SHARING THE WEALTH:
CHARITABLE GIVING IN PROSPEROUS TIMES
A summit produced by Minnesota Public Radio's Sound
Money and Civic
Journalism Initiative
September 7 & 8, 2000, Saint Paul, MN
For more on the summit, download the full
report, featuring photographs, speech excerpts, breakout
and plenary session conclusions, and more. (PDF
file - you'll need the free Acrobat Reader to read this, available
here.)
Thursday, September
7
8 - 9 pm: Dinner Keynote Address
Listen
(RealAudio 3.0)
The New, New Philanthropy: How Very Successful Entrepreneurs
Are Reinventing Giving and Reshaping the Face of American
Philanthropy
RADIO AUDIENCE WELCOME:
William Kling, President and CEO, Minnesota Public
Radio (Read
speech)
SPEAKERS:
Scott D. Oki, Chairman
and CEO, Oki Developments, Inc., and Chief Volunteer, The
Oki Foundation
William W. George, Chairman
and CEO, Medtronic (Read
speech)
MODERATOR:
Chris Farrell,
Host, Sound Money, and
Chief Economics Correspondent, Minnesota Public Radio
Session concludes with interactive discussion and questions
from participants.
Friday, September 8
9 - 10 am: Opening Address and Panel
Discussion
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(RealAudio 3.0)
Sharing the Wealth:
How Philanthropy - and Much of American Society - Will be
Revolutionized by the "$100 Trillion Wealth Transfer"
SPEAKER:
Paul G. Schervish,
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Welfare
Research Institute, Boston College, and author, Millionaires
and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth
Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy
PANELISTS:
Emmett D. Carson,
President and CEO, The Minneapolis Foundation
Tracy Gary, former President,
Women's Foundation, and National Director, Resourceful Women
Claude Rosenberg, founder,
RCM Capital Management and the Newtithing Group, and author,
Wealthy and Wise: How You and America Can Get the Most
Out of Your Giving
MODERATOR:
Chris Farrell,
Host, Sound Money, and
Chief Economics Correspondent, Minnesota Public Radio
Session concludes with interactive discussion and questions
from participants.
10:15 - 11:15 am: Breakout Sessions
/ Mixed Groups
Participants meet in small, pre-assigned breakout
groups, with people from all professions and disciplines represented
at the summit.
11: 25 - 11:55 am: Plenary Session
Interactive Discussion on Breakout Group Findings
12 - 1 pm: Afternoon Address
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(RealAudio 3.0)
Bridging the Economic Divide: A Call to Action
From a Woman Who Has Lived on Both Sides of the Economic Fence
- and Is Now Punching Holes Through It
SPEAKER:
Trish Millines Dziko,
Co-founder and Executive Director, Technology Access Foundation
MODERATOR:
Chris Farrell,
Host, Sound Money, and
Chief Economics Correspondent, Minnesota Public Radio
Session concludes with interactive discussion and questions
from participants
1:50 - 2:50 pm: Breakout Sessions/By
Stakeholder Group
Participants meet in small, pre-assigned breakout
groups, with colleagues from their own profession to develop
action steps for that profession.
3 - 3:15 pm: Plenary Session
Interactive Discussion on Breakout Group Findings
3:15 to 4:15 pm: Closing Comments
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(RealAudio 3.0)
Looking Ahead: The Future of Personal Philanthropy
in the Dot.Com Age
SPEAKER:
Lisa Aramony,
Director, Corporate Relations of America Online, Inc.
and Director, AOL Foundation
MODERATOR:
Chris Farrell,
Host, Sound Money, and
Chief Economics Correspondent, Minnesota Public Radio
ONLINE AUDIO
(RealAudio 3.0; how
to listen)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Listen
The New, New Philanthropy: How Very
Successful Entrepreneurs Are Reinventing Giving and Reshaping
the Face of American Philanthropy, with Scott
Oki and William George
OPENING ADDRESS:
Listen
Sharing the Wealth: How Philanthropy
- and Much of American Society - Will be Revolutionized by
the "$100 Trillion Wealth Transfer," with Paul
G. Schervish, Emmett
D. Carson, Tracy Gary,
and Claude Rosenberg
AFTERNOON ADDRESS:
Listen
Bridging the Economic Divide: A Call to Action
From a Woman Who Has Lived on Both Sides of the Economic Fence
- and Is Now Punching Holes Through It, with Trish
Millines Dziko
CLOSING ADDRESS:
Listen
Looking
Ahead: The Future of Personal Philanthropy in the Dot.Com
Age, with Lisa Aramony.
ONLINE
EXTRAS:
Interview with Trish
Millines Dziko (from MPR's Future
Tense): Listen
A Conversation with Scott
Oki (from MPR's Sound
Money): Listen
Sharing the Wealth: Charitable Giving in Prosperous Times
is cosponsored by the Forum of
Regional Associations of Grantmakers and the Minnesota
Council on Foundations, with support from Saint
Paul Companies, the Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation, the David
and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Surdna
Foundation, and the members of Minnesota
Public Radio.
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