About the Sillerman Center
Left to right: Speaker Joel Fleishman with Laura and Robert F.X. Sillerman.
THE SILLERMAN CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHILANTHROPY was unveiled on January 29, 2008. Robert F.X. and Laura Sillerman's Tomorrow Foundation made a generous gift to establish the Center aimed at empowering a growing generation of philanthropists to become more engaged and effective in promoting positive social change.
The Sillerman Center is housed at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, a school of applied interdisciplinary research whose mission is to use knowledge to advance social justice.
Over time, The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy will provide a variety of capacity building services to family philanthropists - and to our own students -- including executive education, forums, roundtables, speakers. The Center will also incorporate social justice philanthropy and models of best practices into existing courses at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, while developing new curriculum.
SUPPORTING DOCTORAL CANDIDATES AND MASTERS STUDENTS AT THE HELLER SCHOOL
The Center is already supporting doctoral students through fellowships and providing master's student with scholarships and funding for internships and research opportunities. The Center will engage in action projects intended to provide an opportunity to apply philanthropic knowledge to real world social change initiatives.
Another activity will be to develop case studies for use in teaching philanthropy that will be widely available to institutions of higher education and form the basis for advanced executive education for those in the field.
