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Today, instead of our regular program, I wanted to play an episode from a show I think you'll love. I'm talking about System Catalysts, a podcast about the incredible people who are fixing the broken systems that run the world. In this episode, English Sall talks to the people behind One Acre Fund, an organization that supports smallholder farmers in Africa through a brilliant social enterprise model. They discuss how to build trust across sectors, something I think all social entrepreneurs should learn to do. If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow the link in the show notes to subscribe to System Catalysts and listen to more episodes. Hope you enjoy it!If you like what you hear, don't forget to follow this link to subscribe to System Catalysts and listen to more episodes:https://lnk.to/nonprofitnationscTake my free masterclass: 3 Must-Have Elements of Social Media Content that Converts
Audrey Kusambiza Bolo is the Global Talent Acquisition Director for One Acre Fund while moonlighting as a a talent consultant & team well-being coach in her company, Your Truth Coach. She joins us to discuss how to build healthy, happy teams that also perform well. Key to this is distinguishing between management and leadership to help us elevate from being primarily focussed on delivery oversight and output management to also managing the strategic vision, team culture and health, and our team's ability to thrive holistically. We explore how leaders can make this transition successfully, and the emotional and social skills necessary to do so. Topics discussed: * How Audrey reframed her definition of leadership when she became a team leader * The need to be strategic about the vision you have for your team's culture and DNA * Being intentional about showing up as the type of leader you want to be instead of leaving it to chance * Embracing vulnerability and authenticity to build buy-in and form deeper connections with your team * How to make time in our busy days to be strategic about how we lead people Learn more about Audrey on LinkedIn, follow her on Instagram, and visit her website to learn more about her new team leadership workshop. -- Book a free 1x1 coaching discovery call or reach out for speaking, leadership development or culture and talent consulting for your company Clarify what you want for your career and how you want to lead with the Discover What Gives You Meaning online workshop Accelerate your career advancement with the Get Promoted online course Find me on LinkedIn and Instagram Sign up to receive my leadership letter, get discounts and early access to events Sponsor an episode
While we're on a season break, we wanted to share an episode from a podcast we think you'll love. It's called System Catalysts, and it's about the incredible people who are fixing the broken systems that run the world. I actually had the pleasure of narrating their first season, so you might already be familiar with it. If you like what you hear, follow this link to subscribe and check out the rest of their episodes. Enjoy!Say More with Tulaine Montgomery and System Catalysts are produced by Hueman Group Media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trust is hard to establish. But it can be done! Even between the most disparate of parties. Don't believe us? Listen as Matthew Forti and Doreen Ndishabandi of One Acre Fund explain how they built trust with local farmers and government agents to combat famine in Africa. If you want to learn more about One Acre Fund, visit oneacrefund.org--If you aspire to be a System Catalyst and need resources to help you on your journey, subscribe to our newsletter. To learn more about our mission and our partners, visit systemcatalysts.com.Subscribe to our YouTube channel This podcast is produced by Hueman Group Media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 5 possibly impactful career paths for researchers, published by CE on January 24, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Charity Entrepreneurship is running a second edition of our Research Training Program (RTP) - a program designed to equip participants with the tools and skills needed to identify, compare, and recommend the most effective charities and interventions. In this post, we discuss possible long-term career paths for researchers and a gap assessment of what skills people might want to prioritize to pursue those. This discussion may be helpful for people considering the RTP program or those more generally wanting to find other ways of building career capital in research. These five roles are based on what we think are potential placements or jobs for our first cohort in the RTP. We have made these all a bit more clichéd and separate than they are - in practice, there is a lot of overlap and nuance among them, and a successful research career often involves aspects from all these role types. These paths can all be exciting for someone who is the right fit. Each of them will inevitably have a high variance in impact, with some low- and some high-impact roles in the mix. Most importantly, we think people tend to forget the vast range of career paths open to someone with strong research skills. In the RTP, we aim to coach participants on what we think would be most cross-applicable between these areas, with a mind to make these positions as impactful as possible. Beyond these specific roles, it is worth noting that being a proficient researcher can be highly applicable to many other positions that require lots of decision-making, such as leadership and executive roles in high-performing organizations. In this sense, good research skills are all about helping you ask the right questions and find the right answers. Role: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for a High-Impact Organization Example: Research and Evaluation Lead at One Acre Fund, Senior Program Officer/M&E at Gates Foundation, MEAL Coordinator at Vida Plena) Mechanism for Impact: This role has an impact by ensuring an organization achieves its goals. Great M&E can often be the difference between highly impactful charities (e.g., GiveWell recommended) and those that are not. M&E helps demonstrate impact, identify pain points, and supervise progress toward stated goals. When done well, it can increase the odds of a charity improving to reach the top of its field. Our sense is the impact of an M&E role correlates quite strongly with the charity's quality and its interest in M&E. A more junior role in an impactful charity may lead to more impact than a senior role in a much less impactful one. Charities also have very different attitudes toward M&E, where working for an organization that values M&E facilitates the impact of your role, and working for one that doesn't can amount to paper pushing. M&E work is sometimes only used as signaling for fundraising, not to determine if the organization is having an impact or identify potential improvements. Persona: The type of person who is good at this sort of role is a bit non-conformist and fairly detail-oriented. Enjoying finding flaws or possible areas for improvement ends up being a pretty helpful disposition here. Relative to other research roles, this role is a lot more applied, so it could be a good fit for someone who wants to spend time in the field and create evidence rather than relying on secondary sources. M&E can be a good fit for someone early in their career who wants to leave options open for more direct charity work and theory-based research. Top skills to build: Although some cause areas (such as global poverty) have a decent pipeline for M&E training (such as the MIT MicroMasters or specific university courses), other cause areas have virtually ...
