Videos

Watch a series of interviews, panels and storytelling videos with our inspiring clients, partners and experts

Meet our clients

Passionate about family–based care

Meet our UBS Transform Collective member, Neena Vaswani, Co-Founder of Prodigy Snacks, as she shares more on what she’s learning about impactful philanthropy and working with others to drive the change she’s passionate about - children being raised in loving families.

The beauty of giving back quietly

A mother, cousin and son traveled to Africa on one of our insights trips to understand how their social impact investments could move the educational needle in Ghana. They unexpectedly learned something far more fundamental – who they are as a family.

How can wealth create impact?

Meet Bryan Goh, CEO of the Tsao Family Foundation, and hear how investments can help shape the future of society.

Meet our partners

Rising Academies | Africa

Meet social entrepreneur and UBS Optimus Foundation partner Paul Skidmore and learn how he’s bringing quality to thousands of classrooms in Africa to create the best schools for those who need them most.

Pretaterra | Brazil

Maria Angelica Naldi is the daughter of coffee plantation workers in Timburi, Brazil. Today, she's one of the farmers implementing Pretaterra's roadmap for an agroforestry system to help build back biodiversity and drive sustainable land use. Hear firsthand how our partner's approach has helped her land to thrive and supported her community.

Blue Dragon Children's Foundation | Vietnam

The trafficking of women and girls to be sold as “brides” or into forced sex work has been a pervasive issue in Vietnam for the past two decades, affecting tens of thousands of Vietnamese every year. Learn how Blue Dragon Children's Foundation, a UBS Optimus Foundation anti-trafficking grantee, is tackling this epidemic head on, working with philanthropic partners to build an effective and sustainable model to prevent human trafficking.

World Child Cancer | Ghana

Our UBS Optimus Foundation has been working with World Child Cancer and their partner Korle Bu Teaching Hospital’s Centre of Excellence in Ghana to support them in transforming child cancer care. Learn how by spending a few minutes with Augusta Asiedu-Lartey, a Child Life Specialist, as she shares more about her daily work looking after the mental and physical wellbeing of children and their caregivers during treatment there.

Learn from our experts events

State of Philanthropy

‘State of Philanthropy’ introduces five key topics that are central to our philanthropic approach namely: ‘Innovation’, ‘Scale’, ‘Collaboration’, ‘Measurement’, and ‘Risk-Taking’. All of these themes are explored in the context of trust-based philanthropy, COVID-19 and their parallels to Neglected Tropical Diseases. Join Sarah Salomon, Head of Group Sustainability & Impact (GSI) Americas, UBS for a conversation with Bernadette Moffat, Executive Director of the ELMA Philanthropies Services (Africa), and Ellen Agler, CEO of the END Fund.

Innovative philanthropy and outcomes-based funding

We explore the unique opportunity of combining financial sophistication and knowhow with good intentions. Because if we really want to achieve development goals that are measurable and scalable, we need to harness the power of the private sector. And social and blended finance are key to getting us there. Join Phyllis Kurlander Costanza, former Head of Social Impact and CEO, UBS Optimus Foundation for a conversation with Safeena Husain, Founder and Executive Director, Educate Girls, and Priya Sharma, Managing Director, Scalable Innovation, Private Sector Engagement Hub, USAID.

Collective Philanthropy

Your philanthropy can be effective on its own, but by pooling funds and expertise with fellow philanthropists and delivering aligned outcomes, you reinforce each other’s efforts, and achieve exponentially more impact. We believe by working together as a driver of change, we can mobilize the power of collective partnerships among philanthropists, organizations, and governments. Our speakers share their experiences working with other philanthropists, as well as their motivations for and challenges in joining collectives. Tune in to this session moderated by Tom Hall, Global Head Social Impact & Philanthropy, UBS for an insightful discussion with Neera Nundy, Managing Partner and Co-founder, DASRA and Sumitra Aswani, Executive Director, IshK Tolaram Foundation.

Feeding Ukrainian Refugees with World Central Kitchen

Nicole Sebastian, UBS Family Advisory and Philanthropy Services, Senior Strategist, in conversation with Celebrity Chef Marc Murphy

Family Philanthropy Across Generations and Branches of a Family

Sarah Salomon, Head of Group Sustainability & Impact (GSI) Americas, in conversation with Max Disney

The Power of Investing in Proximate Leadership

Jamie Sears, Head of UBS Community Impact Americas, in conversation with Tulaine Montgomery, Co-CEO of New Profit

Applying lenses to your philanthropy

One way your philanthropy can be much more powerful, is by adding an extra layer. In other words, by applying a lens or a perspective to your giving. Think of a lens as putting on spectacles. Out of one lens of the spectacles, you consider your focus area, such as maternal and newborn health - or education for marginalized children. Out of the other lens, you recognize that unless you also tackle challenges such as gender imbalances, climate change or inequality, you can’t achieve your goal. Your vision is optimum only when it is the combination of what each eye sees. And that’s exactly what we discus in this session ‘Applying a lens to your philanthropy’. Join Dr. Nalini Tarakeshwar, Head of Programs and Impact Transparency, UBS Optimus Foundation, for a discussion with Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, Julio Frenk Professor of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Kennedy Odede, Co-founder and CEO, Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO).

UBS Philanthropy Academy

 

Leveraging our 25 years of expertise, our UBS Social Impact and Philanthropy team and network will empower you to approach your philanthropic giving with a more strategic lens. 

Learn more about our UBS Philanthropy Academy

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