when I was six years old something
happened that changed the direction of
my life it was a year that my father
abandoned me and her family in the year
that my mom took on the responsibilities
of caregiver and sole breadwinner taking
on several jobs just to put food on the
table but despite these circumstances
I’m grateful for the lessons that I
learned I learned the value of hard work
by running my double paper out seven
days a week and I learned about teamwork
and how to cook for my sister as we work
together to prepare our meals and I
learned about perseverance by watching
my mom day after day support our family
and although we didn’t have a lot I
learned what I think is one of the most
important lessons of all that no matter
your wealth your age your race your
religion that every person has the
ability to give so when I was in ten
years old I remember going to my first
fundraiser at straw-hat Pizza to help
raise money for the cerebral palsy
foundation and in junior high or
remember helping build wheelchair ramps
for Habitat for Humanity and in high
school I remember getting up early on
Saturday mornings driving an hour to
downtown LA in my VW Bug to help make
hundreds of sandwiches loading the
sandwiches and the shopping carts and
wheeling the carts down alley after
alley to provide a meal and a caring
touch for those in need
and although we didn’t have a lot
growing up I was taught the importance
of giving back to others as much as we
received so I shouldn’t have been
surprised that after starting and
selling a few businesses and thinking I
was going to make my mark in the private
sector that I found myself dead center
in the business of generosity for almost
20 years and as a professional
fundraiser and scholar on the evolution
of giving I believe right now is the
most exciting but also the most critical
time in the history of philanthropy the
term philanthropy comes from the Greek
simply translates the love of humankind
it embraces all people cultures and
generations and since the birth of
Western civilization philanthropy serves
as a catalyst an economic driver for
societal change and while every selfless
act is intended to benefit others it
also binds you and I to a shared legacy
of giving that helped champion women’s
suffrage abolish slavery and eradicate
smallpox
and through partnerships in philanthropy
today type 1 diabetes will be cured in a
few years
polio is about to be eradicated in
millions of people around the world are
provided the basic necessities of food
and water every day so last year
Americans gave almost 400 billion
dollars to philanthropic causes and
while that sounds like a lot of money
consider that philanthropic giving has
been pinned to roughly 2% of the gross
domestic product for the past several
decades and the average American still
gives just above two percent of their
income to charity so I think most of us
would agree that there’s some room for
improvement especially when you consider
there’s still so much need hurt and
oppression but also so many
opportunities all around us to help make
the world a better place but in order to
fill these gaps in society we need more
and stronger partnerships between worthy
causes and people like you because even
with one point two million nonprofit
organizations in the u.s. advances in
technology with things like the internet
celebrity endorsements and concerned
billionaires giving away millions at a
time that philanthropic giving has only
increased by 2/10 of 1% of the GDP in
the last 20 years this means that while
our the economy grows our gifts to
charity continue to be about the same
proportion of our income year after year
but the problem isn’t whether or not
we’re generous people and it’s not that
we can’t afford to give more the real
issue that keeps us from giving and give
you more is that we haven’t had the
tools to solve a problem that was
identified 2,300 years ago so let me
explain around 340 BC Aristotle wrote to
give away money is an easy matter and in
anyone’s power but decide whom to give
it to how much when for what purpose and
how to give it is neither in everyone’s
power nor is it easy matter even with so
many advances in society and technology
the Aristotle barriers from 2,300 years
ago or what hold you and I back from
increasing our generosity but what if it
was possible to increase giving to 3
percent of the GDP in the United States
alone a 1% increase in giving would
translate to almost 200 billion dollars
a year to improve societal conditions
for this and future generations and just
imagine the possible
if we could inspire giving to 3% around
the world so today I hope to at least
spark a conversation but I’d rather
start a movement that crosses all
boundaries and involves all people
because every person has the ability to
give over the past few years artificial
intelligence has revolutionized our
world and is considered one of the most
significant advances in technology since
the Industrial Revolution and I believe
that AI holds the power to inspire more
giving by making the act of generosity
easier than ever before
the fact is the overwhelming number of
worthy causes makes it difficult for us
to decide when where and how much to
give so as a default we often give to
the most popular or low-risk charities
not because we’re truly inspired but
because it’s the easiest thing to do so
as we look beyond the way philanthropy
is currently practiced an opportunity
exists through technology to connect
more people like you with causes that
will inspire and trigger an act of
generosity in context of innovation AI
has been called the new electricity and
holds the power to solve each of the
Aristotle barriers from forecasting the
weather to reading x-rays or watching TV
AI is already shaping the platform that
almost every business sector operates
except for one the nonprofit sector
right now the nonprofit sector is at an
inflection point so monumental that it
