SEMINAR: "GETTING INSIDE PHILANTHROPY"
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will host Brad Smith, the new president of the Foundation Center, on Wednesday, January 21st from 3:30 until 5pm in the Hauser Center main conference room.
As part of the Hauser Center’s philanthropy domain speaker series, Brad will lead a discussion on “Getting Inside Philanthropy.” This informal discussion is open to students, faculty, staff, and community members.
Please RSVP to Maryann Leach if you plan to attend.
We hope you will join what is sure to be an informative and dynamic conversation.
About Brad Smith
Bradford K. Smith joined the Foundation
Center as its president on October 1, 2008. Previously, Mr.
Smith was president of the Oak Foundation in Geneva,
Switzerland, a major family foundation with programs and
grant activities in 41 countries in North America, Europe,
Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. Prior to joining the
Oak Foundation he developed and led the Ford Foundation's
Peace and Social Justice Program, the foundation's largest
program area, providing hundreds of millions of dollars
during his ten-year tenure as vice president to
organizations working on issues of human rights,
international cooperation, governance, and civil society in
the U.S. and around the world.
Mr. Smith has devoted his
entire career to the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.
He first joined the Ford Foundation as a program officer in
its Brazil office. Prior to that, he directed the Brazil
program of the Inter-American Foundation. At the start of
his career, he worked for the YMCA of the USA, both in
Costa Rica and New York, where he became manager for world
development at its Center for International Management
Studies.
Mr. Smith holds an M.A. in economics from the New School
for Social Research in New York and a B.A. in anthropology
and ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan.
Updated
10/01/08