The Power Of Many: Collaborative Impact And Measurement
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Session Description
With growing ambition yet shrinking resources, funders are increasingly interested in the collaborative impact of multiple grantees working together around a common goal. This cluster approach brings challenges for funders who want to structure and measure these initiatives, and opportunities for social entrepreneurs seeking to engage with this emerging phenomenon. This interactive session explores both sides of the equation, bringing perspectives of funders, consultants and social entrepreneurs at the forefront of this trend towards collaborative impact.
Time & Location
Time:
11:00 - 12:30, Thursday, April 15, 2010
BST
Speakers
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Founding Partner, Upstart Co-Lab
Laura Callanan, founding partner of Upstart Co-Lab, is disrupting how creativity is funded by connecting impact investing to the creative economy. Previously senior deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; a consultant with McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office; senior adviser at the United Nations Development Programme; executive director of the Prospect Hill Foundation; and associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation where, in addition to her responsibilities managing the endowment, she co-led the Foundation’s first impact investing efforts. Laura is a board member of GlobalGiving Foundation and Upriver Studios, and a member of the British Council Global Creative Economy Council. She has been a visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a scholar-in-residence at UC-Berkeley/Haas School of Business, a visiting scholar to the American Academy in Rome, and the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship.
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Director, Global Ideas for US Solutions, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Karabi Acharya, ScD directs the Global Ideas for US Solutions portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This portfolio draws inspiration from how other countries are achieving health and well-being for all members of the society and identifies best practices in order to adapt them to improve health and well-being in the United States. She is a public health anthropologist and worked over 20 years on international health and development issues in over 15 countries. Previously, Acharya was global director for Ashoka, a network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, where she led Ashoka’s efforts to document the system changes that Ashoka Fellows achieve. Prior to Ashoka, she worked for the Academy for Educational Development where she worked to bring community voices and perspectives into policy and program design. She was also on faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Karabi holds a Doctor of Science from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and is a Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow. She enjoys crossing boundaries; both conceptual and geographic and practices “Blue Marble Thinking” daily.
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Director, Global Strategy, Riders For Health
Lakshmi Karan is Global Strategy Director of Riders for Health, a social enterprise delivering transportation solutions to millions in the last mile. In the social sector, she was the Skoll Foundation’s Director of Impact Assessment and served as a strategic advisor to global non-profits. In the private sector, she was a management consultant to Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise is in growth strategy and social impact.
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Director, PHINEO
Ina Epkenhans is Director of Analysis and Research at PHINEO. She spent five years in the Future of Civil Society Division at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany. This division supports more effective forms of philanthropy which is why the Bertelsmann Foundation – with partners – recently established PHINEO. PHINEO wants to provide orientation for donors by presenting approaches proven to yield outstanding impacts.
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Lead, Regenerative Food & Agriculture Systems and Nature Based Solutions, Climate Champions Race to Zero campaign
I am an experienced professional with 20 years' full-time professional track record in international development, strategic philanthropy, corporate responsibility, and partnership-building for sustainable development and systems change in Latin America, USA, and Europe.
My current professional ambition is on large scale systems change for regeneration, and in finding ways in which we can effectively collaborate and scale systemic nature based solutions to climate change, primarily in Latin America, but drawing on international best practice too.
Currently I do this through collaboration with the COP26 High Level Champions and the Climate Ambition Alliance, as well as through advising on global strategy to Sistema B and the BCorp movement, with a substantive focus of low carbon resilient food systems as a major climate drawdown pathway.
My last career positions have been as Managing Director for Latin America at Porticus, the global international private foundation of the C&A holding; and as International Portfolio Manager for the Amazon Basin at Avina Foundation, where I developed a Pan-Amazon program addressing climate change by developing alternatives to deforestation. I started my career as an international development consultant with the Spanish International Development Agency (AECID), designing sustainable livelihood programs across Latin America.
