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Summer 2004
Resources & Links
Activities, Web sites and other cutting-edge information for global givers
Teresa Heinz Kerry weighs in on philanthropy -- and the political limelight
When the newly widowed Teresa Heinz took over the stewardship of one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the United States more than a decade ago, all she had to guide her was a soggy, charred legal pad of handwritten notes that had been found in the debris of the plane that crashed in 1991, killing her husband, US Senator John Heinz, reports the New York Times. Thirteen years later, she is the guiding force behind the Heinz Endowments, which controls $1.3 billion in assets and gave away $54.5 million last year, and the Heinz Family Philanthropies, an umbrella for a major family foundation. Now remarried, she also happens to be making headlines as the wife of presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry. The Times story provides a detailed account of Mrs. Heinz Kerry's leadership style and accomplishments as head of her late husband's family foundations and her attempts to juggle philanthropy and politics amid the fray of the final months of the US presidential campaign. (New York Times, May 9, 2004)
Landmark UK study examines "Why Rich People Give"
A new book from Philanthropy UK (www.philanthropyuk.org)offers the first in-depth research from that country on the approach of wealthy people to giving and their experience as donors. Author Theresa Lloyd, a consultant to the nonprofit sector, was Director of Philanthropy UK, set up as a three-year project to promote philanthropy. The Philanthropy UK project came to an end in March of 2004 but will live on under the aegis of the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF -- www.acf.org.uk), a UK support organization for grant-making trusts and foundations of all types. A summary of the book is available for downloading free on the Philanthropy UK website.
Tackling poverty through profit
"Selling to the Poor," an article in the May/June 2004 issue of Foreign Policy, argues that the world's four billion poor represent the largest untapped consumer market on earth, and that learning how to serve the needs of this neglected sector can not only reap big profits for CEOs, but help end economic isolation throughout the developing world. The article also includes a selected bibliography of recent research on the subject. Authors are Allen L. Hammond, vice president for innovation at the World Resources Institute, and C.K. Prahalad, author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profit, and a director of Hindustan Lever Ltd.
GPC members examine 3rd Annual Conference on Borderless Giving
Global Philanthropists Circle members Kim Kreiling and Eleonora Frey review the Global Philanthropy Forum's (www.philanthropyforum.org) Third Annual Conference on Borderless Giving in the June 2004 issue of Alliance magazine (www.allavida.org/alliance/). The March, 2004 conference brought together more than 350 foundation leaders, NGO directors, individual donors and other agents of change to share strategies to address global problems such as extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS, gender inequity and environmental degradation. The aim of the conference was to build partnerships across sectors to empower a new team of actors to strengthen societies as they face the pressures of globalization. Alliance is a publication of Allavida, an international development organization that works to enable local action.
"Everybody's Business: Giving in a Time of Conflict"
That's the theme for the second annual conference of the Chicago Global Donors Network, October 4-5, 2004. Keynote speaker is Timothy Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation. Hosted by LaSalle Bank, the event features breakout sessions on microfinance, human trafficking, girls' education and many other topics. For more information, contact Chicago Global Donors Network at cgdn@donorsforum.org.
© 2004 The Synergos Institute
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