TIME 100 Philanthropy list, recognizing singular figures who are shaping the future of giving.
Previously, she served as Senior Advisor for the National Center for Family Philanthropy (www.ncfp.org) and Deputy Director for the Institute for Philanthropy (www.instituteforphilanthropy.org). Prior to that, Ms. Lorenz lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for six years where she co-founded Puente a la Salud Comunitaria (www.puentemexico.org), a non-profit organization working to advance food sovereignty in rural Oaxaca. She continues to be involved with Puente’s work as an active board member. Before founding Puente, she spent two summers living in rural villages in Latin America with the volunteer program Amigos de las Américas and later served on their Program Committee and as a trustee of the Foundation for Amigos de las Americas.
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Additionally, she currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Environmental Defense Fund (Vice-Chair; Co-chair of Nom/Gov Committee), the Tinker Foundation (Secretary; Chair of Governance Committee), Aspen Community Foundation (Chair of Governance Committee), the Endowment for Regional Sustainability Science, and the Aspen Country Day School and formerly was a Fellow and later Board Chair at the National Center for Family Philanthropy, Board Chair of The Philanthropy Workshop, a Board Member of Exponent Philanthropy, Resource Generation, the Amaranth Institute, and a member of the National Academies’ Roundtable of Science and Technology for Sustainability. Ms. Lorenz serves on the Advisory Council of Boldly Go Philanthropy, the Leadership Council of the Greater Houston Community Foundation, and the National Advisory Committee of USC’s Irene Hirano Inouye Philanthropic Leadership Fund, and as a Senior Advisor for Philanthropy for Marsh Creek Social Works. Ms. Lorenz holds a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Davidson College.
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