“Today is a unique moment in history, because we are facing perhaps more threats – certainly to democracy than [at] any time since World War II – but also existential crises with climate change, with exacerbation of forced displacement. Today, 120 million people have fled their homes, and some people estimate that perhaps a billion will have been forced from home because of climate change by 2050,” said Sasha Chanoff, Aurora Board Committee Member, Aurora Prize Expert Panel Member, and Founder and CEO of RefugePoint, kicking off ‘The Role of Philanthropy in Humanitarian and Human Rights Interventions’ panel he moderated on May 9, 2024, at the Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum in Los Angeles, California. 

Speakers of the event included Negar Tayyar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Global Whole Being Fund; Amy Rao, Co-Chair of Human Rights Watch Board and Executive Vice President of The Schmidt Family Foundation; and Karen Ansara, Board Chair of NEID Global.