Hauser Center Brown Bag Lunch
Series Presents:
Fully
Leveraged Philanthropy
Presented by
Joshua
Humphreys
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Hauser Center Conference Room
5 Bennett Street (Charles Hotel
plaza)
Dr. Humphreys, a lecturer on history and literature at
Harvard, founded the Center for Social Philanthropy
following a residency at the Rockefeller Archive Center in
2006. Since 2009 the Center has been housed at Tellus
Institute in Boston, where Dr. Humphreys is a Senior
Associate. Dr. Humphreys has advised numerous organizations
on issues in social and environmental finance, including
the Environmental Grantmakers Association, Green Harbor
Financial, Proxy Democracy, Rockefeller Philanthropy
Advisors, the Social Investment Forum, Sustainable
Endowments Institute, and the World Bank Group. For the
Social Investment Forum, he has served as Research Director
for its biennial Report on Socially Responsible Investing
Trends in the United States and the lead author of is
Mission-Related Investing resource guide, Mission in the
Marketplace (2007).
Dr. Humphreys will provide a survey of the growing practice
on the part of foundations to direct significant amounts of
their endowment capital toward marketplace investments that
serve their philanthropic missions.