Structuring Collaboration: Mergers, Partnerships And New Business Models
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Session Description
To achieve impact at scale, social entrepreneurs are inventing new ways to collaborate with a diversified range of partners. This session will share three successful approaches that have led to sustainable scale: merging two social ventures as a means for collaboration and growth; partnering with government, private sector, banks and endusers, and shaping sustainable development practices through new business models such as spin-offs structured for growth and leverage.
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Thursday, April 15, 2010
BST
Speakers
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Founder & CEO, Dallant Networks, LLC
Paris-born Victor d’Allant is a cultural anthropologist turned digital media practitioner. His work includes field research on French truck drivers in the Middle East, mental health issues in India for the World Health Organization, and agricultural development in Burkina Faso for the World Bank.
He is…
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Sue is CEO and co-founder of Bioregional, a 2009 Skoll awardee, Schwab and Ashoka award-winning social entrepreneur. Sue and team work with partners and clients to create homes, communities and products and services which enable us to live well within a sustainable carbon and ecological…
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Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org, WaterEquity and WaterConnect, three organizations dedicated to empowering people in the developing world to gain access to safe water and sanitation. Gary developed Water.org’s WaterCredit solution, creating new financing options for poor…
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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…
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I have worked in sport for many years - motorcycle racing and soccer. I am co-founder of Riders for Health, founder of Two Wheels for Life and co-founder of The Elders Council for Social Entreprwneurs. My focus is on health systems for communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and on supporting other…
