Peer Event

Power in Philanthropy - Lessons of Failure & Success

This learning forum featured guest speaker Tiziana Dearing, Associate Professor of Macro Practice at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Tiziana is the former CEO of Boston Rising, a place-based, anti-poverty, public foundation that aimed to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by replicating the Robin Hood Foundation and Harlem Children Zone’s models in Grove Hall, a Boston neighborhood inundated with poverty and crime.

Date & Time

Monday, March 30, 2015 - 12:00 pm to

Monday, March 30, 2015 - 1:30 pm

Location

Dunkin Donuts & Baskin Robins Community Foundation
130 Royall Street, Canton, MA

Cost

FREE to members/Not Available for Nonmembers

Tiziana Dearing is the former CEO of Boston Rising, a place-based, anti-poverty, public foundation that aimed to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by replicating the Robin Hood Foundationand Harlem Children Zone’s models in Grove Hall, a Boston neighborhood inundated with poverty and crime.

Over three years, Boston Rising invested $4 Million in residents, promising entrepreneurs and under performing schools, then -- it dissolved.

Participants Will Learn

Specific lessons about the rise and fall of a cutting-edge approach to address an old problem with new solutions
Broader lessons about how power is played out in philanthropy
What could happen if things were different

For catering purposes, please R.S.V.P to Talia Rivera at talia.rivera@cof.org by Monday, March 16. Free parking is available.