Partnering For Power: Leveraging Private Sector Alliances
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Session Description
Access to private sector funding, supply chains, reach and expertise can help social entrepreneurs develop win/win scenarios. Health Care Without Harm and Kaiser Permanente promote better environmental and safety practices across the health care system worldwide. Root Capital and Starbucks create supply chains which promote development and protect the environment. College Summit and Deloitte equip American high schools to value their students’ success in college. Learn about the pros and cons of partnering with the private sector and how to find the right partner.
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 15:30, Thursday, March 26, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Vice President, Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser Permanente
As Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kathy is responsible for integrating sustainability into all of Kaiser Permanente’s (KP’s) work for the purpose of reducing health risks associated with environmental factors. Kathy also directs KP’s national Workplace Safety programme. She is responsible for working with labour, management and physicians to align and strengthen KP’s efforts toward the goal of eliminating occupational injuries. Prior to her current roles, Kathy was director of KP’s National Environmental, Health and Safety department. Prior to joining KP, she was an environmental and economic development consultant to businesses and public agencies in the United States and Europe.
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Director Public Affairs, Communications and CSR, Starbucks
Hans van Bochove (1963) joined Starbucks Coffee EMEA B.V. in June 2007 as Director Public Affairs, Communications and CSR. He is responsible for developing and managing the company’s PAC and CSR programs across the Europe, Middle-East and Africa region (including Russia). Previously, Hans worked at Coca-Cola Enterprises for nine years as Director Public Affairs and Communications. In this capacity he developed a CSR policy and published the first public societal report within the Coca-Cola system, setting a benchmark for the company’s current performance in that field. Hans holds a master degree in Business Administration from the Erasmus University Rotterdam / Rotterdam School of Management.
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Willy Foote is founder and CEO of Root Capital, a nonprofit that offers farmers around the world a path to prosperity by investing in the agricultural businesses that serve as engines of impact in their communities. Since its founding in 1999, Root Capital has provided more than $1.7 billion in loans to 770 agricultural businesses in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Together, these businesses have bought and marketed crops for 2.4 million smallholder farmers, reaching over 10 million people in rural communities. Willy is a Skoll Entrepreneur and an Ashoka Global Fellow. He served for nearly a decade on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and serves on the Strategic Advisory Council of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. Willy holds an MS in development economics from the London School of Economics and a BA from Yale University.
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Bruce’s work at Skoll focuses primarily on collective impact issues, many carried over from the Skoll Global Threats Fund (SGTF). A former diplomat, Bruce brings a policy lens to questions of scale, a key focus for all Skoll philanthropic activities. His current remit includes COVID-19 response, climate change, U.S. democracy, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Bruce originally joined the Skoll Foundation in 2008 as communications director, then helped inaugural president Larry Brilliant launch SGTF in 2010, taking on a policy and advocacy role. Bruce ran the nuclear nonproliferation program and oversaw SGTF’s MidEast conflict work, while also playing a leading role in the launch of the Climate Advocacy Lab, SGTF’s primary climate effort which went independent in 2017.
Bruce helped conceptualize and launch two funder collaboratives, Climate Nexus, on climate communication, and N Square, an initiative to bring new players into the nuclear nonproliferation sphere. While SGTF sunset at the end of 2017, Bruce is still on the advisory boards of all three efforts. Bruce also served for a period of time at SGTF’s interim president.
Prior to joining Skoll, Bruce spent nearly a decade in the technology sphere with Oracle and Novell, largely in communications roles. He had a 14-year stint as a diplomat in the U.S. State Department, serving overseas in Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, and Italy, and in various economic roles in Washington, D.C., working on, among other issues, the G-7 process, Middle East peace, European regional issues, Ukraine, and nuclear safety.
Bruce holds a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and a M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Bruce chairs the board of Cazadero Music Camp. A recovering French Horn player, he is now learning the Scottish smallpipes. He also enjoys playing low-key pickup soccer.
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Managing Partner and Founder, Grove Social Impact Partners
J.B. Schramm is Managing Partner of Grove Impact, a national partnership of social change pioneers catalyzing bold systems-change initiatives. Schramm formerly led New Profit’s $25M Learn to Earn fund to help learners achieve economic mobility by weaving work and study together. Forbes named J.B. to its “Impact 30” list of top social entrepreneurs for leading College Summit (now called PeerForward), which was recognized by President Obama with a portion of his Nobel Peace Prize. Selected as the U.S. Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the World Economic Forum (2007), J.B. is a fellow of the Aspen Institute, Skoll Foundation, and Manhattan Institute, and has been published by media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty eight years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address the environmental health impacts related to toxic chemical exposure and climate change. Gary is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm (www.noharm.org), and Practice Greenhealth (www.practicegreenhealth.org). Both organizations were created to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and anchor institutions to support environmental health and resilience in the communities they serve. In 2013, he was awarded the Champion of Change Award for Climate Change and Public Health by the White House. In 2015, Cohen was named a MacArthur Fellow and was a recipient of a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
