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In 2015, Crossroads Church, a majority-White evangelical megachurch based in Cincinnati, Ohio, launched a new program to address racial division and racism. In this episode, Hahrie Han discusses her new book Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church, which tells the story of this program and its participants, many of whom changed their thinking, behavior, and relationships after taking part. The impact of Crossroads's Undivided program demonstrates some of the elements of successful antiracist organizing —or organizing in general. These elements include sustained commitment, building relationships across difference, and empowering people to find their own solutions. Hahrie Han is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, the inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute, and the director of the P3 research lab at Johns Hopkins University. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has published four previous books. She was named a 2022 Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year by the World Economic Forum's Schwab Foundation. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic, among other national publications. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669326/undivided-by-hahrie-han/

In this insightful episode of "The Brand Called You," Dr. Shuchin Bajaj, the visionary Founder Director of Ujala Cygnus Hospitals discusses his journey from a resource-constrained background to establishing 22 hospitals with 2500 beds across India. He highlights the importance of providing high-quality, affordable healthcare to small towns and villages, leveraging technology, and engaging with local communities. Learn how Dr. Bajaj's innovative approach is transforming the healthcare landscape for underserved populations. 00:33- About Dr. Shuchin Bajaj Dr. Bajaj is the founder director of the Ujala Cygnus hospitals.  He has the vision to provide super specialty and emergency health care to district towns of the states of India, where no such facilities currently exist.  Dr. Bajaj has also been awarded the Global Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

  Every day, millions of people worldwide lack access to reliable electricity, forcing them to rely on dangerous and expensive alternatives. However, one entrepreneur, Sam Goldman, is on a mission to change that narrative. With degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies, an MBA, and a passion for social transformation, Sam has dedicated his career to making clean energy accessible and affordable to all.  As a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin, Africa, he was inspired to find safer and more sustainable ways to power homes and businesses in underserved regions. His passion for social impact and innovation laid the foundation for d. Light's transformative work. Under his leadership, d.light has positively impacted over 170 million lives in 70 countries, saving customers $5 billion in energy expenses. Unsurprisingly, Forbes recognized him as one of the world's top 30 social entrepreneurs, and he was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Today, Sam leads a project within Innovative Breakthrough Energy Technologies (IBET), where he continues to drive impactful change by addressing lightning-induced forest fires, a significant contributor to global carbon emissions.  Join us as Sam shares the inspiring story behind d.light's inception, from its humble beginnings to its ambitious vision of reaching 1 billion people by 2030. Discover how Samuel's dedication to social impact, resilience, and innovation is lighting the way to a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Follow us on Instagram: @someonelikeyoupodcast. 

Meet Social Impact Pioneer - Hamzah Sarwar as he shares the challenges of combining personal and business purpose. Hamzah takes us on his personal journey, exploring the challenges of trying to create social good, whilst providing for his family. Hamzah is now the Global Social Impact and Partnerships Director at Reckitt, who are a global health, hygiene, and nutrition business, with a presence in over 45 countries and a portfolio including household names such as: Dettol, Harpic, Strepsils, Nurofen, Lemsip, and Durex. Today Hamzah's role extends beyond mere business operations to cultivating meaningful societal change. His journey, however, isn't just a story of open doors and opportunities. It's a tale of passion, resilience, and commitment to social innovation. With over 13 years of cross-functional leadership in marketing, insights & evaluation, brand purpose, and social impact, Hamzah is a living testament to the power of aligning corporate strategies with societal needs. Our conversation centres on the essence of corporate and personal purpose. We delve into how these concepts can drive a business forward and also create a tangible impact in the world. Hamzah, an award-winning practitioner, is celebrated by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the World Economic Forum as one of the top global social innovators. His accolades include being a finalist in the Corporate Social Intrapreneur award for 2024, a Global Fellowship at the League of Intrapreneurs, a One Young World ambassador, and a member of the BMW Foundation responsible leaders' network. Get ready for a practical conversation on how to realise your own personal purpose and a pick-me-up on empowerment. One person can make a difference…and Hamzah humbly explains how. Links: DRUM, Reckitt's Hamzah Sarwar explores the innovation behind winning an award for community engagement: https://www.thedrum.com/tv/video/reckitts-hamzah-sarwar-explores-the-innovation-behind-winning-an-award-for-community-engagement Reckitt and social impact: https://reckitt.com/our-stories/2023/better-lives-for-8-million-people-our-biggest-impact-ever/ Reckitt, Fight For Access social impact investment fund: https://reckitt.com/our-impact/fairer-society/fight-for-access-fund/ Reckitt, WINFund: https://reckitt.com/media-landing/press-releases/2023/increasing-access-to-healthcare-and-climate-finance/ Reckitt, Dettol, The Hygiene Quest: https://www.dettol.com.au/hygiene-quest/ One Young World: https://www.oneyoungworld.com League of Intrapreneurs: https://www.leagueofintrapreneurs.com WEF, 10 Million Social Enterprises, 2024: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/10-million-reasons-for-the-private-sector-to-invest-in-social-enterprise/ Kate Raworth, Donut economics: https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

The following episode was recorded during the 2023 Villars Symposium held by the Villars Institute, where we recorded several short interviews over a period of three days. The Founder Spirit Podcast is proud to be a partner of the Villars Institute, a nonprofit foundation focused on accelerating the transition to a net-zero economy and restoring planetary health.In this episode of The Founder Spirit, we talk to Meagan Fallone, an award-winning social entrepreneur, Founder of Step Up Advisers and former CEO and now Board Member of Barefoot College International about a wide range of topics, from growing up in New Zealand and running a heli-skiing company, to scaling Barefoot to 93 countries and championing climate justice at CARE.How did a former art consultant and founder of a heli-ski expedition company become an award-winning social entrepreneur? TUNE IN & find out from this delightful conversation with Meagan Fallone! For detailed transcript and show notes, please visit TheFounderSpirit.com. Also follow us on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-founder-spirit-podcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefounderspirit_podcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFounderSpiritPodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFounderSpiritTwitter: https://twitter.com/founder_spiritIf this podcast has been beneficial or valuable to you, feel free to become a patron and support us on Patreon.com, that is P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com/TheFounderSpirit.As always, you can find us on Apple, Google, Amazon and Spotify, as well as social media and our website at TheFounderSpirit.com.The Founder Spirit podcast is proud to be a partner of the Villars Institute, a non-profit foundation focused on accelerating the transition to a net-zero economy and restoring planetary health.About This Podcast:Whether you are an entrepreneur, a mid-career professional or someone who's just starting out in life, The Founder Spirit podcast is for you!In this podcast series, we'll be interviewing exceptional individuals from all over the world with the founder spirit, ranging from social entrepreneurs, tech founders, to philanthropists, elite athletes, and more. Together, we'll uncover not only how they manage to succeed in face of multiple challenges, but also who they are as people and their human story.So TUNE IN & be inspired by stories from their life journey!

Philip Wilson is the founder and CEO of Ecofiltro, a social enterprise dedicated to providing clean water to the rural poor of Mexico and Central America. He graduated with an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Notre Dame. He has over twenty-five years of experience as an entrepreneur in the United States and Guatemala, and firmly believes that the world's most pressing problems can be solved by applying business practices to social challenges. He is the founder and CEO of SolucionWeb, the leading web and social media services company in Guatemala. Philip is a member of the board of the Guatemalan Center for Corporate Social Responsibility, was named “Social Entrepreneur of the Year for Central America” by the Schwab Foundation in Davos, Switzerland and “One of the 10 most successful Social Entrepreneurs in Latin America” by New Ventures Mexico. To date, over 800,000 families in rural areas have been served by Ecofiltro and the goal is to reach 1 million families by the year 2025. In 2022, Philip founded El Cubo, an entrepreneurial center whose purpose is to help entrepreneurs create and grow companies in Guatemala. He was our guest on Episode 133 of the Agents of Innovation podcast, where we sat down with him at El Cubo in Antigua, Guatemala and toured the EcoFiltro facilities. Some of this can best be seen here on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/XYaiu5H8f44 You can learn more about Ecofiltro at: https://ecofiltro.com.gt/es/quienes-somos You can also follow Philip Wilson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipwilsonarzu/ Follow the Agents of Innovation podcast on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AgentsOfInnovationPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/innovationradio/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/agentinnovation You can support this podcast and our Fearless Journeys community on our Patreon account: www.patreon.com/fearlessjourneys You can also join our network through the Fearless Journeys community at: https://www.fearlessjourneys.org/

In the sixth episode of the Distributed Energy For People & The Planet series, we are joined by Nirmita Chandrashekar a licensed architect and Senior Program Manager with SELCO Foundation in India, and Bijal Brahmbatt from the Mahila Housing Trust or MHT, a non-profit that was selected as a Women Changemakers India Fellow by Womanity Foundation. In this episode, we will focus on delivering cost-effective renewable energy-based solutions for cooling in India's most underserved communities. This series is hosted by Marilyn Smith of the Energy Action Project (EnAct) and produced in collaboration with Global SDG7 HubsGuest Bios:Nirmita Chandrashekar is an architect and development practitioner. In the 5 years at SELCO Foundation, she has led the Built environment portfolio and anchors core programmes in urban, disaster and cooling contexts.Bijal Brahmbatt  has extensive experience in, and broad knowledge of intersectional challenges that are mediated through housing and habitat, governance (lack there-of), informality, and gender for low-income urban communities and migrants in cities. Bijal is a Fellow (2015) of the Womanity Foundation, Switzerland; a finalist of Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the year, India. She was awarded the Surya Mitra National Award for creating sustainable energy assets for equitable access in Urban Areas by the Selco Foundation. She is a member of the InsuResilience Gender Working Group  of the InsuResilience Global Partnership which works towards gender-sensitive Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance solutions and she has contributed to the InsuResilience Global Partnership Declaration on Gender. Learn more about SELCO Foundation | EnAct | Global SDG7 HubsConnect on LinkedIn:  Marilyn | The Energy Talk | Global SDG7 Hubs | EnActFollow on Twitter:  The Energy Talk | Global SDG7 Hubs | EnAct | Marilyn SmithFollow on Instagram: The Energy Talk | Global SDG7 Hubs | EnAct Subscribe to our newsletter

David Yeung—the visionary cofounder of Green Monday and OmniFoods—has been concerned about the impact of our global food system on the planet for decades. That's why his mission to create delicious plant-based alternatives to popular Asian dishes both pushes culinary boundaries and involves a commitment to protecting the planet, animals, and society.  In this week's episode, David joins Evanna and Melanie to share his wisdom on how small, achievable steps to go meat-free can lead to significant changes in our food system and on how we can unite as a global team to build a more sustainable and compassionate world through our food choices. David and our hosts also explore the psychology of dietary change, offering insights on why shaming and criticism aren't the most effective ways to drive progress, and even touch on the power of meditation for personal transformation. David Yeung is the cofounder and CEO of Green Monday Group, a multifaceted social venture whose mission is to take on the world's most pressing crises: climate change, food insecurity, and public health. This one-of-a-kind integrated platform empowers millions of people to work toward green awareness, action, and economy. David's work earned him the award of Social Entrepreneur of the Year from the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation, among other honors and recognitions. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, the Milken Institute Summit, TEDx, and financial and academic institutions such as UBS and UCLA. David and Green Monday have received international media coverage from the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Nikkei Asian Review, and Reuters. David is a graduate of Columbia University, an Ashoka Fellow, and the author of a number of bestselling books on Zen wisdom and mindfulness. Watch David's TEDx Talk. Check out Green Monday's website and OmniFood's website. Follow David on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X (formerly Twitter). Follow Green Monday on Instagram and Facebook. Follow OmniFoods on Instagram and TikTok. Check out Melanie's new book, How to End Injustice Everywhere. Check out Evanna's book, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting. This season of Just Beings is brought to you by our friends at LeafSide and Vivo Life! Learn more about LeafSide by visiting GoLeafSide.com. Learn more about Vivo Life by visiting VivoLife.com. Stay up to date with Just Beings on social media by following @JustBeingsPod. This episode was edited by Andrew Sims.

Im täglichen Austausch, den die U.S. Botschaft in Berlin mit Deutschen pflegt, wird klar, viele Deutsche haben irgendeine Beziehung zu den USA. In “AmerikaStories” sprechen wir mit verschiedenen Gästen darüber, was sie mit den USA verbindet. In Episode #10 von AmerikaStories spricht Robert Greenan mit Gregor Hackmack. Gregor Hackmack ist Mitgründer und Geschäftsführer der Internetplattform abgeordnetenwatch.de sowie Vorstandsmitglied und Mitgründer der Petitions- und Initiativplattform innn.it. Von 2014 bis 2022 war er Deutschlandchef der internationalen Petitionsplattform Change.org. Er studierte Internationale Beziehungen und Politiksoziologie an der London School of Economics, wurde 2008 als einer der führenden Social Entrepreneurs mit der Ashoka Fellowship ausgezeichnet und 2010 in das Young Global Leaders Netzwerk der Schwab Foundation aufgenommen. Gregor ist auch IVLP Alumnus.Im Juni 2022 benannte sich Change.org e.V. in innn.it e.V. um und betreibt seitdem eine unabhängige Petitions- und Initiativplattform. Neben Petitionen können auf innn.it auch direktdemokratische Initiativen veröffentlicht werden, die bei Erfolg zu einem Bürgerreferendum führen können. Shownotes:Innnit:https://verein.innn.it/Abgeornetenwatch:https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Social enterprise and healthcare is the focus in this edition of the Business Day Spotlight. Our host Mudiwa Gavaza is joined by Dr Ernest Darkoh, co-founder of the BroadReach Group and Board Director of Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Topics of discussion include: BroadReach's operating model; the place of social enterprise in helping to improve healthcare; reflections from the recently held World Economic Forum; and how African countries can use technology to strengthen their economies. Business Day Spotlight is a TimesLIVE Production.

Het verhaal van Apopo leest als een sprookje: Bart Weetjens traint ratten om landmijnen te ontdekken en redt duizenden levens. Zijn werk wordt bekroond door Ashoka, de Schwab Foundation van het World Economic Forum en met een Skoll Award voor sociaal ondernemerschap. Het maakt van Bart een van de meest bekroonde sociale ondernemers uit ons land. Het gesprek was fantastisch maar het woord Apopo valt niet. Dat hadden we zo afgesproken. Hoofdstukken (2:34) Hoofdstuk 1: Wellbeing Project Bart schetst het probleem: sociale ondernemers lopen veel meer dan anderen het risico in burn-out en depressie terecht te komen. Ze zetten de noden van anderen voor die van zichzelf en vereenzelvigen zich met hun succes en hun heldenrol. Ze vergeten daarbij hun eigen menselijke noden en dat leidt op termijn tot minder impact in de plaats van tot meer. (9:54) Hoofdstuk 2: Harde cash Over als pop op het podium in Davos gaan staan en applaus in ontvangst nemen van de rijkste mensen ter wereld, maar dan geen geld krijgen. Over de spanning tussen geld en goed doen. Over enkele succesvolle projecten die bakens van hoop zijn, maar dat eerder ondanks dan dankzij het systeem zijn. (20:59) Hoofdstuk 3: Dat doet wonderen Over de technieken en de praktijken die Bart probeert te introduceren in bedrijven. Ze zorgen ervoor dat werknemers als gehele mens aanwezig kunnen zijn op hun job en zich dus ook dieper tot elkaar kunnen relateren. Dat leidt dan weer tot meer geluk, meer samenwerking, meer effectiviteit, meer alles. (26:58) Hoofdstuk 4: Passie of obsessie? Over de titel van sociaal ondernemer en die criteria die Ashoka gebruikt om van iemand een zogenaamde 'fellow' te maken. Over obsessie en het gezonde alternatief passie. Over meer collaboratieve vormen van ondernemen en over de moeilijke vraag of Ghandi dezelfde impact had gehad als hij een meer gebalanceerd leven had geleid. (35:34) Hoofdstuk 5: Loslaten Over the one thing to fix. Als we het probleem van mentaal welzijn oplossen dan fixen we tegelijk ook alle andere problemen. Of dat is wat Bart gelooft. Over de praktische voordelen van het bewandelen van een spiritueel pad voor een ondernemer. Over durven loslaten. Over onze woede die we sluimerend meenemen in alles wat we doen en dus ook in het goede dat we denken te doen.

