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Changing Careers to Change the World

Tuesday, August 25, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time

Increasingly, people who work outside of the nonprofit world are pursuing long-held dreams of starting a charity to attempt to solve many of the world's most intractable problems.

But establishing one's own nonprofit organization is not easy, and often presents a set of challenges not usually found in the business world. So how do you set up a charity? What are the toughest obstacles? And how are these new charities and the people who establish them changing the philanthropic landscape?

Join us on August 25 as we hear from a woman who, after leaving the high stakes world of Wall Street, started a charity to help some of Afghanistan's most impoverished women; and another who learned through interviews with those who've established their own nonprofit groups the challenges in trying to respond to, through private philanthropic action, the globe's most pressing social problems.

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The Guests

Connie Duckworth founded Arzu, a nonprofit organization in Chicago that helps Afghan women out of poverty by providing a way for them to earn income selling the hand-woven rugs they make. Arzu also helps the women and their families gain access to education, health care, and other services. Previously, Ms. Duckworth worked for Goldman Sachs, where she was the first female sales and trading partner, and rose to lead the investment firm's Chicago office.

Lisa Endlich is the author of several books, including Be The Change, which tells the stories of 11 people who seek to alleviate social ills through the charities they've established. Ms. Endlich also wrote Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success, and Lucent and the Crash of Telecom. Previously, she worked as a management consultant, a political fund raiser, and a trader and vice president at Goldman Sachs, in New York.

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