Catalyst’s Fall Update with a Special Guest Speaker, Vu Le
Saturday, October 10, 2026
3:00-5:00 pm
Hanna Center
17000 Arnold Dr.
Sonoma, CA 95476
For our Fall Update, we invited a special guest speaker…
We held a compelling conversation with nationally recognized nonprofit and philanthropy expert Vu Le.
Le, known for his wise, witty, and sometimes irreverent take on the funder-nonprofit relationship, led a community conversation exploring how funders and nonprofits can help—and sometimes hinder —one another, and how the Sonoma Valley nonprofit community can work together to overcome what holds it back.
About Vu Le
Vu Le ("voo lay") is true thinker in philanthropy, as well as a humorist, vegan, Pisces, and the Founder of Philanthropic AF, a consulting firm based in Seattle, WA. He is the author of the new book Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Vu's passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves.