On-line Discussion: Tuesday August 25th: Changing Careers to Change the World
Tuesday, August 25, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time
Excerpted from Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Increasingly, people who work outside of the nonprofit world are pursuing long-held dreams of starting a charity to attempt to solve many of the world’s most intractable problems.
But establishing one’s own nonprofit organization is not easy, and often presents a set of challenges not usually found in the business world. So how do you set up a charity? What are the toughest obstacles? And how are these new charities and the people who establish them changing the philanthropic landscape?
Join us on August 25 as we hear from a woman who, after leaving the high stakes world of Wall Street, started a charity to help some of Afghanistan’s most impoverished women; and another who learned through interviews with those who’ve established their own nonprofit groups the challenges in trying to respond to, through private philanthropic action, the globe’s most pressing social problems.
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