Philanthropy With a Purpose - 2021 Non-Profit Leadership Symposium

2-3 April 2021

11 a.m. – 1 p.m. EDT

Webinar

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We are delighted to host the 2021 Non-Profit Leadership Symposium. The theme for this year’s symposium is “Philanthropy With a Purpose,” and the program promises to be as engaging, refreshing and inspirational as our programs in 2018 and 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic, while not defeated, will not prevent us from gathering virtually this Friday, April 2, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST and Saturday, April 3, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST.

Agenda

Day One: Friday, April 2, 2021 – Education, Effort and Equity

Welcoming Remarks – Fred Nance, Co-Chair Inclusion and Diversity Committee; and Global Managing Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

Introduction of Opening Speaker – Ambassador James Blanchard, Chairman, National Archives Foundation; former US Ambassador to Canada; former Governor, State of Michigan; and Partner, DLA Piper

Opening Remarks – Ernest Green, member of the Little Rock Nine

Ernest is likely the only member of our distinguished program participants whose high school graduation in May 1958 from Little Rock Central, was attended by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Panel One – Moderator: Rodney E. Slater, Chairman, Squire Patton Boggs Foundation; and Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

Margaret McCabe, Dean, University of Arkansas School of Law
Dr. Michael Lomax, President, United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
Kevin Thurm, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Foundation
Kim Tignor, Co-Founder, #SheWillRise; Executive Director, Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice; and former Policy Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Presentation

Fireside Chat – Paul Irving, Chairman, Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging; Chairman, Encore.org; and distinguished scholar-in-residence, University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology

Articles authored and co-authored by Paul Irving:

Presentation – “A Non-Profit Good Governance for Greatness” by Colin Jennings, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

“10 Best Practices for Non-Profit Corporate Governance,” Squire Patton Boggs insight

Panel Two – Moderator: John Oberdorfer, President and Vice Chairman, Squire Patton Boggs Foundation

Squire Patton Boggs Foundation website and 20th Anniversary Brochure
Damon Hewitt, Acting President, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights (Racial Justice Impact Fellowship)

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

Carmia Caesar, Assistant Dean, Howard University School of Law (1619 Project)
Marni Lennon, Assistant Dean, University of Miami School of Law (1619 Project)

‘1619 Project’:

Closing Remarks – Alethia Nancoo, Partner and Co-Chair, Inclusion and Diversity Committee, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

Alethia, a newly minted member of the Squire Patton Boggs Global Board, will share the firm’s Standing Up for Our Values Initiative

Handout

Activities for day one will conclude at 1 p.m. EST. Day two activities are to begin at 11 a.m. EST on Saturday, April 3, 2021.

Day Two: Saturday, April 3, 2021

Panel One – Young Voices: Their Protest, Power and Search for Purpose

Moderators: Bridgette J. Slater, JD and MBA Candidate, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School; and Sudheer R. Poluru, JD and MBA Candidate, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago Booth Business School

Erica Wheelan Heyse, National Director, The Congressional Awards Foundation
Raquel “Rocky” Egusquiza, Executive Director, Miami Marlins’ Foundation; and Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Miami Marlins
Corrine Irish, Of Counsel, and Co-Chair, Pro Bono Program, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Patrick Madden, Executive Director, National Archives Foundation
AnnMaura Connolly, President, Voices for National Service
Janis Kearney, Founder and President, CELEBRATE MAYA PROJECT
- Selection of materials
Rose Kirk, Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon
Greg Honan, Communications Director, With Honor
Emily Roseman, Research Director, Institute for Nonprofit News
- Subscribe to the weekly newsletter
Marion Humphery, Jr., third-year law student, University of Arkansas School of Law; and a Squire Patton Boggs Foundation Fellow

Fireside Chat – The Honorable Dennis Archer, Past President, American Bar Association; former Mayor, City of Detroit; former Associate Justice, Michigan Supreme Court; and Chairman Emeritus, Dickinson Wright

Panel Two – Promise, Purpose and Prospects of the Delta Region

Opening Remarks – The Honorable Michael Espy, Chairman, Hope Enterprise Corporation

Mike is also a former US Congressman; former US Secretary of Agriculture; and a recent Democratic US Senate nominee

Moderator: James Honan, Educational Co-Chair, Institute for Educational Management (IEM); and Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard University

Bob J. Nash, President, Nash and Associates
The Honorable Raymond Abramson, Judge, Arkansas Court of Appeals
George Kendall, Of Counsel and Chair, Public Service Initiative, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Darrin Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Southern Bancorp Inc.
A'Lelia Bundles, author of “On Her Own Ground, the Life and Time of Madam C.J. Walker”; and Immediate Past Chair, National Archives

Kim Davis, Senior Advisor, Walton Family Foundation

Sherman Tate, Chairman, Arkansas Urban League
Donna Washington, Founder, Student Internet Equity Coalition (SIEC)
- SIEC Program overviews
Lee Powell, Executive Director, The Delta Grassroots Caucus
Emily Broad Leib, Clinical Professor, Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard University; and Former Director, Delta Directions Consortium
- Publications