Jonathan Jackson shares his candid reflections and takeaways from his time at the recent World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, as well as his stance on some of the biggest problems we are facing and the biggest bets we need to make to create a better world. Some topics covered in this conversation include: The background of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and its role at Davos The reality of the state of ‘poly crisis' - multiple complex crises that a lot of organizations are facing currently The increasing scope of social entrepreneurship and social innovation on the global stage Shedding light on some of the main stage topics at Davos such as the Global Debt Crisis Advocating for Better Jobs for Frontline Workers and why this is important Leveraging technology to scale a more responsive & adaptive workforce The potential around AI & ChatGPT to amplify frontline impact Some of the most compelling ideas shared from social entrepreneurs at Davos Related Resources: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023 Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: https://www.schwabfound.org/

A prominent presence at Davos this year carrying the torch of Open Hiring®, Joseph Kenner leads the way on how companies can create an on-ramp for marginalised people AND have as positive impact on their business.  One of the Social Innovators of the Year 2023 by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, he discusses the need for companies to embrace Open Hiring® to fulfil the dramatically changing labor market. Open Hiring® battles the current labor shortage by offering work on a first-come, first-hired basis, with no interviews, background checks, or resumes. ** If you enjoy this podcast, would you consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes only a few seconds and greatly helps us get our podcast out to a wider audience. Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. For transcripts and show notes, please go to: https://www.theconsciouscapitalists.com Thank you for your support! Timothy & Raj

Having worked at the World Economic Forum for fifteen years, John focused on creative communities of impact for young leaders and social entrepreneurs.Young Global Leaders, YGL, is a community of change-makers under forty and global shapers in their twenties from across a wide range of society. They range from CEOs to journalists, academics to entrepreneurs.The Schwab Foundation for entrepreneurship is joining in creating this digital community for global change.The one thing that has been a constant in all of this background has been the event software, which was built internally since the days of kiosks and manual ticketing.The magic of Davos is that you can get back to the origin of people to people without the chaperone organizing your schedule.Peter Gabriel and Archbishop Desmond Tutu were also part of an initiative by YGL trying to promote global dignity.In a typical year, there are around 2300-2500 official delegates attending the forum, with another 700-1000 people who are attending in support of those leaders. Outside of that, tens of thousands of people are coming to the city to participate in side events.Strategic intelligence, Uplink, and Davos are all part of the same digital ecosystem.Uplink is the free public side of this digital ecosystem, with over 55,000 people on the platform.There are two functions they are looking at on the platform for their app: end-to-end innovation sourcing and trying to inspire people to get involved in this movement for people and planet.1T.org (the trillion trees movement), is looking to tackle the climate problem through a nature-based solution with the mission of getting corporate pledges for tree planting, supporting ecopreneurs, and helping countries on the ground with regional chapters.Making a big wave is also the First Movers Coalition. An initiative exploring how to get the technology necessary to get to a net-zero future through the aggregation of the demand side of corporate partners.

When you start to do simple things every day that make an impact, those things will start to add up and cause a ripple effect to make a larger, more impactful change. This week's episode 46 of How Women Inspire Podcast is about taking small steps to cause a ripple effect of change!In this episode of How Women Inspire Podcast, Julie Castro Abrams and Rana Dajani share the importance of fostering the curiosity to continue learning, exploring, and growing in everything we do and actionable steps you can take right now to take responsibility for the change you want to see in the world.Today's guest wears many scarves in our society. Rana Dajani is a mother, grandmother, teacher, scientist, social entrepreneur, and human rights activist. She is currently a molecular biology professor at Hashemite University, President of the Society of Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World (SASTA), and President of the Jordan chapter of The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). Rana recently won the 2022 Social Entrepreneurship Award from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the sister organization of the World Economic Forum. Her organization We Love Reading aims to install the love of reading and therefore knowledge in women across the world. We love reading won the Best Women in Film Documentary award, The Neighborhood Storyteller at the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado, for its work on changing mindsets through reading to create change makers across Jordan. Rana is a sister of mine, a Women Leaders for the World graduate alum of that fellowship program. She continues to serve on the Women Leaders for the World Alumni Council. Most recently, her documentary was selected for the LA International Film Festival and she was a speaker at the United Nations to discuss how to achieve the SDGs through social and inclusive innovation. It is no surprise that Rana Dajani is a master of many scarves.Some of the talking points Julie and Rana go over in this episode include:The fundamental values that guide Rana's life and what she does to reinforce these values. How the organization We Love Reading helps children fall in love with reading through fostering role models.Finding balance in your roles by building a support network and following your passions.Creating partnerships and investing in the agency of others so that we can all move forward, together. When you look at the world as a Kaleidoscope, you can celebrate the idea that everyone brings their unique value together to create something beautiful for the greater whole. Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me!  And don't forget to follow, rate, and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!CONNECT WITH RANA DAJANI:LinkedInInstagramWe Love ReadingFive Scarves bookCONNECT WITH JULIE CASTRO ABRAMS:LinkedIn - JulieHow Women LeadHow Women InvestHow Women GiveInstagram - HWLLinkedIn - HWLFacebook - HWL

Paul's guest on this episode is Wendy Kopp. Wendy is the CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations in 60 countries across every region of the world that are working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America – which has proven to be an unparalleled source of long-term leadership for expanding opportunity in the United States. She led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Wendy has been recognized with numerous awards including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award.

Episode Guest: Mark Freedman, Entrepreneur, Pioneer in the Aging Movement, Founder of Experience Corps, Civic Ventures, and Encore.Org., Speaker and AuthorEpisode Description: How to Live Forever is a deeply personal call to find fulfillment and happiness in our longer lives by connecting with the next generation and forging a legacy of love that lives beyond us. In writing How to Live Forever, Marc Freedman set out to answer three critical questions:With so many living so much longer, what do the increasing years beyond 50 mean?How can a society with more older people than younger ones thrive?How do we find happiness when we know life is long and time is short?These big questions invite us to explore how we live our daily lives. Freedman found insights by exploring purpose and generativity, digging into the drive for longevity and the perils of age segregation, and talking to social innovators across the globe, bringing the generations together for mutual benefit and his own mentors.In this episode, you'll discover how to find fulfillment and happiness in our longer lives by connecting with the next generation and forging a legacy of love that lives beyond us.About Marc Freedman:Marc Freedman, the President, and CEO of Encore.org, is a renowned social entrepreneur, thought leader, and writer. Under Marc's leadership, Encore.org has pioneered innovative programs and sparked a growing movement in the United States and beyond to tap the talent and experience of people past midlife as human resources for solving our most vexing social problems. Programs such as Civic Ventures, Experience Corps, Discovering What's Next and the Life Planning Network are a few examples of programs that have been sparked by Marc's vision. He was a visiting fellow at King's College, University of London, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University during 2014-15. Marc is a member of the Wall Street Journal's "Experts" panel and a frequent commentator in the media. He was named a 2014 Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation and recipient of the 2010 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. He co-founded Experience Corps, mobilizing thousands of individuals over 50 to improve the school performance and prospects of low-income elementary school students in 22 U.S. cities, and spearheaded the creation of the Purpose Prize, an annual $100,000 prize for social entrepreneurs in the second half of life. Marc is the author of several books, including his newest book, How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations, focusing on bringing older and younger people together for mutual benefit and the greater good of society.Get in touch with Marc Freedman:Visit Marc's website: https://encore.org/ Download Marc's Handout: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/freedmanhandout Buy Marc's Book: https://revolutionizeretirement.com/freedman Grab our free guide, 10 Key Issues to Consider as You Explore Your Retirement Transition, at https://10keyretirementissues.com/ 

The following is a conversation between Katherine Milligan, Director of Collective Change Lab, Inc., and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving. Katherine Milligan is a teacher, writer, speaker and mentor in the field of social entrepreneurship. She's led the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and launched the first-ever Harvard executive education module on systems change. Among a number of other roles she currently holds, she is Director of Collective Change Lab, and she's with us now. Welcome to the Business of Giving, Katherine.

Apeksha has worn many hats in her career - consultant, team leader and design entrepreneur. She has spent a decade developing identities and designing products for over 45 organizations including Ananda in the Himalayas, Elle Decor, SEOY India Awards led by Jubilant Bhartia & Schwab Foundation, Hyatt, DLF, 32nd avenue, Guesthouser.com, Fundamento.ai, Mila baby, Ohria Ayurveda and many more. Over the past decade at the forefront of the creative industry, Apeksha has seen that creative professionals often struggle with similar creative blocks that lead to low productivity, fear of sharing ideas, impostor syndrome, and more. So, in the next phase of her professional journey, she looks forward to sharing her insights with you and helping you break the impasse and do your best work! Find Apeksha on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rightbrainedhuman/ Join Apeksha's newsletter - Being Right Brained https://rightbrainedhuman.substack.com/ Join the waitlist for Apeksha's e-book https://winning-leader-2747.ck.page/9ad29e1e7e Get mentored by Apeksha on ADP List https://adplist.org/mentors/apeksha-gupta

FÁBIO BIBANCOS: POR UM MEMORIAL DA PANDEMIA - 20 Minutos EntrevistaPrecisamos manter a nossa memória viva. AJUDE!Construa o Museu Brasileiro da Pandemia com a gente.CLIQUE AQUI:  https://benfeitoria.com/projeto/museubrasileirodapandemiaO programa 20 MINUTOS ENTREVISTA com o fundador de Opera Mundi, Breno Altman, desta sexta-feira (24/06) recebe o presidente da organização Turma do Bem, Fábio Bibancos, para discutir sobre a construção de um memorial da pandemia. É ao vivo, às 11h.Dentista, autor e palestrante, Dr. Fábio Bibancos é CEO da Bibancos Odontologia, clínica referência no Brasil em gestão, comunicação e atendimento odontológico.Fundou e preside voluntariamente a organização social Turma do Bem, que é a maior rede de dentistas voluntários do mundo.É empreendedor social premiado por grandes fundações internacionais, como Schwab Foundation, Ashoka e Visionaris.Dr. Fábio foi recebido pelo Papa Francisco no Vaticano e também pela da Rainha da Espanha em Madri, que entregou pessoalmente o prêmio da Fundação Mapfre, de Melhor Iniciativa em Ação Social pelo trabalho desenvolvido mundialmente.----Quer contribuir com Opera Mundi via PIX? Nossa chave é apoie@operamundi.com.br (Razão Social: Última Instância Editorial Ltda.). Desde já agradecemos!Assinatura solidária: http://www.operamundi.com.br/apoio★ Support this podcast ★

Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Prior to launching Teach For All in 2007, Wendy founded and led Teach For America – which has proven to be an unparalleled source of long-term leadership for expanding opportunity for children in the United States – for 24 years. Wendy led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Wendy is the author of A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All (2011) and One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (2000). She holds honorary doctorate degrees from 15 universities and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Wise Prize for Education (2021), Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (2008) and the Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award (2003). Wendy holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and resides in New York City with her husband and their four children. In the news Quartz, “The World in 50 Years” Diplomatic Courier, “To Remake the World, Let's Rethink Education” NPR's How I Built This With Guy Raz, “Teach For America: Wendy Kopp” The Wall Street Journal, “Copying Singapore's math homework” TIME, “How to help national school systems succeed” The Economist, “High fliers in the classroom” Financial Times, “Philanthropy must shift its focus to the global education crisis” World Economic Forum, “Why it's time for International Development to Put People First” Social Links LinkedIn: @wendy-kopp Twitter: @wendykopp

In this episode we dive into: > How Charly's work with Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley informs his path to challenging the status quo and what is needed for true systems change > Defining success from having it all to being who you are meant to beThe essence of consciousness at the beginning and end of life > Intentionality and the choices we make on a daily basis > Practices of mindfulness that contribute to impact > Systems change and the Deep Impact Movement > Why ESG is not Impact Investing (ESG is 'the not contributing to harm (maybe)' in the three bullets above when investing. It considers environmental, social and governance factors in investment decisions vs. Impact Investing which is about contributing to solutions), and > Impact investing as a path to awakening consciousness About Charly Kleissner Charly Kleissner is an impact investor. He believes that the fundamental and real meaning of wealth is to make a positive contribution to humanity and the planet. He is a leader of the deep impact movement which is not only treating the symptoms of our failing economic system, but its root causes – with a level of awareness and consciousness that is non-anthropocentric, acknowledging that humanity is part of the evolutionary process, not outside of it. He sees impact investing not as an intellectual exercise, but as an expression of who he really is. Dr. Kleissner co-founded KL Felicitas Foundation, Social-Impact International, the Central European Investment Ready Program, and Hawai'i Investment Ready, which help social entrepreneurs worldwide accelerate and increase their impact. Dr. Kleissner co-founded Toniic, a global network for impact investors and Toniic's 100% Network, a global group of asset owners dedicated to 100% impact, currently representing over $6 billion in assets that are actively moving into impact. Dr. Kleissner serves as a full member of The Club of Rome, as Chairman of the Board at ImpactAssets, on the Board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and Proof of Impact, and on the Advisory Board of Chi Impact Capital, Industree Foundation, Impact Hub Tirol, MCI Business School, Commonland, 4L Capital and Rainfall. Dr. Kleissner has over twenty years of experience as a senior technology executive in Silicon Valley. He held executive and senior engineering management positions at Hewlett-Packard, NeXT, RightPoint, and Ariba. Dr. Kleissner earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Technology, Vienna. Learn more about Charly: charlykleissner.com LinkedIn Connect with Stephanie: ▶︎ WEBSITE | https://www.stephanietrager.com ▶︎ YOUTUBE | https://www.youtube.com/c/stephanietragercatalysttalks ▶︎ INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/stephanietrager ▶︎ LINKEDIN | https://www.linkedin.com/stephanietrager ▶︎ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/stephanietrager --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/catalyst-talks/message

An internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness and strengthen communities Rosanne Haggerty joins Matt on this week's Leading Voices in Real Estate. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Solutions, Rosanne oversees a nonprofit that assists cEmmunities throughout the U.S. and internationally in solving the complex housing problems facing their most vulnerable residents. Community Solutions also leads “Built for Zero”, a movement of more than 90 cities and counties using data to radically change how they work and make homelessness rare. As a 2001 MacArthur Genius, Rosanne broadened her work in this space after spending decades working in supportive housing. She formally established Community Solutions in 2011, and in 2021 The MacArthur Foundation provided an additional $100M grant to further develop her methodology. While homelessness is a step removed from our typical Leading Voices conversations, this discussion provides a perspective on a societal issue that ripples across real estate and how our industry can address homelessness.Rosanne was a Japan Society Public Policy Fellow, and is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Ashoka Senior Fellow, Hunt Alternative Fund Prime Mover and the recipient of honors including the Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism from the Rockefeller Foundation, Social Entrepreneur of the year from the Schwab Foundation, Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian Design Museum's National Design Award and Independent Sector's John W. Gardner Leadership Award. She is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.Resources“Homelessness is Solvable” – Rosanne's podcast interview with Malcolm Gladwell (June 2019)

“ZENPod” - Season-5, episode 4,(Part 2) featuring a Teacher and Champion of Children, Ms. Sharanjeet Shan, a globally recognised social entrepreneur, and recipient of the Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award and a recipient of the first Chancellor's award from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Her work has reached about 500 K learners and about 30K teachers. Sharanjeet is Executive Director for the Maths Centre, and has championed Maths, Science and Technology education for children in South Africa for 25 years. She has conceptualized and managed many projects in Maths, Science, Technology, ECD & has Published world class training materials and primary school text books in mathematics, skills development and ECD materials. Sharanjeet has published several books including an autobiography ‘In My Own Name' in 1985 which subsequently became a school text in England. http://www.mcis.org.za “It does not suit my nature to believe in creation, Nature, divinity, in one kind of God; and yet, as a hard cord mathematics and Quantum Physics person, if I look around me, the beauty of Universe, the complexity of Mother Nature says to me that there is a Higher power!” says Ms. Sharanjeet Shan, in her conversation with Venkatesh Mahadevan. Constantly seeking anti-poverty solutions, Sharanjeet is committed to serving children and young people into the fourth Industrial revolution, promoting critical and creative thinking through STEM subjects at all levels of schooling. Her Maths Centre conducts advocacy campaigns for parents, business, industry, children with disabilities and promotes language connections. “ZENPod” is a Podcast series that features trailblazers from different walks of life, with a purpose to build an empowered eco-system where learnings and experiences from these enlightened professionals, will be available within “arms reach of desire” for those who aspire to scale higher and wish to contribute, in their life's pursuit.

