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Los Angeles
Philanthropic Advisor Network
Fall 2010 Program to Feature
"An Interactive Discussion with Peter Karoff"
Tuesday, November 2 -
11:30 AM Luncheon
at the Regency Club in Westwood
Registration opens soon! |
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This promises to be a great
program as Peter Karoff is known as one of the thought leaders in
the ever evolving discussions of philanthropy and its role as an
engine of social change.
Peter is chairman and founder of The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI),
an author and lecturer, former businessman, and a pioneer in
creating new approaches to philanthropy. He and his colleagues have
worked with over 250 family foundations, community foundations, and
corporations, which include some of the most recognized names in
America's philanthropic community over the past 20 years, assisting
them in the design, execution, and evaluation of philanthropic
programs that match their particular interests and goals and provide
for them a meaningful giving experience.
For his complete biography, see below.
Mark your calendar now and plan to join us on Tuesday, November 2,
at The Regency Club in Westwood. Admission is free for members or
$75 for non-members.
Registration opens soon!
The Los
Angeles Philanthropic Advisors Network (www.LA-PAN.org)
is a volunteer organization whose sole purpose is to provide a forum
for leading thinkers, advisors, and philanthropists to engage in
dialogue to increase the effectiveness, collaboration, and
visibility of philanthropy in the LA community. There is no
solicitation or products represented or sold. We invite your
participation, creativity, insights, and ideas.
Peter Karoff is chairman and founder of The Philanthropic
Initiative (TPI),
a nonprofit organization founded in 1989 that promotes philanthropy.
TPI's goal is to help donors invest in their own values,
communities, and societies for maximum impact. In its two decades of
work, TPI has managed in excess of a billion dollars of
philanthropic investment in a wide range of social issues on behalf
of individuals, foundations and corporations.
Peter was President of TPI from 1989 to 2002 and is a Senior Fellow
at the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts
University. Prior to founding TPI, Peter was in the insurance and
real estate businesses for 25 years. He currently serves or has
served on the boards of more than 30 nonprofit organizations and
foundations in addition to TPI including : Management Sciences for
Health, the Gerald and Henrietta Rauenhorst Foundation, the Robina
Foundation, Blackside Productions, The Synergos Institute, WGBH
Educational Foundation, and the National Leadership Council of the
Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Peter frequently speaks and writes on philanthropic and social
issues and is the author of The World We Want - New Dimensions in
Philanthropy and Social Change, (AltaMira Press - 2007) as well as
editor of Just Money - A Critique of Contemporary American
Philanthropy, (TPI Editions - 2004). He also teaches in the Global
and International Studies Program at the University of California
Santa Barbara.
A graduate of Brandeis University and Columbia University, he
received an Honorary Degree from Lesley University in 2002. He was
made a Fellow of the McDowell Colony in 1989 and in 2006 became a
Purpose Prize Fellow.
Peter is especially interested in the unlikely connections that are
yet to be made between our inner and outer life, our public and
private persona, between community broadly defined and the way we
feel, think and live our individual, family, professional and public
lives. That we often do not find those connections is part of an
unfinished journey. Life flows as a journey that is a kind of
paradox of instincts. On the one hand we cherish our private lives,
and on the other we are drawn, sometimes reluctantly, to public
ones. The same thing that motivates us, and that propels us down the
path to community is also what holds us back, what cautions us to
not proceed at all. This dichotomy is what makes it so hard to build
and sustain communities, and why motivated leadership is so
important. It is these twin themes, self and the broader world, as
they weave in and out of our life that endlessly fascinate,
challenge and satisfy. Peter's new book is based on these themes,
which he believes represent the moral and ethical dimension of our
practice in philanthropy and social action.
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