General Session Speakers

Join us for exciting general sessions, with keynote speakers chosen for their ability and experience to motivate, inspire and encourage you. Enjoy and benefit from keynote addresses designed to open the ends of your thinking about what is possible for you and your organization. The addresses will offer discussions of a broad range of topics, including leadership, crisis management, change management, and the ability of the individual to change the world. They will complement the educational tracks, offering a broader view to contrast with the practice-specific sessions. Supported by the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy

Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 4:30 ~ 6:00 p.m
Opening General Session Featuring Lee Woodruff

Lee Woodruff is the life and family contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America and a freelance writer. She is on the board of trustees of the Bob Woodruff Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides critical resources and support to our nation’s injured service members, veterans, and their families, especially those affected by the signature hidden injuries of war: traumatic brain injury and combat stress.

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Monday, April 12, 2010 - 9:30 ~ 11:00 a.m.
The J. Richard Wilson Keynote Address Featuring Peter Thum
Sponsored by Constant Contact

Peter Thum is the founder of Ethos™ Water (www.ethoswater.com) and a pioneering social entrepreneur. Ethos is sold in Starbucks and marketed by Pepsi to other retailers across North America. Ethos grants to humanitarian water programs exceed $6 million, and are helping over 420,000 people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to get safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education. Ethos will grant at least $10 million to such programs by 2010. Thum had the idea for Ethos in 2001 while working in South Africa, where he saw water issues firsthand. He left his job to pursue his vision and led Ethos as its President through its acquisition by Starbucks in 2005. From 2005 to 2008 he managed Ethos and other businesses as a Vice President of Starbucks and served as a Director of the Starbucks Foundation. Thum currently serves as Senior Advisor to Starbucks on the Ethos brand and mission. He is pursuing a new venture and advises various for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 9:30 ~ 11:00 a.m.
The Maurice G. Gurin Lecture on Philanthropy Featuring Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Sponsored by Convio

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. In 1984, Tutu became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is currently the chairman of The Elders. Tutu is vocal in his defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. Tutu also campaigns to fight AIDS, homophobia, poverty and racism. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Tutu has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.

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*These General session speakers are all invited to speak at the AFP International Conference on Fundraising. Schedules and speakers are subject to change.