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Ravi Sreenath is doing great work in Ethiopia by supporting many students and teachers through accelerated learning. Ravi spoke about Ripple Research and how amazingly he has created powerful data for an excellent advisory firm in such a short period. About Ravi Sreenath and his journey. Over the last 16 years, Ravi Sreenath has worked with and advised Fortune 500 companies, multilateral and bilateral organisations, universities, government agencies and startups on strategy and social impact in Asia, Europe and Africa. He has held various positions at UBS Investment Bank, the World Intellectual Property Organisation, One Acre Fund, the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency and the Economic Policy Analysis Unit of the PM's Office in Ethiopia. He has significant strategic and operational expertise in technology, smallholder agriculture, education and capacity building and investment promotion in light-manufacturing and clean technology. Before Ripple Research, Ravi also launched and scaled an award-winning ed-tech startup in Africa. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science Engineering and an MBA from Université de Genève and IIM-A. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support
Panel discussion hosted and moderated by Wahid A. Kamalian from Amaly Legacy featuring Frederic Fournier from Open Forest Protocol, John Mundy from One Acre Fund, and Raphael Haupt from Toucan Protocol. In this session, we explore unique and diverse perspectives on unlocking funds for nature-based solutions via voluntary carbon credits.Podcast Post-Production & Content Strategy Team: Hemangi Sarma, Daniel Nivia & Muna Al Kindy.
Being a leader/manager/founder in a foreign country poses a unique set of challenges, especially one where you stick out as being foreign. Founder and American expat living in Mauritius, Chris Suzdak joins Leadership Coach Akua Nyame-Mensah to talk about what it's like to work and start a business in a foreign country. He also discusses his leadership journey and his experiences with executive coaching.Chris has worked across the African continent for several years and is now based in Mauritius. He is a founder of a new startup, CoffeeChat, a coaching platform trusted by top companies across Africa. From interns to CEOs, CoffeeChat helps democratize access to personalized coaching sessions with peers and professionals to accelerate their growth. In this episode, you'll learn about Chris's leadership journey, from learning to manage large teams to becoming a founder and now looking ahead to building his own team. Chris talks about working with multiple coaches while scaling up teams in Malawi and Zambia and how those experiences inspired him to start CoffeeChat.Highlights in this episode: Chris talks about his motivation to work abroad and how he became a Country Director at a for-profit social enterprise in Malawi, One Acre Fund.An interest in economic development while in college led Chris to Ghana and an early career move into the international development space.Learn about the unique perspective Chris has as a founder working in a foreign country.Chris talks candidly about mistakes he made in business and how the reasons for those mistakes are blurred between being young and naive and being in a foreign culture.Leadership coaching had a profound effect on Chris. He and Akua talked about the benefits and the objections that some have to coaching.Coaching is not a punishment. Akua points out the importance of investing in coaching for good employees rather than those who aren't performing well.Discover how Chris cultivated self-awareness, realizing which type of leadership role would be the best for himChris explains the business he founded, CoffeeChat, a marketplace for coaching, and how it allows for exploring the different types of coaching.His goal is to help companies who know the value of coaching invest in a more efficient way that empowers managers to find the coach/coaching that works best for them.Connect with Chris Suzdak: LinkedIn: @ chrissuzdakWebsite: https://www.coffeechat.co/Connect with Akua Nyame-Mensah:Instagram: @akua_nmWebsite: www.akuanm.comLinkedIn: @akua Nyame-MensahTwitter: @akua_nmGet the secrets to break burnout and overcome overwhelm weekly: www.akuanm.com/newsletterWork with Akua one-on-one: www.akuanm.com/workHire Akua to speak at your organization: www.akuanm.com/speaking
School's out for summer in the HSC Office of Faculty Development! This month, take a few minutes to learn about our team as we prepare great interviews for the fall. In this week's Faculty Feed Bite, we're talking with Rose Twagiramariya, MPD, who joined the team in 2021. Learn about Rose's previous work with One Acre Fund which helps smallholder farmers in Rwanda, and wish her well on her next steps after HSC FacDev!
