Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen on Philanthropy


Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen thinks that philanthropy today changed dramatically compared 10 years ago.

The changes include an increase in social awareness, particularly among the young generation of givers - those philanthropists who participate in social change in a completely different manner as their predecessors, with more active and intellectual engagement in the causes they participate in.

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