will define the future of generosity
this inflection point hinges on the
sector’s ability to quickly leverage
machine learning technologies and while
both the for-profit nonprofit sectors
have access to massive amounts of data
the nonprofit sector lacks the financial
resources to maximize it one reason as a
result of how nonprofit organizations
are legally structured and evaluated by
society and the expectation that about
80 cents on the dollar goes to the
mission and 20 cents goes to operations
and that’s fine but it leaves things
like innovation a luxury that most
nonprofits just can’t afford 1955 the
Rockefeller Foundation took a risk to
fund a research project at Dartmouth
College where John McCarthy and a team
of scientists coined the term artificial
intelligence and while the foundation
didn’t fund the full proposal they
funded half the stated this suggests a
modest gamble for exploring a new
approach but there’s a great deal of
I didn’t see about risking any
substantial amount at this stage more
than any other hurdle the concept of
risk is something that nonprofit
organizations have the hardest time
convincing donors to support still it’s
an amazing parallel that philanthropy
help kicks our AI and it’s AI that holds
the power to unlock generosity without
funding to leverage AI the nonprofit
sector won’t be afforded the same
opportunity but AI can help nonprofit
organizations reach new heights and
finally break the 2% barrier we’re all
very aware that nonprofit or that
for-profit organizations use AI to track
our digital footprint things like our
LinkedIn profile Instagram likes
Facebook posts and tweets or all gather
together to better understand our buying
patterns an effort to sell us a product
but what if the same concept could be
used in non-profit doing increased
generosity and this is where the concept
of precision flam’s becomes in precision
plans we could easily uncover my
association to eradicate polio 17 years
ago I served on a team that canvassed
neighborhoods in India to help determine
where polio no pullian occupations were
needed but unless you’re a friend or
family member you never know how
meaningful this was to me because only
uncorrelated bits of data exist that
would seem insignificant to anyone in
the public view but if you did a little
searching you probably find a benign
reference to this point on the bottom of
my LinkedIn profile and if you search a
little more you might find a fairly
relationship – my father-in-law dr. Otto
Estelle who spent a significant portion
of his life as a volunteer through
Rotary International to help end polio
but it would be almost impossible for
any person to correlate all of my shares
posts and likes when Bill Gates
announces that another country has been
declared polio-free so you would think
that with my personal experience and
passion for this effort that I’d be the
ideal donor toward ending this
debilitating disease but to prove
Aristotle’s point I’ve never been
solicited so I haven’t given because it
hasn’t been easy enough for me to
determine when where and how much to
give while countless bits of data
represent clues that represent clues to
things that inspire us they’re scattered
all over the Internet and putting it
together would be like doing a thousand
piece jigsaw puzzle but the pieces
all over your house in drawers and
cupboards under stacks of magazines in
the refrigerator in the garage even
Sherlock Holmes would have to spend days
or weeks just trying to find the pieces
but machine learning technology has the
has the ability to find the pieces and
put the puzzle together in just seconds
so let’s just be ten you’re one of those
people who watch that slow motion
commercial with animals and cages and
Sarah McLachlan singing in the
background
it could happen you might even be one of
those people that occasionally watching
like one of the two million cat videos
online with just a few data points like
make a note of nation or watching
sharing or liking a cat video an animal
welfare organization powered by machine
learning could dramatically increase the
chances that you’ll give again and at a
higher level by matching your passion
with purpose and customizing your
solicitation efforts your engagement
your communication to feature mittens a
kitten instead of Duke the dog but
predicting generosity isn’t easy giving
is a very personal thing with hundreds
if not thousands of psychological and
economic variables most of which aren’t
nearly as identifiable as liking a cat
video but guided by AI the future of
generosity can collect our clues of
inspiration and create a customized
roadmap to our philanthropic journey
into paraphrase aerosols words make it
easier to give and not just give but
more deeply engage the causes that are
most meaningful to us so as we partner
together nonprofit organizations
philanthropists like you and for-profit
experts can collaborate to solve some of
the world’s most pressing issues by
matching passion to purpose through
machine learning the positive impact on
humanity will be enormous as we overcome
the Aristotle barriers through AI
because it’s not limited choices that
prevent us from taking action
instead it’s lack of inspiration that
holds us back from getting more deeply
involved and the stakes are high because
this is not a race for market share it’s
our responsibility to improve the human
condition because new tools finally
exist for you and I to do more good for
humanity than any other generation
before us and since the measurement of
success is based on our collective
impact on humanity the adoption of AI
will only be made possible if we’re
willing to take a risk and invest in
innovation
so as we work together to make giving
easier through AI lets you and I commit
to finally breaking the 2% barrier and
make the world a better place because
generosity is not merely a transaction
it’s a partnership that binds us
together for the love of humankind thank
you [Music]
