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Agnesa Kolica ist geschäftsführende Vorständin und, zusammen mit Dr. Tina Roeske, Gründerin von family playdates e.V.. »Für ein echtes Miteinander – spielerisch und generationsübergreifend als Gesellschaft zusammenwachsen«. Unter diesem Motto ist der social start-up seit 2016 am Start. Das Projekt ist im Rahmen der „People for People“-Initiative der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft entstanden. Agnesa hat, durch ihre eigene Fluchtbiografie, ein sehr direkten Zugang zum Thema. Die Politologin vereint, auch durch ihre Arbeit am Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, wissenschaftliche und praktische Kenntnisse. Seit 2016 hat family playdates über 300 Menschen zusammengebracht. Familien mit und ohne Fluchtgeschichte werden zu Spieltreffen und kulturellen Aktivitäten zusammengebracht. So bringen sich Menschen aller Generationen und mit verschiedenen kulturellen Hintergründen ihre Welten näher – spielerisch und auf Augenhöhe. Dabei spielt Design eine zentrale Rolle im Sinne von Ezio Manzinis "Design for social innovation" Gefördert und geehrt wurde family playdates vielfach, u.a. mit der Auszeichnung durch Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel im Rahmen des 15. Startsocial Wettbewerbs; das Halbfinale Hessischer Gründerpreis, als Gewinner des Crowdfundingcontest Deutscher Integrationspreis der Hertie Stiftung; im Rahmen des AndersGründer Programm gefördert durch Social Impact Lab Frankfurt & KfW Stiftung sowie im ChancenNutzer Programm gefördert durch Social Impact Lab Frankfurt & JPMorgan Chase Foundation
46. Dalila Wilson-Scott & Loren Hudson - Black Voices “Not only do our talent partners have to be committed, our leaders have to be committed... We need those two pieces aligned, so when we're hiring, when we're promoted, when we're providing opportunities within the organization for development and exposing our teammates, we have to have a DEI lens to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to make progress and to succeed within the organization.” Loren Hudson "Building on this longstanding history and commitment to getting people connected and making sure that our work is making a tangible difference in creating more economic opportunity. Social justice is rooted in economic justice." Dalila Wilson-Scott Dalila Wilson-Scott Loren Hudson Guest Info: Dalila Wilson-Scott serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer of Comcast Corporation and President of the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation. In this role, Dalila oversees all Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives and philanthropic strategy for the corporation, including the company's $100 million commitment to advance social justice and equality. Dalila also leads Comcast's community impact initiatives, working across the organization to provide strategic leadership throughout all aspects of its corporate social responsibility programs, including employee engagement and volunteerism. In addition, Dalila oversees efforts to utilize Comcast's world-class media platforms to bring greater attention to the work of our philanthropic partners. In 2020, Comcast provided nearly $500 million in total support to 4,500 nonprofit partners sharing Comcast's commitment to creating a more connected and equitable world. Dalila joined Comcast in 2016 after more than 16 years at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where she served as Head of Global Philanthropy and President of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. She led the firm's philanthropic and economic opportunity initiatives, including the firm's $100 million commitment to Detroit's recovery, while helping to set the company's overall corporate responsibility strategy. Prior to joining the Office of Corporate Responsibility, she served in the firm's Corporate Merger Office as an integral member of the team managing the integration of JPMorgan Chase and Bank One. In addition to serving on the boards of Welcome America, Inc. and Box.org, Dalila is a member of the Executive Leadership Council. She previously served as a member of the Committee for Economic Development, and the Advisory Council of My Brother's Keeper Alliance. Dalila has been named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Cable” by Cablefax Magazine, receiving the 2019 inaugural “Wave Maker” Award; one of the “Most Powerful Women in Business” by Black Enterprise; and an “Innovative Rising Star: Building Communities” by Forbes magazine. Dalila speaks regularly on philanthropy and equity issues, most recently at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Social Innovation Summit, MIT Solve, USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy and the Women's Philanthropy Institute's Annual Symposium. She earned an MBA in Finance and Management from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from New York University's College of Arts and Science. Loren Hudson is Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for Comcast Cable. In this role, Loren leads a shared effort to execute a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) human capital strategy that is reflective of and builds upon Comcast Cable's business goals. As the first CDO for Comcast Cable, Loren also serves as a key partner to the company's leaders and the broader Human Resources organization, with an eye toward establishing frameworks for DE&I accountability and serving as a driver of employee training, career development, and education. Since then, she has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, most recently serving as Vice President of Human Resources for the Comcast Beltway Region's more than 3,000 employees across Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. Loren received her bachelor's degree in Labor Relations as well as a Master of Labor Relations from Rutgers University. In addition to her work at Comcast, she is an active member of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and a graduate of WICT's Betsy Magness Leadership Institute, as well as a graduate of the Women's Executive Leadership Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR). Favorite Quote: “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou Resources: Dalila Wilson-Scott on LinkedIn Loren Hudson on LinkedIn Comcast Celebrates Emerging Black-Owned Businesses and Entrepreneurs During Black Business Month Philadelphia Business Leaders Invest $600K in BIPOC-led Nonprofits Working to Reduce Poverty Here are some fantastic Black-owned businesses to consider that the R.O.G. Team recommends. McBride Sisters Collection The Largest Black-Owned, Women-Owned Wine Company In The US Glow Global Events Virtual events, Hotel + Travel management, Live events Propellant Media LLC Digital marketing and media solutions provider TKT Provides HR services to companies with a focus on diversity and inclusion, talent fulfillment, workforce management, managed services, and spend management Lease Query Accounting software for accountants and financial professionals Impyrian IT, Cyber Security, AV Teleconferencing, Engineering Shine Self-care app for people with anxiety and depression Credits: Dalila Wilson-Scott, Loren Hudson, Sheep Jam Productions, Host Shannon Cassidy
