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The holiday season is a giving season …
Join us to learn how to leverage your annual charitable resources for maximum impact.
We are all familiar with the annual push of holiday giving campaigns. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing myriad missions seek your financial donations through giving days, e-blasts, and good old-fashioned direct mail campaigns. For many of us, making our list of charities to support is as baked into our traditions as turkey and candy canes. While fourth-quarter giving is fundamental to the economic viability of the nonprofit sector and should not be ignored, this holiday season we ask you to consider the current state of philanthropy in context with impact investing.
Join ImpactPHL in collaboration with Isabel McDevitt, who brings 25 years of nonprofit fundraising experience, for a virtual conversation with Kat Rosqueta from The Center for High Impact Philanthropy on trends in the philanthropic world today and how, with new thinking and practice, we can move the needle to greater impact by incorporating investing into the social and environmental impact equation.
Speakers
Kat Rosqueta
Kat is the founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, faculty co-director of High Impact Philanthropy Academy, and adjunct faculty in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2). Founded as a collaboration between SP2 and alumni of the Wharton School, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy is the premier source of knowledge and education on how philanthropy can do more good.
Before accepting her appointment to launch the Center, Kat was a consultant with McKinsey & Company; a consultant to the founding team of New Schools Venture Fund; founding director of Board Match Plus, a San Francisco program dedicated to strengthening nonprofit boards; and program manager of Wells Fargo’s Corporate Community Development Group.
Isabel McDevitt
Isabel is an expert in developing highly effective solutions to address homelessness, unemployment, and criminal recidivism. Isabel has a passion for creating economic development interventions that yield social impact. With 26 years of experience in launching, leading and fundraising for initiatives that bring fresh perspective and achieve new outcomes in communities across the United States, Isabel is a successful innovator and thought leader on what works in areas of homeless services, workforce development, and reentry from incarceration.
As a social entrepreneur, Isabel has led numerous efforts to create employment opportunities for marginalized populations including founding and operating four social ventures that employ people transitioning out of homelessness and returning from incarceration. Isabel advises Philadelphia-based impact organizations on community development projects. Isabel is an accomplished speaker and writer. She has testified before Congress and is published in several publications providing perspective on expanding federal homeless policy. Isabel advises communities on how to develop social enterprises and serves on numerous boards related to improving homeless services, economic development, and creating effective new models for impact.