Talkin’ Solutions: Highlighting Impact Driven Companies Doing Societal Good
We're moving to the continent of Africa in this episode of the Talkin' Solutions Podcast as I sit down with the Managing Director of One Acre Fund Matthew Forti to discuss how they are empowering over 1 million Smallholder Farmers with resources and education to create higher yields, earn more money for their families, grow their communities, and investing in their children's education. One Acre Fund is a non-profit social enterprise that envisions a world where all farmers have big harvests, healthy families, and rich soil. In addition, they focus on adapting to the impacts of climate change on the continent in order to create more sustainable farming practices and diversifying crops. In this episode we discuss:
Doreen Ndishabandi is the Chief of Staff and Director of Government Relations for One Acre Fund, Rwanda. One Acre Fund supplies smallholders farmers with the financing, training, and market support they need to increase their yields and generate a gain in farm income. Globally, One Acre Fund employs more than 8,500 staff who serve more than 1.3 million farm families each year, with an additional 1 million households reached through private and public partnerships. In her first four years at One Acre Fund, Doreen oversaw One Acre Fund's country-scale engagements and partnerships with the Government of Rwanda, as well the program's policy & partnerships, communications, and legal and compliance portfolios. For the last two years she has focused on two areas of organisational strategy: systems change impact and People. One Acre Fund's systems change strategy aims to transform agricultural systems by leveraging the enormous existing potential and years of close partnerships with governments and private actors to address current market failures, advocate for farmer-centered policy change by elevating direct farmer voice, replicate systems-focused interventions that are backed by real evidence, and ensure a more gender-equitable agricultural system. Doreen is also overseeing the Rwanda program's increased investments in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which in the past year has seen an overhaul of our leadership structures as well as equity-driven changes to our performance management and compensation and benefit systems. Doreen is a 2018 Skoll Foundation and Mastercard Foundation Emerging Leaders Fellow and an Opportunity Collaboration Global Skoll Foundation Fellow. Prior to joining One Acre Fund, Doreen worked on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) in Belize and has previously worked with the World Justice Project, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Rwanda, and Youth Action Africa. Doreen attended Tufts University and has a B.A in International Relations.
“What drove me is to help others, to have a transformative impact on their lives… For-profits and non-profits: these are just two different ways to get to the same goal.”- Audra RenyiWhen your entrepreneurial success stems from your passion, there is no limit to the change you can make in the world!Audra Renyi runs two thriving companies, one a non-profit and the other for-profit. As the executive director of World Wide Hearing and the founder of EarAccess Inc., Audra is on a mission to increase the accessibility and affordability of hearing care in areas of great need, and create lasting, impactful change in those communities.Audra is the first guest on the Road to Seven to have been named a Heroine of Health at the WHO World Health Assembly and have won the 2017 Governor-General's Innovation Award!Press play to learn how Audra brings a little business into her non-profit, and infuses her for-profit business with a social mission.In this episode of the Road to Seven podcast, you'll discover:The biggest challenge Audra has faced as a disruptor in her sectorWhat Audra considers when choosing new markets to move intoThe critical, under-served period during which children should be screened for hearing lossAbout Audra Renyi: Audra Renyi is the executive director of World Wide Hearing and the founder of EarAccess Inc. She has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and with Doctors Without Borders in Chad and Rwanda. She was a business consultant in microfinance in Kenya, served as the CFO of the One Acre Fund, and was a Director of Development for Canada World Youth. Highlights: 00:01 Intro02:18 Meet Audra Renyi05:28 Audra's journey06:48 Bringing business into non-profit08:26 Bringing social responsibility into for-profit11:05 Government collaborations11:39 Microfinancing14:05 Biggest challenges 16:16 SheEO & digital shift17:47 Choosing markets20:01 Balancing two companies21:13 What she knows now22:16 What's next? Links:Audra Renyihttps://www.wwhearing.org https://earaccess.comTo work with me and make your next power move, visit:https://shelaghcummins.comStay ConnectedLike what you're hearing? Click here to subscribe in iTunes for more episodes to boost your Road to Seven today! I have more episodes with great tips and conversations with women that are revolutionizing the way we do business - don't miss it!You can also join the Road To Seven Facebook group to meet other like-minded entrepreneurs who want to band together and help each other rise up.I would be grateful if you left a review on iTunes so that others can find and boost their business too! Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review.” I'dlove to hear what your favourite part of this episode is in the comments below. Thank you!Follow me!Join the road to seven FB group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/867037907397297