Social Media Intro for Ms. Sharanjeet Shan - Season 5, episode 3 “ZENPod” - Season-5, episode 3, featuring a Teacher and Champion of Children, Ms. Sharanjeet Shan, a globally recognised social entrepreneur, and recipient of the Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award aned a recipient of the first Chancellor's award from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Her work has reached about 500 K learners and about 30K teachers. Sharanjeet is Executive Director for the Maths Centre, and has championed Maths, Science and Technology education for children in South Africa for 25 years. She has conceptualized and managed many projects in Maths, Science, Technology, ECD & has Published world class training materials and primary school text books in mathematics, skills development and ECD materials. Sharanjeet has published several books including an autobiography ‘In My Own Name' in 1985 which subsequently became a school text in England. http://www.mcis.org.za “It does not suit my nature to believe in creation, Nature, divinity, in one kind of God; and yet, as a hard cord mathematics and Quantum Physics person, if I look around me, the beauty of Universe, the complexity of Mother Nature says to me that there is a Higher power!” says Ms. Sharanjeet Shan, in her conversation with Venkatesh Mahadevan. After studying for a full four years for Medicine, she was thrown out of family and India as a result of a traditional clash, that turned into banishment. Sharanjeet Shan spent her adult life in England, studying, working and writing. She gained a first degree and a masters in Social Science: how slavery colonialism and patriarchy came about. She taught Maths and Science for twenty years in England at various levels moving into management positions over a period of thirty years including an Office for Standards in Education inspector. In 1995, Sharanjeet was invited to lead Maths Centre in 1995, transforming a small and struggling project into the widely respected institution it is today and to lead developments within the new dispensation of the South African Maths and Science delivery. The Centre works with some 500 disadvantaged schools enabling Teacher and learner development in Maths, Science and Technology. Constantly seeking anti-poverty solutions, Sharanjeet is committed to serving children and young people into the fourth Industrial revolution, promoting critical and creative thinking through STEM subjects at all levels of schooling. Her Maths Centre conducts advocacy campaigns for parents, business, industry, children with disabilities and promotes language connections. “ZENPod” is a Podcast series that features trailblazers from different walks of life, with a purpose to build an empowered eco-system where learnings and experiences from these enlightened professionals, will be available within “arms reach of desire” for those who aspire to scale higher and wish to contribute, in their life's pursuit.

Curtain raiser - Season-5, of “ZENPod”, featuring Ms. Sharanjeet Shan, a globally recognised social entrepreneur, and recipient of the Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award aned a recipient of the first Chancellor's award from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Her work has reached over 500 K learners and 30K teachers. Sharanjeet is Executive Director for the Maths Centre, and has championed Maths, Science and Technology education for children in South Africa for 25 years. She has conceptualized and managed many projects in Maths, Science, Technology, ECD & has Published world class training materials and primary school text books in mathematics, skills development and ECD materials. Sharanjeet has published several books including an autobiography ‘In My Own Name' in 1985 which subsequently became a school text in England. http://www.mcis.org.za “ZENPod” is a Podcast series that features trailblazers from different walks of life, with a purpose to build an empowered eco-system where learnings and experiences from these enlightened professionals, will be available within “arms reach of desire” for those who aspire to scale higher and wish to contribute, in their life's pursuit.

How can systemic transformations be achieved at the scale, speed, and quality that is needed? And what capacities are required to navigate these transformations?In this episode, Stockholm Resilience Centre researcher Per Olsson talks to Funda Sezgi and François Bonnici about the frontiers of transformation and system change. Sezgi is the co-founder and managing director of the Norrsken Impact Accelerator at Norrsken Foundation, while Bonnici is director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, head of social innovation at the World Economic Forum and co-author of the recently published book The Systems Work of Social Change.About Rethink TalksRethink Talks is Stockholm Resilience Centre's podcast series on resilience thinking and global change. It spotlights conversations between experts on a range of topics that highlight how resilience thinking and biosphere stewardship add value to current debates.Available on all major platforms such as Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcast and Soundcloud. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matthew Bishop (MB): Hello, this is Books Driving Change with me, Matthew Bishop. And today I'm talking with François Bonnici, co-author with Cynthia Rayner, of The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change.Obviously, this is a book that goes right to the heart of the mission of Books Driving Change, where we're looking at how do we build back better in this moment of crisis that the world is facing. And this book, I highly recommend it because it is full of great practical insights and wisdom, and some great case studies that I think many people will not be familiar with. And also, some very big thoughts about the way change happens globally and the way systems change could be brought about going forward. But François, I wanted to start by asking you, as I ask all of our guests, in a sentence - given our audience of people who are either engaged in social change work or considering it - why should they read your book?François Bonnici (FB): Thank you, Matthew, for having me. I'm delighted to be on your podcast, and hello to everyone listening. Probably the same reason that I would want to read the book. Initially, Cynthia and I wrote it, and we thought, well, if we're the only two people who learn from this, then that's almost sufficient. So as both a practitioner and an academic and also working in the foundation space, and really a bit paralyzed by the overwhelming challenges we have, the complexity of it, and the narrative around systems change, that we didn't feel like we necessarily could take that back to working on a day to day basis. And so the book is called “systems work,” to imply and emphasize the day to day work we all need to do, and to emphasize that to achieve some kind of future systems change that we aspire to, whatever that might be, it's about the process of change. And it's about the people who are involved in that process of change that we wanted to emphasize. So we really hope it's a very practical approach, one that is rooted in 200 years of social change making, deep case studies, hundreds of interviews with experts. But coming away with both stories that move, that inspire, and a set of practical tools and lessons at the end of each chapter. So we hope it will be a contribution to the collective journey many of us are on to try and understand what do we mean by, and how do we do, this work towards the deeper systemic change, what we call deep and enduring change. And I'll unpack a bit further with you where we go with it.MB: I want to start just by asking you a bit about how you and Cynthia came to write this book, which obviously came out of your work together at the Bertha Centre in South Africa. But, and I should say before we go further, that you are now currently head of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, which is funded by two of the founders, or the founder and his wife, of the World Economic Forum. [That fact] is in itself quite an interesting focal point of discussions about the role of the system, and how you do systems change, and whether top down organizations can really deliver that. But how did you come to write this book?FB: It's been a long journey. It's been five years. And so it started pre-COVID and got revised and updated during COVID, for reasons I'll explain. But I had started the Bertha Centre at the University of Cape Town as the first center for social innovation in Africa, dedicated to understanding approaches to social change that were innovative, that thought about social enterprise, that looked at what movements were doing. And we very quickly recognized the superficial approaches, or even the kind of service delivery type mindset, was not getting to the deep challenges and structural and systemic barriers that lay in my home country, South Africa, from hundreds of years of history. And that no fantastic solution was going to undo all of that. And that was a great barrier, actually a source of failure, for both myself and projects that Cynthia and I had worked in and organizations we'd worked for. Many organizations we worked with had these deep frustrations. But we also saw amazing organizations overcoming that on a day-to-day basis; overcoming the systemic and structural barriers around stigma, around poverty traps, around lack of opportunities, and turning that into agency.So at the time we started exploring, and researching, and working with global collaborations, like the Rockefeller Social Innovation Fellowship. We did a piece of work commissioned by the Schwab Foundation, when we were at the Bertha Centre, called Beyond Organizational Scale, looking at how social pressures create systemic change. And what we found happening in the global conversation around systems change was quite different to what we were seeing with organizations we were working with, initially in South Africa, and then we were looking and working with organizations in Latin America, and India, and even in the U.S.MB: When I was reading, one of the things that hit me was, there seems to be this real difference of opinion as to what systems change is, and how you do it. In the sense that a lot of people view it as a kind of fixing a system with a top down approach, and you found, fundamentally, a different experience on the ground with people doing the grassroots work.FB: I think that's right. And I think we had quite a frustration with even the term “systems,” because we all do mean very different things. And if you ask someone sitting at the World Economic Forum or if you asked grassroot activists, you're going to get very different answers. And so I grew a little bit allergic to the term, and then ended up writing a book on the topic. And it's not to discount any of them. And I think what we talk about in the book is that these challenges have complexity, they have scale, and they have depth. And what we had seen was that the focus of the conversations were around scale - if we can solve problems, and that everyone is doing it in a particular way, that is systems change. If we can do it in that complexity lens, where we have levers, and we can intervene in a system, and we are able to shift the balance of actors and systems and relationships, that is a form of a complexity view of systems change.But what we felt wasn't part of the conversation was really the steps. And that we felt that both those other dimensions and approaches could represent a perpetuating of the system of actors of power -  if the existing actors, who are architects and gatekeepers of a system, are the ones redesigning it. And so what this book seeks to do is really emphasize a depth component; and more than just say this is an additional component, say it's also the critical necessary one to take all those three lenses on how we are strategic and start to meet the bottom up with a top down.MB: And why do you think we've got to this position where even at a moment like this with COVID, and the World Economic Forum, and the great reset and all that, there's this very top down approach to social change? That, at least in terms of the general discussion, it is about how Biden's going to spend 3.5 trillion on infrastructure, and it's these big numbers, big change, very industrialized approach. And I think everyone that's been on the frontline in some way or another, quickly recognizes the very people who so much as these activities are intended to benefit, are the last ones to get asked what they think should be done or given any power to say that. How have we got to that situation?FB: Chapter one of the book actually covers the industry of social change. And I do think there are some deep historical roots, both in terms of the industrial era, but also the kind of postwar period. We talk about the Green Revolution and how some of these big moments in history of social change reinforced certain practices, approaches, mindsets. But also how funding flows, etc. I think one of the big pieces of all of this is the power concentrated in both public and private sectors and how that is dissipated and fragmented in what remains, the “plural sector.'' I much prefer [the term] to “third sector” or “nonprofit sector,” because of its plurality. But because of its plurality there isn't the collective power for decision making - an authority to really state and influence how social change strategies happen. And they've been recipients of decisions and systems and structures and flows for so long that they've become dependent on it in a way. This is not a new narrative but perhaps looks at it in a new light. So we're somehow at that moment of recognizing that, if we just continue on that pathway, we're not actually going to change any of the rules of the game.But those of us who work in this sector are also complicit in it in a way. So there's also a bit of a self critique in all of this; that actually, the fact that those of us who work somewhere in the sector, often have our livelihoods and careers dependent on the fact that these problems continue to exist. So in a way, the big shift for me was recognizing that the role or purpose of not for profit, social enterprises, social change making organizations is quite far removed now from the delivery of goods and services that can improve people's lives. And really, I quite strongly have seen that the ability to create agency, to empower and equip both people who experience particular problems or are invested in communities - whether they work for an organization or volunteering in a particular community somehow - [is extremely important]. That the purpose of social purpose organizations needs to shift. And I won't go too much into detail now, because I know you will want to unpack a lot of that. I've taken your question, and I've gone a bit further. But we are in a position of a great imbalance of power. And the heart of it lies there. But also not recognizing the real intrinsic value of many of these local organizations - whether they be larger networks, or local and small - in creating social capital, in fostering social cohesion. And that we don't have a good way to value and recognize, during this time of COVID, how critical that's been - [looking at] issues of trusts and social capital and being there for each other. And recognizing and having empathy with one another. And so I think that a lot of the book focuses on ultimately social capital and relational value, and how we build that, and how important that is for these longer term aspirational outcomes we have. MB: That's actually a very helpful framing, because as I read the book, I kept thinking this is really about how do you empower people. Not the vast majority of the population, but the people on the ground, who are the ones that are supposed to be being helped by so much of the activity - whether it be government, or nonprofits, or even business now that it's supposedly finding its social mission. But really, it's about that some of these things that are there in the dialogue, the popular conversations, amongst the elite are around networks, platforms, etc. But here, your book was really about empowering the people, the masses, and really giving them the ability to harness some of those tools and things in a different way. And there's lots of inspiring examples, so maybe just talk to a couple of them. I found the Slum Dwellers International a fascinating example of networking in action, but you'd say it's more than that. And then maybe talk about one other case that you particularly found very, very inspiring.FB: You hit the nail on the head in terms of practically talking about what kinds of discussions are happening at the global level or in actors of powers - the network organization, background organization. And we actually see some of those same practices at the grassroots - using digital platforms, using those kinds of approaches, but with a different set of actors. And we'll talk later about how we might connect the micro and the macro. But Slum Dwellers International, an incredible organization I've been following for years, comes originally out of India, had their global headquarters in Cape Town down the road from us, and we ended up working with them at the Bertha Centre. So we got to know a lot about their work. They have, in many ways, quite a traditional and well-known approach to having a federation - in which its members are actually the representatives and leaders of the organization. And the organization itself is some kind of federation secretariat. And it's federated across the world, because these movements of people who live in informal settlements - slums, favelas - self organize and elect their own leadership. And there's a really important history of Jockin [Arputham] and Sheela [Patel], who actually have been part of the Schwab Foundation, who were founders of that movement, but served as very different kinds of leaders than we generally have held up to be the change making leaders that we've spoken about over the past couple of decades. In the same spirit, I actually would love to talk about Nidan, and more specifically, about one of the other case studies from Bihar in India, that was created in the spirit and traditions of SEWA [Self-Employed Women's Association] - a self-employed women's collective that works with over 1.2 million women across India, through their cooperatives. And in the spirit of that worked with the street vendors, the informal workers and street vendors in India. So as you probably know well, 90% of India's workforce is in the informal economy. All labor law to protect, support, and uphold rights for workers only covers 10% of the workforce. And therefore street vendors were, in particular, at risk from municipalities and cities trying to clean up and impose hygiene standards, or corrupt officials seeking to extort and impose abuses on street vendors.An Nidan has been really interesting in terms of, at the core, what it does is not to try to help solve any of these problems - similar to the example of FII, the Family Independence Initiative in the U.S. What they sought to do was actually help to build the capacity to govern, to self organize, and to execute on issues and needs that they had. So for example, street vendors were collectively saying, well, we don't have time to do anything else in our lives, we barely manage to earn enough livelihood to put food on the table, and if we're trying to also address other issues in our lives, we don't have time to do that. So we actually need to find a way to kind of improve our income, and actually work together and collaborate. And they decided, okay, we'll make and spin off craft cooperatives, or food cooperatives. So they created businesses. They also got together and said, well, we don't have good services for education and health for our children, so let's create non-for-profit organizations that can actually provide preschools and clinics, etc. And so they spun off those organizations. Then they also said, well, we still have a problem in terms of our rights as informal workers, let's create a union and actually advocate for certain rights. And what Nidan was only doing was really helping the self organizing capacity, and the ability to create organizations, manage them, govern them correctly, and actually be able to implement and execute. And so 30 organizations ended up spinning off Nidan.And ultimately, it also helped to build this large movement towards creating the first policy in the world around informal workers. The Street Vendors Act in India became a national movement of street vendors, but also helped to change the mindset. And so working on the deeper elements of change around what actually street vending and street food meant to people in India, and meant as part of the culture, and how to celebrate that rather than seeing it only as a problem. So they worked on all of these dimensions, and gave their constituents, their members, a way to self organize and have self determination. But seeing that in kind of a modern context of a modern organization, where you're spinning off, in fact, some kind of incubator. So that for me has been a really inspiring example. And to see so many using the tools available to us in the modern age of these different kinds of organizations but for different purposes. But really, it was driven by the street vendors and their families and selves.MB: So you mentioned these three elements, which are big themes in the book, the Connection, the Context, and the Power. Connection: different ways you can help people connect is self-evident, to some extent, and you've got some great examples of who's doing that. Power: your message essentially is, empower the people, the primary actors on the ground, the people who you're really supposedly trying to help; the biggest way you help them is by empowering them to find their own solutions. But, talk a bit more about what you mean by Context, and why that's so important at this moment.FB: So just to quickly talk about the other two, because I think they are all interdependent. And so maybe just to go a little bit deeper, so that your listeners can say, well, this is not the same discussions on connection and networks. But actually looking at what's so important with that was also the ways in the practices and the tactics these organizations took to build collective identity. And that then also relates to the power of context. And so I want to just encourage that there's quite a bit under the surface of these three large principles that we talked about, which we felt was underlying all of the organizations, and how they worked.What we also looked at, was this concept of the practices. So under each of these principles there were sets of practices. And so what we were particularly interested in was, how does this stuff happen? So we can talk about context, but what's actually happening? How do organizations do that? And we call that principle: embracing context. And in that space, we were really interested in how critical that is right now. And looking at organizations, even large organizations, that are able to distribute information - and that means data, the ability to make decisions - to their frontline workers, and to the communities and citizens that they're trying to empower. And so context is important because that's where decisions need to be made. Some of our work was also looking very much at the complexity literature, and what was a really interesting insight is that the greatest point of complexity is usually in context. So, if we're talking about schools, it's between a teacher and a child, and a teacher and the family - or [in a hospital] between a healthcare worker and a patient. So the greatest point of complexity also doesn't seem that complex for the people in that position. It's their best place to actually understand well, what needs to be done here? And so what we found over and over again, was that organizations were trying to roll out programs in different areas. This is a common narrative or pattern, where we say, okay, this works really well, in this context, so let's roll it across the country, let's roll it out to other countries. And for a whole bunch of reasons that doesn't work. That's obviously all about context. But what's happening is that, in order for let's say, an employee, or a project manager, or portfolio manager, to roll out a program, they suddenly were doing all of this other work, which was highly relational, to roll out the so called standard operating procedure, the program, the blueprint, that they were supposed to be rolling out. And so not having that recognized, not having that resource, not empowering the frontline workers to be able to do that contextual work, to build the relationships, was part of the reason for failure. But also part of the reason why some of the organizations that we looked at were so successful - whether that be mothers2mothers or Our Labs, or some of the other organizations that we were working with. And what's interesting to say is, that doesn't mean everything needs to be small and local. So the other really interesting example from the book is Buurtzorg, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. A very large organization, in 20 countries in the world, about a 40 million euro turnover company. So this is not a small, micro NGO. But up until recently, they didn't have an HR manager, they didn't have a CFO. But they had very strong technology that enabled them. This is a neighborhood care, nursing care particularly for the elderly, business. So they enabled and empowered the nurses, who were working with elderly and their families, to have all the information, to make resource decisions, to make budget decisions, to make even HR decisions around their local team that was working in a particular neighborhood. And if you look at what happened during COVID, and what happened with particularly homes for the elderly, how there was an inability to be agile, to react, to have to wait for top down decisions, to have to follow protocols. Having worked as a doctor in a system myself, once you're at that level, you just have to follow the system. And so that was really interesting to see that empowering and equipping the problem solvers on the frontlines to be able to make decisions in context actually allowed for much greater engagement, and much more interesting kinds of outcomes. And particularly in breaking some of the traps that we found ourselves in. The last example I will give, which I spoke about earlier, is the Family Independence Initiative [now Up:Together], started by Mauricio Miller, whose book is a couple of years old now, but it's probably worth featuring on your program as well. He was the founder of FII and we talk about in the book, a story where he had to fire a staff member for trying to help a family. And [FII] helps relatively poor families in the U.S., primarily from minority groups. And [he got fired] because he was trying to help [while] his job is not to help. Their job was to provide the data, the information, the list of opportunities, the peer group with other families, the IT infrastructure, so that families could make their own decisions about their future. And that was a really interesting shift for us to see how these organizations were adamant about not trying to solve problems, but really equip people to do that for themselves.MB: You mentioned COVID. Has that made you more optimistic or less optimistic that these lessons can be learned and applied? Because, this is the third or fourth crisis in 20 years, and each time we hear that we mustn't waste a good crisis, that we must build back better and so forth. Are you seeing these lessons being learnt, from your vantage point at the heart of the DevOps community? FB: I'll start first with the organizations we looked at. Because we went back to all of them with a hypothesis that: would the work they had done to build this deep sense of trust, relational value, and distribution of agency, actually put them in a better position to be responsive and to be relevant during COVID? And, by a long way, we feel that hypothesis played out, and feel that these organizations have done incredible work during this period. Has that been learned by others? Have we all learnt how this crisis has shifted things? I think the one thing we've learned, now - which in my South African context is quite an open conversation - about racial bias, about the barriers between classes, about gender, clearly have been exposed at a global level. This is not only a South Africa challenge, this is a global challenge across so many ways. In some way, we've been able to raise the awareness that problems do have these deep structural, systemic barriers in place, and that we are failing to overcome those in our more traditional approaches to social change. On the other hand, and clearly my role is sometimes a bit paradoxical, but that's why the purpose of the foundation is to focus on vulnerable and excluded people and ecosystems, and is to interface with the World Economic Forum, which obviously represents a network of today's leaders. And despite the narratives, it's really hard for today's leaders to actually really work out the radical changes we need, when their mandates and agendas are to stabilize to continue as before. There are obviously great rays of hope, but clearly not fast enough or not radical enough. And so it is perhaps with a mixed answer, I do have optimism, but I also do see us not making the most of the crisis and opportunity. And perhaps it's the mounting crisis at the same time, or the fact that we can't really translate the COVID lessons into long term lessons, and I am deeply worried about that.MB: So last question. The book's primary focus is people who are in leadership of social change organizations, particularly nonprofit ones, but there is a context, which is that big government in much of the world has most of the money. And then you have the philanthropic sector that has done a lot of funding of organizations involved in social change. And then business is, increasingly now, under pressure and starting perhaps to engage more in a stakeholder centric approach that will require it to get more involved in social change, if that's taken seriously enough. What's the message of the book to those different groups? And if I think about our audience of people who are thinking about where they should go, how they should get involved in driving social change, what's the message and advice you'd have for them? FB: I think, first of all it is for all of those in the social sector, not only for leaders. Interestingly, I got a call from Brazil where they want to translate this into Portuguese, because of the work that so many social workers are doing on the ground, which is perhaps not recognized, they feel this book would help to affirm a lot of the work that perhaps people don't value as much. So that was really interesting to hear as feedback. Of course, for social change, leaders, and people who work in these organizations, are grappling and trying to figure these things out themselves. And we hope that this will have some practical insights. I hope it will also enable them to take forward conversations internally and look inside the organization, but also open up the discussions with funders. And so we have been delighted to be invited to a number of donor working groups and with individual philanthropists to engage them in this discussion. Because, there's that internal reflection, and the conversation within philanthropy and how it's evolving. And I do think, what we're emphasizing here are those participatory approaches, but also that we need to start valuing different aspects, and perhaps becoming slightly less attached to what we've been obsessed about - in terms of value for money, social return on investment, clear metrics and outcomes. Not that those things are not important. But in the process of that, we may have lost something that actually leads to this deeper change, that actually we do aspire towards.And then I think for the government and business leaders of the world, interestingly, a lot of these practices actually speak to the moment we're at in time where young people have the power, because of technology, to have a distributed sense of agency. We obviously have tools like blockchain, etc. And how do we maybe harness some of the tools we've got that actually can enable these kinds of practices in a modern era. So I think there's something really interesting, potentially emerging there that we didn't think about that actually, these practices might be relevant and valuable in more purposeful business or even just in business with a new generation. And then, of course, with governments, again, thinking about the value of the sector at a time where the trust in governments are, in many countries at an all time low, - even though some countries seem to be faring reasonably well. But I think there's something there to re-embrace the sector as part of our collective future and not as an afterthought of, well just fill in the gaps of things we don't do as we grow the economy. So I think there are a range of audiences for this, and why we have tried to frame it quite broadly, but then dive deeply into how does this work actually happen.MB: Well, there's certainly a lot of great information, great insight, great inspiration, in the book. The book is The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change. And it's by Cynthia Rayner, and my guest today, François Bonnici. François, thank you very much for joining.FB: Thank you, Matthew, and lovely to speak to you again.We hope you are as inspired by these podcasts as we are. If you are, please subscribehere, or wherever you get your podcasts (Amazon Music, Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher), and please rate us and write a review so others can find their inspiration.  This transcript has been lightly edited for context and clarity. 

