Event Reports

What follows is a blog on an event organised by Philanthropy Impact 15 November 2018. In summary: philanthropy continues to be an important factor in how families come together and do good together. At the moment, a lot of attention is drawn towards the new generation of philanthropists - millennials who will benefit from one of the most important passages of wealth in history. As this wealth passes between generations, issues may arise. Opinions and views may differ as to how their philanthropic efforts should progress.

Corporate foundations operate in many ways, with some working from general endowments to others relying on the profits of its corporate owner to decide its budget for the year. But could they be truly altruistic vehicles and were the schemes employed by these corporate foundations truly successful or recruitment pieces for the corporate organisations?

A blog by the event Chair, Heiko Specking, specking+partners, Zurich

Our generations are not the first to be continually reshaped by technology. New discoveries make hard tasks easier, usually making society as a whole much better off. But there are distributional consequences to innovation which cannot be ignored.