TPW West

Your journey begins with a carefully selected cohort in an immersive educational experience in strategic philanthropy.  The Cohort program transforms you and your peers into strategic, highly effective philanthropists. Through four week-long educational modules you learn how to amplify your impact and deepen your personal philosophy of giving.

TPW West forms each year's class with a goal of achieving diversity in gender, age, profession, geographic region, and inherited wealth and newly made wealth. TPW West seeks those who are passionate about making a difference and who demonstrate risk-taking, willingness to collaborate, have respect for diverse visions and ideas, and have a good sense of humor. Some participants are relatively early in their philanthropic journey, at an inflection point, or well-established philanthropists.

The modules provide you with a concentrated, experiential learning framework that focuses on the tools and strategies necessary to lift your game, magnify your reach and help you invent the future of philanthropy.

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COHORT 11 DATES
Module 1: October 15 – 19, 2012
Module 2: January 28 – February 1, 2013 - Washington, DC
Module 3: April 8 – April 14, 2013 - West Bank/Israel
Module 4: May 6 – 10, 2013

THE FIRST MODULE: A NEW LENS
(San Francisco Bay Area, CA)

In the first module, you and your cohort will learn about strategic philanthropy, how to identify the impact you seek to achieve, and how to use different strategies, tools, and tactics to get you there.  Through hands on site visits, meetings with experts, practitioners, and other TPW West members, you learn our unique framework.  

THE SECOND MODULE: ADVOCACY & PUBLIC POLICY  
(Washington, DC)

You will focus on how to use advocacy, media, and partnership to influence policy in the second module, which takes place in Washington, DC.  You will learn how to identify and narrow in on influential targets through sessions with policymakers, media executives, lobbyists, think tanks, and funders of policy change efforts.

THE THIRD MODULE: GLOBAL VIEWPOINT
(International)

In the third module you will gain a clear understanding of the experts, institutions, and philanthropic models critical to the development of an international philanthropic strategy.  Considered by many of our members as the highlight of the four modules, this experience not only advances your knowledge of international giving but exposes you to the strategies, tools, and tactics necessary to create impact in any community. 

THE FOURTH MODULE: THEORY INTO PRACTICE
(San Francisco Bay Area, CA)

In the fourth module you and your fellow cohort members demonstrate how you will use the TPW West impact framework in your own philanthropy.  We support you in the development of  your own detailed assessments, specific goals, and the strategies, tools, and tactics you will employ to make the highest possible impact.

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