D-Prize is a grant of $10,000 to $20,000 for businesses that are pre-revenue or early revenue stage. They have two calls for proposals each year and are especially looking to fund local founders. They are specifically interested in a few sectors and within those sectors in rather specific problems. If you address one of those very specific challenges in the application you'll have a lot better chance of winning. The broad areas are: Health Access. Clean Water, Education, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Energy and Public Services. Within health there are specific challenges like Self-Injectable Contraceptives or Develop Medical Oxygen distribution. They are also looking for companies that can scale to 100,000 people impacted in 5 years. Usually, D-Prize is the first funding received by their grant recipients. Their funders include the Gates Foundation, DAK Foundation, and ThankYou. D-prize was co-founded by Andrew Youn of One Acre Fund, Paul Youn and Nicko Fusso. Will previously worked at One Acre Fund before his current role. Apply here: https://d-prize.org/ Will's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wisnider/ ---- If you liked this podcast please subscribe here: https://www.wishesgranted.media/p/newsletter/ Music: Cali by Wataboi
Jenny Best, Founder and CEO of Solid StartsA mom of three, including twin toddlers, Jenny is a baby-led weaning expert and food and farming enthusiast on a mission to make it easier for parents to introduce real food to their babies.Prior to launching Solid Starts, Jenny led global communications at One Acre Fund and Slow Food USA and served many years in the NYC government. Before that she was a professional ballerina with the New York City Ballet. Jenny lives in Brooklyn, where she currently neglects 15 edible plants on her rooftop.Be sure to check out the show notes on our blog at Harkla.Co/Podcast.Brought To You By HarklaThis podcast is brought to you by Harkla. Our mission at Harkla is to help those with special needs live happy and healthy lives. We accomplish this through high-quality sensory products, child development courses, & The Harkla Sensory Club.Podcast listeners get 10% off their first order at Harkla with the discount code "sensory". Head to Harkla.co/sensory to start shopping now.LinksJoin the 30 Day Primitive Reflex Challenge starting in January!Solid Starts Website Solid Starts Courses and WebinarsSolid Starts Instagram Solid Starts FacebookHarkla Website Harkla InstagramAll Things Sensory Podcast Instagram
Karin Underwood is the Founder and CEO of Verano Health, an accessible mobile platform built to provide life-changing diabetes self-management training to low-income Americans with chronic disease. She's spent a lifetime embedded in social impact, from high school service trips all the way to living in Kenya for two years post-college with the One Acre Fund. Karin joins Cause & Purpose to detail her exciting journey as a nonprofit tech entrepreneur and share countless lessons-learned from a lifetime of firsthand experience interfacing directly with the communities she wants to help.
What would you do if you had millions of dollars to invest in impact? Would you put it in an existing charity - or would you try to do something different, something better? Kevin Starr needed to answer these questions when, in 1993, he unexpectedly found himself at the head of a new foundation named Mulago. Instead of taking the path well traveled, Kevin decided to experiment with creating impact that lasts. And so, through the twists and turns of many years, he developed the Mulago Foundation fellows program and investment approach. In today's conversation, Kevin shares how he found his way in the early years of Mulago. He talks about the challenges of early investments and how those lessons are applied to his current approach. Over time, he shares how the Foundation really started to gel once he was able to build common ground with his investors and his awardees. Kevin dives into some of the fallacies and idiosyncrasies of the aid sector, and how he's established a more efficient way of working. Mulago runs lean because it builds on talent and trust - and skips the bureaucracy. Finally, Kevin presents his “playbook for scale”, the six systemic accelerators he sees again and again in his most successful investments. In addition to leading Mulago, Kevin is one of the primary instigators of Big Bang Philanthropy, a group of funders that work together to direct more money to those best at fighting poverty. Mulago Foundation was an early funder of Digital Green, Nexleaf Analytics, Medic, One Acre Fund, Living Goods, Last Mile Health, VillageReach, and Mothers2Mothers. To find out more, access the show notes at https://AidEvolved.com Let us know what you think of this episode on Twitter (@AidEvolved) or by email (hello@AidEvolved.com)
Professor at the Kellogg school of management, Harry Kraemer gives a look at the One Acre Fund which helps small farms maintaining their livelihood. Our spiritual advisor Fr. James Kubicki offers tips on how to keep our vacations Christ centered. All show notes at Harry Kraemer, the One Acre Fund/Fr. James Kubicki, Our Faith on Vacation - This podcast produced by Relevant Radio
Zachary Vinyard from the One Acre Fund talks about how digital projects in Rwanda failed because of too many assumptions about what worked for farmers. His team has a new report on Digital Innovations, and how to get better. Key tips? Break inward. Design experiments so if they fail, the organization bears all of the extra risk and extra work, and the farmers you serve don't have to take it on. Also, don't assume just because the code works that it will work for people. The benefits we care about are to farmers, not to functional code.
