Too Big To Be Small
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Session Description
Location: Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre
When non-profit social enterprises outgrow mezzanine stage funders, they still need grants to grow, thrive and scale. Some enterprises may be able to lever debt to achieve large scale change, but find few impact investors offering debt on suitable terms. What strategies and resources can non-profits use to address these seemingly intractable issues? Using a real-life example of the challenges and dilemmas facing social enterprise VisionSpring, this panel will aim to inform and inspire non-profits poised for major growth and those supporting this sector.
Time & Location
Time:
14:30 - 16:00, Thursday, March 29, 2012
BST
Speakers
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Founder and CEO, Innovation Alchemy Consulting Pvt Ltd
Parvathi Menon is the Founder and CEO of Innovation Alchemy and the curator of Alchemix, a growing community of innovation practice. She brings together a passion for development issues, entrepreneurship and a strong belief in the power of innovation thinking to be the critical change ingredient. Innovation Alchemy applies a set of tools, frameworks and methodology to facilitate social enterprises that wish to scale their impact significantly.
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Jordan Kassalow is an eye doctor, social entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder of VisionSpring, the co-founder of EYElliance, and a Partner at Drs. Farkas, Kassalow, Resnick, & Associates. Jordan also founded the Global Health Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-founded Scojo New York. Prior to his position at the Council, he served as Director of the River Blindness Division at Helen Keller International. Jordan is a fellow of Draper Richards Kaplan, Skoll, Ashoka, and is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He was named one of Schwab Foundation’s 2012 Social Entrepreneurs, was the inaugural winner of the John P. McNulty Prize, and was recognized in Forbes Impact 30. VisionSpring has been internationally recognized by the Skoll Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the World Bank; is a three-time winner of Fast-Company's Social Capitalist Award; and a winner of Duke University’s Enterprising Social Innovation Award. Additionally, he co-authored Dare
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Distinguished Teaching Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Maura O’Neill through her work in the public, private and academic sectors have created entrepreneurial and public policy solutions for some of the toughest domestic and global problems. Maura has started four companies in the fields of electricity efficiency, customer info systems and billing, e-commerce and digital education. In 1989, she was named Seattle Business Person of the Year.
President Obama appointed her the first Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Counselor to the Administrator at USAID where she had responsibility for inspiring and leading breakthrough innovations in $22 billion of foreign assistance worldwide. Maura co-led USAID Forward, the Agency's major reform initiative as well as oversaw over 600 global public-private partnerships. Groundbreaking ones included mobile money; supply chain elimination of ingredients/packaging from virgin forests; water and health interventions; gender equity and entrepreneurship. Maura is most well known for adapting venture capital and drug discovery methods to development by co-creating the Development Innovation Venture Fund. She served on the White House Innovation Cohort assisting with innovation across the federal government.
Maura was Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary at U.S. Department of Agriculture, and served as Chief of Staff in the U.S. Senate (Cantwell D-WA) addressing the 2008 financial crisis, oil price explosion, renewal of clean energy tax credits and range of domestic and international issues.
Currently at the Business School at UC Berkeley Maura received 2016 Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also has taught at Stanford and Columbia Universities and regularly advises early stage companies, global government institutions and foundations.
Maura is founding Vice Chair of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women (public charter school). She has M.B.As from Columbia University and UC Berkeley; PhD from University of Washington.
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President, Visa Foundation
Graham Macmillan is Head of Global Philanthropy and Volunteerism at Visa where he is responsible for developing and executing Visa Foundation’s grantmaking and investing strategy worldwide. Visa Foundation seeks to support inclusive economies where individuals, businesses and communities can thrive. Through grants and investments, the Foundation prioritizes the growth of gender diverse and inclusive small and micro businesses. The Foundation also supports broader community needs and disaster response in times of crisis.
