The Business of Giving Visits the Offices of New Profit
Tonight we’ll be going up to Boston to visit a pioneering venture philanthropy organization by the name of New Profit. We’ll begin with a brief description of what they do and then you’ll hear why members of the team find it to be such a special place to work.
Jeffrey Walker, Chairman of New Profit and Co-author of The Generosity Network, Joins Denver Frederick
If I were to describe my next guest, the words I would use would be curious, eclectic, collaborative, and mindful. Those are wonderful attributes to have when you’re looking to identify some new ways to solve some very old social problems. He has been an executive with JPMorgan Chase, teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School, and has served or is serving as a chairman of more nonprofit boards than you can count– places like the Quincy Jones Music Consortium, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and New Profit. He is Jeffrey Walker, who is all of the above and so much more.