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    Engaging Black Philanthropists

    Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 1:00 PM until 2:00 PMUTC -05:00


    Online
    1 Drexel Dr
    New Orleans, LA 70125
    United States

    The Office of  Institutional Advancement at Xavier University presents How to Engage Black Philanthropists during Black Philanthropy Month.

    Join us on this FREE webinar presented to you by Sanford Institute of Philanthropy and the Center for Continuing Studies at Xavier University.

    How often has your senior staff and/or Board raised concerns about the lack of diversity in your leadership? Staff? Donors? This webinar will provide strategies for you and your team to go beyond talking about diversity to create a culture of comprehensive diversity in your nonprofit.

    Featuring: Valadia Fullwood, Writer and Project Coordinator  - Author of Giving Back 
     
    Described an “idea whisperer,” Valaida brings unbridled imagination and a gift for harnessing wild ideas to her work as a writer, public speaker and consultant on an array of projects and events. Valaida is the award-winning author of Giving Back, a 400-page hardcover book profiling stories of philanthropy among African Americans, a collaboration with photographer Charles Thomas and Charlotte giving circle New Generation of African American Philanthropists. Giving Back was named one of the 10 Best Black Books of 2011 and received the prestigious 2012 McAdam Book Award,which recognizes “the most inspirational and useful new book for the nonprofit sector.”

    Valaida is a recognized thought leader on Black philanthropy and community-led philanthropy and is frequently invited by a variety of groups to write, talk and consult  on the topic. She is featured in a 2013 TEDx. Talk and was named a Lake Distinguished Visitor at Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. In 2015, the innovative museum exhibit The Soul of Philanthropy—a re-imagining of the book Giving Back—launched as one of the newest dimension of her work and is now touring the country. Valaida also is one of the architects of Black Philanthropy Month.

      

    Registration is no longer available because the registration deadline has passed.