| Home | |
| About | |
| What is Philanthropy Day? | |
| Sponsor / Exhibitor info | |
| Our Sponsors | |
| Keynote Speaker | |
| Honorees | |
| Schedule | |
| Scholarship | |
| Committee | |
| AFPLI Website | |
| CFRE Website | |
| AFP International | |
| Contact | |
2010 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Stephen G. Post
KEYNOTE TITLE:
Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Benefits of Giving
It’s good to be good. This is kitchen table wisdom, central to most moral and spiritual traditions. This “helper therapy principle" is the core of self-help movements, and has roots in the very origins of American psychiatry. Science now shows that self-giving individuals are happier, healthier, and even live a bit longer than those who are not pro-socially engaged. Getting started as a pre-teen (12-year-old) creates a protective halo over the course of a life. Join us on Philanthropy Day 2010, when our keynote speaker, Stephen G. Post, will inspire and energize us with a broad integrative presentation and discussion of these findings, coupling science, the humanities, and spirituality. Stephen G. Post is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Director/Founder of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. Post is a leader in the study of altruism, compassionate health care, and love in the integrative context of scientific research, health care delivery and outcomes, philosophy, and religious thought. He was previously Professor in the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and Senior Research Scholar at the Becket Institute of St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University. Post is a Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and a Senior Advisor for the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Post is a Trustee of the John Templeton Foundation, Founder of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love and author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People (with J. Neimark). Post is the primary author of over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals He has written seven scholarly books on altruism, compassionate care, and love, and is also the editor of nine other books, including Altruism & Health: Perspectives from Empirical Research, and Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue, both published by Oxford University Press.
