What’s Your "Can’t Not Do"? An Evening with SV2 - Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and SVPI's Paul Shoemaker

What’s Your Can’t Not Do?

An Evening with SV2 - Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and SVPI's

Paul Shoemaker

Monday, November 9, 2015 | 6:00 - 8:30 pm

6:00 - 6:45 p.m. Networking with appetizers and no-host cocktails

6:45 - 7:45 p.m. Paul Shoemaker on “Finding Your Can’t Not Do” in conversation with SV2 Partner Caitlin Heising & Heising-Simons Foundation Board Chair Liz Simons

7:45 - 8:30 pm Book sales & signing plus more networking, cocktails, appetizers

Location: University Club | 3277 Miranda Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304 | (650) 493-3972

Cost: $35

Join us for an evening with SV2 - Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and Paul Shoemaker, founding president of Social Venture Partners International (SVPI) hosted by Bay Area Ivy League alumni organizations. Paul will share insights and inspiration from 17 years of activating social change agents and talk with SV2 Partner, Caitlin Heising (Brown University alum) and her mother, Liz Simons (Stanford School of Education alum) about their philanthropic journeys. Caitlin and Liz will share a glimpse into their respective passions and work with their family foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation. A global thought leader on how individuals can be the most effective philanthropists, Paul will share with us why he decided he “couldn’t not” write his new book, Can’t Not Do: The Compelling Social Drive that Changes Our World, and what he’s learned about effective philanthropy along the way.

All are welcome to this lively evening about finding how you are most compelled to contribute to the world around you.

In 2011 and 2012, Paul was named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential People in the Nonprofit Sector” by The Nonprofit Times, and in 2013, was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by Future in Review. Paul has spoken at TEDx and United Nations event and has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fortune, and The Huffington Post.

Social Venture Partners International (SVPI), is a global network of thousands of social innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and business and community leaders that fund and support social change agents in nearly 40 cities and 8 countries.

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SPEAKER BIOS:

Caitlin Heising is vice chair of the board at the Heising-Simons Foundation and a philanthropy research associate at Article 3 Advisors in San Francisco. Caitlin graduated from Brown University in 2012 with a B.A. in International Relations and a focus in politics, culture and identity. Upon graduating, Caitlin worked at Brunswick Group, an international corporate communications partnership that helps businesses and other organizations address critical communications challenges. In 2014 she joined the board of the Foundation, where she has been building out grantmaking focused on human rights. Caitlin is active in Next Gen philanthropy as co-founder/co-chair of the Human Rights Watch Young Professionals Network, as a member of Spark and Nexus, and as a leader of the Next Gen Working Group at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2). As a founding member of Maverick Collective, a new initiative with PSI to improve the health and rights of women and girls around the world, Caitlin focuses on giving teen moms in Nicaragua contraceptive choices to decide their futures. Caitlin also serves on the board of the Nick Simons Foundation, which works to improve health and medical care in Nepal, especially for rural and remote populations. She is a member of The Philanthropy Workshop, a leader in ongoing strategic philanthropy education and networking.

Liz Simons is chair of the board at the Heising-Simons Foundation. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s in Education from Stanford University, Liz taught high school English and, subsequently, Spanish-bilingual and English as a Second Language elementary school classes. She founded Stretch to Kindergarten, a summer early childhood education program designed to facilitate the transition to kindergarten for children with no or negligible prior preschool experience. Liz currently serves on the Leadership Council of Too Small to Fail, an initiative that seeks to improve the health and well-being of America’s youngest children. She also serves on a few boards, including the Foundation for a Just Society, a foundation committed to supporting women, girls, and LGBTI people who are marginalized throughout the world, and is a member of the advisory council for Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. Liz is a member of The Philanthropy Workshop, a leader in ongoing strategic philanthropy education and networking. She currently volunteers in a high school journalism class at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, California. She and her husband, Mark Heising, have two children: Caitlin and Matthew.