Advising Benefactors: Giving Well, Doing Good

Transcript Now Available! Click here (PDF format, 31 pages, 241 KB)   A complete, edited transcript is now available of the panel discussion on January 18 co-sponsored by Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal and Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Amy Kass entitled:    

Friday, January 18, 2008 - 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center - 1015 15th Street, NW - Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

REQUIRED READING for this event: "Bequests as Legacies: Devising Philanthropic Strategies" by Philip Cubeta, IN Giving Well, Doing Good, pp. 161-164. Click here to download your copy (in PDF format, 4 pages)!

 
Event Description 

Amy Kass

Schambra, Cubeta, Remmer, and Kessler

This month the philanthropic community receives a thought-provoking new resource, an anthology by University of Chicago Senior Lecturer and Hudson Institute Senior Fellow AMY KASS entitled Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists (Indiana University Press). Excerpts from Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, and James; poems by Shelley, Wordsworth, and Lessing; and speeches by Lincoln, King, and Frederick Gates appear alongside essays by Carnegie, Rosenwald, and Nielsen. Organized thematically into six chapters, the texts seek to illuminate fundamental questions about the idea and practice of philanthropy, to promote more thoughtful discussion about practical issues facing the philanthropic sector, and to point a way toward a philanthropic practice that is more responsible, more effective, and more civic-spirited.

On Friday, January 18, the Bradley Center was pleased to host an event that both introduced this new resource and demonstrated how it can be useful. Our panelists, all of whom are philanthropic advisors, discussed "Advising Benefactors" in the light of one of the volume's readings. Panelists included: PHIL CUBETA, financial advisor and blogger ("Gifthub"), as well as author of the text that was discussed (required reading for attendees - click here to download a copy); ELLEN REMMER of The Philanthropic Initiative; ERIC KESSLER of Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors; and Calibre's ALBERT KEITH WHITAKER. Bradley Center Director WILLIAM SCHAMBRA introduced the session and AMY KASS facilitated the panel discussion.

Program and Panel

11:45 a.m.
Registration, lunch buffet

12:00 p.m.
Welcome by Hudson Institute's WILLIAM SCHAMBRA

12:10
Panel discussion
PHILIP CUBETA, The Nautilus Group, a Service of New York Life
ELLEN REMMER, The Philanthropic Initiative
A. KEITH WHITAKER, Calibre Advisory Services
ERIC KESSLER, Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors
AMY KASS, Moderator, Hudson Institute and University of Chicago

1:10
Question-and-answer session

2:00
Adjournment

For Further Information

To request further information on this event or the Bradley Center, please click contact Kristen McIntyre at (202) 974-2424 or kmcintyre@hudson.org.