A Horizon of Possibilities: Meet Sam Gill of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

In this episode of Community Possibilities, Sam Gill joins me to talk about his work with the Doris Duke Foundation. She was "always a woman of her times" and that is reflected in her funding priorities and the Foundation trys to follow her example today. Sam shares the history of the Doris Duke Foundation and who Doris Duke was. She was a woman a head of her times in many ways. 

• Mission and Values - Supporting the well-being of people and the planet for a more creative, equitable and sustainable future.
• Funding priorities of the Foundation.
• Why the Foundation’s is committed through a diverse and equitable biomedical research workforce as a founding member of the 90 strong, STEMM Opportunity Alliance. 
• Disruption describes when the structure of a market changes. Sam shares how disruption can help everyone participate in the market of science and how that will promote equity. 
• How their work helps address the fundamental causes of child abuse and neglect to reshape the child protection system and gets to how it makes decisions about who is a fit parent. The Foundation is working with state agency's who want to look at the child systems in an upstream way. 
• Why this is a hard time to be an institutionalist. 
• How coming to the answers to some of our hard questions means questioning institutions, but may not mean dismantling them and how the margins of conversations help 
• How Building Bridges helps tell the stories of Muslims in various ways.
• The role of philanthropy can play in advancing social justice and equity by funding many possible  solutions. Why debate will help us get to solutions to societies biggest probelms.
• His advice for people working in communities (have tenacity, take energy by polarization, look for opportunities for collaboration

Sam Gill
President and CEO of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation 

Samsher (Sam) Singh Gill is president and CEO of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which supports the performing arts, medical research, the environment and child well-being. He is also president of the Duke Farms Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. 

Previously, Gill served as senior vice president and chief program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and vice president of Freedman Consulting, LLC. 

Gill attended the University of Chicago and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

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