About this event
This webinar is a partner event from Philanthropy New York. Philanthropy Northwest members can attend this webinar free of charge by emailing register@philanthropynewyork.org with your name, title, organizational affiliation and phone number. Please indicate that you are a Philanthropy Northwest member in your email.
Less than 2 percent of foundation dollars spent in the past decade have been dedicated to efforts to advance democracy reform, construed broadly. The indifference that this number reflects is astonishing, given the importance of a functioning democracy to almost everything that foundations care about and support: from health care to education, from the environment to the arts, and so much more.
Whatever the outcome in November, the structural failures of our democracy have been decades in the making and will persist for decades to come — unless we devote concerned attention to them now.
The window of opportunity is short. Will the philanthropic sector step up to the plate at a historic moment? Join us Philanthropy New York for a discussion about the role of foundation philanthropy in reinventing American democracy for the conditions of the 21st century.
This discussion will go over:
- The state of the democracy reform movement and where it’s heading
- Challenges and opportunities for foundation engagement in the project of democratic reinvention
- Highlights from Our Common Purpose, the recent roadmap for structural democracy reform, authored by the bipartisan Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship
Speakers
- Stephen Heintz, President and CEO, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Co-Chair, Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship
- Heather McGhee, Former President, Demos and Author, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together