Rethinking Giving: The Future of Philanthropy
Speakers
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Chief Sustainability Officer, President, Walmart Foundation, Walmart Foundation
Kathleen McLaughlin is the Chief Sustainability Officer for Walmart, and the President of the Walmart Foundation. Walmart uses its strengths to create economic opportunity for individuals and foster inclusive economic development; enhance the sustainability of food, apparel, and general merchandise supply chains; and strengthen the resilience of local communities. Last year, in addition to business initiatives investing in people and businesses in supply chains, the company surpassed over $1.4 billion in giving worldwide, including $1 billion of food donations. McLaughlin joined Walmart in 2013. Before that, she spent over 20 years with the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company. McLaughlin earned a Bachelor of Science from Boston University, and she also earned a Master of Arts from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
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Founder & Partner, Dasra
Neera Nundy is Partner and Co-Founder of DASRA India which started in 1999. Her overarching goal is to enable social entrepreneurs and funders with the support they need to achieve big goals in areas such as gender, urban resilience and sanitation through system change and collaborative philanthropy. Neera plays a crucial role in bringing capacity building, knowledge, funding and networks to the sector. She holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and is a fellow of the third class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship of the Ananta Aspen Center and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is a Board Member of The Hunger Project, American School of Bombay and Aangan Trust. She is Canadian, has lived in Mumbai for 21 years, runs Dasra with her husband Deval and busy raising feminist sons – Ayush, Laxman and Akbar. – all teenagers!
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President, Durable Good
Noah Manduke is the President of Durable Good, a management consultancy focused on helping nonprofit organizations and social enterprises leverage brand-building disciplines to accelerate impact. As a leading strategic identity consultant, Noah has for over 30 years helped organizations define, dramatize, and deliver upon their unique significance with clarity and results.
Durable Good clients have included the Skoll Foundation, Capricorn Investment Group, Participant Media, Skoll Global Threats Fund, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Fossil Foundation, Half the Sky Foundation, Water for People, Social Progress Imperative, ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, World Vision Canada, American Forest Foundation, and the corporate social responsibility divisions of the Walt Disney Company and Mattel.
Noah is the former Chief Strategy Officer of the Jeff Skoll Group, a portfolio of organizations created by the first President of eBay, Jeff Skoll, to pursue his philanthropic vision of a sustainable world of peace and prosperity. Prior to serving the social sector, Noah spent over 20 years helping businesses such Microsoft, Lexus, Sony, Disney, and Yahoo! to optimize their branding, marketing and communications practices. During that time, he spent 13 years at global advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather, and 8 years at global strategic branding firm, Siegel & Gale, where Noah was named President and Chief Operating Officer 18 months after the company’s sale to Omnicom (NYSE: OMNI).
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Co-founder / President, GiveDirectly
Paul Niehaus is co-founder and president of GiveDirectly, currently the top-rated nonprofit by GiveWell and ranked among the 25 most audacious companies (Inc) and 10 most innovative companies in finance (Fast Company). GiveDirectly is a recognized leader in the use of modern technology to transfer funds directly to the extreme poor, and in the use of rigorous scientific methods to document its impact.
Paul is also a co-founder of Segovia, which builds enterprise technology for the management of social programming in the emerging markets. He holds an academic appointment in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego, where he works with governments in India to improve the implementation of social programming. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Junior Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), an Affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and is a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Sloan Fellow. In 2013 Foreign Policy named him one of its 100 leading "Global Thinkers."
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Vice President, Initiatives and Strategy, Rockefeller Foundation
Dr. Zia Khan is the Vice President for Initiatives and Strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Khan oversees the Foundation’s approach for achieving impact and realizing the organization’s mission and goals. He leads the program team in New York, Bangkok, and Nairobi and their work in searching for new opportunities, developing strategies, and executing initiatives. He also provides direction for the Foundation’s commitment to supporting new innovations and capacities in the sector.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Khan was a management consultant and advised senior leaders on strategy and organizational performance. He is a frequent writer and speaker on strategy, innovation, leadership, and organizational change. Dr. Khan is the co-author of Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize your Team, and Get Better Results.
