PDG. Aziz Memon to speak at Global Philonthropy Forum, 10th Annual Conference, April 13-15, 2011 at Redwood city California USA.
The Global Philanthropy Forum’s purpose is to build a learning community—and to inform, enable and enhance the strategic nature of their giving. Over the past eight years, the GPF has grown into a dynamic global network of over 750 agile and engaged donors. Joining you at the conference will be over 500 principals of family foundations, social investors, and executives of private and corporate foundations. These members of the GPF community will interact with 30-40 emblematic agents of change from around the world who are doing important work on the ground.
We ask all speakers to stay throughout the conference to network with, teach and learn from fellow participants. The Global Philanthropy Forum is a “no fund-raising zone,” but members of this learning community often enter into co-funding arrangements when they find their interests are shared. Eighty-three percent of the GPF community report relying on one another as an “informal braintrust” as they set their strategies for giving throughout the year. It is this community into which we hope to welcome you this year.
Fellow and past speakers include Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Muhammad Yunus; Hernando de Soto; Google Co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin; Judith Rodin of the Rockefeller Foundation, former President Bill Clinton; Steve and Jean Case from the Case Foundation; Samantha Powers from Harvard University; and Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, among many others. A partial list of additional notable speakers is attached, and highlights from previous conferences can be viewed on our website at http://www.philanthropyforum.org/. Some of the proceedings from the 2011 conference will also be syndicated on National Public Radio throughout the United States and featured in the conference transcripts.