Farmers stand at the center of the world, says Andrew Youn, cofounder of One Acre Fund, an agricultural organization that's empowering sub-Saharan farm families with the loans, seeds, fertilizer and training needed to increase crop yields and end hunger. Meet Therese Niyonsaba, a Rwandan farmer who shares how the program helped her family prosper, and learn more about One Acre Fund's goal to lead a farmer-focused green revolution and reach 6.8 million families by 2026. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
Farmers stand at the center of the world, says Andrew Youn, cofounder of One Acre Fund, an agricultural organization that's empowering sub-Saharan farm families with the loans, seeds, fertilizer and training needed to increase crop yields and end hunger. Meet Therese Niyonsaba, a Rwandan farmer who shares how the program helped her family prosper, and learn more about One Acre Fund's goal to lead a farmer-focused green revolution and reach 6.8 million families by 2026. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
Scott Noel, BS '02 and MBA/MEE '04, Director of Enterprise Solutions at One Acre Fund, talks about how a single donation to a Sudanese refugee inspired him to move to Nairobi. From there, he increased his social return on investment through working with One Acre Fund, supplying smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow their way out of hunger and poverty.
Alliance for Science Live - Biotechnology, Agriculture, Ecology and Critical Thinking
What challenges in global food systems, agriculture and the environment will the incoming Biden administration inherit? What opportunities for impact can be utilized across different sociocultural contexts and geographies? Will the richest country in the world be able to realize an inclusive development paradigm that reduces poverty for men, women and children from the Sahel through South Asia to Central America? Will small holder farmers be given the tools they need to sustainably manage their land while producing enough to make a profit? According to the World Health Organization, global hunger was on the rise prior to the emergence of COVID-19. Almost 700 million people went hungry in 2019, and the pandemic is estimated to push an additional 130 million people into food security. Three billion people currently cannot afford a healthy diet, and in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, this is true for 57 percent of the population. On the production side, the Food and Agriculture Organization found that the COVID-19 pandemic is substantially affecting market access for smallholder producers. Amidst these difficulties, farmers can expect to be continually challenged by climate change, depleted soils, stiff competition in markets, and emerging threats from agricultural pests and diseases. Join Colin Christensen and Arif Hossain as they discuss these compelling issues. Colin Christensen is the global policy director of the One Acre Fund, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit that provides financing and training to 1 million smallholder farmers in six countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. Arif Hossain is the executive director of Farming Future Bangladesh, a communications and community engagement initiative that works to improve access to agricultural innovations to ensure sustainable food security. He holds a post-graduate degree in international relations from the University of Dhaka and is a 2015 Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellow.
Today’s guest is Harry Kraemer, a professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches in the MBA and the Executive MBA programs. Previous to that he was CEO of Baxter Healthcare. These two careers have given him a unique perspective on how academia and business work hand in hand. Harry shares his journey from being a student at Northwestern to CEO, and back to Northwestern as a professor. We explore the somewhat strange origin of his first book Becoming the Best and how a student was the forcing mechanism that brought it to life. We discuss the trilogy of books (Becoming the Best, From Values to Action and Your 168) that Harry has written over the last ten years and how the themes all tie together to help you become a value-based leader, running a value-based organization while living a value-based life! All of the profit from the sales of Harry’s books go to One Acre Fund, we highly encourage you to learn more about this incredible initiative. Three Key Takeaways: · Thought leaders can gain a lot from listening to the academic and business communities and developing a perspective that understands both. · Thought leaders need to know their values and their purpose if they want to understand how they affect how you lead and interact with people. · Thought Leaders must live their values even in the face of distraction and difficulty.