Today we'll delve into the realities of e-waste management in India. I bring to you my conversation with Pranshu Singhal who is on a relentless mission to enable setup of a well governed industry ecosystem for e-waste management in India. Pranshu founded Karo Sambhav which is a cohesive movement for enterprises, consumers, governments and alliances to collaborate and enable circular economy. Their team empowers enterprises to close their material loops. set circularity goals, decode EPR compliances and create robust collection programmes. This year, Pranshu won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award; An award by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the sister organisation of the World Economic Forum, and the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation. This conversation is a two part series, so make sure to listen to both ep. 86 & 87 to be in sync & to find out how we all can collectively make change happen. Notes: Can we enable setup of a well governed industry ecosystem for e-waste in India? Bcoz of Karo Sambhav the dialogues in our country have moved from Why should we collect e-waste? Why should we manage it? to How should we manage it? At first, we need to create better collection systems for varieties of waste by leveraging existing infrastructure. At present they are quite underutilized. We all need to be aware of the basic lifecycle of each products that we use on daily basis. Stakeholders who are managing the supply chain need to start thinking on what the reverse logistics for their products would look like once they reach their end of life? Today when you look at the market…to be precise the linear market, you can sense the expertise of the entire system to deliver efficiently on a forward supply chain. Isn't it? On the contrary when we look at the market from the lens of a circular economy we see enormous gaps in meeting the basic necessities needed to have reverse logistics in place. Majority of our take-back mechanisms, collection systems are informally handled and in my view they are amateur on a systemic level to meet the ambitions climate action goals. That's where organizations like Karo Sambhav are making a difference by bridging in those gaps and introducing circular strategies and technologies in a way that makes it easy for the brutal market to embrace climate action. Tune into the episode to learn more. Contact: Karo Sambhav Reach out to us on LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | circularbusinesspodcast.india@gmail.com Key words : E-waste recycling --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circular-business-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circular-business-podcast/support

Una de las cosas que más apreciamos de Claudia, y de las lecciones que nos comparte en esta entrevista, es su sentido de responsabilidad con su entorno. Si todos asumimos esta postura muchas cosas serían distintas, en nuestro país, en nuestro mundo, en nuestras vidas y en la actitud con la que enfrentamos los retos. Este es otro corto episodio, pero uno muy cargado de enseñanzas. Claudia Valladares es emprendedora de por vida, dedicada al área de Microfinanzas e Innovación. Premio Bronce al Servicio Voluntario del Presidente de Estados Unidos (2006), ”Emprendedora Social del Año 2010” de la Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship del World Economic Forum (2010), “Emprendedora Social Sobresaliente en Venezuela” (2011), finalista The Global Good Fund (2016), y Women's Entrepreneurship Day Global Ambassador, Venezuela (2017). Explora lo que tenemos para ti en nuestra página web. ¡Te esperamos! https://tramauniversity.org/ Síguenos en Instagram para estar al día con todas nuestras actividades: https://www.instagram.com/tramauniversity/ Cronomarcadores 00:00:13 Presentación del invitado. 00:02:52 ¿Cuál es el propósito de vida de Claudia Valladares? 00:04:18 Infancia y crianza de Claudia. 00:08:00 ¿Qué cosas despertaban la atención de Claudia por aquel tiempo? 00:10:30 Rendimiento académico de Valladares. 00:11:35 ¿Es Claudia Valladares una persona exitosa? ¿Qué significa ese éxito? 00:13:21 ¿Por qué las pequeñas cosas importan mucho? 00:15:27 ¿Por qué es importante agradecer? 00:18:07 ¿Cómo se deben asumir los retos, y a la vez los temores que éstos pueden generar? 00:19:20 ¿Cómo se transita y se alcanza el norte? ¿Cómo luce esa estructura? 00:22:34 Los hábitos del trabajo de Claudia Valladares. 00:24:44 El papel de la perseverancia en el emprendimiento. 00:25:58 Sobre la suerte. 00:28:37 ¿La ausencia de recursos es una limitación o una excusa? 00:30:57 ¿Cómo predecir el futuro? 00:31:45 Qué significa el trabajo duro para Claudia Valladares? 00:33:00 ¿Qué significa el fracaso? 00:36:24 ¿Cuál es la mayor debilidad de Claudia? 00:38:56 Y, por el contrario, ¿la mayor fortaleza? 00:38:56 Claudia Valladares en una sola palabra. 00:39:07 Palabras para aquel que busque logros.

Around 2 billion people worldwide still lack access to the basic tools of improved sanitation (toilets and latrines). One billion people still have to defecate in the open, and at least 10% of the world's population is thought to consume food irrigated by raw wastewater. An estimated 800,000 children, younger than 5 years of age, perish from diarrhea each year, including conditions related to cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio. Mr. Jack Sim is the Founder of the World Toilet Organization (https://www.worldtoilet.org/), an organization established with the aim to break the taboo around toilets and this global sanitation crisis. Mr. Sim is also the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore, the World Toilet Day initiative, and Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) Hub. In 2001, for "creating good will and bringing the subject into the open" and "mobilizing national support in providing on-the-ground expertise", Mr. Sim received the Schwab Foundation award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2004, he was awarded the Singapore Green Plan Award 2012 by Singapore's National Environment Agency (NEA) for his contribution to Environment. In 2006, he was invited to launch The German Toilet Organization in Berlin. He is also a founding member of American Restroom Association. In 2007, Mr. Sim became one of the key members to convene the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) comprised of over 130 organizations active in the sanitation sector. He is also an Ashoka Global Fellow and in 2008 was named Hero of the Environment by Time Magazine. Mr. Sim also sits in the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Councils (GAC) for Water Security and also the GAC for Social Entrepreneurship. Mr. Sim graduated with a Masters in Public Administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in 2013. He was shortlisted for the Sarphati Sanitation Award in November 2013. Mr. Sim also founded the BOP HUB and a series of social businesses and startups. He is now constructing a 65,000 sq ft World Trade Center for the Poor in Singapore to coordinate an effort to transform the 4 billion poor into a massively efficient marketplace to end global poverty.

Subi Rangan received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University. His current work explores how enterprises may better integrate performance and progress, and how scholars may help evolve the paradigm and practice of capitalism. In 2013 he initiated the Society for Progress, a fellowship of eminent philosophers, social scientists, and business leaders. Their first work was published as Performance & Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, and Society (Oxford University Press, 2015). Their second book is entitled Capitalism Beyond Mutuality? (Oxford, 2018). In other research Subi explores the political sociology of discrimination of foreign transnational firms and these firms' non-market strategies. In 1998 he won the Academy of International Business' Eldridge Haynes Prize for the best original work in international business. In 1995 that academy awarded their Best Dissertation Award to his doctoral thesis. In 2010 his research won the Emerald award for Top 50 papers in management. His articles appear in the Administrative Science Quarterly; Academy of Management Review; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity; Journal of International Business Studies; Strategic Management Journal; Sloan Management Review; and Harvard Business Review. Subi is coauthor of two other books: Manager in the International Economy, and A Prism on Globalization. He was associate editor of the Academy of Management Review; and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals. He is a member of the board of trustees of Fundacao Dom Cabral, a leading business school in Brazil; and member of the board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. He directs INSEAD's top executive seminar AVIRA: Awareness, Vision, Imagination, Role, and Action. In 2018 he launched the Integrating Performance & Progress (IPP) executive seminar that he co-teaches with philosophers. Subi is a multiple-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher award and Dean's Commendation for Excellence in Teaching. He is married and has a daughter and son. Visit https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/subi-rangan/ for the original video interview.