Synergos Cultivate the Soul: Stories of Purpose-Driven Philanthropy
Jeffrey Walker is Chairman of New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that backs breakthrough social entrepreneurs who are advancing equity and opportunity in America. Listen to hear how Jeff has always been a seeker and the role meditation plays in his life. He discovered his purpose, to minimize suffering and enhance joy, on a trip to Bhutan. He shared how his approach to impact involves applying all of his skills, partnering with change-makers and listening to people proximate to the problem. Jeff gives examples of projects that he supports that are shifting systems through collaborations. Jeff is Chairman of New Profit, a social change venture fund and is founding partner of the Community Health Acceleration Partnership, focused on front line health in Africa and the U.S. He also currently serves on the boards of the African Philanthropy Forum, Just Capital, UVA Center for Contemplative Sciences (where he is chair), Giving Tuesday, the Aspen Management Partnership for Health, Leadership Now Project on democratic reform and the University of Virginia’s Undergraduate Business School, where he was President for ten years. He is also a partner in Bridge Builders investment fund for Mindful Wellness. Jeff was on the board of the University of Virginia, Chairman of The Council of Foundations at University of Virginia (UVA), served on the Berklee College of Music Board, the Harvard Business School Dean’s Board of Advisors and the HBS Visiting Committee and is on the Advisory Boards of MIT Media Lab and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been on numerous other for-profit and non-profit boards. Previously, Jeff was Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, focusing on social enterprises and collaboration, and a Lecturer at the Kennedy School. At Harvard, he helped to develop a course in exponential fundraising for nonprofits. He served as the Chairman of Millennium Promise, partnering with the United Nations and Columbia University, an incubator to eliminate extreme poverty, and was the Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), where he is as an Emeritus Trustee. Jeff Co-Founded and was Chairman of Npower, an organization that provides shared technology services to nonprofits. Jeff co-authored the book, “The Generosity Network”, about new approaches to gather resources to address causes each of us are passionate about. He is currently teaching, researching and writing on the issue of orchestrating and coordinating systems change. For twenty five years Jeff was CEO and Co-Founder of JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase Co’s $12 billion global private equity business, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of Virginia, is a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant. He received the John Whitehead award for philanthropy from the NYC HBS Club. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
JPMorgan Chase Foundation President Talks Transformative Giving in Times of Crisis At the helm of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation is president Janis Bowdler, a visionary leader who’s transforming how the organization distributes $350 million annually in charitable giving. In fact, it was under her leadership that JPMorgan Chase & Co announced it would make a $30 billion incremental investment in Black and Hispanic communities across a variety of different areas and sectors over a five-year period. In this conversation with Women on the Move’s Sam Saperstein, Janis talks about how the foundation reached that colossal decision and how she’s adjusted her leadership style in the time of COVID-19. Crisis shines a light on need With a mission to help vulnerable communities around the world, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation has spent decades helping low-income communities share in the prosperity of a growing global economy. Janis explains that, for the past seven years she’s been with the firm, her work has been all about inclusive economic growth. Then 2020 came, and things changed almost overnight. “Suddenly we're hit with a double crisis of a global pandemic and an economic recession,” she says. “So we shifted quickly from a growth mindset to a recovery mindset. The needs of our communities and our nonprofit partners shifted significantly.” Long-term infrastructure projects were set aside, and Janis put the foundation’s energies toward core support. She worked to get dollars to nonprofits on the front lines, funding organizations that handled everything from feeding families, to making sure that they could cover household expenses until their stimulus checks arrived. Since many of the foundation’s existing partners were already deeply embedded in vulnerable communities, Janis and her teams were able to get firsthand intelligence on what was actually going on. From there, she could determine the needs of those communities and pivot to respond. How giving is changing in a post-COVID world Although Janis makes loads of decisions about how the foundation’s resources should be allotted, she speaks frankly about the importance of centering decisions on community needs. This has been a trend in philanthropy for some time, but the events of 2020 and the COVID crisis have given it even more weight. “Philanthropy can exist in a bubble. We have dollars, we have prestige, and frankly, we have power compared to vulnerable communities,” she explains. “And so it's easy to sit in our rooms and say, here's what we think the problem is. And here's what we think the solution ought to be. The shift is to do deep listening and say to community members, ‘You know better than we do. What are you seeing? What are the solutions that you really want to put forward?’” Janis also describes how economic, political, and social shifts in 2020 forced her to make certain that funding from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation truly supported and was built around the most vulnerable people. In most cases, that meant Black and Hispanic community members, since they are both more likely to be in frontline jobs and more likely to experience unemployment. “The pandemic has laid bare what we already knew; the deep inequality facing Black and Brown communities around the United States and around the globe,” she says. Keeping up the good work Despite the challenges of 2020, Janis remains hopeful about what the foundation can achieve. She explains how the organization advocates for policies that make real change for communities, puts dollars into non-profits, and sends in teams to support existing organizations with everything from building out back office technology to developing marketing plans. She is excited to steer the JPMorgan Chase Foundation into a bright future.
