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October 25, 2005
 Community Revitalization: Success Stories and Hard Lessons Learned
Featuring Jack Murrah, President of The Lyndhurst Foundation and Peter Karoff, TPI Founder. The open forum and LIVE video streaming program took place at the TPI offices.
The Program
Community revitalization is about more than institution building. To bring back Chattanooga, a city long down on its luck, The Lyndhurst Foundation "found ways to put visionary experts together with ordinary citizens to create pictures of the future that people were able to agree about, willing to work for and willing to invest in." Jack Murrah, President of the Lyndhurst Foundation joined Peter Karoff for a discussion of how one foundation helped a city regain its identity and its "grace."
May 17, 2005
 The World We Want: Eliminating extreme poverty – attainable goal or unrealizable dream?
The Program
This sixth forum in our special series was video streamed to enable participants to watch it live via the internet. Peggy Dulany, Chair of The Synergos Institute and Peter Karoff, Founder and Chairman of TPI led a discussion entitled The World We Want, which focused on the search for real solutions that will lead to a better world. Participants explored the following questions:
- Is there a new “open source” approach to solving social dilemmas?
- How are cooperation, collaboration and whole- systems partnerships changing the paradigm of social action?
- How can big visionary ideas like this one be made concrete?
We all dream of a world without conflict and massive inequity, of ideologies that admit other ways of thinking than their own, of analysis and criticism that puts forward solutions, of policies that propose bolder answers to the world’s great problems – some planet-threatening. We look for answers, for ideas, for real solutions that will lead to a better world. We want to be part of that world. This program is an expression of those aspirations.
October 26, 2004
 Transformational philanthropy - the challenge and potential of significant change
This session was presented as part of a day-long celebration of TPI's 15th Anniversary.
Peter Karoff moderated the discussion on Transformation and the featured panelists were:
Dr. Cheryl Healton
President and Chief Executive Officer, American Legacy Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Melinda Marble
Executive Director, Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Boston, MA
Ratna Omidvar
Executive Director, The Maytree Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Edward Skloot
Executive Director, Surdna Foundation, New York, NY
For increasing numbers of donors, the heart of the matter, the reason they are drawn to philanthropy, is to find a way to effect significant change - to transform. The range of what constitutes significant change is vast and can often be disruptive. To challenge commofnly accepted norms and practices is always difficult, and for the donor, there are many risks. This conference will address these issues and questions:
- Transformation occurs as a result of a culmination of factors. What is the philanthropy factor?
- Terms like disruptive innovation are being used as a way to think outside the box. Is transformation always disruptive?
- What is the 'right' role for donors? What has been the experience and the lessons learned?
- How can philanthropic actors combat issues of fatigue, disappointment and resistance?
- How do we sustain our engagement and enroll others?
- Should we encourage more donors to be transformational? If so, how?
June 15, 2004
 The Meaning of Philanthropic Leadership
Open forum and web teleconference
Presented by the Karoff Center at TPI with support from
The Fleet Charitable Asset Division
This free, national forum via web and teleconference addressed the following questions:
- How does philanthropy enable powerful visions to become practical strategies for leadership?
- How can philanthropy become a true moral leader in the affairs of the world in which we live?
- Why has philanthropy failed, too often, to take on needed leadership to move an issue forward?
- What are the real world implications of these questions for donors and trustees as well as foundation CEOs and professional staff?
Featured Panelists:
Emmett Carson, President and CEO of The Minneapolis Foundation
Peter Goldberg, President and CEO of the Alliance for Children and Families
Michele Courton Brown, Director, North Region, Fleet Charitable Asset Division
Chad P. Wick, President and CEO of KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Boston University
March 9, 2004
 Trust and Transparency: Philanthropy as Private Action in Public Space
The featured panelists were:
John Abele, Boston Scientific Corporation and Founder, Argosy Foundation
H. Peter Karoff, The Philanthropic Initiative
Dorothy Ridings, Council on Foundations
Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., Environmental Defense and Formerly of The Rockefeller Fdn.
William Pounds, Dean Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management
Scott Harshbarger, Former Massachusetts Attorney General
Marion Fremont-Smith, Esq., Choate, Hall & Stewart and The Hauser Ctr. at Harvard
Alex S. Jones, The Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard
"Trust and Transparency: Philanthropy as Private Action in Public Space" was sponsored with support from The Citigroup Private Bank Philanthropic Advisory Service.
October 21, 2003
 Public Policy, Politics and Philanthropy, How close to the chasm can you go?
Featured panelists were:
Rodney Berry, President
Public Life Foundation of Owensboro, KY
Andrew Dreyfus, President
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Rebecca Rimel, President and Chief Executive Officer
The Pew Charitable Trusts
William Schambra, Director
Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, Hudson Institute.
June 3, 2003
 Philanthropy & the Future- three scenarios
This pilot was held in the TPI offices in Boston. Presented by the Karoff Center, Peter Karoff’s essay, “3 scenarios” served as the primer for this discussion.
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