Race, Poverty and Trust convening features guest speaker Tiziana Dearing, Associate Professor of Macro Practice at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Tiziana is the former CEO of Boston Rising, a place-based, anti-poverty, public foundation that aimed to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by replicating the Robin Hood Foundation and Harlem Children Zone’s models in Grove Hall, a Boston neighborhood inundated with poverty and crime.
Over three years, Boston Rising invested $4 Million in residents, promising entrepreneurs and under performing schools, then -- it dissolved.
Participants will learn:
- Lessons in risk and philanthropy
- Concepts around power dynamics in giving
- The role of "choice and control" in social change
- A vision for effective philanthropy rooted in trust and reciprocity