Save the Date!
Southern California Grantmakers
Annual Conference and Members' Meeting
November 3 - 4, 2010
Keynote Speaker:
Marian Wright Edelman
President, Children's Defense Fund
Featured Speaker:
Dev Patnaik
Principal, Jump Associates
Due to the overwhelming popularity of last year’s Annual Conference and Members’
Meeting, Southern California Grantmakers is expanding this year’s conference to a new two-day format. The conference will feature:
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Nonprofit site visits focused on place-based grantmaking and the environment;
- Interactive workshops; and
- In-depth
breakout sessions addressing issues of concern to family foundations, corporate
grantmakers, foundation leadership and other
grantmakers.
Further information on speakers, panelists and a detailed
conference schedule is forthcoming. Please check back regularly for updates.
About Marian Wright Edelman
SCG is pleased to announce this year’s keynote speaker,
civil rights activist and Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Founder and President,
Marian Wright Edelman. Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans
her entire professional life, and under her leadership, CDF has become the
nation's strongest voice for children and families.
She began her career in the mid 1960s when, as the first
black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson,
Mississippi. In l968 she moved
to Washington, D.C. and acted as counsel for the Poor
People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his
death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law
firm and the parent body of the Children's Defense Fund. For two years
she served as the director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and in l973 began CDF.
Edelman has received over one hundred honorary degrees and many awards, including
the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award and a MacArthur
Foundation Prize Fellowship. In 2000 she received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom--the nation's highest civilian award--and the Robert F. Kennedy
Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings.
About Dev Patnaik
Dev Patnaik is a founder and principal of
Jump
Associates, a consulting firm that advises senior executives on innovation
strategy at some of America’s most admired companies,
including Nike, Target and Hewlett-Packard. As an adjunct professor at
Stanford
University, he teaches
design-research methods
that
incorporate anthropology, design and business planning to discover
insights about ordinary people and create new products.
Patnaik is co-author of the widely acclaimed Wired to Care, which explores how
empathic organizations take risks, create new opportunities and enhance the
impact of their work. He was recently featured as a guest on CNBC’s The
Business of Innovation. His articles on innovation and strategy have
appeared in several publications including BusinessWeek, Brandweek and the
Design Management Review.