Are you living your core personal values? If you look carefully at how you're spending your time, how aligned is it with your core values? It's a great time to step back, take stock, and make some changes that can make a big difference in the year(s) ahead. Our guest Harry Kraemer, author of Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life, highlights how self-reflection can help create greater alignment and flexibility. A Values Based Life Our conversation covers a lot of ground: Why 168 is his favorite number. After the books he's written on leadership, what inspired him to write Your 168. What a life based on values looks like versus one that’s less so. Why self-reflection is so important – and how it's part of his day. How planning and spontaneity can co-exist. What the transition was like for him when he retired – and what led him to teach in the MBA program at Kellogg. What a friend and colleague learned from a wake-up call. The role habits play in a values-based life. Why genuine humility and making a difference are key parts of a values-based life. His involvement in the One Acre Fund. The best way to start if you want to make the most of your 168 starting in 2021. __________________________ Bio Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago, Illinois and a Clinical Professor of Leadership at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He was named the 2008 Kellogg School Professor of the Year. Harry is the author of two bestselling leadership books: From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership and Becoming The Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Baxter International Inc., a $12 billion global healthcare company. He became Baxter's chief executive officer in January 1999, and assumed the additional responsibility of chairman of Baxter's board of directors in January 2000. Mr. Kraemer joined Baxter in 1982 as director of corporate development. His twenty-three year career at Baxter included senior positions in both domestic and international operations. In 1993, he was named senior vice president and chief financial officer, responsible for financial operations, business development, global communications, and European operations. Over the next several years, he assumed additional responsibility for Baxter's Renal and Medication Delivery businesses. He was elected to Baxter's board of directors in 1995, and was named president of Baxter International Inc. in 1997. Before joining Baxter, Mr. Kraemer worked for Bank of America in corporate banking and for Northwest Industries in planning and business development. Mr. Kraemer is active in business, education and civic affairs. He serves on the board of directors of Leidos Corporation, Dentsply Sirona, Option Care Health, Performance Health and Alcami, and on the board of trustees of Northwestern University, The Conference Board, NorthShore University Healthsystem and the Archdiocese of Chicago Finance Committee and School Board. He is a member of the Dean's Global Advisory Board of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is a member of the Council of CEOs, the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Economics Club of Chicago. He is a past member of the Business Roundtable, the Business Council, and the Healthcare Leadership Council. Mr. Kraemer graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University of Wisconsin in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics. He received an MBA degree in finance and accounting from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in 1979 and is a certified public accountant. For his outstanding leadership and service, he received the 1996 Schaffner Award from the Kellogg School of Management. Harry enjoys jogging, tennis,
Harry Kraemer is a professor at Kellogg School and former CEO of Baxter. In his newest book, Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life - he breaks down how to prioritize your life - and this is more than just a time management book. This book offers advice when we all experience imbalance and how to build new habits. All book proceeds benefit One Acre Fund in Africa.You can find out more about Harry at his website: harrykraemer.orgBecome a Patron!Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcastSponsors:LinkedIn Jobs - When your business is ready to make that next hire, find the right person with LinkedIn Jobs. Pay what you want and get the first $50 off. Just visit https://linkedin.com/smart.Georgetown Business School - Explore the Full-time and Flex MBA programs and discover how Georgetown McDonough can help you launch the career you want at choosegeorgetown.com/mba.Donate:Donate here to support the show!
Why have there been so many agri-food deals lately? Plus, the headlines, and this week's Agent of Impact, Andrew Youn, co-founder and executive director of One Acre Fund. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
Why have there been so many agri-food deals lately? Plus, the headlines, and this week's Agent of Impact, Andrew Youn, co-founder and executive director of One Acre Fund. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha-briefing/message
Chris Bliley, vice president of regulatory affairs for Growth Energy, joins us to discuss ethanol issues and Growth Energy's priorities (promoting E-15). Ross Miranti is a manager of partnerships and development for One Acre Fund, which is fighting the hunger season in Africa. Congressman Mike Conaway (TX-11) returns to discuss his thoughts on the Dicamba ruling, CFAP, and the need to learn the results of the Tyson fire investigation.