happened that changed the direction of
my life it was a year that my father
abandoned me and her family in the year
that my mom took on the responsibilities
of caregiver and sole breadwinner taking
on several jobs just to put food on the
table but despite these circumstances
I’m grateful for the lessons that I
learned I learned the value of hard work
by running my double paper out seven
days a week and I learned about teamwork
and how to cook for my sister as we work
together to prepare our meals and I
learned about perseverance by watching
my mom day after day support our family
and although we didn’t have a lot I
learned what I think is one of the most
important lessons of all that no matter
your wealth your age your race your
religion that every person has the
ability to give so when I was in ten
years old I remember going to my first
fundraiser at straw-hat Pizza to help
raise money for the cerebral palsy
foundation and in junior high or
remember helping build wheelchair ramps
for Habitat for Humanity and in high
school I remember getting up early on
Saturday mornings driving an hour to
downtown LA in my VW Bug to help make
hundreds of sandwiches loading the
sandwiches and the shopping carts and
wheeling the carts down alley after
alley to provide a meal and a caring
touch for those in need
and although we didn’t have a lot
growing up I was taught the importance
of giving back to others as much as we
received so I shouldn’t have been
surprised that after starting and
selling a few businesses and thinking I
was going to make my mark in the private
sector that I found myself dead center
in the business of generosity for almost
20 years and as a professional
fundraiser and scholar on the evolution
of giving I believe right now is the
most exciting but also the most critical
time in the history of philanthropy the
term philanthropy comes from the Greek
simply translates the love of humankind
it embraces all people cultures and
generations and since the birth of
Western civilization philanthropy serves
as a catalyst an economic driver for
societal change and while every selfless
act is intended to benefit others it
also binds you and I to a shared legacy
of giving that helped champion women’s
suffrage abolish slavery and eradicate
smallpox
and through partnerships in philanthropy
today type 1 diabetes will be cured in a
few years
polio is about to be eradicated in
millions of people around the world are
provided the basic necessities of food
and water every day so last year
Americans gave almost 400 billion
dollars to philanthropic causes and
while that sounds like a lot of money
consider that philanthropic giving has
been pinned to roughly 2% of the gross
domestic product for the past several
decades and the average American still
gives just above two percent of their
income to charity so I think most of us
would agree that there’s some room for
improvement especially when you consider
there’s still so much need hurt and
oppression but also so many
opportunities all around us to help make
the world a better place but in order to
fill these gaps in society we need more
and stronger partnerships between worthy
causes and people like you because even
with one point two million nonprofit
organizations in the u.s. advances in
technology with things like the internet
celebrity endorsements and concerned
billionaires giving away millions at a
time that philanthropic giving has only
increased by 2/10 of 1% of the GDP in
the last 20 years this means that while
our the economy grows our gifts to
charity continue to be about the same
proportion of our income year after year
but the problem isn’t whether or not
we’re generous people and it’s not that
we can’t afford to give more the real
issue that keeps us from giving and give
you more is that we haven’t had the
tools to solve a problem that was
identified 2,300 years ago so let me
explain around 340 BC Aristotle wrote to
give away money is an easy matter and in
anyone’s power but decide whom to give
it to how much when for what purpose and
how to give it is neither in everyone’s
power nor is it easy matter even with so
many advances in society and technology
the Aristotle barriers from 2,300 years
ago or what hold you and I back from
increasing our generosity but what if it
was possible to increase giving to 3
percent of the GDP in the United States
alone a 1% increase in giving would
translate to almost 200 billion dollars
a year to improve societal conditions
for this and future generations and just
imagine the possible
if we could inspire giving to 3% around
the world so today I hope to at least
spark a conversation but I’d rather
start a movement that crosses all
boundaries and involves all people
because every person has the ability to
give over the past few years artificial
intelligence has revolutionized our
world and is considered one of the most
significant advances in technology since
the Industrial Revolution and I believe
that AI holds the power to inspire more
giving by making the act of generosity
easier than ever before
the fact is the overwhelming number of
worthy causes makes it difficult for us
to decide when where and how much to
give so as a default we often give to
the most popular or low-risk charities
not because we’re truly inspired but
because it’s the easiest thing to do so
as we look beyond the way philanthropy
is currently practiced an opportunity
exists through technology to connect
more people like you with causes that
will inspire and trigger an act of
generosity in context of innovation AI
has been called the new electricity and
holds the power to solve each of the
Aristotle barriers from forecasting the
weather to reading x-rays or watching TV
AI is already shaping the platform that
almost every business sector operates
except for one the nonprofit sector
right now the nonprofit sector is at an
inflection point so monumental that it
will define the future of generosity
this inflection point hinges on the
