Friday, March 28, 2008
Replication And Scale
Session Description
Replication is often the challenge standing between a social entrepreneur’s exciting innovation and major impact. This panel will explore examples of different replication models in an attempt to shed light on some key questions: What are the challenges implicit in the replication model? What are some of the internal and external factors that fuel success? What should a social entrepreneur consider in determining which approach to try?
When | Where
09:00 - 11:00
Friday, March 28
Session leaders
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Chuck earned a BA in Architecture and a Master’s in Public and Private Management from Yale. After trying and failing to build successful businesses in bike repair and then documentary film, Chuck founded TravelSmith, and grew it into a leading travel gear company with over $100 million in catalog and online sales. In affiliation with private equity firm Golden Gate Capital, he participated in the acquisition and turnaround of several major apparel brands with combined sales over $2 billion. Seeking to apply his business skills to a more meaningful purpose Chuck lead the turnaround of a system of franchised clinics serving the poor in Kenya. This experience inspired Chuck to create Living Goods, which operates networks of ‘Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth and selling life-changing products, like treatments for malaria and diarrhea, fortified foods, family planning, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods empowers agents with an innovative smart phone app that automates diagnosis, ensures prompt follow ups and provides real time data to every manager on any device. A recent randomized evaluation shows the Living Goods model is reducing child mortality by over 25%, for less than $2 per capita. Working closely with local governments Living Goods is helping solve two of the most vexing problems in community health: how to keep vital medicines in stock, and how to pay the millions of health workers needed. Now LG’s advisory division is helping some the worlds largest NGOs replicate the model in Uganda, Kenya, Myanmar and Zambia. Chuck serves on the boards of Yale’s School of Management and and the Horace Goldsmith Foundation. He received an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Fellowship, a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Co-Founder, FEED Collaborative, Stanford University
Debra is a faculty member at Stanford University's d.school where she co-founded the FEED (Food Entrepreneurship, Education and Design) Collaborative, an exciting partnership between the d.school and the School of Earth that cultivates radical innovation in the food system through human centered design, project-based, experiential learning and social entrepreneurship. She also works as an advisor to social ventures around the world.
Previously Debra was a business executive at Hewlett Packard where the common threads in her broad, 22 year career were driving large scale change, creating new businesses and producing positive social impact and good business results concurrently.
She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation. B Lab and IDEO.org and the global advisory board of the African Leadership University. She is dedicated to food system transformation, social entrepreneurship and sustainable business.
Debra received her BA from Brown University and her MBA from Harvard University.
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Dorothy Stoneman was the Founder and CEO of YouthBuild USA, Inc., from 1990 through 2016. This organization is the national support center for over 260 YouthBuild programs in the USA and the sponsor of YouthBuild International which has brought YouthBuild to 21 other countries. Stoneman is a leader in advocating for youth engagement in civil society and for ending poverty.
After joining the Civil Rights movement in 1964, Stoneman lived and worked for 24 years in Harlem, where in collaboration with local teenagers she created the first YouthBuild program in 1978 and subsequently orchestrated its expansion throughout NYC, then USA, and then internationally.
To work toward the elimination of poverty, Stoneman also serves with the Aspen Institute’s Opportunity Youth Network, Voices for National Service, America’s Promise, National Advisory Board for Public Service at Harvard University, Emerald Cities Collaborative, the Markle Initiative for America’s Economic Future in a Networked World, and Citizen University’s Collaboratory.
In 2012 she spearheaded the creation of the National Council of Young Leaders – Opportunity Youth United and continues to work with them closely as they build out Opportunity Youth United as a grassroots membership organization focused on civic engagement for low-income young adults toward increasing opportunity and decreasing poverty in America, building both racial equity and racial unity.
Stoneman received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2007 and the MacArthur “genius” award in 1996.
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Martin Burt is founder (1985) and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya. He is currently developing two social innovations: self-sufficient schools for chronically unemployed youth and the “Poverty Stoplight”, a new poverty measurement tool and coaching methodology which allows poor families to self-diagnose their level of poverty across 6 dimensions and develop customized plans to overcome not only income-poverty, but also deprivations in 50 indicators. He is visiting professor in Social Entrepreneurship at the American University of Nigeria and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is author of books on economics, development, education and poetry. He is recipient of numerous awards: 2016 Latin American Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Skoll Foundation; Avina Foundation; Fundación Novia Salcedo Prize, Albert Bandura Award, Nestlé Shared Value Award; UNESCO; Global Development Network GDN; BBC World Challenge; Synergos and Eisenhower Fellowships. Formerly he was elected Mayor of Asunción and served as Vice Minister of Commerce and Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay.
