Replication And Scale
Friday, March 28, 2008
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?
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 11:00, Friday, March 28, 2008
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
Assisstant to the Director, Opportunity Youth United
Dorothy Stoneman is the founder and board chair of the first YouthBuild program, started in 1978 and still operating in East Harlem. She created and led YouthBuild USA from 1988 through 2016 to spread this program throughout the nation and internationally with public funds and fidelity to the program philosophy and design. There are now 260 YouthBuild programs in the US and 80 in 21 other countries. Over 200,000 YouthBuild students have built over 35,000 units of affordable housing in their communities while earning their High School Equivalency diploma.
Stoneman is currently the assistant to the director for Opportunity Youth United (www.OYUnited.org) a multi-racial movement of low-income young adults and their allies working to diminish poverty and increase opportunity in America. They have produced a broad policy agenda and organized Community Action Teams in 20 communities.
Stoneman graduated from Harvard University in 1963 and joined the Civil Rights Movement. She lived and worked in Harlem for the next 24 years, in the Public Schools, at the parent-controlled East Harlem Block Schools, and with the Youth Action Program empowering young adults to create community development projects of their own design.
She received the MacArthur “genius” Fellowship, John Gardner Leadership Award, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, Harvard Call to Service Award, and the Boston “Woke White Woman” award. In 2018 she contributed to “Healing Our Divided Society,” a book tracking the 50 years since the Kerner Commission Report. This would be a good read for anyone interested in ending poverty and racism in the United States.
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Dr. Martín Burt is a world-renowned social entrepreneur who has developed anti-poverty and educational social innovations that are currently being implemented worldwide. He is founder (1985) and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, a social enterprise named Latin America’s most impactful and innovative development organization in 2018 by the IADB. Dr. Burt is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum. He has also served as Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay, was elected Mayor of Asunción, and was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce. His latest book “Paraguay without Poverty” was published in November 2023. He has received several international awards. He holds a PhD from Tulane University and is Lecturer & Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Research Associate at University of California, Irvine, and Professor, Master’s Program in Microfinance, at Universidad de Alcalá.
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Director, Stanford University
Debra is focused on achieving a more just and sustainable economic system through collaborative action, human centered design and transformational systems change. She serves on the Boards of the Skoll Foundation, B Lab, IDEO.org, Imperative 21 and the global advisory boards of the African Leadership University and the Wellbeing project. She also works as an advisor to social ventures around the world.
Pre-Covid, Debra was a faculty member at Stanford University's d.school where she co-founded the FEED (Food Entrepreneurship, Education and Design) Collaborative.
Pre-Stanford, 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.
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Speaker
Chuck Slaughter is the founder of TravelSmith and Living Goods, is a managing Director of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and a Senior Advisor to TPG’s Rise Fund, a $5 billion impact investing platform. Chuck earned a BA and Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith, a leading travel gear company, and grew it to over $100 million in catalog and online sales. As an advisor to several private equity funds, he has participated in the acquisition of over $2 billion in consumer businesses. As its pro-bono president Chuck lead the turnaround of a network of clinics serving the poor in Kenya. This inspired him to create Living Goods, which supports government community health workers who provide health care on call delivered to the doorsteps of over 8 million people. Living Goods Smart Health app automates diagnoses, enables managers to optimize the performance of thousands of health workers in in remote villages, and provides real-time, auditable data to health ministries and funders. A RCT shows this approach is reducing child mortality by over 25%, for less than $3 per capita. LG’s is helping partners replicate the model in Uganda, Kenya Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. Chuck serves on the boards of Yale’s School of Management, Tidepool, Digital Square, Aspen Management Partners, PATH’s Digital Advisory Board, and was previously the Vice Chair of the Initiative for Global Development (Co-founded by Bill Gates Sr). He received a Skoll Award, an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Fellowship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year.