Tom Szaky is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams. Tom started the company when he was 19 years old and has grown it to a $6M company today. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world's largest brands, retailers and manufacturers to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that currently go to landfill or incineration. In May 2019, TerraCycle launched Loop, a circular reuse platform that enables consumers to purchase products in durable, reusable packaging. Loop is available in Paris, France, the UK, Canada, Japan and the 48 contiguous U.S. states, and is a key step in helping to end the epidemic of waste that is caused by 'single-use' consumption. In 2022, Loop will become available in Australia. Tom and TerraCycle have received hundreds of social, environmental and business awards and recognition from a range of organizations including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, Schwab Foundation, Fortune Magazine, Time Magazine and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Tom is the author of four books, “https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Bottle-Terracycle-Eliminating-Waste/dp/1591845955 (Revolution in a Bottle)” (2009), “https://www.amazon.com/Outsmart-Waste-Modern-Garbage-Think-ebook/dp/B00FBME6A2 (Outsmart Waste)” (2014), “https://www.amazon.com/Make-Garbage-Great-Terracycle-Zero-Waste/dp/006234885X (Make Garbage Great)” (2015) and “https://www.amazon.com/Future-Packaging-Linear-Circular/dp/1523095504 (The Future of Packaging)” (2019). Tom created, produced and starred in TerraCycle's reality show, “https://www.amazon.com/Human-Resources/dp/B00M27H7X2 (Human Resources)” which aired on Pivot from 2014-2016 and is syndicated in more than 20 foreign markets on Amazon and iTunes.   Tom's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomszaky/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomszaky/ ) TerraCycle Website:  https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/ WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER IN THIS EPISODE: Why Waste Management is such a huge opportunity. Tom's business plan that changed it all. Tom's inspiring definition. Why Waste is Tom's entrepreneurial playground. How to build a great team. What's it like to present to the World Economic Forum (3 times!). The real power of purpose at TerraCycle. What to do if You Know Your Own Purpose. Leading through the angst of the Pandemic. 3 success strategies for every employee. Negative cost marketing (Don't miss this!). HIGHLIGHTS: Three phases of building a team: Phase 1 concentrates on an individual and how hard they work. Phase 2 is for delegating and letting go. Phase 3 is for setting up the right systems to let everyone flourish. QUOTES: “Profit is an indication of business health, but not the reason to be in business.  There needs to be a more inspiring purpose.” “Waste is the only commodity people are willing to get rid of but has a negative raw material cost... It's also void of innovation.” ------------------- https://www.benfanning.com/the-ceo-sessions/ (Apply to be on the show) ------------------- https://www.benfanning.com/the-ceo-sessions/ (Connect with Ben:) https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfanning/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfanning/) https://www.instagram.com/benfanning1/ (https://www.instagram.com/benfanning1/) https://twitter.com/BenFanning1 (https://twitter.com/BenFanning1)

Klaus Martin Schwab is a German engineer and economist best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. His wife, former assistant and first collaborator, Hilde, co-founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship with him. We also discuss September 7th and "The Feast of the Beast."thefacthunter.com

Dalam beberapa tahun ini, krisis iklim menjadi isu yang semakin sering diperbincangkan. Indonesia sebagai salah satu negara dengan luas hutan terbesar memegang peranan yang penting di dalam mengatasi krisis iklim ini. Pada episode Podcast Ruang Temu kali ini, saya berkesempatan untuk berbincang dengan Pak Dharsono Hartono, CEO dan pendiri dari PT Rimba Makmur Utama, yang merupakan salah satu pionir dalam bidang Nature Based Solution di Indonesia. Lewat Katingan Mentaya Project yang diinisiasi 15 tahun lalu, tiap tahunnya PT Rimba Makmur Utama memproduksi sampai dengan 7 juta carbon credit, yang merupakan terbesar di dunia. Dalam perbincangan kami, Pak Dharsono membagikan pengalamannya memulai proyek ini setelah sebelumnya berkarir sebagai konsultan di PwC dan sebagai bankir di JP Morgan di Amerika Serikat. Banyak tantangan yang dihadapi di awal memulai usaha ini karena banyak orang yang belum paham tentang pentingnya konservasi hutan dan konsep dari carbon credit trading. Pak Dharsono juga banyak memberikan pandangan dan masukkannya untuk generasi muda yang tertarik untuk menjalankan proyek atau usaha di sektor sustainability ini. Atas kontribusinya, Pak Dharsono sempat terpilih sebagai Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018, World Economic Forum's 2020 Sustainability Pioneer dan juga Schwab Foundation's 2020 Social Entrepreneurs of the Year. Klik tautan di bawah ini untuk menyimak percakapan kami. Terima kasih lagi Pak Dharsono untuk sharing-nya!

Charity, is it virtue or vice? In its original form, Anshu Gupta has challenged the definition of charity to bring more dignity to those who are earning it rather than someone who is doing it. Explore the mind-bending conversation with this social entrepreneur. Anshu Gupta is an Indian social entrepreneur who founded Goonj, a non-governmental organization (NGO) headquartered in Delhi.Gupta is an Ashoka fellow and was conferred with the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award” by Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in 2012. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2015. Rewriting many rules of the development sector Anshu made the masses his prime focus – not only as givers and receivers of material but also as the prime source of money, skills, and services. He also structured imaginative solutions with an urban surplus, to some basic but neglected needs outside the radar of the development sector and the civil society.Over the years as Goonj garnered major awards, including World Bank's Development Marketplace award and NASA's Launch award, Anshu also won recognition as an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow while he was also listed as one of India's top social entrepreneurs by Forbes Magazine and Fast Company.Now Anshu is focused on the global replication of his model to bridge the massive gap of social and economic inequities between urban prosperity and rural poverty. He speaks extensively on national and international forums to instigate urban and rural masses to engage more deeply with the issues faced by society.

We are off to Colombia for this episode. Aldo has the great privilege to speak to Ms. Vicky Colbert who changed the education system in her country with her groundbreaking program and organisation Escuela Nueva.  More information about Vicky's journey and organisation can be found here: https://escuelanueva.org Guest Introduction: Ms Vicky Colbert is founder & director of Fundación Escuela Nueva, an NGO  committed to improving the quality, relevance, and efficiency of education by rethinking the way we learn. The best way to describe the Escuela Nueva model is as an innovative way of looking at students and offering them customised support at scale regardless of the circumstances and environments they grow up in.  Ms Colbert is a Sociologist from Javeriana University in Colombia. She pursued her graduate studies in Sociology of Education and Comparative International Education at Stanford University and has pioneered, expanded and sustained educational innovation from many organizational spheres, previously as Vice minister of Education of Colombia, UNICEF ́s Education Adviser for the Latin American Countries.   She has been recognized with several awards and distinctions in the fields of leadership and social entrepreneurship, such as the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2013 WISE Prize for Education, the Clinton Global Citizenship Award and the Kravis Prize. She has also been recognized as Outstanding Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation, Ashoka and the World Technology Network. The Escuela Nueva approach to date has been implemented in thousands of schools in Colombia and is being exported to many other countries as we speak.  In 2017, Vicky was also awarded with the Yildan Prize for Education and for very good reasons. The jury was full or praise to Escuela Nueva and its unique approach stating that:  “Ms Colbert's work demonstrates that high quality schooling can be cost-effective in the harshest environments. Her model excels in developing both intellectual and social-emotional capacities of its students – an inspiring testament to the fact that well-rounded progressive education is not a privilege reserved for students in developed economies.”  Vicky Colbert describes her own journey as one similar to that of the fairy tale ‘Cinderella' stating: ‘We started with the most invisible and remote schools and they ended up looking like the school of the future'  For us: ‘Necessity is the Mother of Innovation'  Vicky a very warm welcome to you! 

Eleanor Allen is the CEO of Water For People, a global nonprofit working in Africa, Latin America, and Asia to help develop sustainable water and sanitation services for millions of people. She's a social entrepreneur recognized by the Schwab Foundation, a TEDx speaker, a Water Environment Federation Fellow, and an influential Woman of Water. She serves on the board of Parametrix and the University of Colorado.  We welcome her here today to talk with us about the Global Water Crisis.

Keen to know what the massive untapped commercial opportunity is for businesses to engage with social issues? Today I speak with Gib Bulloch. And he will explain how changing the world is not an impossible dream – not if we're successful in changing the world of business. Gib is the author of The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent”, which is a personal story of his 15-year journey to create and scale Accenture's global "not-for-loss" consulting business, Accenture Development Partnerships. He's an award winning social intrapreneur who consults, writes and speaks on a range of topics relating to the role of business in society. In this episode we talk about what businesses in this day and age need to truly consider. How to be ahead of the curve. And anticipate massive change coming. We hear what the top talent are looking for. We talk about values versus value. And Gib provides real examples of how companies should be thinking. And need to think to be competitive moving forward. And then talks about the magic word: Intrapreneurship. As the American Psychologist Rollo May says, “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” This podcast will not only inspire you to be the change but provide you with the many tools on how to start truly doing things differently. So, throw on those running shoes, or grab that favourite beverage, have a listen and enjoy! Please do let us know what you think of this episode. And don't forget to leave a review, rating and subscribe. To find out more about Gib and his Business Decelerator Craigberoch see below: https://www.gibbulloch.com (www.gibbulloch.com) https://www.craigberoch.org (www.craigberoch.org) Grab a copy of The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent https://www.amazon.com/Intrapreneur-Confessions-corporate-insurgent/dp/1912618400/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?ie=UTF8&ref_=dbs_a_w_dp_1912618400 (here):  The UN Business Commission information Gib http://businesscommission.org/news/release-sustainable-business-can-unlock-at-least-us-12-trillion-in-new-market-value-and-repair-economic-system (talks about in the podcast:) And all the Intrapreneur networks: https://www.leagueofintrapreneurs.com/ (The League of Intrapreneurs) https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/business-and-society-program/first-movers-fellowship-program/ (The Aspen Institute First Movers Program) https://unusualpioneers.com/ (Unusual Pioneers) https://www.schwabfound.org/ (Schwab Foundation) https://www.circleofintrapreneurs.com/ (Circle of Intrapreneurs) If you would like to get involved with TIE, and be a part of the important change that needs to be made in the world, do get in touch: philippa@theinternationalexchange.co.uk If you're keen to contribute more to society through your work, grow as a responsible business leader, and find ways to bridge purpose and profit. Find out more at our TIE Accelerator info session: https://apply.tieaccelerator.com (apply.tieaccelerator.com)

This week on the Design Driven Life, Wendy Yates speaks with Roberto Milk. Roberto is CEO and co founder of Novica, one of the largest handmade gifts and home decor websites in the world, selling the works of 1000s of artists and featuring over 75,000 limited edition works of art including jewelry, apparel, handbags, rugs, and tapestries, home decor items, and a variety of collectibles. To date Novica has sent 106 point 9 million to artisans worldwide. Roberto was named one of the 40 social entrepreneurs to watch in 2021, as well as an outstanding social entrepreneur by Schwab Foundation, and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos.On this episode of the Design Driven Life, Wendy talks to Roberto on the importance of helping out artisans from all-over the world get their works or pieces to clients without having to go through a lot of the usual hassles and red-tape that always ends up creating problems for artisans.Connect with Roberto Milk or Novica via his website at Novica and social media at LinkedIn and Twitter.For our listeners: Use code DesignDrivenLife10 to Get $10 off your next purchase of $30 or more at https://www.novica.com/. Expires: July 15, 2021the Design Driven Life is sponsored by Well Fit Human Retreats. Well Fit Human combines travel, fitness, and humanitarian work in vibrant destinations. Create positive impact through personal growth during our life-changing experiences. elevate yourself on their upcoming retreats.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Bruce Whitfield speaks to Francois Meyer, General Manager at Golden Arrow Bus Services about Greyhound shutting down operations from 14 February 2021. Sun International joins Global Hotel Alliance. Shapeshifter is Dr Ernest Darkoh, Board member of the Schwab Foundation and founding partner at BroadReach Group See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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84: 4 Keys to Building A Global Nonprofit (Elizabeth Hausler) SUMMARYAre you pondering nonprofit leadership among multiple career options? That’s exactly what Elizabeth Hausler considered before she started the global nonprofit Build Change in 2004, and she offers a fascinating review of her leadership journey and the many lessons learned on Episode #84 of the Path Podcast. These lessons, of course, offer great insight for others considering a similar nonprofit career. Elizabeth reflects on what she would do differently if she were starting over at Build Change, and what were some of the key challenges she had to overcome, including being a woman in a male-dominated field. Many great take-aways in this episode for nonprofit leaders, including the four headlines: how to effectively hire and orient new talent, how to create an effective strategic planning process, how to help your board evolve as the organization evolves too, and finally, how to balance your multiple roles as CEO.ABOUT ELIZABETHDr. Elizabeth Hausler is the Founder and CEO of Build Change and a global expert on resilient housing, post-disaster reconstruction, and systems change. Elizabeth’s strategic direction and leadership have grown Build Change from a few employees in 2004 to a global team spread across five continents. She has profoundly influenced global development policy by making resilience a major consideration for reconstruction efforts. Elizabeth’s extensive experience in post-disaster communities, including a Fulbright Scholarship in India, led her to found Build Change to ensure reconstruction efforts would be safe and sustainable. She is the recipient of many honors, and in 2011, was named the US Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation. Together with Build Change, she was awarded the 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2018, she received the University of California, Berkeley’s Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award. Since 2014 she has been a member of the UC-Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Department’s Academy of Distinguished Alumni. Elizabeth is also an Ashoka Fellow, a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, and an Echoing Green Fellow. She holds a Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley in Civil Engineering, as well as an M.S. from the University of Colorado and a B.S. from the University of Illinois. Dr. Hausler has headlined top conferences, lectured at eminent universities, and been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, BBC News, Forbes, Elle Magazine, ABC News, and Bloomberg Businessweek. EPISODE TOPICS & RESOURCESJim Collins’ book Good to GreatRobert Kaplan’s book What to Ask the Person in the MirrorAlicia Garza’s Book The Purpose of Power

Eli Beer was born in Israel. When he was seven he witnessed his first terror attack. This traumatic experience, coupled with his desire to help save people, encouraged him to become a volunteer medic. Eli has been involved in emergency medical first response in Israel since 1988. With 25 years of life-saving experience, he has responded to some of the worst civil, wartime, and terror-related incidents. Eli currently serves as Founder and President of United Hatzalah; lecturer to health organizations worldwide on the importance of receiving medical care within the first few minutes of an incident through a network of volunteers; has expertise in creating cohesive and integrated responses to mass casualty incidents as well as terrorist attacks; is a pioneer in the field of GPS-based technology for medical responses; recipient of awards, including the 2010 Social Entrepreneur for Israel received by the Schwab Foundation, the 2011 Presidential Award for Volunteerism in Israel received by President Shimon Peres, and the 2012 Young Global Leader award. Married with 5 children and when not saving lives or guiding United Hatzalah, he manages the family real estate company, Beer Realty.If you have any doubt about the power of one of a one person can do that, that will be put to rest through this conversation. You see, Eli shows us that with passion and a little chutzpah, we can be the change we want to see in the world. You can be that change. You can make a difference. Eli a fantastic storyteller and is a beautiful soul. I mean, this is, I believe, is one of my longest podcast episodes to date. There are so much goodness and inspiration shared in this following conversation. And I thank you for taking the time today to listen to this podcast episode with Eli Beer on the Great Day podcast.Connect with EliTwitterInstagramFacebookWebsiteDon't forget to subscribe to The Great Day PodcastLove The Great Day Podcast? Want to find out how to support the show? Click the link below to join my new Patreon page.Become Patron on My Patreon Page HERE!Did I mention that I am now an author?! Check out my new book "A Kids Book About Optimism"And be sure to follow my Instagram page and Facebook page to stay up to date on everything I'm working on.I'm Meir Kay and Have A Great Day! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

“ZENPod” Season-3, episode 2(part 2), continuing our conversation with Smt. Chetna Gala Sinha, an Activist, Farmer and a Banker. Recipient of the Nari Shakti Puraskar, India's highest civilian award for women who work in the area of women's empowerment, Chetna has served as a Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum in Davos (2018), Switzerland and as a Co-Chair of Financial Inclusion at the W20 Summit (2018) in Argentina. “Anything is Possible; Listen to People,Listen to humble people, Listen to communities, and you will find solutions!”, - says Chetna Gala Sinha in her talk with Venkatesh Mahadevan Chetna founded the Mann Deshi Foundation in 1996 in Mhaswad, a drought- stricken area of Maharashtra, with the aim of economically and socially empowering rural women. In1997, she set up the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank-India's first bank for and by rural women. In 2006, Chetna founded the first Business School for Rural Women and in 2013, she launched a toll-free help line and the first Chamber of Commerce for women micro-entrepreneurs in the country. In 2012, she set up a Community Empowerment Programme for Farmers that supports Water Conservation. Mann Deshi Foundation also has a Sports Programme for talented athletes (2012) and a women-owned Community Radio (2008) that reaches over 100,000 listeners. In 2013, Mann Deshi Foundation was awarded the Best Innovation Award by the National Rural Livelihoods Mission. To date, Mann Deshi has supported more than 600,000 women. Chetna has been awarded the 2005 Jankidevi Bajaj Award for Rural Entrepreneurship, the 2005 Ashoka Change makers Award, the 2009 Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award, and the 2010 EdelGive Social Innovation Honors. She has won the 2013 Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the 2017 Forbes Social Entrepreneurs of the Year Award and was ranked by Fortune India as one of the country's 50 top business women in 2018. She has been instrumental in driving significant policy changes and the Reserve Bank of India, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, and several other national planning and regulatory institutions regularly seek her advice on financial inclusion. She is on several national boards including the National Advisory Panel for Niti-Ayog's Women's Entrepreneurship Cell (since 2018) and the Advisory Committee of the Reserve Bank of India's Financial Inclusion Strategy (2019-2024). “ZENPod” is a Podcast series that features trailblazers from different walks of life, with a purpose to build an empowered eco-system where learnings and experiences from these enlightened professionals, will be available within “arms reach of desire” for those who aspire to scale higher and wish to contribute, in their life's pursuit.

