Grants Powering Growth: Jet Fuel For Social Impact?
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Session Description
As philanthropists embrace social impact investing, grants can seem somewhat boring, old hat, passé. And yet, the potential for unencumbered resources to catalyse social impact is undeniable. This panel will explore some of the innovations in grant making and grant-powered organisations that are turning accepted wisdom on its head.
Time & Location
Time:
11:00 - 12:30, Thursday, March 31, 2011
BST
Speakers
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Writer & Broadcaster,
Isabel Hilton is a London based writer and broadcaster. She has reported from China, South Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe and has written and presented several documentaries for BBC radio and television. She has authored and co-authored several books and holds honorary doctorates from Bradford and Stirling Universities.
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Managing Director, Social Innovation, Emerson Collective, Emerson Collective
Anne Marie Burgoyne is the Managing Director, Philanthropy at Emerson Collective where she leads the organization’s philanthropic investments across a wide array of sectors, including education, immigration, environmental justice, and health equity. Anne Marie has served on the boards of over 30 nonprofits and is currently on the boards of Hope Enterprise Corporation, The Management Center and Waverley Street Foundation. Anne Marie was a Managing Director at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, a nonprofit Executive Director, an investment banker, and an executive of a technology services company. Anne Marie received her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and holds a BA in English and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two terrific girls and enjoys walking, yoga, cooking and cabaret singing.
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Partner, Sumerian Partners
Chris has a background in business and development. He is a co-founder of Sumerian Partners, and was the former Director of the Shell Foundation. Chris has a track record in applying an “enterprise-based” approach to philanthropy, being an early pioneer of “impact investing”. Through his leadership of Shell Foundation he supported the creation and scale-up of a portfolio of leading global social enterprises. He is the author of various reports including Shell Foundation’s Enterprise Solutions to Poverty (2005), Enterprise Solutions to Scale (2010) and Accelerating Access to Energy (2014). He received the World CSR award for “Social Innovation” in 2013.
Chris completed his Doctorate in Ecology at Oxford University and then set up a business in the environmental services sector. He then acted as senior environment adviser at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). He has worked with a variety of donors, governments, NGO’s and businesses in over 100 low and middle income countries and has lived in both West and East Africa.
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President, Growth Philanthropy Network
Alex Rossides has led both non-profit and for-profit organisations. He served as CEO of Interactive Video Technologies, managing director of Digital Evolution Venture Capital, and as a management consultant at Towers Perrin. In the social sector his focus has been on civic engagement and youth education and development. He founded the Corporate Community Initiative and the College Assistance Program. Rossides serves in numerous volunteer and advisory positions with other NGOs. He has a BA from Dartmouth and his MBA from Columbia.
