Southern Summit on Philanthropy in the Academy
Southern Summit on Philanthropy and the Academy Fall 2019
Led by Dr. Sherry Magill, Duke and UNC-CH will explore our most persistent problems, highlight emerging challenges, and examine promising solutions. We will connect the principle concerns of philanthropic foundations, higher education institutions, and southern communities. What are the missed connections and possibilities between these participants and institutions? What can we build if we work together?
Past Sessions / First Residency, Sept 9-20, 2019
Week One– Unfinished Business: The Past and Future of the South
+ Wednesday, Sept 11, 9 am: Public Forum: 25 years in Southern philanthropy
Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
Presenter: Sherry Magill
+ Wednesday, Sept 11, 4-5:30 pm: Public Panel: The Unfinished Business of the South
Institute for the Arts and Humanities University Room, Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Sherry Magill and David Dodson
Suggested Resources:
- MDC, “Facing South,” 50th Anniversary Report (2018)
- C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012)
+ Thursday, Sept 12, 4-5:30 pm Public Panel: Persistent Poverty and Persistent Racism
Institute for the Arts and Humanities University Room, Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Sherry Magill, Bill Bynum and Karl Stauber
Suggested Resources:
- Toni Morrison, Beloved (1997)
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to My Son.” The Atlantic Monthly 316 (2): 82-91 (2015).
+ Sept Friday, 13, 12-1:30 pm Public Forum: Journalism, Law, and Storytelling
Center for the Study of the American South, Love House and Hutchins Forum, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Steve Suitts, Hodding Carter and Tom Rankin
Suggested Resources:
- The Editor and the Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan
- Hodding Carter, “A Loyal Son of the South” (2013)
- Steve Suitts, Hugo Black of Alabama (2005)
- Tom Rankin, Trudy Wilner Stack, and Ray Suarez, Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2001)
Week Two—EMERGING ISSUES: Climate Change and Human Trafficking
+ Tuesday, Sept 17, 4-5:30 pm Public Panel: Vulnerability and Resilience: Place
Institute for the Arts and Humanities University Room, Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Sherry Magill, Maria Estorino, Dawn Shirreffs and Maria DeGuzman
Suggested Resources:
- PBS, Sinking Cities, Episode 4: Miami (2018)
- Spike Lee, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
+ Thursday, Sept. 19, 4-5:30 pm: Public Panel: Vulnerability and Resilience: People
Morehead Lounge, Graham Memorial Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Sherry Magill, Lawanda Ravoira, Alyssa Beck and Charlene Fletcher
Suggested Resources:
- American Historical Review, “Charlene Fletcher and Elizabeth Hinton on Carceral Studies and Academic Activism” (2018)
- Charlene Fletcher, “Early Stories of Domestic Violence Raise Awareness, Foster Healing” (2016)
- CBS News, “48 Hours Live to Tell: Trafficked” (focusing on Alyssa Beck’s experience) (2018)
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (2018)
Second Residency, Nov 11–22, 2019
Week Three—PERSISTENT ISSUES: HOUSING AND HEALTH
+ Tuesday, Nov 12, 4-5:30 pm Public Panel: Housing Policy and Neighborhood Revitalization
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Sherry Magill, Paul Tutwiler, Shannon Nazworth, Jane Henderson and Wight Greger
Suggested Resources:
- Southern Oral History Program, “African American Credit Unions: An Oral History”
- Amanda Brannon, “Experts: Jacksonville Has An Affordable Housing Shortage” (2019)
+ Wednesday, Nov. 13, 4-5:30 pm Public Panel: Health, Capital, and Philanthropy
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Joan Alker, Mark Holmes, Lin Hollowell and Rachel Seidman
Suggested Resources:
+ Thursday, Nov. 14, 12-1:30 pm Public Panel: Southern Community Capital
Center for the Study of the American South, Love House and Hutchins Forum, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Martin Eakes and Sherry Magill
Week Four—EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE
+ Monday, Nov. 18, 4-5:30 pm Public Panel: Early Childhood Education Makes a Permanent Difference: Northern Neck, VA
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Presenters: Sherry Magill, Laura Bailet, Steve Suitts and Jade Gaskin Hatcher
+ Thursday, Nov 21, 7:00 pm Film Screening + Discussion
Full Frame Theater, Durham NC
AMERICA TO ME
- Presenters: Sandra Conway, Danita Mason-Hogans, Ashley Kazouh
Suggested Resources:
- Participant Media, “America to Me Real Talk: Talking About Race, Identity, and Education”
- Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again” (1938)
- Sonia Nieto, “Affirmation, Solidarity, and Critique: Moving Beyond Tolerance in Multicultural Education” (1994)
About the Keohane Visiting Professorship
The Keohane Professorship recognizes the remarkable contributions of Dr. Nannerl Keohane during her term as President of Duke University, and the unprecedented level of collaboration she and former UNC Chancellor James Moeser created between these two great institutions.
The award was created in 2004 by then Chancellor Moeser and is funded by Carolina graduate Julian Robertson and his late wife, Josie, of New York (parents of Spencer, Duke ’98, and Alex, UNC ’01, Robertson) and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.
About Sherry Magill, Ph.D.
Sherry Magill served as President/Executive Director of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, a private grantmaking foundation located in Jacksonville, Florida, from 1993-2018. During her tenure, Magill led the Fund’s court effort to increase the number of the Fund’s trustees and spearheaded development of the Jessie Ball duPont Center, a nationally recognized retrofitting and repurposing of the defunct Haydon Burns Library into a nonprofit and philanthropic center.
Prior to joining the Fund’s staff in 1991 as Program Officer for Education, Dr. Magill served as Vice President and Deputy to the President of Washington College, a small private liberal arts college located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore where she also taught courses in American Studies and on the American South.
She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in American Studies from Syracuse University. She has served as a senior moderator for the Aspen Institute, and is the founding executive director of the Wye Faculty Seminar, a nationally recognized enrichment program for professors teaching in the nation’s small colleges. Dr. Magill is recipient of numerous honors and awards recognizing her philanthropic and community service.
She has also served on numerous nonprofit boards, and currently serves as vice-chair of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation-Jacksonville (LISC) advisory committee, and as member of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center, and Virginia Community Capital boards.
Conveners:
Elizabeth Engelhardt
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Wesley Hogan
Thomas S. Rankin
Confirmed Participants in Philanthropy and Community Capital:
Sherry Magill
David Dodson, MDC
Bill Bynum, Hope Credit Union, Mississippi
Karl Stauber, Former President and CEO, Danville Regional Foundation
Dawn Shirreffs, Miami Community Foundation
Paul Tutwiler, Northwest Jacksonville Community Development Corporation
Jane Henderson, Virginia Community Capital
Gene Cochrane, Duke Endowment
Lin Hollowell, Duke Endowment
Martin Eakes, Self-Help Credit Union
Confirmed Faculty and Community Partners:
Carolyn Barnes, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Steve Suitts, Emory University
Maria Estorino, Wilson Library, UNC-CH
Maria De Guzman, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-CH
Lawanda Ravoira, Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
Alyssa Beck, Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center
Charlene Fletcher, Indiana University
Shannon Nazworth, Ability Housing
Wight Greger, Redevelopment Consultant, WsG and Partners
Joan Alker, Georgetown University
Mark Holmes, UNC-CH
Laura Bailet, Kaplan Early Learning Company