Laura Arrillaga 1

As founder and chairman of Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2) since 1998, Laura Arrillaga has focused on educating individual donors about effective philanthropic giving, strengthening the capacity of nonprofits, and building the knowledge base of the philanthropic field. Her academic research focuses primarily on foundation strategy, practice, and accountability, and it provides the basis for her current book project—the first case-based overview of the philanthropic sector.

Laura K. Arrillaga is the Founder and Chairman of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), a venture philanthropy fund that leverages the financial, intellectual, and human capital of its partners to make a meaningful, measurable impact in the Silicon Valley nonprofit community. She has created and teaches Stanford Business School’s first course on Strategic Philanthropy and Stanford University’s first course on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. Laura serves as Director of the Arrillaga Foundation, which focuses on education and community development in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently writing three books: Strategic Issues in Philanthropy; Strategic Issues in Philanthropy - Teaching Supplement; and Why Love is Not Enough: Your Philanthropic Legacy.

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