It is natural for us to want to bet on a “sure thing,” but as we know, life is full of uncertainty. During this episode, Kim Davis, one of my favorite mentors, shares how to embrace uncertainty as an opportunity and deliver value at the highest levels. Kim Davis is the Executive Vice President, Social Impact, Growth Initiatives & Legislative Affairs at the National Hockey League (NHL). Prior to the NHL, she served as a Senior Managing Director at Teneo and served as President of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation (fifth-largest corporate foundation in the world). Kim has been recognized as one of Hockey News' “Top 100 Most Influential Leaders in the sport, Savoy Magazine's “2018 Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America, showcased in Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business and the Business Journal's 100 Most Influential Women and in 2012, she was profiled with First Lady Michelle Obama in Essence magazine's “28 Most Influential Black Women in America.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Janis Bowdler's road to the JPMorgan Chase Foundation started with a recognition. Not all neighborhoods, including her own, provide equal opportunities, but they should. As Policy Director at National Council of La Raza, now UnidosUS, Janis worked with member organizations across the country whose zip codes were considered pre-determinants for a lack of access to quality housing, education and jobs. They were champions of their communities, on the front lines with the families they serve in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis. She brought those groups to meet with their elected leaders on Capital Hill where they explained the problems those families face and the need for both resources and policy change. As Janis says, their advocacy potential was incredible. They had the data, the stories, the evidence in the thick of the crisis. Now, as President of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Janis applies her insights, experience and deep knowledge about community economic development to global philanthropy. Janis is the right person, in the right seat. Learn why that matters on Power Station.
Janis Bowdler, President at JPMorgan Chase Foundation, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss the Foundation's recent commitment to invest $1.75B over the next five years to strengthen workforce systems, revitalize neighborhoods, grow small businesses, and improve the financial health of individuals across the United States and all over the world on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Janis Bowdler, President at JPMorgan Chase Foundation, joins hosts Nick Ashburn and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss the Foundation's recent commitment to invest $1.75B over the next five years to strengthen workforce systems, revitalize neighborhoods, grow small businesses, and improve the financial health of individuals across the United States and all over the world on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode of 14th & G, CR welcomes JPMorgan Chase's Peter Scher. Peter serves as both Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Region and the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility. As the Head of Corporate Responsibility, Peter oversees the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, one of the largest corporate foundations in the United States and has led the development of many of the firm's flagship programs, including the $150 million investment in Detroit's revitalization. In 2016 and 2017, Peter was named in Washington Life Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the U.S. Capitol, noting his experience in navigating the intersection of business and the public sector. Take a listen as CR and Peter dive into a discussion of tax reform and JPMorgan Chase's investments in Detroit, Washington and Chicago.
Jeffrey Walker served 25 years as the CEO and cofounder of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co's global private equity group, the vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and said he was "always pretty open" with his coworkers about practicing mindfulness -- even taught meditation to his fellow executives. Walker, who now holds leadership roles in a number of non-profits and has an investor group called Bridge Builders Collaborative, puts a huge emphasis on teamwork and building better relationships to do good in the world.
Kimberly Davis is a seasoned senior executive with over 30 years of deep expertise in the Financial Services industry. Most recently she held the position of President of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, where her responsibilities included overseeing the firm’s $300 million in annual giving, employee engagement and strategic corporate marketing programs.
UNICEF World Radio Day Feature Guest Kimberly Davis is a seasoned senior executive with over 30 years of deep expertise in the Financial Services industry. Most recently she held the position of President of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, where her responsibilities included overseeing the firm’s $300 million in annual giving, employee engagement and strategic corporate marketing partners.