Gisli Olafsson is a disaster expert, speaker, and advisor on innovation and digital transformation in the social good sector. He is the Chief Technology Officer of One Acre Fund, an African based NGO that is helping small-holder farmers out of extreme poverty. Over the last 25 years, Gisli has responded to disasters across the world, from the earthquake that hit Haiti to the Ebola virus that spread in West Africa, and has worked with organisations like the UN and the World Health Organisation. Gisli and I talk about the spread of the Coronavirus and leadership in times of crisis. He shares his experiences as a disaster expert and explains how we can use what we learned from the Ebola epidemic to help us get through the COVID-19 pandemic. Gisli says that many countries weren't prepared well enough for the Coronavirus outbreak and explains how we can respond to the situation and be leaders in this time of crisis. “You can always be a leader. It's about asking how you can help people in need.” - Gisli Olafsson In This Episode of The Sigrun Show: Gisli's background and experience in handling disasters and crises How behavior change helped to stop the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and how it can also help stop the COVID-19 outbreak Why countries didn't prepare better for the Coronavirus Why the Coronavirus spread so quickly How leaders should respond to this situation and what makes a good leader in times of crisis Why we shouldn't give up and look at opportunities Gisli's book on crisis leadership and response Connect with Gisli Olafsson: GisliO.com Gisli Olafsson on Twitter Gisli Olafsson on Linkedin The Crisis Leader on Facebook The Crisis Leader: The Art of Leadership in Times of Crisis Turnaround resources Here's the truth: None of us have seen a global pandemic before. Some of us have gone through recessions and a few of us have turnaround experience. Personally, I've gone through two recessions that turned out to be great opportunities and was a successful turnaround CEO for a number of years. It's become clearer what we need to do in terms of the Coronavirus - social distancing is the new way - and now the bigger challenge is the global recession where every individual and company will be impacted. But the impact will be smaller the more you prepare and do now. That's why my team and I are here to help. We have put together the following resources to support you in these challenging times. Click here to view all the resources. PR Challenge with Selena Soo With everything that is going on you may think that PR is not important right now. But it is actually one of the best things you can work on right now. I am reviewing my PR strategy right now and doubling down on everything in terms of PR. Knowing how to use free PR in a crisis is actually your best bet of becoming known and winning the war for attention. At the end of the day you'll want to become the go-to-expert that everyone remembers. And that's what you can learn in the PR Challenge. Join the Free PR Challenge Please share, subscribe and review Thank you for joining me on this episode of the Sigrun Show. If you enjoyed this episode, please share, subscribe and review on Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music so more people can enjoy the show. Don't forget to follow and connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Click here to learn how to leave a review, then head over to Apple Podcasts for your chance to win a special thank you gift!
Brian Heese, director, investor relations, One Acre Fund, explains to Innovation Forum's Toby Webb how the fund works and why it has grown from working with 2,000 to 600,000 farmers, principally in eastern Africa. With a 98% repayment rate on the loans One Acre Fund makes to farmers, it is a model that has proved it can work successfully in different markets and at scale.
Building on our prior explorations around the intersection of returns and impact, Aner Ben Ami of Candide and Greg Neichin of Ceniarth lead a conversation picking up on our earlier webinar on their approach to impact-led investments versus "responsible asset management" and looking at it in practice with Global Partnerships and One Acre Fund.Both operating at impressive scale, they have deployed hundreds of millions of dollars in loans. Global Partnerships is now in its 6th debt fund, and has distributed over $280m in loans to about 120 partners in 19 countries. One Acre Fund anticipates working with about 900,000 farmers this year, increasing yields by offering inputs on credit. While they are proving that their beneficiaries are indeed very credit-worthy, they are also adamant that their work should be de-coupled from the idea of a 'market rate' of return. In fact, for One Acre Fund and Global Partnerships, there is an unequivocal trade-off - the higher the return their investors seek, the more limited they are in achieving their impact objectives.In this webinar, Brian Heese of One Acre Fund and Rick Beckett of Global Partnerships share their strategies and discuss the specific opportunity (or cost) they see by offering a lower (or higher) return to their investors.[These "podcasts" are the direct audio recordings of TFIN Webinars. As the original format was a video webinar, please excuse any brief technical difficulties and note that presenters may refer to slides. To watch the TFIN webinar recordings with their corresponding slide decks, please visit http://transformfinance.org/investor-resources/.]
