Broads Circle Philanthropy Forum: The Legacy of Women

 Broads Circle Co-ed Cocktail Event

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

5:00 - 7:30 pm

CNSI at UCLA
(California NanoSystems Institute)
570 Westwood Plaza
Building 114, MC 722710
Los Angeles, CA 90095

(Next to Parking Area 9: Parking information and a PDF map
are available for download on our website here.)

Darya Allen-Attar, Broads Circle Founder, and Susan Rubin, Managing Director of CNSI, invite you to join us for a delightful evening with our distinguished panel of leading women philanthropists in Los Angeles. The panel discussion will focus on how they have risen to the top and the legacy they have built for future generations. 

 Panelists: 

Betsy Wood Knapp
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Philanthropist
Director, Knapp Family Foundation

Sheri Biller
Chairperson of the Board, City of Hope
President, The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation 

Dallas P. Price-Van Breda
Trustee and Founder, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Director, Price Family Foundation

Moderator:

Jocelyn Tetel
Vice President Advancement, Skirball Cultural Center
Advisory Board Member, Broads Circle

BETSY WOOD KNAPP
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Philanthropist  
Director, Knapp Family Foundation

As an entrepreneur, she founded (or co-founded) companies providing technology-based services, video learning programs, TV shows and cookbooks and new media products/innovations. As an angel-investor, she supports new technology start-ups and is part of an informal network of investors who support emerging companies. As a philanthropist, she is actively engaged with her alma-mater, Wellesley College, UCLA and the Knapp Foundation in grant-making and fund raising for a variety of charitable organizations.

At UCLA, she is the first woman elected to Chair the Board of Directors of the UCLA Foundation (2008 – 2010).  The UCLA Foundation manages over $1 billion in privately endowed funds and actively promotes philanthropy for the benefit of UCLA. She is now “Immediate Past Chair” of the Foundation and continues to serve on the Investment Management and Nominations Committees.  Also at UCLA, she serves on the Chancellor’s Competitiveness Council and was a member of the Chancellor’s Campaign Cabinet in the previous UCLA campaign for $3.2 billion.  She also serves on the Board of Visitors Executive Committee at UCLA Anderson.

At Wellesley College, she is in her 15th and final year as a Trustee (term limits).  She co-Chaired a comprehensive (capital) campaign that raised $475 million, a record among private liberal arts colleges, in 2005. She Chaired the Trustee Development Committee (4 years) which is responsible for oversight of all private fundraising.

Through the Knapp Foundation, Betsy and Bud Knapp have made many gifts and grants which reflect their interest in supporting the arts, education and medical research.  Some examples are the Betsy Wood Knapp Center for Media and Technology and the Knapp Social Science Center at Wellesley. At UCLA Anderson School of Management, she has endowed a Chair in Innovation and Creativity; is a co-creator of the KICK Conference for Women (KICK means ‘Knapp Innovation, Creativity and Knowledge’), and with her husband has endowed the Knapp New Venture Competition.  Betsy calls herself a “venture philanthropist,” as she embraces new ideas that reflect her technical expertise, but also open doors to creative new ventures.

Long a supporter of advancing women in business and the professions, Betsy is a founding member of several by-invitation women’s organizations:  Committee of 200, the Wellesley College Business Leadership Council, Women Corporate Directors and the International Women’s Forum. 

SHERI BILLER
Chairperson of the Board, City of Hope 
President, The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

Noted philanthropist and community leader Sheri Biller began a three-year term as the first-ever female chair of the City of Hope Board of Directors on July 1, 2010.  Ms. Biller joined City of Hope’s board in 2000 and most recently served as vice chair of the board and chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee.

Sheri and her husband Les founded The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation in 2001 with a commitment to actively serve and support Los Angeles-based programs in K-12 public education, theatre arts, career training and supportive care.

After losing two dear friends to breast cancer, Sheri recognized a systemic need for a fully-integrated supportive care facility for families and caregivers of patients that are dealing with life-threatening disease. She worked in partnership with City of Hope to create the Sheri & Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center, which opened in 2008.  The center has piloted revolutionary SupportScreen technology which allows City of Hope’s health professionals to provide immediate, individualized care.

Sheri has served in leadership roles as an advisor on board development, and as board member for many non-profit organizations in Los Angeles, including the Kayne Eras Center, The Rape Foundation, Children’s Burn Foundation, and Center Theatre Group (CTG).  In 1999, she founded Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle, which has raised over $7 million for CTG’s renowned student theatre arts education program and reached over 315,000 public school students since its inception.

