Dr. Larry Arnn
President
Hillsdale College
Dr. Arnn is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 2:15 -3:30 p.m. on the topic “Should Donors Give to University Endowments .”
Larry P. Arnn is the twelfth president of Hillsdale College. From 1985-2000, Dr. Arnn served as president of the Claremont Institute, an education and research institution based in Southern California. While at Claremont, he was the founding chairman of the California Civil Rights Initiative, or Proposition 209, which was passed by California voters in 1996 and prohibited racial preferences in state hiring, contracting, and admissions. Dr. Arnn studied at the Claremont Graduate School, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in government. He also served as director of research for Martin Gilbert of Merton College, Oxford, the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Dr. Arnn is on the board of directors of the Heritage Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Center of Claremont McKenna College, the Center for Individual Rights, and the Claremont Institute.
Ms. Diana Aviv
President
Independent Sector
Ms. Aviv is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. on the topic “Protecting Philanthropic Freedom on Capitol Hill: What's Next?”
Diana Aviv is the president and CEO of Independent Sector, the national leadership forum for charities, foundations, and corporate giving programs committed to advancing the common good in America and around the world. She is a frequent speaker on the accountability and transparency of nonprofit organizations, the financial state of the nonprofit sector, the role of civil society in democracy, and civic engagement. Ms. Aviv also serves as executive director of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, an independent panel of charitable and philanthropic leaders convened by Independent Sector in October 2004 at the encouragement of the Senate Finance Committee. Ms. Aviv came to Independent Sector in April 2003 after nine years at United Jewish Communities. She is an advisory board member of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and is a member of the board of governors of the Partnership for Public Service. A native of South Africa, Ms. Aviv received a B.S.W. from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a Master of Social Work degree from Columbia.
Ms. Carolyn Bacon
Executive Director
O’DonnellFoundation
Ms. Bacon is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Bolstering Math and Science Education?”
Carolyn Bacon is executive director of the O’Donnell Foundation in Dallas. The purpose of the foundation is to support quality education, especially in science and engineering. In 1989 she was appointed a member of the White House Education Policy and Advisory Council. Former President Bush also appointed her to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where she served as chairman of the Education Committee. In Texas, Governor Clements appointed her to a six-year term on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and former Governor Bush named her the first chairman of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board of Texas. In 2003-04 she served as the Governor’s public member on the Texas Joint Selection Committee on Public School Finance. She previously served as administrative assistant to former Senator John Tower of Texas. Current board memberships include National Center for Educational Accountability, the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Advanced Placement Strategies Inc. of Dallas, and the Foundation for the Education of Young Women. She is a member of the Junior League of Dallas and Charter 100 of Dallas.
Mr. Steve Beck
Executive Vice President
Geneva Global, Inc.
Mr. Beck is participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 9 – 10:15 AM on the topic “Defining and Measuring Philanthropic Effectiveness.”
Steve Beck has twenty years experience in strategy consulting, including six years leading consulting operations in Europe, Asia, and South Africa. In his consulting practice, he has advised the senior management of the world’s largest financial institutions, specializing in the international asset management and private banking sectors. He has consulted for three of the world’s top five global private banking groups and originated the World Wealth Report, an annual report on trends in the wealth management industry produced jointly by Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini. Mr. Beck is a senior partner (on leave) of Monitor Group, an international strategy consulting and merchant banking firm ( www.monitor.com). In addition to co-leading the Group’s business in Europe, Mr. Beck served on the Board of the Monitor Institute, the group company that advises foundations and direct service organizations in the non-profit sector.
Mr. Beck joined Geneva Global full time in September 2002, having worked with the organization part-time from its inception in 1999. Geneva Global enables thoughtful donors to increase the impact of their giving to life-changing projects in the most desperate parts of the world. Working with hundreds of local leaders in more than 90 countries, Geneva’s research team finds and evaluates programs that deliver measurable results. This reliable, independent analysis provides donors with the confidence to give. In his role as Executive Vice President, Mr. Beck assists the overall leader ship of the firm and directs the company’s marketing and client development activities. Mr. Beck was educated at Stanford University and the London School of Economics. He is married with three daughters, and despite his Californian roots, lived in London from 1984 to 2002.
Mr. Clint Bolick
President
Alliance for School Choice
Mr. Bolick is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m on the topic “School Choice: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”
Clint Bolick is president and general counsel of the Alliance for School Choice, a national nonprofit educational policy group advocating school choice programs across the country. Focused on the educational needs of economically or otherwise disadvantaged schoolchildren, often trapped in failing schools, the Alliance is dedicated to fulfilling the promise of equal educational opportunities for all. The Alliance was launched on May 17, 2004, the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, to help fulfill the promise of educational opportunities for families who desperately need them. Bolick also heads Advocates for School Choice, which lobbies in support of school choice. The two Phoenix-based groups provide the school choice movement with the leadership, experience and resources to challenge the educational status quo and the well-financed groups that defend it.