Matt Forti, U.S. Managing Director, One Acre Fund Event: Social Enterprise Conference at the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Links: http://socialenterpriseconference.org/ Sponsors: www.rebelmethod.com/listen Host: Sergio Marrero https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiomarrero/ Music credit: Starlight by NUBY https://soundcloud.com/nubymusik/starlight Keywords: impact innovation startups startup podcast socialenterprise harvard hbs hks africa
Do you ever have the feeling that your work in the Social Impact sector is akin to "plowing the sea?" That is - despite all of the time and effort you've put into your particular program or project, the effects are less than expected or, worse, completely disappear in a relatively short time? This was a lament of Rainer Arnhold, a pediatrician who, despite having helped countless children around the world and dedicating his life to serving others, felt that his work had not produced lasting change. Upon Dr. Arnhold's untimely death in 1993, his family created the Mulago Foundation in his honor. My guest for the 138th Episode of the Terms of Reference Podcast, Dr. Kevin Starr, who was Rainer's mentee and serves as the Managing Director of Mulago, has led the foundation in investments that see to create lasting change at scale. With alumni such as the One Acre Fund, RootCapital and Sanergy, its plain to see they understand what it takes to go the distance.
Anushka Ratnayake of myAgro uses a combination of savings, inputs and training to increase the income of smallholder farmers. As a social entrepreneur, Anushka Ratnayake has seen startup challenges that are not common in other regions. For example, less than a year after launching myAgro, an armed conflict broke out in northern Mali. A group associated with Al-Qaeda set up a new state in Norther Mali. In response, the French military launched an operation and ousted the rebels. Anushka Ratnayake, the founder of myAgro was an early employee with Kiva. There she learned about the power of microfinance to impact poverty. She also worked with One Acre Fund where her job was to develop a repayment process for smallholder farmers. She heard from the farmers that they wanted to prepay their loan, or in other words, they were asking for help in saving money for the future. Seventy percent of the population of Mali are smallholder farmers, most living on less than two dollars per day. The farmers have seasonal income. They have the most cash at harvest time and less cash on hand when it is time to purchase seeds and fertilizer. myAgro sells seeds and fertilizer on layaway via a mobile phone platform. They also provide training on well-established agricultural methods. This helps smallholder farmers grow more food and increase their income. Social Entrepreneurship Quotes from Anushka Ratnayake “Smallholder farmers make up 80% of the two billion people living under two-dollars per day.” “I saw this opportunity of low yields, lots of land and a fast growing population.” “I started hacking One Acre Fund from within.” “When you’re working a startup, everyone’s time and resources are so valuable.” “On the side, I started working with someone on a savings program for a cow.” “There were all doing amazing work, but no one had a savings program specifically for farmers.” “Solving the financing problem for farmers is a key to ending poverty in our lifetime.” “One of the reasons it’s hard to serve smallholder farmers is that they tend to need many different support mechanisms.” “It’s really convenient for farmers to put small amounts of money aside.” “We bulk purchase seeds and fertilizer and deliver it to farmers.” “It’s that combination of financing plus delivery of inputs plus training that really gets us that increase in harvest and the increase in income that we’re seeing.” “Farmers are increasing their harvest from 50% - 100% over a control field.” “They’re increasing their income by an average of $150.” “There was a twelve hour period when it was unclear whether Mali would continue to exist.” “I think social enterprises sometimes under value the impact they have on their team.” “Our favorite day across the organization is delivery day, when farmers get their inputs.” Social Entrepreneurship Resources: myAgro: http://www.myagro.org/
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Stephanie Hanson, director of policy and outreach at One Acre Fund, gives a presentation titled "Can Smallholder Farmers Feed the World?" at Swift Hall on June 25, 2012. Her presentation provides an overview of One Acre Fund's outreach in East Africa in training and equipping small farmers and outlines One Acre Fund's ambitious plans for expansion by 2020. Hanson's presentation was part of a three-day Summer Teacher Institute titled "Feeding the World: Challenges to Achieving Food Security." The Institute was presented by the University of Chicago Center for International Studies and cosponsored by the Program on the Global Environment, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for East European and Russian Eurasian Studies, and the Global Health Initiative. The resources associated with this lecture can be found at: http://cis.uchicago.edu/outreach/summerinstitute/2012/resources.shtml#hanson
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Stephanie Hanson, director of policy and outreach at One Acre Fund, gives a presentation entitled "Can Smallholder Farmers Feed the World?," at Swift Hall on June 25, 2012. Her presentation provides an overview of One Acre Fund's outreach in East Africa in training and equipping small farmers and outlines One Acre Fund's ambitious plans for expansion by 2020. Ms. Hanson's presentation was part of a three-day Summer Teacher Institute entitled "Feeding the World: Challenges to Achieving Food Security." The Institute was presented by the University of Chicago Center for International Studies and cosponsored by the Program on the Global Environment, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for East European and Russian Eurasian Studies and the Global Health Initiative. The resources associated with this lecture can be found at: http://cis.uchicago.edu/outreach/summerinstitute/2012/resources.shtml#hanson
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