also for people like Professor Fritz Vollrath at the University of Oxford, who worked with spider silk but also the silk of nearly anything. But Archduke Franz Ferdinand was supposed to have had one.
what's going to get you to your philanthropic goal? Well--so there was an overall strategy that Columbus had and Ferdinand and Isabella, his philanthropists. But an overall strategy like sail west needs to be implemented, right? It's pretty vague. So what you need next is a plan. So--oh, I'm sorry. Once again, I'm ahead of myself. So the particular strategy we're going to use in this example, by the way, is adaptive learning. And let me tell
million a year. And I think your question is right. How--you can't do the kind of due diligence that Ferdinand and Isabella do when you're giving away the amount of money that most of us in this room, myself included, do for our personal account. What aspects of strategy work? Well, one is being clear about your goals, you know, for example, you know, what do you expect before you look for the organizations, if you're doing disaster
And this mansplaining ego energy is not hard to find comparisons around the world right now. I also think that Imelda and Ferdinand , really, they found each other because they were the same in a lot of ways. And one of the things Imelda said, in her latest documentary that was made about her, called "The Kingmaker," was perception is real.
Earhart and Yuri Gagarin and JFK and whoever else I'm using, we progress through the eras of music, so medieval to renaissance to baroque to classical, and that means everything from the engineers like Ferdinand von Zeppelin who actually created our flying machines to the visionaries like Jules Verne who imagined us
profoundly ingrained in the American psychology and that was reinforced by a very aggressive investigation staged by the Senate Finance Committee under its chief counsel Ferdinand Pakora. The Pakora hearings in 1933 laid out for everybody to see how the nation's biggest bankers had connived to cheat
no changing menus the menu stay Stayed stagnant one of my true mentors even though he passed away before I was born as a man named Ferdinand pant he worked his whole career on developing recipes and evolving those recipes to a
Like, you just have that aura about you. But also, playing such a complex part as Ferdinand is difficult, and you do it very, very well. So thank you. So I saw the show last Sunday.
Gaia, and Goldy and Glitter. Do you see the pattern there? Fifi has Freud, Ferdinand , and Faustino. So, we named them through the female line by their--. And so we thought, "Well, what would be an obvious name to name another G-baby?" So, there we go.
when I've followed, you know, any like the Pat Tillman story that you had on which was absolutely, absolutely brilliant. I subsequently saw the, uh, Pat Tillman documentary at sun, leader, uh, Ferdinand Marcos, and as they flew out, the Indonesian soldiers landed by air and by sea in Timor. And they closed the country to the outside world, and they commenced
Isn't she amazing? Thank you so, so much! All right. Next, we will have Jose Llana come up on stage, who plays Ferdinand Marcos in "Here Lies Love," a role that he's reprised from the Public Theater, where he received a Lortell nomination for Best Actor.
Speaking of which, how did you-- so what was that conversation like? Were you like, Mom, Dad, guess what; I got this role playing Ferdinand Marcos? What was that conversation like?
It was Columbus. And finally, it's an interesting irony, and very important historical irony. You probably know that Columbus-- it was possible to organize this expedition because Columbus came to Spanish kings, Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. It was the third time he asked them for money.
sound theory of change, which is the sort of non-profit term for the theory of how the world works. You need feedback and you need to talk about risk. So I'm going to begin by talking about some earlier philanthropists. Does anybody recognize these guys? Ferdinand and Isabella, right? Ferdinand and Isabella are my philanthropists, and their goal was--I would think you could describe it too. One of their goals was to have their grant to get to India, but it was better trade routes to the Far East. More effective--I should
Okay. So before, you know, no philanthropy happens on a blank slate, right? There's always something that has gone before. And the first thing to do if you're a philanthropist starting in an area is learn what the relevant knowledge is in the field. At this point, Ferdinand and Isabella looked to the Hogwarts Press' classic book on, "Navigation In The 15th Century." And they learned about navigation, whether ships--whatever they need to learn about.
And they learned about navigation, whether ships--whatever they need to learn about. Well, I'm talking about philanthropy that is grant-making philanthropy. And if you're a grant maker, you need to look for a grantee. So maybe what Ferdinand and Isabella had in mind was Horatio Nelson, a great--since I'm playing with history, you know, a great leader of a great organization, the British Navy. For better or worse, they ended
learning might work in general and might not work in a particular case. It might be that the population is a different one or if it's just not implemented very well. Why, because I mean, you know, implementing any social change strategy and educational strategy, for example, is difficult. So I mentioned the failed philanthropy of Ferdinand and Isabella, and let's talk a little bit about risk in philanthropy. The risk for Columbus and his