Donor Collaboration For Issue Level Impact
Friday, April 16, 2010
Session Description
What happens when multiple donors, social entrepreneurs, government and civil society actors collaborate for impact? A groundbreaking initiative funded by AVINA and the Skoll Foundation is a live case study in the power of cross-sector, cross border collaboration. Our panellists – leading funders, experts in policy reform and indigenous land ownership, and innovators in satellite monitoring and data analysis – will discuss the ups and downs of crafting this integrated, multi-network approach and its effect on deforestation reduction and poverty alleviation in the Amazon region.
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Friday, April 16, 2010
BST
Speakers
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Director, AVINA Americas, AVINA Americas
Chair, Social Progress Imperative.
Director, AVINA Foundation
Director and former Chair and President, INCAE Business School
Director, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress
Doctor in Business Administration, Harvard University
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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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Martin Von Hildebrand has spent the last five decades accompanying indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon. During this time, he has been a fundamental actor to obtain the recognition of indigenous communities rights in the National Constitution, including the collective ownership of their land and the development of their governments. They now own 26 million hectares of continuous rainforest. Their rights have been recognized, and they have set up many governments.
Currently, Martin, along with NGOs, indigenous organizations, civil society, governments, and private enterprises, is coordinating the protection of the largest stretch of rainforests on the planet (the northern part of the Amazon between the Andes and the Atlantic, 260 million hectares).
He is an ethnologist with a doctorate from the University of Paris VII, founder and the current president of the Gaia Amazonas Foundation. He has been awarded a dozen international awards.
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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.
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Beto Veríssimo is a co-founder and associate researcher at Imazon, a think and do tank in the Brazilian Amazon. He is also co-founder of Amazon Center for Entrepreneurship. Moreover, he is Co-Director of Amazon 2030 Program, an initiative that seeks to develop an action plan for sustainable development of the Brazilian Amazon and Director of Social Progress Brazil. He received several awards including the 2010 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Verissimo has a graduate degree in Agriculture by Federal University of Brazilian Amazon and Ecology by Penn State University.
