While corporate philanthropy continues to decline, U.S. individuals gave an estimated $350 billion to nonprofits in 2014, roughly 2 percent of GDP. But is all this generosity effective? With 1.6 million nonprofit organizations in the U.S., how can scale and synergy be leveraged toward accomplishing meaningful goals? Burgeoning wealth in parts of the world where philanthropy is in its nascent stages is creating a new cadre of families with significant resources to target the issues and ideas they most care about. Is the U.S. an effective model to follow? How do large-scale philanthropists develop efficacy metrics for their giving and create decision trees about when to start--or stop--funding. Our panel of experts will discuss some of the successes and lessons from their own philanthropic journeys and the effective tools that can create systemic change.

Moderator: Richard Ditizio
Speakers: Folorunso Alakija, Sir Tom Hunter, Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Adam Miller