What opportunities straddle the intersection of technology, innovation and philanthropy? 

The last decade has seen extraordinary innovation in the nonprofit sector, driven significantly by the development and application of new technology.   By leveraging the power of the Internet, mobile technology, social networking and more, individual philanthropists and social entrepreneurs are able to create effective, scalable solutions to some of our most pressing global issues. 

Bestselling author of Giving 2.0, founder of SV2 (a strategic partner of the SVP network), Stanford lecturer, and successful social entrepreneur, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen will inspire you with innovative ideas for how technology is disrupting philanthropy and social change. 

Following her talk, participants will get the opportunity to chat with Laura and their peers about how to integrate some of these ideas into their own giving. 

This is event is part of the Reflections on Philanthropy Series co-sponsored by Philanthropy Northwest, the University of Washington Evans School's Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy, and Washington Women's Foundation. 

Laura’s Bio

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is the Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former Chairman (1998-2008) of SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund), a venture philanthropy fund that leverages its partners’ financial, intellectual, and human capital to make a measurable impact in the Silicon Valley community. Under her leadership, SV2 built a portfolio of 25 grantees and nearly 400 investors, and it won the Silicon Valley Association of Fundraising Professionals Philanthropic Organization of the Year in 2008.

Laura is the Founder and Board Chairman of Stanford PACS (Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society), a global research center committed to exploring ideas to create social change and publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). Laura has created and teaches Stanford Graduate School of Business’ first course on Strategic Philanthropy and Stanford University’s first course on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. Since 2000, Laura’s faculty appointments include Lecturer in Business Strategy at Stanford GSB; Lecturer in Public Policy; and Lecturer at Stanford School of Education.

Her book on individual giving, Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World, will be published by Wiley’s Jossey-Bass in October 2011, and her blog and website, Giving 2.0 (www.giving2.com), will launch in early fall 2011. She is also a contributing author to the book Local Mission, Global Vision – Community Foundations in the 21st Century.

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