How Can I Survive The Financial Crisis?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Session Description
The current financial crisis creates unprecedented challenges for social entrepreneurs worldwide as they deal with heightened funding challenges, consequential decisions, organisational alignment and management of potential trade-offs. Upheaval and rapid change can also bring about new opportunities for focus, innovation and clarity. Join leading practitioners and social sector leaders in this candid, generative and instructive conversation designed to provide social entrepreneurs with ideas, strategies and insights for surviving and even thriving in this climate.
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 15:30, Thursday, March 26, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Dr. Mark J. Plotkin has led ACT and guided its vision since 1996, when he co-founded the organization with Liliana Madrigal. He is a renowned ethnobotanist who has spent almost four decades studying plant use with indigenous healers of tropical America. Dr. Plotkin has previously served as…
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Philanthropic & Impact Investing Advisor, Conine Family Foundation
Namrita is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management and advises environmentally-focused philanthropists, including the co-founder of a Fortune 500 company.. She was part of the founding team of Root Capital; built and led Environmental Defense Fund’s Sustainable Finance strategy; and advised…
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Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters,
BenetechJim Fruchterman is a leading social entrepreneur, a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.
After starting two successful for-profit AI companies, he went on to found Benetech, the award-winning tech nonprofit. He’s built…
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Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network
David Bornstein is CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN), which is leading a global movement to transform journalism, so it becomes a vital real-time mechanism for gathering knowledge and insight to address today's most urgent challenges and threats. SJN has engaged with over 40,000…
