ClassACT HR73 invites you to join us on Thursday, May 2, 7:00-8:30pm EDT for Business and Society: Capitalism Today. Capitalism has been a remarkable engine for growth and development, creating massive wealth, significant increases in productivity, and powerful new technologies.We should not assume, though, that capitalism will last forever, or always be the world’s primary economic system. Wealth and healthcare inequality, climate change, old age and retirement issues are now often associated with capitalism. Can markets, governmental referees, and civil society actors ensure the system continues to benefit us all?

Focusing on businesses large and small, including the energy and tech sectors, panelists Roger Ferguson ’73, Howard Keenan ’73, Nick Sakellariadis ’73 and Gwill York ’79, led by moderator Leigh Hafrey ’73, will explore these issues in their global and cultural context.

James Engell AB ’73, PhD ’78, Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Inaugural Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Salata Institute

 Please join us for the second of ClassACT HR73 Environmental/Climate Change Workgroup’s “Learn at Lunch” series of seminars. Classmate Jim Engell will discuss how  values from his field, the humanities, are changing traditional environmental economics and altering concepts of international and national energy security. Significant transformations in several fields are needed to avert additional tragic consequences of an energy transition that is too slow.  

Slashing emissions, taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and, yes, geoengineering are all required, but essential to their success is a broad mass movement of the kind that propelled civil rights, women rights, and the rights of labor. In addition, central to formulating all climate policies is an awareness of the glaring moral inequalities of climate disruption—wealth inequalities both among and within each nation, as well as issues of intergenerational justice. 

 Following Jim’s introductory remarks, there will be time for Q/A and discussion.

Here are some resources that Jim recommends:

• The Climate Book compiled by Greta Thunberg. “I know of no single book more comprehensive and accessible on almost all aspects of the climate crisis.” 
• Laudate Deum, a short, pointed 2023 version of the Papal Encyclical of 2015.
• Article by Nicholas Stern, Joseph Stiglitz & Charlotte Taylor on new approaches to environmental economics

 contact information:  jengell@fas.harvard.edu

Securing grants enables organizations to better serve their communities, ensures consistent funding, and builds credibility...but what is the secret to securing the elusive grant?

Our classmate and professional grant writer Linda Jackson Sowell can provide some answers.

During this webinar, Linda will focus on the requirements of a well-prepared grant-seeker, the structure of a grant proposal, the process--relationship building with potential funders ( cultivation, solicitation, stewardship) as well as the communities served, and on how to build a win-win structure between grantmaker and grant recipient for various types of grants.

Linda Jackson Sowell, A.B.,'1973, MSPH, 1976, is a graduate of Harvard College, and Harvard Chan School of Public Health in Health Policy and Management.

Linda provides grant-seeking, strategic planning and presentations that promote philanthropy, grantsmanship and wellness/health advocacy as Principal of Abyssinia Group Consulting. She also reviews proposals for federal and state grant programs.

Management roles throughout her career/ community service in hospital/ health care administration, non-profit organizations and university setings have consistently involved responsibility for central office corporate, foundation and government fundraising and institutional advocacy.

She has served as Chair of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) National Corporate & Foundation Relations Annual Meeting; Chair, Grants Committee for the Second Chance Trust Fund, Ohio Department of Public Health; and as member of the Friends of the African American Philanthropy Committee of the Cleveland Foundation.

Linda is also longtime supporter of HR73 ClassAct, the Harvard Club of Northeast Ohio and serves as Co-President of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College Alumni.

ClassACT HR73 is pleased to announce a ClassACTors Learn at Lunch series in Biodiversity, Climate Change and the Environment…an informal monthly zoom meeting to hear, learn from, and ask questions of members of the ClassACT Environmental Working Group and others.