Previously, Bolick co-founded and served as vice president of the Institute for Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based libertarian public interest firm. Bolick led the litigation team that defended the constitutionality of school choice programs across the nation, which culminated in 2002 in the successful defense of the Cleveland program in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. Bolick also successfully challenged government-erected barriers to entrepreneurship, barriers to inter-racial adoption, and eminent domain abuse. In 2003, American Lawyer recognized Bolick as one of the nation's three lawyers of the year in light of his legal work in support of school choice. Bolick remains affiliated with IJ as strategic litigation counsel.
In 2003, Bolick recounted the experiences of 12 years of school choice litigation in Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice, published by the Cato Institute. In 2004, the Hoover Institution published his latest book, Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty.
Ms. Roya Boroumand
Executive Director
Boroumand Foundation
Ms. Boroumand is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 10:30 a.m. - noon on the topic “Strengthening Democratic Values in the Islamic World.”
Roya Boroumand holds a history doctorate from the Sorbonne and specializes in contemporary Iran. She has worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch on women’s rights in Morocco, Algeria, and Afghanistan. She is the co-founder and executive director of the Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights in Iran and is currently working on an Internet-based project to promote human rights education in Iran.
Mr. David L. Brennan
President and CEO
Brennan Family Foundation
Mr. Brennan is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m on the topic “School Choice: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”
David L. Brennan is chairman of White Hat Management and is known in the manufacturing world for establishing learning centers to help his employees overcome education deficits and increase their capacity for success. Mr. Brennan has served public schools, private schools, sectarian schools, non-sectarian schools, voucher schools, and charter schools. He helped develop private and public scholarship funds, programs, and schools for needy children in urban school districts throughout the state of Ohio. In 1998 Brennan founded White Hat Management, a professional educational services firm. Since then White Hat has helped institute 32 new charter schools in Ohio, including 13 elementary schools, one high school, and 19 Life Skills high school programs.
Mr. Arthur Brooks
Associate Professor
Syracuse University
Mr. Brooks is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. on the topic “Which Americans are the Most Generous and Why?”
Arthur C. Brooks is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is also a consultant for the RAND Corporation. He holds a PhD and MPhil in policy analysis, and an MA and BA in economics. Over the past seven years, Mr. Brooks has published more than 75 articles and books on philanthropy, cultural policy, and civil society. His work on these subjects has appeared in The Public Interest, Policy Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. His latest book, entitled Who Gives? Charity and Selfishness in America, will be published in 2006 by Basic Books.
In addition to his academic work, Mr. Brooks is an active consultant for the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. Preceding his work in public policy and economics, Brooks spent 12 years as a professional French horn player, holding positions with the Barcelona Symphony and the Annapolis Brass Quintet. Mr. Brooks lives in Syracuse, New York, with his wife Ester and their three children.
Mr. James V. Capua
Managing Partner
FIDES Philanthropic Management and Advisory Services LLC
Mr. Capua is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. on the topic “Which Americans are the Most Generous and Why?”
James V. Capua is a managing partner of FIDES Philanthropic Management and Advisory Services LLC, providing private foundations and corporate giving programs contract staffing and consulting services. He was president of the William H. Donner Foundation from 1987 until January 1999, when he was named special advisor to the foundation. Mr. Capua served at the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary William Bennett. He also served as vice president of the Institute for Educational Affairs and special assistant to the chancellor and assistant professor of history at the University of Rochester.
Mr. Brendan J. Cassin
President
The Cassin Foundation
Mr. Cassin is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 9:00 -10:15 p.m. on the topic “Who Will Save Catholic Schools .”
Mr. Cassin has been a venture capitalist for 30 years. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Mr. Cassin co-founded Xidex Corporation in 1969, which achieved Fortune 500 status in 1987 with sales of $750 million and employing 7,000 worldwide.
Mr. Cassin is Founder and Chairman of the Cassin Educational Initiative Foundation, launched in 2000, to establish private, Catholic, college preparatory middle and high schools in economically challenged communities throughout the country. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Saint Mary’s College of California, serving as Chairman from 1995-1999. Mr. Cassin is Chairman of the Foundation for Nativity and Miguel Schools and is on the Board of the Cristo Rey Network and FADICA.
Ms. Terri Wagner Cammarano
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP
Ms. Cammarano is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 9:00 -10:15 p.m. on the topic “Real Estate Investments .”
Terri Wagner Cammarano is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Foley & Lardner LLP. Ms. Cammarano has represented a number of nonprofit organizations (including health care providers, universities, museums, trade associations and foundations) in formation, obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status, unrelated business income, bond financing, joint ventures, intermediate sanctions, acquisitions, sponsorships and major gift planning, property tax matters, charitable trust issues, and day-to-day operational issues. She has authored a number of articles on such topics as taxation of intellectual property, compensation issues, and health care matters. She frequently makes speeches and presentations on tax and other legal issues, and has been a faculty member for the IRS-sponsored Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations. Ms. Cammarano is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (J.D. and LL.M., Taxation), and California State University (B.A., with honors).
