Peer Event

Power in Philanthropy: Lessons of Failure and Success

Hosted by the Council on Foundations and the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, this learning forum features guest speaker Tiziana Dearing, Associate Professor of Macro Practice at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Tiziana is the former CEO of Boston Rising, a place-based, anti-poverty, public foundation that aimed to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by replicating the Robin Hood Foundation and Harlem Children Zone’s models in Grove Hall, a Boston neighborhood inundated with poverty and crime.

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Location

Inn at Middletown
70 Main Street, Middletown, CT

Cost

There is no cost to attend this event.

Hosted by the Council on Foundations and the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, this learning forum features guest speaker Tiziana Dearing, Associate Professor of Macro Practice at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Tiziana is the former CEO of Boston Rising, a place-based, anti-poverty, public foundation that aimed to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by replicating the Robin Hood Foundation and Harlem Children Zone’s models in Grove Hall, a Boston neighborhood inundated with poverty and crime.

Over three years, Boston Rising invested $4 Million in residents, promising entrepreneurs and under performing schools, then -- it dissolved.

Participants will learn

  • Lessons in risk and philanthropy
  • Concepts around power dynamics in giving
  • The role of "choice and control" in social change
  • A vision for effective philanthropy rooted in trust and reciprocity

For catering purposes, please R.S.V.P to Talia Rivera at talia.rivera@cof.org by Monday, May 18.

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Natalie Ross

Vice President, Membership, Development and Finance

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