Philanthropy & DEIA: Can Philanthropy Solve Global Problems If It Is Itself Inequitable?

Columbia University’s M.S. Nonprofit Management Program | SPS 

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Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs

Leadership, Innovation & Design Specialization

Urban and Social Policy Concentration 

And DEICE Committee

Hosted a fireside chat and provocative discussion on:

Philanthropy & DEIA: 

Can Philanthropy Solve Global Problems if it is itself inequitable? 

with

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation,

Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, and

H. Art Taylor, BBB Wise Giving Alliance President & CEO 

Program 

Introduction: Sarah Holloway, Interim Program Director, M.S. Nonprofit Management | Columbia University, SPS; Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs | Columbia University, SIPA; Senior Fellow for Social Impact | Columbia Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Design

Moderator: Mayor Michael Nutter, Former Philadelphia Mayor & David N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Affairs | Columbia University, SIPA

In a Discussion with

Darren Walker, President | The Ford Foundation, a $16 billion international social justice philanthropy

H. Art Taylor, Lecturer in M.S. Nonprofit Management | Columbia University, SPS and President & CEO | BBB Wise Giving Alliance

Q&A Facilitator: Erwin de Leon, Ph.D., Chief Diversity Officer & Lecturer in the Discipline of Nonprofit Management | Columbia University, SPS; Research Fellow | Knology; Member | Empire State Bioethics Consortium

Additional Resources

Read Darren Walker’s Opinion piece “Are You Willing to Give Up Your Privilege? Philanthropy Alone Won’t Save the American Dream” that appeared in the Sunday, June 25, 2020 edition of The New York Times. 

Read the BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s 2022 Special Donor Trust Report on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.