Ms. M. Susan Chambers
Executive Vice President
Wal-Mart Corporation
Ms. Chambers is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. on the topic “Katrina and the Re-building of New Orleans ”
M. Susan Chambers is the executive vice president of Risk Management and Benefits Administration for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Ms. Chambers is also on the Kansas State University Business Advisory Board and on the Center for Women’s Business Research Advisory Council. Prior to joining Wal-Mart, she was employed for 14 years with Hallmark Cards Incorporated. Her last position with Hallmark was as director of applications development.
Ms. Shelly Chenoweth
Executive Director
Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas
Ms. Chenoweth is speaking at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 10:45 a.m. to noon. Her topic is “Things Foundations Do That Drive Nonprofits Crazy.”
Shelly Chenoweth is the executive director of Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas (YEK), which works with high school students to teach the fundamentals of the free-market system. Prior to joining YEK in 1998, Shelly was the community relations manager for Koch Industries, serving as the liaison between the company and non-profits they support. She also worked for several non-profit organizations in marketing and development roles, including Kansas Wesleyan University, the Indianapolis Zoo, and the Illinois Board of Regents. Shelly is from Newton, Kansas, and received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from Kansas State University. She and her husband, Clay, live in Wichita. Shelly is the former Chairman of the Board of the KSU Alumni Board, a member of the Business Advisory Board for Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) at WSU, and a founding Board member of the Wichita chapter of Dress for Success. Shelly is also a member of the Wichita Downtown Rotary Club.
Mr. Frederic H. Clark
Founder
Pacific Equity Fund
Mr. Clark will provide the invocation at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting dinner on Thursday, November 10 from 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. during “Philanthropy and the Purpose Driven Life.”
Frederic H. Clark spent 22 years on Wall Street, first with Goldman, Sachs & Co., and then with his own hedge fund, Pacific Equity Management, which he founded in 1978. In 1995 he retired from actively managing money in order to pursue philanthropic activities. In 1996 he began teaching at St. Peter’s Catholic School, a predominantly Latino K-8 inner-city school in San Francisco. There he developed Life 101, a course for seventh- and eighth-graders that teaches students the virtues and habits they need to succeed in life. He and his wife also started Inner-City Scholarship, Inc., a public charity that provides four-year scholarships to graduates of St. Peter’s who wish to attend Catholic or private high school. Mr. Clark is also on the board of Los Niños, a San Diego nonprofit that develops self-help programs for the poor in Mexico.
Mr. Ernest H. Cockrell
President
Cockrell Foundation
Mr. Cockrell is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Bolstering Math and Science Education?”
Ernest H. Cockrell is the former chairman of Cockrell Oil Corporation and currently chairman of Cockrell Interests, Inc., a family investment and wealth management company. He serves as president and director of The Cockrell Foundation, a charitable corporation that provides financial support for Houston-area organizations involved in education, health, civic, religious, and social services. Mr. Cockrell is a director and past president of the Greater Houston Community Foundation and a director of The Welch Foundation. He is a founder and director of AmegyBank of Texas.
Dr. Eliot Cohen
Strategic Studies Program Director
SAIS
Dr. Cohen is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Environmental Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Graduate Education in National Security Studies.”
Eliot Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University and founding director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies there. His books include Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (Free Press, 2002), and (with John Gooch) Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War. Dr. Cohen directed the U.S. Air Force’s official multi-volume study of the 1991 Gulf War, the Gulf War Air Power Survey, and has served in a variety of advisory capacities to the Department of Defense.
Mr. Lester Crown
Chairman
Material Service Corporation
Mr. Crown is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 10:30 a.m. - noon on the topic “A Conversation with Lester Crown"
A native Chicagoan, Mr. Crown is Chairman of Material Service Corporation and Chairman of Henry Crown and Company. He serves on the Boards of Maytag Corporation and General Dynamics Corporation. He is Chairman of The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of The Commercial Club of Chicago, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Aspen Institute, a Director of Children’s Memorial Medical Center, Director of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Director of The Jerusalem Foundation, Director of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Member of the International Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University and a Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Lyric Opera of Chicago. In addition, he is a Life Trustee of Northwestern University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Peter Diamandis
Chairman and Founder
X- Prize Foundation
Dr. Diamandis is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 10 from 3:30 -4:45 p.m. on the topic “Achieving Breakthrough Results with Philanthropic Prizes.”
