The highlight of MCF's 10th Anniversary was a dinner dance held at historic Abbotsford Convent.

During the evening, founding MCF Board member, Adjunct Professor Hayden Raysmith, led an engaging, amusing and often confronting conversation between Peter Hero and Peter Singer, Professor of Bio-ethics at Princeton University.

Responding to the topic 'The values that underpin philanthropic giving', both related their experiences of 'modern' philanthropists, especially in the US, who have made their fortune at a young age through the dot.com boom.

Peter Hero, with his greater experience of local place-based giving at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, stressed the difference that strategic philanthropic giving can make in local communities in the US, while Peter Singer focused more on the extraordinary impact that similar amounts of funding can have on alleviating problems of world health, such as TB and malaria.