Matt Damon and Gary White, Co-Founders of Water.org and WaterEquity, receive Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Eli Broad, Founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, is presented with Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy
NEW YORK (September 19, 2017) – Forbes hosts today, on its 100th anniversary, its sixth annual Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy under the theme “Solutions for the Next 100 Years.” Forbes magazine’s special centennial issue, released today, highlights 100 of the world’s greatest living business minds and their ideas for the next 100 years. In this spirit, for the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, Forbes is convening over 200 of the world’s leading philanthropists, social entrepreneurs and business leaders from around the world for a critical discussion on the depth of increasingly complex global challenges and the opportunity for innovative ideas and practices to solve them.
Royal Bank of Canada is a presenting sponsor, HNA is a partner sponsor and McKinsey & Company is the Knowledge Partner.
Attendees and speakers include Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway; Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org and WaterEquity; Gary White, Co-Founder & CEO, Water.org and WaterEquity; Malala Yousafzai, Co-Founder, Malala Fund; Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, Co-Founder & CEO, Blackstone; James Simons, Chairman, Simons Foundation, and Board Chair & Founder, Renaissance Technologies; Yuri Milner, Founder, DST Global; Jean Case, CEO, Case Foundation, and Chairman of the Board, National Geographic Society; Patrice Motsepe, Founder, Motsepe Foundation, and Founder & Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals; Wang Jian, Chairman, HNA Group; Adam Tan, Vice-Chairman & CEO, HNA Group; Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Chairman, Yunus Centre, and Winner of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize; among many others.
“For six years, we’ve gathered the world’s greatest givers to figure out solutions to the world’s most intractable problems,” said Randall Lane, the editor of Forbes magazine, who oversees the summit. “For Forbes’ centennial, we’re looking at the problems of the next 100 years, and we have our greatest gathering yet to tackle these challenges."
Participants come together to brainstorm breakthrough ideas for the future to address issues like universal water security, education, extreme poverty, and gender equality, while emphasizing business’ efforts to promote social good and create real, meaningful change. The onstage conversations this year will envision the world we’d like to see in 2117 and explore how to get there. Imagine: A World With Educational Equality, A World With Safe Water and Sanitation For All, A World With Interstellar Travel and Life Beyond Earth, and A World Where Girls Have The Same Opportunities As Boys. Led by the consultants at McKinsey & Co., summit participants will also take part in interactive brainstorming sessions, focusing on different structural approaches to philanthropy to make a lasting impact.
Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org and WaterEquity, and Gary White, Co-Founder & CEO, Water.org and WaterEquity, receive the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Eli Broad, Founder, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, is presented the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy
During the summit’s special lunchtime program:
- Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org and WaterEquity, and Gary White, Co-Founder & CEO, Water.org and WaterEquity, receive the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
"When Forbes gathers the philanthropists in 2117,” said Matt Damon. “We can make them wish they’d been here at this moment—our moment—when we had a problem of this magnitude to solve, and had the ideas… and the resources… and the courage to solve it in our lifetime.”
"We are deeply honored to receive this prestigious award,” said Gary White. “It was extraordinary to be able to engage with some of the greatest minds of our time and share a pathway to solve one of the world's greatest issues, in our lifetime."
- Moira Forbes, Executive Vice President, Forbes Media, and Publisher, ForbesWoman, presents Eli Broad, Founder, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy.
“It’s an honor to receive from Forbes the Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy and join the incredible group of past recipients like Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett,” said Eli Broad. “My wife Edye and I are grateful for each day that we have been able to spend giving back. We hope efforts like Forbes’ Philanthropy Summit and this award will inspire others to do the same.”
Forbes magazine will feature highlights from the sixth annual Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy this November as part of its special Philanthropy issue.
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