2024 National Philanthropy Day


Logistics

Thursday, December 5, 2024

6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Holiday Business/Cocktail Attire

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

3724 Bill Robertson Ln, Los Angeles, CA 90037

(Please use this address in your gps for parking.)

Agenda

6:30 p.m. Registration and Reception

7:00 p.m. Program Begins

7:20 p.m. Keynote Presentation

7:40 p.m. Awards Presentation

8:25 p.m. 2025 Board Installation

8:40 p.m. Opportunity Drawing

8:50 p.m. Dessert and Networking

9:30 p.m. Event Concludes

2024 Honorees

Congratulations to this year's honorees!

Outstanding Fundraising Professional Outstanding Philanthropist

Megan Hayward

National Director of Development

Social Justice Learning Institute

Esther S. M. Chui Chao

Outstanding Nonprofit Organization

Outstanding Philanthropic Corporation

Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Sheikh/Impact

Outstanding Emerging Professional Outstanding CEO/Founder


Bridget Altman

Associate Director, Major Gifts and Planned Gifts

Natural History Museum

Dr. Edgar Chavez, MD

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Universal Community Health Center (UCHC)

Our Evening's Host

Chris Schauble is co-anchor of the KTLA 5 Morning News weekdays from 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. He also co-hosts “Off The Clock” on the KTLA+ digital app. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2001, Chris has earned multiple awards, including five Emmys and six Golden Mics.

Chris is passionate about his work, family and fitness. He is a former marathoner and triathlete, having completed three Ironman competitions, including the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Chris also coached youth track in the greater LA area for eight years as a USATF Level 1 Coach. During that time he helped dozens of athletes become All-Americans.

Prior to his Los Angeles work, Chris spent time at KCNC-TV in Denver where he covered a number of national stories. His coverage of the Columbine High School shootings helped the station earn a regional Emmy for spot news. In 2000, Chris was named “Television Journalist of the Year” by the Colorado Association of Black Journalists.

Schauble holds a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. He was honored by Fort Lewis College with the 2002 “Distinguished Alumni Award.” In addition to his work as a journalist, Chris has been an instructor of Speech Communications and Media Research Analysis at Miles College in Birmingham, Ala., and was a guest Instructor at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

As an adoptee himself, Chris has dedicated much of his free time to helping needy children. In 2018 Chris was honored as the “Man of the Year” by United Friends of The Children for his work with foster youth nearing emancipation. He has also been recognized by the city of Los Angeles and the state of California multiple times for his ongoing community service.

Chris, his wife and their two sets of twin daughters live in the Los Angeles area.

Our Keynote Presenter

As the head of NHMLAC's Research and Collections Department, which he assumed in 2012, Dr. Chiappe oversees the research programs of more than 25 PhD scientists and the vast biological, geological, and cultural collections of NHMLAC. A vertebrate paleontologist and the Curator of the Dinosaur Institute, Dr. Chiappe has conducted extensive research on the evolution of dinosaurs, from their reproductive behavior to their evolutionary connection with birds. He is considered to be one of the world's authorities on the subject. One other important focus of his is science communication, conveying the relevance of NHMLAC's scientists' discoveries to the media, the public, and Museum visitors.

Chiappe's commitment to public communication is reflected in the Museum's Jane G. Pisano Dinosaur Hall, an award-winning permanent exhibition that he curated about the nature of science and the lives of dinosaurs, as well as in his many popular books and articles. Chiappe¹s research has been published in nearly 200 scholarly articles. He is the author of Walking on EggsGlorified Dinosaurs, and Birds of Stone. He is also a J. S. Guggenheim Fellow, a Humboldt Awardee, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California.

Thank you to our Sponsors!

Thank you to our 2024-2025 Chapter Partners!

Humanitarian Partners

Esther S.M. Chui Chao

Social Good Partners

Altruistic Partners

Inspirational Partner

The Hopf Family