sector’s ability to quickly leverage
machine learning technologies and while
both the for-profit nonprofit sectors
have access to massive amounts of data
the nonprofit sector lacks the financial
resources to maximize it one reason as a
result of how nonprofit organizations
are legally structured and evaluated by
society and the expectation that about
80 cents on the dollar goes to the
mission and 20 cents goes to operations
and that’s fine but it leaves things
like innovation a luxury that most
nonprofits just can’t afford 1955 the
Rockefeller Foundation took a risk to
fund a research project at Dartmouth
College where John McCarthy and a team
of scientists coined the term artificial
intelligence and while the foundation
didn’t fund the full proposal they
funded half the stated this suggests a
modest gamble for exploring a new
approach but there’s a great deal of
I didn’t see about risking any
substantial amount at this stage more
than any other hurdle the concept of
risk is something that nonprofit
organizations have the hardest time
convincing donors to support still it’s
an amazing parallel that philanthropy
help kicks our AI and it’s AI that holds
the power to unlock generosity without
funding to leverage AI the nonprofit
sector won’t be afforded the same
opportunity but AI can help nonprofit
organizations reach new heights and
finally break the 2% barrier we’re all
very aware that nonprofit or that
for-profit organizations use AI to track
our digital footprint things like our
LinkedIn profile Instagram likes
Facebook posts and tweets or all gather
together to better understand our buying
patterns an effort to sell us a product
but what if the same concept could be
used in non-profit doing increased
generosity and this is where the concept
of precision flam’s becomes in precision
plans we could easily uncover my
association to eradicate polio 17 years
ago I served on a team that canvassed
neighborhoods in India to help determine
where polio no pullian occupations were
needed but unless you’re a friend or
family member you never know how
meaningful this was to me because only
uncorrelated bits of data exist that
would seem insignificant to anyone in
the public view but if you did a little
searching you probably find a benign
reference to this point on the bottom of
my LinkedIn profile and if you search a
little more you might find a fairly
relationship – my father-in-law dr. Otto
Estelle who spent a significant portion
of his life as a volunteer through
Rotary International to help end polio
but it would be almost impossible for
any person to correlate all of my shares
posts and likes when Bill Gates
announces that another country has been
declared polio-free so you would think
that with my personal experience and
passion for this effort that I’d be the
ideal donor toward ending this
debilitating disease but to prove
Aristotle’s point I’ve never been
solicited so I haven’t given because it
hasn’t been easy enough for me to
determine when where and how much to
give while countless bits of data
represent clues that represent clues to
things that inspire us they’re scattered
all over the Internet and putting it
together would be like doing a thousand
piece jigsaw puzzle but the pieces
all over your house in drawers and
cupboards under stacks of magazines in
the refrigerator in the garage even
Sherlock Holmes would have to spend days
or weeks just trying to find the pieces
but machine learning technology has the
has the ability to find the pieces and
put the puzzle together in just seconds
so let’s just be ten you’re one of those
people who watch that slow motion
commercial with animals and cages and
Sarah McLachlan singing in the
background
it could happen you might even be one of
those people that occasionally watching
like one of the two million cat videos
online with just a few data points like
make a note of nation or watching
sharing or liking a cat video an animal
welfare organization powered by machine
learning could dramatically increase the
chances that you’ll give again and at a
higher level by matching your passion
with purpose and customizing your
solicitation efforts your engagement
your communication to feature mittens a
kitten instead of Duke the dog but
predicting generosity isn’t easy giving
is a very personal thing with hundreds
if not thousands of psychological and
economic variables most of which aren’t
nearly as identifiable as liking a cat
video but guided by AI the future of
generosity can collect our clues of
inspiration and create a customized
roadmap to our philanthropic journey
into paraphrase aerosols words make it
easier to give and not just give but
more deeply engage the causes that are
most meaningful to us so as we partner
together nonprofit organizations
philanthropists like you and for-profit
experts can collaborate to solve some of
the world’s most pressing issues by
matching passion to purpose through
machine learning the positive impact on
humanity will be enormous as we overcome
the Aristotle barriers through AI
because it’s not limited choices that
prevent us from taking action
instead it’s lack of inspiration that
holds us back from getting more deeply
involved and the stakes are high because
this is not a race for market share it’s
our responsibility to improve the human
condition because new tools finally
exist for you and I to do more good for
humanity than any other generation
before us and since the measurement of
success is based on our collective
impact on humanity the adoption of AI
will only be made possible if we’re
willing to take a risk and invest in
innovation
so as we work together to make giving
easier through AI lets you and I commit
to finally breaking the 2% barrier and
make the world a better place because
generosity is not merely a transaction
it’s a partnership that binds us
together for the love of humankind thank
you [Music]
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