Before moving to Los Angeles in 1999, Sheri lived in Minneapolis and San Francisco, and spent 10 years in Europe living in Milan, Italy and London, England.  In Minneapolis, she founded and chaired the Ordway Circle of Stars, the volunteer organization of the Ordway Music Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota.  The organization recently honored Sheri with the Ordway’s Education Award for Vision.

DALLAS P. PRICE-VAN BREDA
Trustee and Founder; President Emeritus of the Board of Trustees
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

Director, Price Family Foundation 

Dallas P. Price-Van Breda was Vice President and a major shareholder of American Golf Corporation, which operated over 250 golf courses throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Australia.  She was also a major shareholder of National Golf Properties, a Real Estate Investment Trust traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and was co-owner of Supermarine, a fixed base operation, located in Santa Monica, CA.  Dallas is also Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Museum of Flying located at the Santa Monica Airport, Santa Monica, CA.

A Trustee and Founder of the Museum of Comtemporary Art, Mrs. Price-Van Breda is President Emeritus of the Board of Trustees, and was MOCA's 2005 Honoree, she is a benefactor and serves as a member of the Curator's Council and the Director's Forum.  She is a member of the Fellows of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and she also served on the Board of Directors for the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and was a member of the Cal Arts "Red Cat" Council.  She is a member of The Blue Ribbon of the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County.  She was on the Advisory Council to the Los Angeles Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, Los Angeles Chapter (ARCS) and has been honored by the ARCS Foundation as their year 2000 Honoree, and concurrently, was named by Big Sisters of Los Angeles as their Honoree for 2000, receiving their Corporate Leadership Award.  In 1984, Dallas was Co-Commissioner of Basketball for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.  She joined the UCLA Foundation Board of Trustees in 1989, served on the Campaign Cabinet, and was on the Board of Governors and the Board of Directors.  She helped establish the David G. and Dallas P. Price Chair in Law, the first endowed chair created at the UCLA School of Law, and helped with the funding for the new Law Library.  Dallas is a member of UCLA's School of the Arts & Architecture's Board of Visitors and is a Trustee of St. John's Health Center Foundation.  She is also a member of the New York Explorers Club.

Mrs. Price-Van Breda is a Director of the Price Family Foundation, which focuses on the needs of children and families, and has completed work on an emergency shelter for Girls & Boys Town in South Central Los Angeles.  Dallas is co-founder and on the Board of Directors of Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, (a Middle School and High School) which opened its doors the Fall of 2000.

Mrs. Price-Van Breda plays tennis, paddle tennis, golf, has competed in six marathons, is a supporter of Colorado Outward Bound, an instrument rated pilot, and an accomplished mountain climber.  She has climbed the "Seven Summits," consisting of the highest mountain in each of the world's seven continents, including Mt. Elbrus in Europe (in the former Soviet Union); Denali (Mt. McKinley) in Alaska; Aconcagua in South America (in Argentina's Andes); and in January 1994, the Vinson Massif in the Antartic.  In 1990, she was part of the International Peace Climb on Mt. Everest.

Mrs. Price-Van Breda was born and raised in Pasadena, CA, received her B.A. degree in Business from the University of Southern California, were she was in the Delta Gamma Sorority.  She is the mother of five and grandmother of ten and is married to Bob Van Breda.

AGENDA

 Private Premium Members Dinner to follow cocktail event (by invitation only)

REGISTRATION

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• Event Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
• Event Location: CNSI at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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Broads Circle Advisory Board 

DARYA ALLEN-ATTAR, Financial Advisor, Founder and Chairman

CHERYL A. CALHOUN
Managing Director, CBIZ Accounting, Tax & Advisory Services, LLC

JOY CHUDACOFF, Founder, Smart Women Smart Solutions
Coaching and Consulting Services for Women

FAY FEENEY, CSP, ARM
CEO, Risk for Good

CAROL GEFFNER, PhD
CEO, ArpegioHealth, LLC

DANA GOLDINGER, J.D.
The Dana Goldinger Group

NEDA RAZAVI
Marketing Manager, BioTherapeutics Analytics, Baxter Bioscience

JOCELYN TETEL
Vice President Advancement, Skirball Cultural Center

TRACY OLMSTEAD WILLIAMS, President & CEO
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