Lisa Wolverton on Philanthropy
Episode 5, Season 2, of the MPNL program’s “PhilanthroThink Podcast”
What Does the New York Stock Exchange Have to Do with Philanthropy?
In Episode 5 of the PhilanthroThink Podcast (below), MPNL hosts Jonathan Harline and Mekayla Dionne talk to Lisa Wolverton, President of Forward Global, about a partnership with investors and wealth creators who know that the economy isn’t working for everyone.
Lisa is also Director of the Wolverton Foundation. In the podcast, she shares how her path began with community work focused on families and children, and how that work grew through her board service and her family’s foundation. One idea has shaped much of her work: communities know what communities need. That shows up in her support for organizations overseas, as well as in her family’s support for arts access for young people at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music, in Vancouver.
A key part of the conversation is the idea of “enoughness”: asking what wealthy families truly need, what they want to leave behind, and what capital they can move now. Lisa explains how that reflection can help open up more funding for organizations working on climate change, Indigenous-led solutions, women’s leadership, and community-led change, while also challenging funders to think differently about power, legacy, accountability and trust.
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