Making his New York speaking debut, Dan Pallotta is a leading expert on innovation in the nonprofit sector. Pallotta will speak to and take questions from nonprofit executives and staff members, institutional funders, philanthropists, business majors, other students, and everyone interested in the nonprofit industry. His controversial new book, Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential, has galvanized debate across the country and garnered endorsements from preeminent nonprofit executives and professionals.

Master classes taught by Vik Muniz, Joel Sternfeld, Mark Morris Dance Company, Members of the New York Philharmonic, Lew Soloff, and others. The featured speaker will be Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind.

On February 11, 2009, Jayme Koszyn was invited to speak to New York's social and philanthropic leaders at New York's Plaza Hotel alongside of Naomi Levine, Executive Director of the New York University George H. Heyman Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising, and Karen Brooks Hopkins, President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music about Fundraising in 2009: Challenges Ahead. See photographs of the event here.

Join some of New York City's most prominent professionals in a roundtable and feedback session generating ideas and solutions for fundraising and development during these invigorating times. Both seasoned professionals and students interested in working for the nonprofit sector are welcome to learn about the complexity of generating diverse forms of contributed income for institutions, especially during this point in the country's economic and philanthropic history. Participants will include Karen Brooks Hopkins, President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and author of Successful Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations and Reynold Levy, President of Lincoln Center and author of Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management.