AMCHAM’s financial services committee is hosting a conference next month to help develop the Grand Duchy as a centre of excellence in philanthropy.
Luxembourg venture capitalist Hugo Mahieu will present a case study on how his firm established the Mangrove Foundation, which focuses on global overpopulation and environmental challenges. “Sharing my experience, I want to demonstrate what we did is not something exceptional, that anybody can do it,” he tells Delano.
“It is not only a question of money,” Mahieu explains. “What we have done is combined our time, our experience, our goodwill and our money to create our foundation.” He says, despite his team’s busy schedules it only took less than three months between Mangrove’s initial meeting with the Fondation de Luxembourg--an independent body that advises donors--and the official registration of Mangrove Foundation’s charter.
“I will not go into technical details during my presentation, but I will discuss the initiatives that are available to anyone active in philanthropy in Luxembourg.”
The conference’s other participants are attorney Jean Brucher of AMCHAM’s philanthropy working group, Anne Contreras of Arendt & Medernach, Tonika Hirdman of the Fondation de Luxembourg, Jean-Jacques Rommes of the ABBL, RTL’s Guy Weber, and Jane Wilkinson of the KPMG Luxembourg Foundation.
Thursday, November 10
18:00
Banque de Luxembourg, 14 Boulevard Royale, L-2449 Luxembourg