Brown Commencement Weekend special event: A Conversation with Sylvia Brown - RESCHEDULED for Monday, 24th June - 6pm until late
Leveraging her family’s 300-year philanthropic legacy and her 25 years’ experience in international development, Sylvia Brown, CAP® is a passionate advocate of thoughtful and effective giving by ALL donors.
Rhode Island’s Brown Family and the American Philanthropic Impulse.
What fuels a family’s compulsion to philanthropy?
When Sylvia Brown’s father handed much of his inheritance to Brown University in 1995, the gesture maintained a 300-year family philanthropic tradition.
Less than a decade later, at the inaugural symposium of the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, one speaker declared “there were no good Browns.”
Grappling With Legacy was born of the juxtaposition between these starkly opposed perspectives.
Against Rhode Island’s distinctive backdrop, this family saga mirrors America’s evolving urge to do good, providing fresh perspectives on times surprisingly akin to the present.
We have a private room booked at the Railway in putney from 6pm. sylvia will speak from 6:30 with robust conversation to follow. stay for food, drink, discussion, and brown comaraderie until 11pm.