The Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF)
LAAF is a non-partisan, operating foundation (non-grantmaking) that empowers, educates and equips individuals to be more strategic, impactful givers and women to be more effective leaders in the workplace and beyond.
Empowering Philanthropists
LAAF strives to help individual, institutional and corporate donors make their giving more strategic and impactful. We educate individual givers and corporate leaders on how to deploy their unique assets and make more strategic giving decisions using a toolkit of free, online resources and programs.
Empowering Women
Based on Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen's “accessible leadership” framework, LAAF's resources empower women professionals and volunteers on how to define/refine what is most meaningful to them personally, professionally and philanthropically, fuel their leadership trajectories, overcome challenges through specific strategies, tools and tactics, empower others (particularly other women and individuals from underrepresented groups) and help create new processes, policies and cultures in which everyone can succeed and thrive in the workplace and beyond.
Empowering Educators
LAAF was founded to democratize access to the academic resources that Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen created during her 22+ years teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University. Arrillaga-Andreessen created a vast array of Stanford GSB case studies, teaching notes, syllabi and activity guides that empower any lecturer or educator in higher education to teach courses in Individual Philanthropy, Institutional Philanthropy, Social Innovation and Women in Leadership, all of which she has arranged to be available, free of charge, to any educator.
