Webinar:
Thursday, January 23, 12 - 1 PM EST
The 2025 High Impact Philanthropy Toolkit is a primer on the practice of intentionally using private, philanthropic resources to serve the public good. This launch webinar from the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) explores how to practice high impact philanthropy — philanthropy for social impact.
CHIP founding executive director Katherina Rosqueta will discuss high impact practices donors can use to achieve more impact. In conversation with Tony Bowen, Executive Director of the Catalyst Fund at Fidelity Charitable, Kat will present four philanthropic plays and emerging tools that can use for any issue area, and introduce 12 nonprofits that are putting effective strategies into practice for education, public health, housing, and more.
About the speakers
Tony Bowen is Executive Director of the Catalyst Fund at Fidelity Charitable®, an independent 501(c)(3) public charity that has helped donors support more than 406,000 nonprofit organizations with $84.5 billion in grants. The mission of Fidelity Charitable is to grow the American tradition of philanthropy by providing programs that make charitable giving accessible, simple, and effective.
In his role at the Catalyst Fund, he partners with the Fidelity Charitable Board of Trustees to manage a grantmaking program dedicated to building bridges between donors and promising nonprofits. The Catalyst Fund makes grants to intermediaries that engage donors, elevate nonprofits, and conduct research on donors and philanthropy. The Center for High Impact Philanthropy has been a grantee of the Catalyst Fund since 2018.
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He is currently co-chair of the Infrastructure Funders Group, on the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Board of Visitors and Giving Tuesday’s Data Commons Advisory Committee, and a Partner with Social Venture Partners Boston.
Tony has worked at community and family foundations, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Democracy Fund, and sector infrastructure organizations such as Candid, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and FMA. He graduated with an M.A. in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University. He lives in Boston.
Katherina ‘Kat’ M. Rosqueta is the founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, faculty co-director of High Impact Philanthropy Academy, adjunct faculty in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), and a senior fellow at the Wharton Center on Leadership & Change Management. Founded as a collaboration between SP2 and alumni of the Wharton School, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy is the premier source of knowledge and education on how philanthropy can do more good.
Before accepting her appointment to launch the Center, Kat was a consultant with McKinsey & Company; a consultant to the founding team of New Schools Venture Fund; founding director of Board Match Plus, a San Francisco program dedicated to strengthening nonprofit boards; and program manager of Wells Fargo’s Corporate Community Development Group.
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Kat serves on the national board of Greenlight Fund, a venture philanthropy fund dedicated to addressing urgent social needs in cities around the United States, and co-chairs Greenlight Fund Philadelphia. She is a member of the Capitalization Committee of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation. She is the former chair of the board of Candid (merger of Foundation Center and Guidestar), the world’s largest source of information on nonprofits and foundations. Her past civic leadership positions include board president of La Casa de las Madres (San Francisco’s oldest and largest shelter for battered women and their children), chair of the United Way’s Bay Area Week of Caring, and co-founder and executive committee member of the Women’s MBA Network.
Her work and comments have been cited in numerous publications including the New York Times, Slate, Money Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She speaks frequently on social impact management and philanthropy and has lectured at the Wharton Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of California Haas School of Business, and the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management.
Kat received her a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 2012 recipient of the Wharton Women in Business Kathleen McDonald Distinguished Alumna Award, a 2011 recipient of the Brava! Women Business Achievement Award, the 2020 recipient of the Margaret Bailey Speer Award, and named one of Unboxed Philanthropy’s Philanthropy 100, a list of people, organizations and companies making a positive difference in our world.
Platinum Sponsor
The Fidelity Charitable® Catalyst Fund is a grantmaking program of Fidelity Charitable, led by its Board of Trustees and separate from its donor-advised fund program. The Catalyst Fund envisions a world where nonprofits that strengthen our communities have access to the resources they need to flourish. By investing in intermediaries such as the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, the Catalyst Fund helps build bridges between individual donors and promising nonprofits. When donors and nonprofits partner together, we can empower communities to thrive.