Peter H. Diamandis is the chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which awarded the $10,000,000 Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight and is now implementing prizes in a variety of different arenas. He is also the CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation, a commercial space company about to launch FAA-certified parabolic flights utilizing a Boeing 727 aircraft. Dr. Diamandis is a founder and trustee of the International Space University, where he served as the University’s first managing director. He is also co-founder of Space Adventures, the company which brokered Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth’s flight to the International Space Station. Dr. Diamandis received his undergraduate degree in molecular genetics and graduate degree in aerospace engineering from MIT, and his medical degree from Harvard. He has a Ph.D. from the International Space University.
Mr. Joseph S. Dolan
Executive Director
Achelis & Bodman Foundations
Mr. Dolan is a participating moderator at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 10:30 a.m. - noon on the topic “Strengthening Democratic Values in the Islamic World.”
Joseph S. Dolan is executive director of the Achelis and Bodman Foundations in New York City. In the past he has worked for the JM Foundation and the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, and administered the Fiscal Policy Council, an economics and tax policy organization. Additionally, he formed and led the VOTES national committee to lower the national voting age to 18. He has been involved with drug and alcohol prevention education through a number of nonprofit organizations over the years. Mr. Dolan is secretary and treasurer of The Philanthropy Roundtable board of directors.
Mr. Alex Echols
Director of Conservation Programs
The Philanthropy Roundtable
Mr. Echols is a moderator at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 9:00 -10:15 a.m. on the topic “Environmental Challenges in the Desert.”
Alex Echols is a Washington, D.C.-based consultant working on conservation issues. He worked for the United States Senate for 12 years, where he played a lead role drafting conservation legislation in the farm bills of 1985 and 1990. After leaving the Senate, Mr. Echols worked for a trade association focused on using market tools to promote conservation. He subsequently worked for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, where he served first as congressional liaison, then as deputy director, and finally as acting executive director. Mr. Echols is helping The Philanthropy Roundtable launch our affinity group in environmental stewardship.
Ms. Linda Perryman Evans
President and CEO
Meadows Foundation
Ms. Evans is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. on the topic “Katrina and the Re-building of New Orleans.”
Linda Perryman Evans is president and CEO of The Meadows Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to enriching the lives of Texans, particularly in the areas of public education, mental heath, and the environment. She has been deeply involved in Dallas’s nonprofit community, serving on the boards of many organizations active in education, the arts, and health care. In 2002, Ms. Evans received the Prism Award from the Greater Dallas Mental Health Association for her work in improving mental health services. She currently serves on the legislation and regulations committee of the Council on Foundations, is president of the Conference of Southwest Foundations, and chairs the Mid-America Foundation’s task force on standards and accountability.
Mr. Michael Feinberg
Co-Founder
KIPP Foundation
Mr. Feinberg will be participating at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.“No Shortcuts, No Excuses: A Salute to Don Fisher and the Amazing KIPP Network of Schools.”
Mike Feinberg is the Superintendent of KIPP, Inc. Charter School in Houston and Co-Founder of the KIPP Foundation.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, Mike interned for Senator Paul Simon in Washington, D.C. before joining Teach For America as a 1992 Corps Member. Mike taught for two years in Texas in the Houston Independent School District as a 5 th grade bilingual teacher before co-founding the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) with fellow Corps Member, Dave Levin.
KIPP has grown from a program serving 50 fifth graders in Houston to 38 public schools that now serve over 6,000 students in 16 states and the District of Columbia. Mike served as the School Director of KIPP Academy in Houston from 1995-2000. KIPP Academy was named a Texas Exemplary School by the Texas Education Agency in each of its first five years of operation, and continues as an Exemplary School today.
KIPP has been featured on CBS Sixty Minutes and ABC World News Tonight, as well as in the New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, New Republic, Texas Monthly, USA Today Weekend Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Philanthropy, Pennsylvania Gazette, and London Times.
In 1995, Mike received the Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service from the City of Houston and the Crystal Award, which is awarded annually to ten outstanding educators in the Texas Gulf Coast Region. In 1997, he was awarded the Seed of Freedom Award by the Gulfton Area Neighborhood Organization (GANO). In 1999, Mike received the Heritage Foundation's Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship and was one of 7 principals in the nation recognized for running schools with high rates of achievement despite high rates of poverty. In September of 2000, Mike testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce in Washington, D.C, and in 2004 he was awarded an Ashoka Fellowship.
Mike graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he majored in International Relations and served as Vice-President of the student body.
Mr. Chester E. Finn Jr.
President
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Mr. Finn is facilitating a dinner at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meetingon Friday, November 11 from 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. on the topic “No Shortcuts, No Excuses: A Salute to Don Fisher and the Amazing KIPP Network of Schools.”
Chester E. Finn Jr. is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He was a member of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal and today serves on a number of national boards. Dr. Finn served as assistant secretary for research and improvement and counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education from 1985 to 1988. From 1981 to 2002, he was professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University. A widely published author, his most recent books are The Educated Child (co-authored with William J. Bennett and John Cribb) and Charter Schools in Action (co-authored with Bruno Manno and Gregg Vanourek).
