Civility in America Series: Civility and New Media at The Ferguson Library

The Civility in America Series returns to The Ferguson Library on Tuesday, February 10 at 6 p.m. Civility and New Media will take place at the Ernest A. DiMattia, Jr. Building of The Ferguson Library. Henry Timms, Executive Director of 92Y in NYC and Founder of #GivingTuesday, will give a talk titled “#Civility: When Old Values Meet New Media.”

As Executive Director of 92Y, Timms creates programs and movements that foster learning, civic responsibility, culture and innovation, both in New York City and around the world. He is the founder of #GivingTuesday, a global philanthropic movement that engages more than 26,000 partners, worldwide and was awarded a Cannes Lion at the International Festival of Creativity; a PRWeek Global Award for Nonprofit Campaign of the Year; and the inaugural UJA-Federation Riklis Prize in Agency Entrepreneurship. Timms co-authored the “Big Idea” in the December 2014 edition of Harvard Business Review on “New Power,” which was just named one of the ten “Ideas of the Year” by CNN. He is a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and was named NonProfit Times Influencer of the Year in 2014.

For more information, call 203 351-8231. Register online at fergusonlibrary.org.

The Ernest A. DiMattia, Jr. Building of The Ferguson Library is located at the corner of Bedford and Broad Streets, Stamford.

The Civility in America Series is sponsored by Sacred Heart University, The Dilenschneider Group and The Ferguson Library in conjunction with Hearst Media Services CT.