New York, NY — From July 22-25, 2015, Nexus Global Youth Summit is proud to host 300+ leading millennial philanthropists, impact investors, and social entrepreneurs from across the world at the United Nations to learn, discuss, and collaborate in accelerating solutions to global problems.
This year Nexus will celebrate philanthropists of all generations including Alexander Soros, Stephanie Cordes, and Ray Chambers. Other global leaders speaking at the summit are Deepak Chopra, acclaimed author and Founder of The Chopra Foundation and the Chopra Center for Wellbeing; Gabriela Isler, Miss Universe 2013; Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani; Priyanka Jain, Girl Up Youth Champion; and Tom Chi, Co-Founder of Google X.
Founded in 2011, Nexus unites its 2500+ members from over 70 countries into a community that seeks to create a new, expanded, and holistic definition of wealth, which integrates intellect, talent, time, and motivation with the financial. Nexus has hosted over 20 summits across five continents in the past four years to build bridges between exceptional young people from diverse backgrounds.
“We unite the millennial generation around the most pressing issues of our time to empower them to make the greatest impact with their social, political, and philanthropic capital,” said Rachel Cohen Gerrol, co-founder of Nexus.
Nexus summits have inspired tens of millions of dollars of donations to international nonprofits and have been the birthplace of many significant social enterprises including:
Constellation, an imaging system that empowers patients to conduct quick, cost-effective, full body scans for signs of skin cancer; Good Super, Australia’s first social impact pension fund; and Satisfeito, a movement that prevents food waste and combats child hunger.
In conjunction with the Summit, Nexus is releasing a white paper entitled “Born to Give: A Human Approach to Catalyzing Philanthropy.” The report, supported by the Whitman Institute, proposes that focusing on the social and emotional development behind philanthropy is one of the most effective approaches to increasing the next generation’s impulse towards generosity.
“Social movements happen when a group of passionate and like-visioned leaders come together to make them happen. That is what we are trying to do and what this world needs more of,” said co-founder of Nexus, Jonah Wittkamper.
Nexus proudly operates as a project of the Giving Back Fund, a 501c3 non-profit organization.
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