Mr. Donald G. Fisher
Trustee
Pisces Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are being honored during dinner at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.“No Shortcuts, No Excuses: A Salute to Don Fisher and the Amazing KIPP Network of Schools.”
Don Fisher is founder and chairman emeritus of Gap Inc., is a visionary in specialty retailing. Since its beginnings in 1969 as a jeans-only store in San Francisco, the company he started with his wife, Doris, has grown and expanded to become one of the greatest successes in retailing history.
In addition to his contributions to the dramatic growth and expansion of Gap Inc. into a multi-billion dollar international corporation, Mr. Fisher has long been a community leader and philanthropist as well. He serves on the boards of trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; is a director of the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco and a governor of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. He is also on the California State Board of Education and is a director on the board of EdVoice, KIPP and Teach for America.
He received three presidential appointments to the Advisory Council for U.S. Trade Representatives, and was named to the Presidio Trust board of directors by President Clinton in 1997. He is a member and former chairman of the University of California’s Haas School of Business Advisory Council, and had served on Princeton University’s Board of Trustees. Winner of the National Retail Federation’s Retailer of the Year award in 1996, and currently a director of that organization, he is also actively involved in the California Business Roundtable and the Committee on Jobs Executive Committee.
Other honors include the California Arts Council Governor’s Award for Individual Patrons of the Arts and selection to the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame and American Academy of Achievement.
Mr. Peter Flanigan
Advisor
UBS Securities
Mr. Flanigan is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. on the topic "Who Will Save Catholic Schools."
Peter M. Flanigan is an Advisor of UBS Securities LLC, a New York City based international investment banking firm. Mr. Flanigan was a Navy carrier pilot in World War II. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University. He joined Dillon, Read & Co. Inc, but his tenure was interrupted to serve as an economic analyst for the Economic Reconstruction Administration in the United Kingdom for two years, returning thereafter to Dillon Read. Mr. Flanigan served as Executive Director of Volunteers for the Nixon-Lodge Presidential campaign and later as Deputy Campaign Manager of the Nixon campaign. In 1969 Mr Flanigan left Dillon Read upon his appointment as Assistant to the President of the United States under President Nixon, with White House responsibility for domestic commercial and economic matters. He was also appointed Director of the Council of International Economic Policy. Mr. Flanigan returned to Dillon Read as Managing Director from 1975-1992.
The Flanigan’s adopted the second class in the I have a Dream Program, and Mr. Flanigan went on to become a Board Member. The next year, he founded The Student Sponsor Partners, a private voucher program which combines tuition support with one-on-one mentoring. He later started the Patrons Program to encourage individuals to take responsibility for inner-city Catholic grammar schools in danger of being closed for financial reasons, and serves on their Board of Directors. The Flanigan’s are board members of St. Ann’s School in Harlem, and Mr. Flanigan is also on the Board of Ascension School. Mr. Flanigan recently retired as Chairman, and currently serves as a Board Member of Alliance for School Choice. He is a member at large of the Board of the National Catholic Education Association, and is also Chairman of its’ Urban Education Committee. To research and implement new programs to improve education, Mr. Flanigan founded the Center for Education Innovation of The Manhattan Institute. He has been a Board Member of the Catholic University of America, and Chairman of the Board of Portsmouth Abbey School. Mr. Flaigan is a member of the Board of Trustees of the John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. and a member of the Board of the Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace.
Dr. Peter Frumkin
Professor of Public Affairs
LBJ School at the University of Texas
Dr. Frumkin is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. on the topic “Protecting Philanthropic Freedom on Capitol Hill: What's Next?”
Peter Frumkin is professor of public affairs and director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School, University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of On Being Nonprofit: A Policy and Conceptual Primer and Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy, and co-editor of In Search of the Nonprofit Sector. Prior to coming to Austin, Dr. Frumkin was an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was affiliated with the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He has been a senior fellow of the New America Foundation and has worked as a foundation program officer, nonprofit manager, and program evaluator for both nonprofit and public agencies. Dr. Frumkin received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1997.
Mr. Kevin Gentry
Vice President
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
Mr. Gentry is speaking at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 10:45 a.m. to noon. His topic is “Things Foundations Do that Drive Nonprofits Crazy.”
Kevin Gentry is a vice president of the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he helps the Foundation’s grantees to build public support for their work. Well known for his fundraising expertise, Mr. Gentry has conducted marketing and fundraising presentations in thirty states, Canada, Chile, Panama, Poland and South Africa. He has also served as a fundraising consultant in gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns. He is a member of the board of directors of the Virginia Future Business Leaders of America Foundation and of the vestry of The Falls Church Episcopal Church.