“ZENPod” Season-3, episode 1, featuring Smt. Chetna Gala Sinha, an Activist, Farmer and a Banker. Recipient of the Nari Shakti Puraskar, India's highest civilian award for women who work in the area of women's empowerment, Chetna has served as a Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum in Davos (2018), Switzerland and as a Co-Chair of Financial Inclusion at the W20 Summit (2018) in Argentina. “Spirituality is about people who have a different experiences; when you bring your Talent & Art out and together, even under the most difficult circumstances, and when it gives Peace to others, that is Spirituality to me”, - says Chetna Gala Sinha in her talk with Venkatesh Mahadevan Chetna founded the Mann Deshi Foundation in 1996 in Mhaswad, a drought- stricken area of Maharashtra, with the aim of economically and socially empowering rural women. In1997, she set up the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank-India's first bank for and by rural women. In 2006, Chetna founded the first Business School for Rural Women and in 2013, she launched a toll-free help line and the first Chamber of Commerce for women micro-entrepreneurs in the country. In 2012, she set up a Community Empowerment Programme for Farmers that supports Water Conservation. Mann Deshi Foundation also has a Sports Programme for talented athletes (2012) and a women-owned Community Radio (2008) that reaches over 100,000 listeners. In 2013, Mann Deshi Foundation was awarded the Best Innovation Award by the National Rural Livelihoods Mission. To date, Mann Deshi has supported more than 600,000 women. Chetna has been awarded the 2005 Jankidevi Bajaj Award for Rural Entrepreneurship, the 2005 Ashoka Change makers Award, the 2009 Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award, and the 2010 EdelGive Social Innovation Honors. She has won the 2013 Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the 2017 Forbes Social Entrepreneurs of the Year Award and was ranked by Fortune India as one of the country's 50 top business women in 2018. She has been instrumental in driving significant policy changes and the Reserve Bank of India, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, and several other national planning and regulatory institutions regularly seek her advice on financial inclusion. She is on several national boards including the National Advisory Panel for Niti-Ayog's Women's Entrepreneurship Cell (since 2018) and the Advisory Committee of the Reserve Bank of India's Financial Inclusion Strategy (2019-2024). “ZENPod” is a Podcast series that features trailblazers from different walks of life, with a purpose to build an empowered eco-system where learnings and experiences from these enlightened professionals, will be available within “arms reach of desire” for those who aspire to scale higher and wish to contribute, in their life's pursuit.

We discussed a number of things including:1. His entrepreneurial journey2. Changes in the recycling industry and how company has pivoted3. Loop and how it will impact our world4. Advice for entrepreneurs during this downturnTom is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world's  largest brands, retailers and manufacturers to create national platforms to recycle products and  packaging that currently go to landfill or incineration.TerraCycle is the lead company in a new circular shopping platform called Loop that enables  consumers to shop for some of their favorite brands in durable, reusable packaging. Launched in  May 2019, Loop is a key step in helping to end the epidemic of waste that is caused by 'single-use' consumption.Tom and TerraCycle have received hundreds of social, environmental and business awards and  recognition from a range of organizations including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, Schwab Foundation, Fortune Magazine, Time Magazine and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.Tom is the author of four books, “Revolution in a Bottle” (2009), “Outsmart Waste” (2014), “Make  Garbage Great” (2015) and “The Future of Packaging” (2019). Tom created, produced and starred in TerraCycle's reality show, “Human Resources” which aired on Pivot from 2014-2016 and is  syndicated in more than 20 foreign markets on Amazon and iTunes.

“We are all speaking, but no one is listening. It starts with being able to stop and listen to other perspectives.” — Anant Kumar   When social entrepreneur Anant Kumar witnessed the dire conditions of India’s poorest public hospitals, he was inspired to create an alternative. He believed that every citizen deserved safe, affordable, high-quality health care with dignity—so he built an organization that provided just that. Today, Anant is the CEO of Life Circle which provides professional care to seniors. Before Life Circle, Anant was the founder and CEO of the LifeSpring maternity hospital chain in India which offered high-quality maternal care for even the nation’s lowest-income citizens. In 2010, LifeSpring won the UN World Business and Development Award given to the world’s top companies that balance social good with sustainable business practices.   In this week’s episode of Leading with Genuine Care, hear how Anant built his social enterprises, why for-profit models for social good can work better for entrepreneurs and the people they serve, and so much more.    In this episode, you’ll also learn:   What a social entrepreneur is Why having people pay for services boosts social equity What the difference is between a charity vs. a social enterprise How social enterprises solve major humanitarian problems Why Anant wanted to support India’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens How these initiatives positively impact the world Anant’s story in building an equitable health care chain How the business remained profitable while delivering babies for $20 When Anant decided to start a similar business model for senior citizens Why empathy is key for great leadership  What it was like for Anant to meet Barack Obama Anant’s thoughts on creating a more equitable society How to better connect with those we may not understand Why deeply listening and communicating with others can change everything And so much more!   Connect with Life Circle Websitewww.lifecircle.in LinkedInhttps://bit.ly/304TXQL   Facebook www.facebook.com/LifeCircleSeniorServices   Twitter www.twitter.com/LifeCircleSrSer     Get Rob’s Weekly Newsletter Never miss an inspiring conversation about compassionate, positive leadership on the Leading with Genuine Care podcast plus other great articles and insights. Click below and you’ll also get a download of his favorite mindful resources.   https://www.donothingbook.com/resource-guide    Follow Rob Dube on Social Media  LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/robdube  Facebook:  www.facebook.com/rob.dube.1  Twitter:  twitter.com/robddube    Rob Dube’s Website www.donothingbook.com   Buy Rob’s book, donothing: The Most Rewarding Leadership Challenge You'll Ever Takeamzn.to/2y9N1TK   More About Anant Kumar Anant Kumar is the founder and CEO of Life Circle Health Services. Life Circle provides subscription-based professional caregiving and home nursing services to chronically ill and bed-ridden seniors in India. Before Life Circle, Anant was the founder CEO of the LifeSpring maternity hospital chain in India.    Under his leadership, LifeSpring was awarded the “UN World Business and Development Award” and also received the Frost & Sullivan Award for the “Mother and Child Health Care Provider of the Year” in India. Previously, he has served on Merck’s expert forum of maternal mortality supported by WHO and the EU-funded committee for Strengthening Human Resources for Health in India.    He is a TED India fellow, the winner of the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award by Economic Times NOW TV, and a runners up as the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” organized by Schwab Foundation in partnership with World Economic Forum.

David Yeung is the Founder & CEO of Green Monday Group, a multi-faceted social venture with the mission to take on the world's most pressing crises of climate change, food insecurity and public health. With the global sustainability movement initiated by Green Monday Foundation, the revolutionary food technology innovation in OmniFoods and OmniPork, the market-transforming plant-based retail, dining and distribution network in Green Common, and the impact investment arm in Green Monday Ventures, Mr. Yeung has pioneered a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that engages and empowers millions of people, along with public and private sectors, towards green awareness, action and economy. His work earns him the award of “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Economic Forum and Schwab Foundation. Other honors and recognitions include “Roddenberry Prize”, “Cathay ChangeMakers 2020”, “Company of the Year 2019” by PETA Asia, “Ten Outstanding Young Persons Hong Kong” and “50 Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company. As a noted environmentalist and entrepreneur, Mr. Yeung has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Milken Institute Summit, TEDx, as well as financial and academic institutions such as UBS and UCLA. Green Monday Group has an overall mission to “Make Change Happen, Make Green Common” since its establishment in 2012. It is achieved by promoting plant-based eating and environmental protection through its multifaceted social venture model, in hopes of tackling climate change, global food in security and promoting public health. Green Monday Foundation, Green Monday Holdings and Green Monday Ventures are the three main branches of Green Monday Group. Since the company's establishment, Green Monday Foundation has strived to promote the once-a-week plant-based meal philosophy that has now spread to over 30 countries. Green Monday Holdings' business includes Green Common and OmniFoods. Green Common is the world's first plant-based concept store to create a revolutionary food and lifestyle experience by introducing some of the most advanced global foodtech innovations. Its sales network has spread to over 10 countries and regions. OmniFoods has an established food science team based in Canada that developed OmniPork, OmniPork Luncheon and OmniPork Strip. These three food 2.0 ingredients are leading the development of the global foodtech industry and the future of food. Green Monday Ventures is the impact investment arm aimed at accelerating the growth of mission-aligned entrepreneurs and startups globally. David Yeung, the founder of Green Monday Group, was awarded “2018 Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Economic Forum and Schwab Foundation.  Website: https://greenmonday.org/en/ OmniFoods, a foodtech company, is a member of Green Monday Holdings. Established in April 2018, its mission is to innovate food that will treat the planet right, treat animals right and treat us right. Their established food scientist team in Canada innovates food 2.0 based on Asian eating culture and cooking habits while ensuring that the ingredients are cruelty-free, cholesterol-free, antibiotic-free and hormone-free. The launch of OmniPork, the first product of OmniFoods, has attracted international attention. In just two years, it has launched in several global markets and has become a popular plant-based ingredient. In May2020, OmniFoods launched OmniPork Luncheon and OmniPork Strip, leading a new wave in the foodtech trend. OmniFoods also has a Healthy Flash-Frozen Ready-to-Eat Meal series, that provide a range of healthy and nutritious ready-to-eat food. Website: https://omnipork.co/

Alejandro es uno de los emprendedores sociales más destacados de nuestra región, una persona valiente, determinada y sobre todo, muy clara de cuál es su vocación. En este episodio, Alejandro nos ayuda a definir qué es eso de la vocación, cómo se come eso, qué implica, qué miedos conlleva, entre otras muchas cosas más, provenientes de su experiencia de vida, su inteligencia y su fe.  

In episode 33, Simon talks to David Yeung. David has pioneered a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that engages and empowers millions of people, along with public and private sectors, towards green awareness, action and economy. His work earns him the award of “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Economic Forum and Schwab Foundation. Other honors and recognitions include “Roddenberry Prize” and “Ten Outstanding Young Persons Hong Kong”. As an iconic environmentalist and entrepreneur, David has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Milken Institute Summit, TEDx, as well as financial and academic institutions such as Credit Suisse, UBS and UCLA. He is a graduate of Columbia University, an Ashoka Fellow and the author of a number of best-selling books on Zen wisdom and mindfulness.

In episode 33, Simon talks to David Yeung. David has pioneered a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that engages and empowers millions of people, along with public and private sectors, towards green awareness, action and economy. His work earns him the award of “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Economic Forum and Schwab Foundation. Other honors and recognitions include “Roddenberry Prize” and “Ten Outstanding Young Persons Hong Kong”. As an iconic environmentalist and entrepreneur, David has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Milken Institute Summit, TEDx, as well as financial and academic institutions such as Credit Suisse, UBS and UCLA. He is a graduate of Columbia University, an Ashoka Fellow and the author of a number of best-selling books on Zen wisdom and mindfulness.

In episode 33, Simon talks to David Yeung. David has pioneered a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that engages and empowers millions of people, along with public and private sectors, towards green awareness, action and economy. His work earns him the award of “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” by the World Economic Forum and Schwab Foundation. Other honors and recognitions include “Roddenberry Prize” and “Ten Outstanding Young Persons Hong Kong”. As an iconic environmentalist and entrepreneur, David has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Milken Institute Summit, TEDx, as well as financial and academic institutions such as Credit Suisse, UBS and UCLA. He is a graduate of Columbia University, an Ashoka Fellow and the author of a number of best-selling books on Zen wisdom and mindfulness.

