Social Enterprise News

In this episode, we speak with Julie Samuels, the founder, president, and CEO of Tech:NYC, a network of technology leaders dedicated to fostering a dynamic, diverse, and creative New York. 

In this episode, we speak with Antony Bugg-Levine, a global leader in economic development, policy, and responsible business, and author of the new book, Investing in America.

Two new Tamer Fund for Social Venture awardees were selected after their participation in an application screening round, a due diligence process with student teams from the Columbia Business School course Investing in Social Ventures, and a final pitch to the fund’s investment board.

In this episode, we speak with two extraordinary media leaders — Christy Tanner ’99, the president and CEO of New York Public Radio, an iconic and 100-year-old center for local and global media, and Carroll Bogert, the CEO of The City Reporter, the independent newsroom founded in 2019 to cover breaking news, investigative, and service journalism in New York City. 

Bob Steel is partner and vice chairman of Perella Weinberg Partners; his career has spanned the pinnacles of business, government, and nonprofit leadership.

Angela Buchdahl — the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, the first woman to lead the congregation in its 185-year history, and the author of a new best-selling memoir, Heart of a Stranger — speaks on identity, faith, and the universal search for belonging.

Marla Blow is the president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, the leading philanthropy focused on social entrepreneurship and innovation around the world. 

Anthony W. Marx is the president and CEO of the New York Public Library, the nation’s largest library system and the world’s preeminent public research library. Over fifteen years, Marx has reimagined this storied institution, building on his transformative leadership in higher education as president of Amherst College. A distinguished scholar and political scientist, Marx’s education — in the power of education — was forged by his experience in South Africa in the 1980s.

John Witt is the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, one of the country's most distinguished legal historians, and author of the new book The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.

Deven Parekh is a renowned technology investor, civic leader, and managing director of Insight Partners, the global software investment firm.