Dr. Robert George
Professor
Princeton University
Dr. George is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable's Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 during lunch on the topic “How Immigrants Become Americans.”
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, and previously served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights and as a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School, he holds a doctorate in philosophy of law from Oxford University. He is the author or editor of numerous books in the fields of constitutional law, ethics, and political theory. His articles and review essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and other leading journals. He also frequently writes for The Wall Street Journal, Touchstone, First Things, and National Review. In 2005, he received a Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement and the Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
Mr. Michael W. Grebe
President
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Mr. Grebe will be chairing a session entitled, “Achieving Breakthrough Results with Philanthropic Prizes ” on Thursday, November 10 from 3:30 – 4:45 PM.
Michael W. Grebe was named President and CEO of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in November of 2001, and formally assumed his responsibilities on June 1, 2002. Prior to his selection, Mr. Grebe was a member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors for six years. Prior to joining the Bradley Foundation, Mr. Grebe was the Chairman and CEO of Foley & Lardner, one of the country’s largest law firms, where he was a partner for more than 25 years. Mr. Grebe concentrated his practice on corporate and financial law.
Mr. Grebe is a former member and president of the Board of Regents for the University of Wisconsin System and past member and chairman of the Board of Visitors for the United States Military Academy. He has also served as a member of the Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Grebe is president emeritus and a former trustee of the University School of Milwaukee, and formerly served as chairman of the board and president of the Curative Rehabilitation Center, Inc. He also served as a civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army, and was a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Brewers. He is a member of the board of directors of Oshkosh Truck Corporation; the Church Mutual Insurance Company; and the Philanthropy Roundtable.
Mr. Grebe is a former general counsel to the Republican National Committee and was the Republican National Committeeman for Wisconsin during 1984-2002. He served as chairman of the Committee On Arrangements for the 1996 Republican National Convention, which was charged with planning and managing the GOP's convention in San Diego, California. Mr. Grebe's political career spans two decades including positions such as chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, chairman of the Rules Committee of the Republican National Committee, state chairman for the Reagan-Bush campaign, state co‑chairman for the Bush-Quayle campaign, and member of the National Steering Committee to elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. Mr. Grebe was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000. He was chairman of the Rules Committee at the 2000 Convention in Philadelphia.
Mr. Grebe received his Bachelor's degree with honors from the United States Military Academy and his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was Note and Comment Editor of the University of Michigan Law Review. He served in the United States Army and was awarded the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and two Bronze Stars (one for valor) for his service in Vietnam.
Dr. Ingrid A. Gregg
President
Earhart Foundation
Dr. Gregg is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Graduate Education in National Security Studies.”
Ingrid A. Gregg is president of the Earhart foundation. She joined the foundation’s staff as program officer in 1998 and served as director of its grant program from 2000-2003. She has been active professionally in the nonprofit sector since 1988. Dr. Gregg is on the academic advisory board of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London) and serves on the boards of the Citizens Research Council of Michigan and the Philadelphia Society. Born in Detroit, she was raised in Europe, returning to Michigan in 1998. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), where she specialized in eighteenth-century British history.
Dr. Vartan Gregorian
President
Carnegie Corporation
Dr. Gregorian is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 10 from 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. on the topic “Philanthropy and Foreign Policy.”
Vartan Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. Prior to his current position, which he assumed in June 1997, Gregorian served for nine years as the sixteenth president of Brown University.
He was born in Tabriz, Iran, of Armenian parents, receiving his elementary education in Iran and his secondary education in Lebanon. In 1956 he entered Stanford University, where he majored in history and the humanities, graduating with honors in 1958. He was awarded a Ph.D. in history and humanities from Stanford in 1964.
Gregorian has taught European and Middle Eastern history at San Francisco State College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Texas at Austin. In 1972 he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty and was appointed Tarzian Professor of History and professor of South Asian history. He was founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and four years later became its twenty-third provost until 1981.
For eight years (1981-1989), Gregorian served as a president of the New York Public Library, an institution with a network of four research libraries and eighty-three circulating libraries. In 1989 he was appointed president of Brown University.
Gregorian is the author of The Road To Home: My Life And Times, Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith, and The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan, 1880-1946. A Phi Beta Kappa and a Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellow, he is a recipient of numerous fellowships, including those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council and the American Philosophical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. In 1969, he received the Danforth Foundation’s E.H. Harbison Distinguished Teaching Award.
He serves on the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Human Rights Watch, The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, and the Museum of Modern Art. He served on the boards of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Aga Khan University, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has been decorated by the French, Italian, Austrian and Portuguese governments. His numerous civic and academic honors include some fifty-six honorary degrees, including those from Brown, Dartmouth, Drew, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the City University of New York, Rutgers, Tufts, New York University, University of Aberdeen, The Juilliard School, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and, most recently, Fordham University, The Pennsylvania State University, and San Francisco State University.
