2012 Skoll Awards For Social Entrepreneurship
Speakers
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ORGANIZATION Chairman Gawad Kalinga Foundation Mission: Organizing communities towards zero poverty, zero exclusion and net zero carbon Chairman Enchanted Farm Inc Mission: Ending rural poverty through preferential value creation President/Coo BayanAnihan Corporation Mission: Establishing community-based processing hubs Co-Founder 3Zero Global Alliance Mission: Building convergence for individuals and institution to a future of ZERO: poverty, exclusion and net zero carbon MY EDUCATION University of Asia and the Pacific - Certificate Course on Applied Sustainability Management Program - Fellowship on Strategic Business and Macro-Economics Program University of Negros Occidental Recoletos - Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Board Passer) - Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management MY PRESENT ENGAGEMENTS Leading a Team in (1) organizing and on-boarding small holder farmers to a value creation platform based on production fueled by equity not loans (2) engaging corporat
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Social Entrepreneur of the World – World Entrepreneurship Forum, 2012
Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2012
Japan’s Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth, 2011
Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Ernst and Young Philippines, 2010
Social Entrepreneur of the Year – Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, 2010
Top 4 Most Trusted Filipino – Reader’s Digest Asia, 2010
Filipino of the Year, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2006
People of the Year, Philippine Star, 2006
The Outstanding Filipino Award (TOFIL) Awardee for Community Service, 2006
Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership, 2006
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Performers, String Fever USA
No ordinary Quartet - they perform on five and six string electric violins, viola and cello. Neal, the cellist also provides vocal percussion with his superb Beatboxing skills. Stringfever - the world's first genetically modified String Quartet comprises of brothers Giles, Ralph, Neal and their cousin Graham.
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Jim Taylor is the co-founder and chief executive of Proximity Designs – a social business that has created a platform for change across rural Myanmar. The big idea 20 years ago was to treat farmers as customers and design affordable technology and financing so they could escape poverty. After serving over 2 million farm families, and generating +$300 million in new income, the idea still has legs. Jim’s originally from Seattle but has spent the bulk of his career living and working in various parts of the US and in Southeast Asia. He has an MBA and studied economics at Harvard. He currently lives in Chicago.
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Debbie is Co-founder of Proximity Designs, a social business delivering affordable and innovative products for smallholder farms. Proximity designs and delivers innovative and profitable low-carbon farming products and services that help farmers restore fragile soils, protect crops from pest and disease, save irrigation water and grow food in more productive and sustainable ways. Products and services support farmers to transition to regenerative farming practices, while boosting farm incomes by approximately USD 250 annually. Since 2004, Proximity’s products and services have spanned over 10,000 villages in Myanmar, enabling over 5 million people to grow their farm enterprises and afford food, healthcare and education for their families. Aung Din has engaged in design and economic research in Myanmar for over two decades. She is a founding member of the Climate Action for Smallholders (CASH) Coalition.
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Founder, SING
Named as one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, internationally acclaimed singer songwriter and human rights activist Annie Lennox rose to fame with Dave Stewart as Eurythmics in the early 1980’s with the classic album "Sweet Dreams are Made of This.” In the decade to follow, Eurythmics went on to achieve more than 20 international hits, selling more than 80 million albums.
In 1992, Lennox released her debut album, “Diva"…selling over 6 million copies worldwide and establishing her career as a solo artist.
Lennox has received numerous accolades, including 8 BRIT Awards (including Lifetime Achievement), 10 Grammy nominations and 4 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
In 2003, Lennox performed at the inaugural concert for Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS Foundation, 46664. Her experience in South Africa inspired her to found the SING campaign, supporting women and children affected by HIV/AIDS.
A goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS, Oxfam, Amnesty International and The British Red Cross, she is also Special Envoy for Scottish Parliament and the City of London.
She received the Woman of Peace Award at the 2009 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates and in 2011 was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her humanitarian work.
Last year, she was awarded a Fellowship at the 60th Ivor Novello Awards - the first woman to receive it - and earlier this year Elle magazine awarded her the "Outstanding Achievement Award" for activism and campaigning.
The Royal Scottish Geographic Society awarded Annie the prestigious "Livingstone Medal” in March 2016.
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Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, Chandler Foundation
Tim Hanstad is the Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation’s Board of Directors, where he served as CEO for five years. Prior to this, Tim co-founded and was the long-time CEO of Landesa, the world’s leading land-rights organization. He led its growth from a two-person team to a leading global NGO with more than 20 offices around the world. He launched Landesa’s programs in China, the former Soviet Union, and India, where he lived for many years and currently resides.
Tim is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Awardee and a WEF Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. He has authored books and book chapters on economic and social development. He holds two law degrees from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from Seattle Pacific University. He has completed certificate programs at Harvard. However, his greatest learning has come from spending time with those on the socioeconomic margins in more than 20 countries.
Tim is the proud spouse of Chitra and father to four adult children.
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As the first President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, Sally Osberg partnered with Jeff Skoll to build it into the leading philanthropy in the field of social entrepreneurship. During her tenure, the Foundation supported more than 100 entrepreneurial organizations driving equilibrium change on many of the world’s most pressing problems and developed innovative platforms for connecting civil society, government and private sector leaders with societal problem solvers. Among these platforms are the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Said Business School, and the Sundance Institute’s “Stories of Change” initiative.
In 2015, Sally and Roger Martin published Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works, which articulates a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship and distills lessons for practitioners, academics and impact investors. Her thought pieces have appeared in leading social impact and business journals and books; in 2015, she and Roger Martin were honored by Thinkers 50 for their intellectual leadership in the field of social enterprise.
Prior to joining Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation, Sally served as the founding Executive Director for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, a pioneering institution in the field.
Sally currently serves as the Chair of the Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education in Africa) USA Foundation, on the Philanthropy Advisory Council of the Royal Bank of Canada, on the Advisory Council of the Elders, as Vice Chair of the Social Progress Imperative and as a board director for New America and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School of Oxford University.
She received her M.A. in English and American Literature from the Claremont Graduate School and her B.A. in English from Scripps College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Executive Director,
NidanArbind Singh is a social entrepreneur and activist working with informal workers and their children in India .He founded Nidan in 1996 which along with various offshoots today works with more than 10,00,000 informal workers for better laws and polices, livelihood promotion ,access to financial services ,skill building ,enabling workers to seize opportunities in market and promoting social security .Establishing inclusive models of growth has also been an integral strategy along with institution building which includes setting up for profit institutions.
A very successful initiative has been the National Association of Street Vendors of India(NASVI) which has brought security to hundreds of thousands of street vendors in India. NASVI got a National Policy for Street Vendors of India in 2004 which was adopted by 11 states of India .In 2014 ,the Govt of India enacted the Central Law for Street Vendors which mandates participation of Street Vendors in securing their livelihood and creati
