Charity Dinner

Dine with scholars in education and charity.

Stand at the frontier of industry and academia.

Engage. Be inspired.

Summary

Charity Dinner is an annual event held by Spring Foundation at UC Berkeley. We invite leading scholars in education and charity to dine with Berkeley students. Each year, the event sheds light on one commonly discussed topic about social infrastructures, in which guest speakers share their insights through presentations and interviews.

With Charity Dinners, we hope to create a platform to promote conversation on the pressing issues in education and facilitate intellectual exchange. And by establishing connections between aspiring students and industrial pioneers, we strive to build a community of social-impact makers.

Past Events

2018: Learn to Do or Do to Learn

Bringing in a fresh breeze of innovation from an increasingly digitalized and globalized younger generation, Spring Foundation invited some bright minded individuals. They spoke of the creation of new ideas that revolutionize the conventional thinkings surrounding charity.

2017: Futuristic Education

2016: Transformative Charity

2015: Inspiration to Adaptation

We believe charity is not only about donation. Passionate leaders in non-profit businesses continue to put their aspirations into practice. We aim to inspire and pursue creative ideas to maximize the impact of capital and manpower input in charity. Combining creative enterprising with effective administration, social welfare projects will achieve much more.

2014: Many World, One Cause

One cause of charity can have many approaches to it. With the guidance of speakers from law, education, media, public health and finance, participants explored the synergy of different sectors through brainstorming and finding solution to a case study of left-behind children in rural China.