In 1986, Gregorian was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and in 1989 the American Academy of the Institute of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal for Service to the Arts. In 1998, President Clinton awarded him the National Humanities Medal. In 2004, President Bush awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civil award. He has been honored by various cultural and professional associations, including the Urban League, the League of Women Voters, the Players Club, PEN-American Center, Literacy Volunteers of New York, the American Institute of Architects and the Charles A. Dana Foundation. He has been honored by the city and state of New York, the states of Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, and the cities of Fresno, Austin, Providence and San Francisco.
Mr. Scott W. Hamilton
Co-Founder
KIPP Foundation
Mr. Hamilton will be participating at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.“No Shortcuts, No Excuses: A Salute to Don Fisher and the Amazing KIPP Network of Schools.”
Scott Hamilton is a Co-Founder and CEO of KIPP Foundation. Scott completed a three-year tour of duty as Associate Commissioner of Education in Massachusetts, establishing and overseeing the Bay State’s pioneering charter school initiative. He was recruited to Massachusetts from Washington, D.C., where he worked with two U.S. Secretaries of Education, William Bennett and Lamar Alexander. He held additional posts at the White House Drug Czar’s Office, the Edison Project during its R&D phase, and the Hudson Institute, a think-tank in Washington, D.C. Scott serves on the national boards of Teach For America and The New Teacher Project, as well as on the education advisory board of K12, Inc., and the policy board of California’s EdVoice.
Scott was born and raised in Colorado, and received his degree in Ancient Greek from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Frank Hanna III
CEO
HBR Capital, Ltd.
Mr. Hanna is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. on the topic "Who Will Save Catholic Schools."
Frank Hanna III is CEO of HBR Capital, Ltd., a merchant banking firm. With a strong interest in education, he has helped found three schools in Atlanta and has served on the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s education task force. A frequent speaker on issues of faith as they pertain to business practices, he is active in efforts that serve children and the poor. A graduate of the University of Georgia’s business college in 1983 and law school in 1986, Hanna was a Truman Scholar and a National Merit Scholar. He has also co-chaired the President’s Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Dr. Charles L.Harper
Senior Vice President
John Templeton Foundation
Dr. Harper is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 10 from 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. on the topic "Achieving Breakthrough Results with Philanthropic Prizes."
Charles L. Harper, Jr. is Senior Vice President of the John Templeton Foundation. His primary responsibilities are in the areas of strategic planning, program design and development, vision casting, philanthropic networks development, and talent scouting. He has worked to transform philanthropy by developing innovative entrepreneurial practices in grant making and has created more than $150 million in new grant-based programs ranging widely from the study of forgiveness and reconciliation and enterprise-based solutions to poverty to projects on foundational questions in physics and cosmology, including topics in chemistry, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, medicine, and the philosophy of science. He is the Founding Chairman of Geneva Global, Inc., an innovative new philanthropic organization making grants worldwide within the developing world. Initially trained in engineering at Princeton (B.S.E. 1980), he obtained a D.Phil. in planetary science from the University of Oxford for a thesis on the nature of time in cosmology (1988). He also holds the Diploma in Theology from Oxford (1988) and a Certificate of Special Studies in Management and Administration from Harvard University (1997). In his research career, he was a National Research Council Fellow at the NASA Johnson Space Center (1988-91) and a research scientist in the Harvard Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and at the Harvard College Observatory (1991-95). He is co-editor of Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology and Complexity (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning (forthcoming from CUP in 2006). His most recent edited publication is Spiritual Information: 100 Perspectives on Science and Religion ( Templeton Foundation Press, 2005). Other scientific publications include more than 50 research articles in scientific journals, including Nature, Science, and the Astrophysical Journal.
Mr. Byron Harrell
President and CEO
Baptist Community Ministries
Mr. Harrell is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. on the topic “Katrina and the Re-building of New Orleans ”
Byron R. Harrell is the President and CEO of Baptist Community Ministries (BCM) in New Orleans, Louisiana, a private health-legacy foundation. Holding over $230 million in assets, BCM is the largest private foundation in Louisiana, with an annual grant budget in excess of $12 million devoted to the development of a healthy New Orleans community. Dr. Harrell is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), a member of several health industry trade groups, and has served as a preceptor for the Health Systems Management Program at Tulane University ( New Orleans) and Trinity University ( San Antonio). Dr. Harrell earned his doctorate at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University with a primary research interest in organizational theory and performance as applied to health-legacy foundations. He holds a master’s degree in science from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from West Texas A&M University.
Mr. Michael E. Hartmann
Director of Research and Evaluation
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Mr. Hartmann is a participating breakfast speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. during on the topic “Helping People to Help Themselves.”