Co-Founder of Brazilian edtech startup, Geekie, Claudio Sassaki joins us to discuss how schools in Brazil have been utilizing personalized adaptive learning technologies in a bid to keep learners active from home. He has been recognized by Wired UK as one of the most important social innovators of the world and awarded by Schwab Foundation as social entrepreneur of the year in 2014. Since 2016, Geekie has had more than five million students taking advantage of the personalized adaptive learning platform. ------------------------------------------------- Relevant links: Geekie: https://www2.geekie.com.br WISE profile: https://bit.ly/2Ddn2Rl ------------------------------------------------- Check out more from WISE and send us your thoughts! Website: www.wise-qatar.org Twitter: twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Instagram: wiseqatar Facebook: www.facebook.com/wiseqatar/ Linkedin: bit.ly/2JKThYf

लॉक डाउन की घोषणा के बाद, हमें एहसास हुआ कि प्रवासी मज़दूर जो हमारी रोज़मर्रा की ज़िंदगी का अभिन्न हिस्सा हैं, हम उन्हें उपेक्षा दृष्टि से देखतें हैं | पहली बार हमने इन ‘ऋतुकालीन शरणार्थियों’ के दर्द को महसूस किया | इनका हमारी शहरी ज़िंदगी को सुविधाजनक बनाने में महत्वपूर्ण योगदान है, परंतु राजनीतिक और आर्थिक व्यवस्था से वे बहिष्कृत हैं | इनकी घर वापसी की लम्बी पदयात्रा की कहानियों ने हमें स्तब्ध कर दिया - इनमें भूख, खोई हुई उम्मीद, संघर्षपूर्ण दृढ़ता, निष्क्रिय असहयोग और कदाचित सभ्य समाज की उदासीनता के प्रति सक्रिय मतभेद की झलक दिखाई दी | हमारे अतिथि श्री राजीव खंडेलवाल ने इन मुद्दों को पिछले दो दशकों से अपनी कर्मभूमि बनाया है | इनके द्वारा स्थापित संस्था ‘आजीविका ब्यूरो’ अपने देश के १५ करोड़ अर्ध-प्रशिक्षित प्रवासी मज़दूरों की समस्याओं के प्रति सजग होने का प्रथम प्रयास है | राजीव के साथ ‘अवेकिन टॉक’ पर ५ जुलाई २०२० सुबह १० बजे (भारतीय समयानुसार) संवाद करेंगी रजनी बक्शी| जैसा हम जानतें हैं, रजनी गाँधी-चिंतक हैं। प्रवासी मज़दूरों का विषय गांधीजी के ग्राम स्वराज और रचनात्मक कार्य जैसे विचारों से जुड़ा है | रजनी और राजीव इस पर तो संवाद करेंगे ही | और हाँ, ‘आजीविका’के जन्म की प्रेरणादायक कहानी भी हम सुनेंगे राजीव की ज़ुबानी | रजनी राजीव के बहुआयामी व्यक्तित्व से हमें साक्षात् करायेंगी | और इस गहन विषय से जुड़े राजीव खुद किससे प्रेरित है, कबीर सत्संग के प्रति राजीव के गहरे लगाव, उनके जीवन के मूल्य क्या है, इससे हमें साक्षात् कराएंगी  | Awakin Talk with Rajiv Khandelwal: During lockdown, we realized how the hitherto unnoticed migrant workers were an integral part of our daily lives. We experienced the pain of these “economic refugees” who, while contributing tremendously to our comfortable urban lives, are excluded from the formal political and legal systems. Stories of their long walk to home --- of hunger, perseverance, an expression of lost hope, of passive non-cooperation, and sometimes active dissent towards the apathy of civil society --- moved us.  Our guest Speaker Rajiv Khandelwal has been churning these issues for the past two decades, and more. On the Awakin Talk on Sunday, July 5, 2020, AT 10 AM IST  Rajni Bakshi will moderate the conversation with Rajiv on what lies at the root of this seasonal migration, and the issues that plague the migrants, how this issue of migrant workers intersects with Gandhi’s idea of gram-swaraj and constructive work, and of course, what inspired the birth of Aajeevika. Rajni will also explore Rajiv’s inner journey, and the multiple facets of his person - who, on one hand,  interacts with World Economic Forum kind of platforms and continues to nurture his deep love for the Bhil communities’ folk idiom and satsang on the other.  एक परम्परागत व्यापारी कुटुंब में पले राजीव ने कॉमर्स कोलेज के दिनों पहली बार समाज के विभिन्न वर्गों से आए विद्यार्थियों के सम्पर्क में आए और सामाजिक असमानता से वाक़िफ़ हुए | करीब उसी समय घटी एक घटना ने इस युवक के मन पर गहरी छाप छोड़ी | राजीव एक अंध विद्यार्थी की परीक्षा में पेपर लिखने की सेवा दे रहे थे। विद्यार्थी ने दिए हुए गलत जवाब को अपनी ओर से सही करके लिखा।  जब यह सत्य सामने आया तब राजीव को खूब डांट पड़ी। तब उन्हें एहसास हुआ कि सहानुभूति  (न की हृदयपूर्वक करुणा) के भाव से किए तथाकथित अच्छे कर्म भी लाभ पानेवाले को कमज़ोर बनाते हैं | ऐसी घटनाओं ने उनके जीवन की दिशा तय की और उन्होंने चार्टेड अकाउंटन्सी की जगह इन्स्टिटूट ऑफ़ रुरल मैनज्मेंट (IRMA आणंद, गुजरात) में दाख़िला लिया | फ़ील्ड असायन्मेंट के सिलसिले में वो बार बार गाँव देहात के दूर दराज के इलाक़ों में जाते थे, वहाँ उनका सामना हुआ दमनकारी सामाजिक व्यवस्था और दारुण ग़रीबी से | इस अनुभव ने राजीव की जिज्ञासा को जागृत किया - उन्हें  एहसास हुआ कि ग्रामीणों की आवाज़ को ध्यानपूर्वक सुनने से भी उनकी कई विषम समस्याओं को बोज हल्का हो सकता है। (दुर्भाग्य से आजकी युवाशक्ति की दौड़ गाँव से विपरीत दिशा की ओर है। )  और यहीं से जन्म हुआ ‘आजीविका ब्यूरो’ का | समय के साथ ‘आजीविका’ प्रवासी मज़दूरों के लिए एक सेवाछत्र सा बन गया है - जैसे कि उनकी पहचान के आई डी कार्ड देना, क़ानूनी सहायता, आर्थिक मदद, स्वास्थ्य सेवा, उनके गंतव्य स्थान संबंधी सहयोग और कौशल प्रशिक्षण | ब्यूरो ग्रामीण समुदायों की स्थानीय वास्तविकताओं को समझने में अग्रणी रहा है।  राजीव को 2005 में अशोका फेलो के रूप में नामित किया गया था और 2010 में श्वाब फाउंडेशन द्वारा सोशल एंटरप्रेन्योर ऑफ द ईयर से सम्मानित किया गया था। राजीव 30 साल से उदयपुर में रहते हैं  अपनी माता के साथ ।देश विदेश में स्थित कई मित्र और उनकी गहरी मैत्रि को ही राजीव अपने जीवन की सही संपत्ति मानते हैं।   Bio Scion of a traditional business family, Rajiv chose Commerce in college. For the first time, Rajiv mingled with students from different backgrounds. Once while volunteering, Rajiv was reprimanded for doctoring a blind student’s incorrect response. He realized that even good deeds, done through a lens of sympathy (and not compassion) can be debilitating for the receiver. Such incidents and exposure to social iniquities in college set the course for his life. Instead of pursuing CA, he joined the Institute of Rural Management at Anand in Gujarat. At IRMA, he encountered harsh poverty and oppressive social systems through his frequent field assignments in the interiors. Rajiv realized that listening to the people was the most important; solutions follow. After solid immersion in rural, adivasi communities of Rajasthan, Rajiv and his old friend established Aajeevika Bureau to respond to the reality of massive out-migration of rural poor to urban labour markets. Aajeevika Bureau - as an umbrella portal for services that include legal aid, financial services, reskilling - has delivered several innovative solutions to reduce the hardship confronting millions. Rajiv was nominated as an Ashoka Fellow in 2005 and Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Schwab Foundation in 2010. Udaipur has been home to Rajiv for 30 years now – where he stays with his mother. Rajiv has a large and diverse community of friends everywhere in the country and a few precious ones beyond borders.

On the Soul of Business, Claressa Monteiro spoke to Founder of Green Monday and World Economic Forum and Schwab Foundation 2018 "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" award recipient David Yeung, to find out all about a plant-based lifestyle and his new OMNI.

Fordham Conversations Host Robin Shannon sits down with four members of the Fordham University Community who are part of the Gabelli School of Business.  They recently took part in a forum on ways that everyday people can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Lerzan Aksoy is associate dean for undergraduate studies and professor of marketing at Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business. Katherine Milligan, Gabelli Fellow, USA and Former Director of the Schwab Foundation at the World Economic Forum Jerry White, Gabelli Fellow, Fordham University and Nobel Peace Prize Co-Recipient Patrick Struebi, Gabelli Fellow, Fordham University and Founder of Fairtrasa  

The most powerful decision you make is the decision for what you should and should not buy. — Tom Szaky   How much of the things you buy do you really need? Every day our waste piles up. Ninety-nine percent of what we purchase - we don’t really need. The world is suffering because of our actions. Poorly-managed landfills cause litter. Incinerating waste produces toxic substances. These are some problems we are faced with when it comes to waste management. Stemming from these issues are people devoted to finding creative solutions in address these problems. On today’s episode of Sustainable, I talk about the work that TerraCycle is doing to better manage our waste and recycle the unrecyclable with Tom Szaky Tom is the founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of hard to recycle waste. He is also the author of three books Revolution in A Bottle, Outsmart Waste, and Make Garbage Great. Through TerraCycle, Tom is pioneering a new waste management processes involving manufacturers and consumers to create circular solutions for hundreds of unrecyclable waste (e.g. cigarette butts, dirty diapers, used chewing gum and flexible food packaging). TerraCycle along with 25 top consumer product company and retailers, have announced a new e-commerce shopping platform called Loop. This will enable consumers to shop online for their favorite brands in durable and reusable packaging. Tom and TerraCycle have received hundreds of social, environmental, and business awards and recognition from a  range of organizations including the United Nations, the US Chamber of Commerce, Fortune Magazine, World Economic Forum, and The Swap Foundation. Tom shares how our garbage is continuously impacting the environment in a negative way. He talks about eliminating the idea of waste through creative and innovative solutions - which is the goal to achieve a sustainable planet.   In this episode, Tom will share his insights about: The learnings that have helped TerraCycle become a pioneer in waste management What caused the success of TerraCycle Innovative and creative methods for waste management Changing our perspective towards waste management to unlock other important values The TerraCycle and Loop project and its essence Reimagining the way that we consume Working with consumer behaviour instead of fighting it The future of packaging The reality behind biodegradable packaging The challenges of the Environmental Movement What you can do to lessen your waste How the act of buying triggers every environmental issue Active buying as a solution How he manages to get organizations, especially the large ones, to center on the environment How focusing on sustainability impacted the way he lives his daily life How his experience with nature influenced and impacted the work that he is doing The most powerful tool to create solutions and change Reducing waste means less environmental impact, fewer resources and energy used. And most of all, it saves you money!   More about Tom Szaky and TerraCycle: Tom Szaky is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle waste. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world’s largest brands, retailers, cities and manufacturers to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that currently go to landfill or incineration. Through TerraCycle, Tom is pioneering new waste management processes involving manufacturers and consumers to create circular solutions for hundreds of waste streams such as cigarette butts, laboratory waste, used coffee capsules, dirty diapers, used chewing gum and flexible food packaging that otherwise have no path to be recycled. TerraCycle developed and operates the largest supply chain for ocean plastic in the world, partnering with companies like Procter & Gamble to integrate this material into their product packages. In January 2019, TerraCycle, along with 25 top consumer products companies and retailers announced a new e-commerce shopping platform called Loop that will enable consumers to shop for some of their favorite brands in durable, reusable packaging. Launched in May 2019, Loop is a key step in helping to end the epidemic of waste that is caused by 'single use' consumption. Tom and TerraCycle have received hundreds of social, environmental and business awards and recognition from a range of organizations including the United Nations, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Fortune Magazine, World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation. Connect with Tom Szaky through social media: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Additional resources: TerraCycle Books: Revolution in A Bottle Outsmart Waste Make Garbage Great If you enjoyed this, check out episode 121: The Business Case for Circular Economy with Robert-Jan van Ogtrop, founder of Circle Economy and Natural Leadership

Ep. 78: Paul Rice – founder, President & CEO of Fair Trade, USA. – ft. co-host Jennifer Hashley, founder of New Market Farming project  || What about the folks producing our food? Tune in to episode 78 to hear from Paul Rice, founder, President & CEO of Fair Trade USA, the social enterprise and leading certifier of Fair Trade products in North America. On a mission to impact social and environmental good, Fair Trade USA celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2018. Since its launch, Fair Trade USA and its partners have generated almost $500 million in additional income for farmers and workers in more than 70 countries worldwide, allowing them to keep their kids in school, care for the land and steadily improve their livelihoods. Fair Trade USA sets standards that farms, fisheries and factories must be audited against in order to be called Fair Trade Certified. With a beginning in coffee, the organization now certifies over thirty commodities. A timely conversation as the global coffee market price is at a ten year low, Paul shares what Fair Trade is continuing to do to improve farmer livelihoods and enact long term sustainable development. He’ll talk about what Fair Trade for all means to him and the organization and the power of collective bargaining. The Fair Trade USA seafood program just celebrated it’s 5th anniversary and he will share how it came to be and the importance of contributing to the seafood sustainability space. Lastly will check in on the vision for the future and how Fair Trade aligns with the conscious consumer of today. BIO: He launched the award-winning nonprofit organization in 1998 after spending 11 years organizing farmers in the highlands of Nicaragua. There he founded and led the country’s first Fair Trade coffee export cooperative, which introduced him to the transformative power of market-based approaches to sustainable development. Paul Rice then returned to the United States to obtain his MBA from Berkeley Haas with the dream of bringing Fair Trade to consumers, businesses and farmers worldwide.   PAUL RICE –  ep. 78:  FAIR TRADE FOR ALL People called him crazy in the beginning, but Paul had a bold vision for Fair Trade: from his years in Nicaragua, he knew that farmers and workers could learn to navigate the global market and empower themselves on a journey out of poverty. He believed that business could become a major force for social and environmental change, creating “shared value” and sustainability with profitability. He envisioned a consumer awakening and recognition that everyday purchases can impact the world for the better. In short, Paul believed deeply that the Fair Trade movement would have a major impact on the world and also help propel a much larger, lasting shift toward Conscious Capitalism.   Twenty years later, Fair Trade has grown into a widely-known and increasingly mainstream consumer trend that is rapidly approaching an inflection point. In 2016, consumer recognition of the Fair Trade Certified label reached 67% and U.S. retail sales of Fair Trade products grew to an estimated $6 billion.  Paul and his team have enlisted the support of over 1,300 companies, including market leaders like Green Mountain, Starbucks, Nespresso, General Mills, PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Costco, Target and Walmart. Fair Trade USA now certifies coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, coconut, fresh fruits and vegetables. Most recently, through groundbreaking partnerships with Patagonia, West Elm and Gap Inc., Fair Trade has begun certifying apparel and home furnishings to improve working conditions and incomes for factory workers.   Paul’s rich, first-hand experience over the last 30 years in the areas of sustainable agriculture, grassroots economic development, global supply chain transparency and consumer activation is unique in the certification world. He is now a leading advocate of “impact sourcing” as a core strategy for both poverty alleviation and sustainable business. Paul has been honored for his pioneering work by Ashoka, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Fast Company Magazine’s Social Capitalist of the Year award (four-time winner), Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics, Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year (2012 Finalist) and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The Texas-native holds an Economics and Political Science degree from Yale University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where he is now an Executive Fellow. Paul has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Clinton Global Initiative, Skoll World Forum, TEDx and universities & conferences around the world. summary by:   Mel Bandler Retail Partnerships @ FairTrade USA   www.SourcingMatters.show  

Javier es fundador de Clínicas del Azúcar, una empresa social innovadora enfocada en proveer atención médica especializada a un costo accesible para pacientes con diabetes de clases media y baja en México. Es Ingeniero Físico del ITESM con Maestría en MIT. Ganó experiencia práctica en salud rural participando en importantes proyectos de salud en Boston, Tanzania y Sudáfrica. Más tarde co-fundó Global Cycle Solutions, una empresa social enfocada en la generación de energía a través de dispositivos de pedales en Tanzania. Javier es Ashoka Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, Ganador del TR35 de MIT al Innovador Solidario menor de 35 años en México, Recientemente fue nombrado como el Emprendedor Social Latinoamericano del Año por la Schwab Foundation durante el World Economic Forum, entre otros. Es miembro de la Sociedad de Emprendedores Públicos del Laboratorio de Emprendimiento y Transformación del Tec de Monterrey. A pesar de todo esto, le preguntas que cual es la causa de todo lo que ha logrado y dice con mucha certeza: tod, todo, todo es por Dios. Es un católico que vive en el día a día su fé. ¡Padrísima platicada nos echamos con el! Puedes ver todas las ligas hacia páginas de cosas a las que se hicieron mención en el episodio aquí: http://platicandoencatolico.com/episode/javierlozano/ y visita nuestro Facebook en https://www.facebook.com/Platicando-en-Cat%C3%B3lico-291631234898371/ (https://www.facebook.com/Platicando-en-Cat%C3%B3lico-291631234898371/) Comentarios, quejas o porras en platicandoencatolico@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edición por https://twitter.com/wistomadero/ (https://twitter.com/wistomadero/) y su contacto para cualquier necesidad de video y/o audio es wisto@WhiteCrimsonFilms.com Jingles por https://www.fiverr.com/alonsodei (https://www.fiverr.com/alonsodei) Support this podcast

Het verhaal van Apopo leest als een sprookje: Bart Weetjens traint ratten om landmijnen te ontdekken en redt duizenden levens. Zijn werk wordt bekroond door Ashoka, de Schwab Foundation van het World Economic Forum en met een Skoll Award voor sociaal ondernemerschap. Het maakt van Bart een van de meest bekroonde sociale ondernemers uit ons land. Het gesprek was fantastisch maar het woord Apopo valt niet. Dat hadden we zo afgesproken.

