The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW) arrives in London

International Donor Education Programme and Network come to London

31st May, 2006

The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW) will be held this year in London for the first time.

TPW, a programme in strategic philanthropy which consists of three modules, provides new donors with the tools for making effective contributions to the causes of their choice.This international programme, which is unique in the UK and unprecedented in both its depth and scope, will take place at the Institute for Philanthropy between the 4th and the 9th of June 2006.The second and third modules will take place in Ghana in November 2006 and New York in February 2007.

Established by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1995, and now under the direction of the Institute for Philanthropy,TPW continues to attract a truly global range of participants, with over a hundred alumni from the US, the UK and other countries in Europe,Africa,Asia and North America.

Module 1 of this year’s TPW,“Developing a Framework for Strategic Philanthropy”, will be presented by Dr Salvatore LaSpada, the Institute’s new Chief Executive, who led the initiative at the Rockefeller Foundation before coming to London to head the Institute.The ten participants will first meet for a two-day training session on how to make well-targeted donations in order to solve social problems. They will then spend the remainder of their time with alumni of the TPW programme, visiting UK charities to understand how these methods are put into practice.

Dr. Salvatore LaSpada commented that London is an ideal location from which to expand the work of TPW internationally:

“London is a global hub for numerous industries, such as financial services. I believe that it is also now becoming a global hub for innovation in philanthropy. Here, at the crossroads between North America and the rest of Europe, we are ideally placed to serve as a bridge for the latest ideas and practices in private giving.”

Gloria Salick, co-founder of The Salick Family Foundation, has said that TPW provided her with a “life-changing and life-expanding” experience. She added: “For me the best thing was getting a sense of how to approach this with my family – bringing the kids in, setting an example of how they might think about it, while leaving them room to find their own interests.”