Michael E. Hartmann is the director of research and evaluation at The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee. During 2004, he was a Visiting Fellow of The Philanthropy Roundtable. He is the author of Helping People to Help Themselves: A Guide for Donors, just released by the Roundtable. Before joining the Bradley Foundation, Hartmann was director of research at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, where he helped oversee studies of school choice, welfare reform, and several other state-level issues. An attorney, he has also been a consultant to education reform organizations and other philanthropies.
Ms. Heather R. Higgins
President
The Randolph Foundation
Ms. Higgins is a participating plenary speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. on the topic “Protecting Philanthropic Freedom on Capitol Hill: What's Next?”
Heather Richardson Higgins is president and director of the Randolph Foundation in New York City. Ms. Higgins is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and also serves on the boards of the W. H. Brady Foundation, the Independent Women's Forum, the Hoover Institution, and The Philanthropy Roundtable. In addition, she is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. Previously Ms. Higgins was a portfolio manager and vice president at U.S. Trust. Prior to working in finance she was an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal and assistant editor at the Public Interest.
Mr. Howard Husock
Director
Manhattan Institute's Social Entrepreneurship Initiative
Mr. Husock is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 10:30 a.m. - noon on the topic “Prizes for Social Entreprenuership.”
Howard Husock is the director of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, as well as a research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Institutions, Harvard University, where he also serves as director of case studies in public policy and management for the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Since 2001, Mr. Husock has evaluated organizations nominated for the Manhattan Institute’s annual social entrepreneurship award. A contributing editor to City Journal, Mr. Husock’s writing on housing and social welfare issues has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, and Policy Review. He is the author of America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy (Ivan R. Dee, 2003).
Ms. Barbara Rosser Hyde
President
Hyde Family Foundation
Ms.. Hyde is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12 from 10:45 a.m. - noon on the topic “Can Urban School Districts Be Reformed?.”
Barbara Rosser Hyde is president of the J.R. Hyde III Family Foundation and director of the J.R. Hyde Sr. Foundation. Ms. Hyde has championed the efforts to reform and strengthen the public education system in Memphis, provide new or expanded programs for learning, and ensure all parents have educational options for their children. She is dedicated to building the leadership capacity needed to address these challenges. Ms. Hyde recently led the efforts to bring the highly successful KIPP Academy to Memphis. She is also co-founder of EdPac, a grassroots political action committee working to improve school governance. Ms. Hyde worked for eight years at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as executive director of the Arts and Sciences Foundation and as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Most recently, she was elected to the University’s board of trustees.
Dr. Craig Kennedy
President
German Marshall Fund of the U.S.
Dr. Kennedy is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 10 from 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. on the topic “Philanthropy and Foreign Policy.”
Craig Kennedy is president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Under his leadership, the Fund has focused its activities on bridging U.S.–European differences on foreign policy, trade, environment, and immigration. Mr. Kennedy began his career in 1980 as a program officer at the Joyce Foundation in Chicago. From 1983 to 1986, he was vice president of programs for Joyce. As president of the Joyce Foundation from 1986 to 1992, Mr. Kennedy built the Foundation’s environmental program and launched a new program on U.S. immigration policy. Mr. Kennedy left the Joyce Foundation to work for Richard J. Dennis, a Chicago investor and philanthropist. During this same period, Mr. Kennedy created a consulting firm working with nonprofit and public-sector clients, including the City of Chicago and the Environmental Defense Fund. Mr. Kennedy serves on the board of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and as an independent trustee of the Van Kampen mutual funds.
Mr. Joel Kotkin
Author
The City: A Global History
Mr. Kotkin is a participating speaker at The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Annual Meeting on Friday, November 11 from 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. on the topic "The Future of Cities."
Joel Kotkin is an Irvine Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation, based in Washington, DC. His new book, The City: A Global History, is recently published by Modern Library (a division of Random House) and has appeared on the Los Angeles Times Best Seller list. The book will be published in the UK by Orion Books in July, with Spanish and Chinese editions expected later this year. Mr. Kotkin also serves a senior advisor to the Planning Center, an environmental and planning firm based in Costa Mesa, California, where he is concluding a study on the future of suburbia. He is also a Fellow with the Center for an Urban Future in New York and teaches at the Southern California Institute for Architecture in Los Angeles.
The author of six books, Kotkin’s titles include Tribes: How Race Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy, Random House, 1993) and translated into Chinese, Japanese, German and Arabic; The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape, also published by Random House and was on the LA Times Best Seller List for three weeks. Mr. Kotkin is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, the New Republic, the American Enterprise, the Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times. For almost three years he wrote the highly-acclaimed "Grassroots Business" column for the Sunday New York Times Business Section. Over the past two years Mr. Kotkin has written major reports on the future of New York, the Inland Empire region of Southern California, St. Louis, the Great Plains, Los Angeles and Phoenix. He is currently working on a major study on the impact of mobility on urban form for the Reason Foundation.
