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The Choices We Will Make

Fred Swaniker, Co-founder and CEO at African Leadership Academy
Jane Wales, President and CEO at World Affairs Council and Global Philanthropy Forum
Jamie Drummond, Executive Director, Global Strategy and Co-founder at ONE
Angélique Kidjo, Goodwill Ambassador at UNICEF

Digital tools, social media and new wealth in Africa, Latin America and Asia provide new resources for tackling modern-day slavery, hunger, and lack of education and employment opportunities. Strategic philanthropists are seeking ways to deploy them more creatively, collaboratively and effectively across geographies and sectors. But, we know that the challenges we face, as well as their solutions, are the result of millions of individual choices. We will reflect on what some of our choices are – and how they might be informed.

The Choices We Will Make

Fred Swaniker, Co-founder and CEO at African Leadership Academy
Jane Wales, President and CEO at World Affairs Council and Global Philanthropy Forum
Jamie Drummond, Executive Director, Global Strategy and Co-founder at ONE
Angélique Kidjo, Goodwill Ambassador at UNICEF

Digital tools, social media and new wealth in Africa, Latin America and Asia provide new resources for tackling modern-day slavery, hunger, and lack of education and employment opportunities. Strategic philanthropists are seeking ways to deploy them more creatively, collaboratively and effectively across geographies and sectors. But, we know that the challenges we face, as well as their solutions, are the result of millions of individual choices. We will reflect on what some of our choices are – and how they might be informed.

Breaking Out of the Old School

Salman Khan, Founder and Executive Director at Khan Academy
Jane Wales, President and CEO at World Affairs Council and Global Philanthropy Forum

Traditional classrooms and instructional methods may not optimize learning outcomes. Path-breaking innovators have employed digital tools to break out of traditional teaching and move beyond rote learning. By doing so, the educational experience can be transformed, including in societies like China, where the sheer size of the student population has stood in the way of individualized student-first approaches.

Decision-Making in Philanthropy: A Science or an Art?

Larry Kramer, President at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Jane Wales, President and CEO at World Affairs Council and Global Philanthropy Forum
Bradford Smith, President at The Foundation Center

What role does evidence play in informing the practice of philanthropy? How accessible and how relevant are the data we gather and share in the pursuit and evaluation of various strategies? In our hunger for evidence of impact — and the creation of a cycle of continuous learning — are we over-burdening grantees and program officers? And is “evidence-based decision-making” the only, or even the best way that smart choices are made? What role remains for intuition, hunch and heart? Hewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer will share the fresh perspective of a scholar who has entered the world of philanthropy, while Foundation Center President Brad Smith assesses the digital tools that are newly available to philanthropic decision-makers.

Defining and Advancing Philanthropy in Africa

James Mwangi, CEO and Managing Director at Equity Bank Ltd.
Toyin Saraki, Founder and Director at The Wellbeing Foundation Africa
Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Executive Chairperson at Higher Life Foundation
Wiebe Boer, CEO at The Tony Elumelu Foundation
Jane Wales, President and CEO at World Affairs Council and Global Philanthropy Forum

Many emerging economies in Africa have experienced rapid economic growth, deepened democracy and reduced poverty over the past two decades. With their newly created wealth, African philanthropists and investors are seeking ways to help Africa meet its own development needs. Panelists will address the ways in which they seek to foster equitable growth and inclusive development. Linkages among development issues in Africa will be noted.

The Outrage of Modern-Day Slavery

Pam Omidyar, The Omidyar Group
Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large at Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking In Persons, US Department of State
Jacquelline Fuller, Director, Giving at Google at Google Giving
Randy Newcomb, President and CEO at Humanity United

Over 20 million men, women and children are enslaved across the globe, for sex or for labor. Awareness of this scourge continues to grow, and the fight to end human trafficking has risen to become one of the greatest human security challenges of our time. How are traditional international aid agencies, governments and philanthropists working together on this issue? What are the linkages to learning, health and human development? How can we leverage big data to identify the perpetrators of trafficking and close down their operations? And will the human rights community adopt the abolition of slavery as a central part of the human rights agenda?

 

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Featured Speakers

Salman Khan Khan Academy

Salman Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing free, high-quality education for “anyone, anywhere” in the world.

Khan graduated from MIT in 1998 with three degrees: two …

 

Tsitsi Masiyiwa Higher Life Foundation

Tsitsi Masiyiwa is the executive chairperson of the Higher Life Foundation. Through her role, she oversees five Trusts with operations in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burundi and Lesotho. Alongside her husband, Strive Masiyiwa, they founded these …

 

Pam Omidyar The Omidyar Group

Pam Omidyar is the founder and chair of the board of Humanity United, which she established in 2005. Humanity United is a philanthropic organization committed to building peace and advancing human freedom by leading, supporting …