Emerging technologies like biotech and artificial intelligence have the potential to transform so many of the systems that make up the world around us.           At our 2018 Frontiers of Social Innovation conference, Katherine Milligan, who directs the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship spoke with a few savvy social entrepreneurs who are harnessing these tools for social impact right now. Milligan speaks with Keller Rinaudo, CEO and cofounder of Zipline, which is using drones to deliver blood and medicines to remote parts of the world; Kristin Richmond of Revolution Foods, which is using data and technology to increase access to fresh, healthy food to underserved communities and schools; and David Risher, CEO and co-founder of Worldreader, a global nonprofit that provides people in the developing world with free access to culturally relevant, digital books via e-readers and mobile phones.   https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/embracing_emerging_technology_for_social_change

Jason Howell, executive director of SoberHood, is a self-defined social entrepreneur. A simple definition of the term comes from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: the social entrepreneur is one who "achieves large scale, systemic and sustainable social change through a new invention, a different approach, a more rigorous application of known technologies or strategies, or a combination of these." If this implies a willingness to challenge orthodoxy as well as wear several different hats, Jason Howell fits the bill. In this episode of the podcast, Howell talks about his journey of recovery from substance use, and his recent successes at using recovery principles as pillars for creative, organized enterprises that make a difference in people's lives.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is the sister organization to the World Economic Forum. They manage the world’s largest network of late-stage social entrepreneurs. Katherine Milligan says, “I have always been deeply touched by the inequities of the world.” She spent time in the Peace Corp. She lived in a village in Benin without running water or electricity for two years. While there, she saw first-hand how an international shift in the commodity price of cotton had a significant impact on local cotton farmers and their families. “It opened a deep curiosity in me to understand why the conventional ways of delivering solutions to these populations where failing.” Her curiosity led her to pursue a Master’s degree in Trade and International Development. This was followed by two years as a Research Fellow, traveling the world and interviewing stakeholders from ambassadors and trade representatives to the WTO and farmers. She says that this study gave her an appreciation for how complex problems are. “When you know very little about a problem, it’s very easy to see it in a black and white way and to propose a simplistic solution. When you dig into it and you understand the complexities of it, that’s when you appreciate just how challenging and complex these problems are to solve.” Katherine’s search for solutions to large, complex global problems led her to the World Economic Forum in 2005. In 2009, she took over the lead role for the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is the sister organization to the World Economic Forum. They manage the world’s largest network of late-stage social entrepreneurs. They elevate the work of late-stage social entrepreneurs on the platform of the World Economic Forum. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship was launched in 1998 by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum and his wife Hilde. Their initial goal was to introduce the work of social entrepreneurs on a global stage. At the time, the concept of social entrepreneurship was mostly unknown. Each year the Schwab Foundation recognizes several social entrepreneurs through a “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” competition. This year they selected 17 social entrepreneurs from 13 organizations. These social entrepreneurs become part of the broader Schwab Foundation community of more than 300 entrepreneurs to exchange expertise and experiences. They are also fully integrated into the World Economic Forum’s events and initiatives, giving them a global presence and visibility. Social Entrepreneurship Quotes from Katherine Milligan “When you get that kind of spotlight and exposure, it changes the dynamics and resources come to you.” “I’ve always been deeply touched by the inequities in the world.” “When you know very little about a problem, it’s easy to see it in a black and white way.” “You have to log those hours.” “We need a reality check on the problem spaces.” “Know your strengths.” “Surround yourself with people who compliment your skills.” “This is a really challenging path.” “Understand the role of self-care.” “If you let the cause consume you, what good are you to the cause?”   Social Entrepreneurship Resources: Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: http://www.schwabfound.org Free Report: Beyond Organizational Scale: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Systems Change: http://www.schwabfound.org/content/publications Book: Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It: http://amzn.to/2u6eK4A Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship on Twitter: https://twitter.com/schwabfound Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/schwabfound/  

Did you know that only 4% of venture capital funding goes to women entrepreneurs? Did you also know that in 2016, there were over 11.3 million women-owned businesses in the U.S. that employed nearly 9 million people and generated over $1.6 trillion in revenues? So why the disconnect? But more importantly, what would you do if faced with experiencing this social injustice? In steps Vicki Saunders. With her globally recognized company called SheEO, serial entrepreneur Vicki Saunders is on a mission to disrupt and reimagine the venture funding model for women-led companies around the world using a philosophy she calls radical generosity. How does it work? Up to 1,000 women in each region contribute $1,000 which creates a one million dollar fund. The money is then loaned out to up to 10 women-led ventures at 0% interest, paid back over 5 years and reinvested perpetually. Vicki’s big-picture calculation: a billion dollars going to 10,000 female entrepreneurs every year, in perpetuity. Take that Sand Hill Road. On this episode, Vicki shares her purpose filled journey leading up to this point, why venture capital and traditional funding models have mostly failed women, an inside look at the sheEO strategy, several success stories from her portfolio, and even key principles from her popular book, Think Like a SheEO. All this and more on today’s episode. Now, That’s Unusual. About Vicki Saunders Vicki Saunders is the founder of SheEO, Inc., a global initiative designed to radically transform how we support, finance and celebrate female entrepreneurs who are creating a better world. SheEO provides a platform in which generous women Activators act as advisors, early customers, suppliers, connectors and follow-on investors to set up emerging female entrepreneurs for immediate and accelerated growth. Saunders is a serial entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way to create positive transformation in the world. She has co-founded and run four ventures in Europe, Toronto and Silicon Valley, including Zazengo, The NRG Group, and Impactanation. Saunders was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, and she speaks regularly at events such as the Women of Influence Series in Canada, the Tallberg Forum, and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs. Saunders is passionate about designing new forms of financing to support businesses building a better world, and she has been a committed mentor to over 1000 businesses over of the course of her career. Key Interview Takeaways What will you do now that you are free? Saunders was in Europe when the Berlin Wall fell, and being surrounded by dreamers asking that question inspired her to become an entrepreneur – and support others in starting businesses of their own. Small actions – aggregated together – make a big impact. Saunders’ software as a service company, Zazengo, tracked sustainability actions and sought to change individual behavior by demonstrating collective impact. Diversity of interest heightens creativity. Saunders is deeply curious about many different things, and her ability to synthesize what she learns from different areas allows her to cultivate a unique world view. Timing is everything. Women were not at the table to design the current models, so now that ‘everything is broken,’ it is the perfect opportunity for female innovators to step forward. Adopt radical generosity. Saunders’ SheEO model asks 1,000 women to contribute $1,100. The million dollar fund is then loaned out to up to ten women-led ventures (at 0% interest), paid back over five years – and reinvested perpetually. Radical generosity goes against the current ‘winner takes all’ mindset which has led to 8 people having the same wealth as 3.5 billion people. Talk about capital inefficient! Validation engenders confidence. The women selected to be a part of the SheEO initiative benefit from the support,

Curt and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Syrians as newcomers to Canada, mentorship, giving back and about Syrians helping Syrians.   For more information about QuestScope go here.   Biography Curt Rhodes has spent over 30 years working with, and on behalf of, marginalized communities and young people across the Middle East. As the recipient of the 2014 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, Dr. Rhodes was recognized by Tufts University for his demonstrated compassion and tenacity in creating a highly effective and determined organization dedicated to the survival and nurturing of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised. In recognition of his work through Questscope with marginalized youth in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and in the region, Dr. Rhodes was awarded 2011 Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.  Dr. Rhodes began his career in the Middle East in the early Eighties, as Assistant Dean in the School of Public Health at the American University of Beirut. During the 1982 invasion of (west) Beirut, he volunteered in a community-based clinic alongside students and friends, doing around-the-clock triage for wounded and ill civilians. That was when the seed idea for Questscope began to take shape. Living and working with people in great suffering compelled him to find a way that he and others in the Middle East could assist the most vulnerable: participating with the voiceless ones in invisible communities. In 1988, Questscope was founded with the goal of putting the last, first. From the beginning, Questscope worked closely with local communities, identifying their aspirations and together addressing their greatest needs.  ----------   For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here.   With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Curt talks openly about Syria, the middle-eastern crisis, refugees and why we can’t survive without others. He reminds us that every person matters, chats about trust, trauma and loss.  Biography Dr. Curt Rhodes is the founder and international director of Questscope, a non-profit, non-governmental organization working with, and on behalf of, marginalized communities and young people across the Middle East since 1988.  Curt was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year in the Middle East, by the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum in 2011.  In 2014 he was awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University. Dr. Rhodes holds an MPH degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ---------- For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Curt Rhodes is the International Director of Questscope (www.questscope.org), an organization based in Amman, Jordan addressing marginalized youth, women, and communities through projects in Syria, Sudan, Northern Iraq, and Yemen, as well as independently in the United States.  Curt is a good guy – a great sense of humour and wild dreams about changing the world.  He wants to stimulate creative educational, entrepreneurial, and game-changing opportunities for leadership in the face of “wicked” problems—problems that conventional strategies fail to resolve. In 2011 he was named the Social Entrepreneur of the Year (MENA) 2011 by the Schwab Foundation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Richard Jefferson is the Chief Executive Officer of an independent, non-profit institute called Cambia. He is also Professor of Science, Technology & Law at Queensland University of Technology and Director of an open, public innovation resource called The Lens. In addition, Richard is a founder of the biological open-source initiative called Biological Innovation for Open Society. He received his Bachelor's degree in Molecular Genetics from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and went on to complete his PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Richard completed postdoctoral research at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge and then worked as a Molecular Biologist for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations before founding Cambia. Richard has received many awards and honors during his career, and just to name a few, he was named an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation, he was among Scientific American's List of the World’s 50 Most Influential Technologists and World Research Leader for Economic Development in 2003, he received the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Leadership in Science Public Service Award, and Medalist of the Center for Science and Policy Outcomes. Richard is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.

Today’s guest is Becky Kanis Margiotta. Becky, with her friend Joe McCannon, founded The Billions Institute to answer one question: how do we unleash a billion people to solve the world’s biggest problems in the next 50 years?  Prior to this venture, Becky led the 100,000 Homes Campaign for Community Solutions. Featured on 60 Minutes, the Campaign was a nationwide large-scale change effort to find and house 100,000 of the most long-term and medically vulnerable homeless people in America by July 2014.   And as if that weren’t enough, before that, Becky commanded two Special Operations companies in the US Army. She graduated from West Point and holds a Masters Degree from The New School. She was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change in 2013 and by the Schwab Foundation as a Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015. You can find out more about Becky at www.BillionsInstitute.org or at www.BeckyKanis.com. Please be sure to fill out our Audience Demographic Survey for LibSyn. Thanks! And don’t forget to subscribe to Consciously Speaking so that you don't miss a single episode. While you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! To learn more about our previous guests, listen to past episodes, and get to know your host, go to www.MichaelNeeley.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. 

Audio File:  Download MP3Transcript: An Interview with Gillian Caldwell Executive Director, Witness Date: August 9, 2007 NCWIT Interview with Gillian Caldwell BIO: Gillian Caldwell took the helm as the CEO for Global Witness in July of 2015. Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of WITNESS (www.witness.org), which uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. By partnering with local organizations around the globe, WITNESS empowers human rights defenders to use video as a tool to shine a light on those most affected by human rights violations, and to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools of justice. Since its founding in 1992, WITNESS has partnered with groups in more than 60 countries, bringing often unseen images, untold stories and seldom heard voices to the attention of key decision makers, the media, and the general public -- prompting grassroots activism, political engagement, and lasting change. A film-maker and an attorney, Gillian has experience in the areas of international human rights, civil rights, intellectual property, contracts, and family law. At WITNESS, she has helped produce numerous documentary videos for use in advocacy campaigns around the world, including Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the "War on Terror";System Failure: Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the California Youth Authority; Books Not Bars; and Operation Fine Girl: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone. She is also co-editor and author of a book published by Pluto Press called Video for Change: A Guide to Advocacy and Activism (2005). Gillian was formerly the Co-Director of the Global Survival Network, where she coordinated a two-year undercover investigation into the trafficking of women for forced prostitution from Russia and the Newly Independent States that helped spur new anti-trafficking legislation in the U.S. and abroad. She also produced and directed Bought & Sold, a documentary film based on the investigation which received widespread media coverage. Gillian lived in South Africa during 1991 and 1992, investigating hit squads and security force involvement in township violence, and has worked in Boston, Washington, D.C., and New York on issues related to poverty and violence. Gillian has been awarded the Echoing Green Fellowship (1996-1998), the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Award (2000), the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Award Winner (2001-present), the Tech Laureate of the Tech Museum (2003), Ashoka: Innovators for the Public as a special partner (2003), Journalist of the Month by Women's Enews (2004), and the Skoll Social Entrepreneurship Award (2005). Gillian is a member of the Social Venture Network, promoting new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business in the 21st century, and she is admitted to the Bar in NY and Washington, D.C. She received her BA from Harvard University and her J.D. from Georgetown University, where she was honored as a Public Interest Law Scholar. Larry Nelson: This is Larry Nelson, with w3w3.com, Colorado's Voice of the Technology and Business Community. And we are a very fortunate proud partner with the National Center for Women and Information Technology, or, as we call it, NCWIT. And we've got a three‑part interview here; we're doing a wonderful interview with a very strong entrepreneur that we are very interested in talking with on some interesting topics. And we're here today with Lucinda Sanders ‑ we call her Lucy; all of her friends do ‑ who is the CEO of NCWIT, as well as Leigh Kennedy, who is on the board at NCWIT; and she's a serial entrepreneur herself. So, Lucy, welcome to the show. Let's get into it and introduce your guest. Lucy Sanders: Well, today, we're introducing Gillian Caldwell, who is the executive director of Witness. I have to say, Gillian, after really looking at your website and understanding what the mission of Witness is, it's a very compelling mission that you have. And your tagline, "See It, Film It, Change It", I thought, was one of the best tag lines I've ever seen for the mission of an organization. Can you give us a little bit of background about witness? I know you started it in 1992. Gillian Caldwell: Yes. So, witness was founded in 1992 by musician and advocate Peter Gabriel. He was struck, when he was touring with Amnesty International, by the isolation of the human‑rights defenders that he met in countries around the world who had had their stories of abuse denied and covered up and forgotten. And he had with him, at that time, in 1989, a handheld video camera; it was a Hi8; it cost about $1, 800. And he was using that camera to record their stories and their experiences; and he was struck by the potential of those stories and that technology to bridge the gap and connect audiences all around the world to those realities and ensure they weren't covered up and forgotten. And Witness was founded just a few years later, in the wake of the beating of Rodney King, which, of course, was shot by a handheld video camera, which galvanized an international conversation about police brutality. The Reebok Human Rights Foundation provided the early seed funding in 1992. And witness began as a technology‑transfer organization, with a primary focus on donating handheld video cameras to human‑rights advocates around the world. Over the last fifteen years, since we were founded in 1992, Witness has evolved considerably. And, at this stage, as you suggest at the outset, our focus is on enabling people to see it, film it, and change it. We don't just provide the camera: but we provide both the technical and strategic support that human‑rights defenders need to document the violations; ensure that they can, in a compelling, story‑driven way, explain not just the problem, but the solution; and get that media in front of the audiences that can make a difference, whether it's a Congressional subcommittee trying to decide whether or not to allocate armed forces and funding in the context of the genocide in Darfur, or whether it's a local judicial official who is being influenced by the evidence that's being presented before him on a videotape. Lucy: Well, and I think, in looking at your site, as well, you're using all the Internet and Web 2.0 technology now to really create this worldwide audience. I mean it's a very compelling use of technology to achieve social good. Gillian: What's really exciting at this stage is that I'm just about to launch something called "the Hub", which will basically be a kind of a YouTube for human rights or, as I like to think of it, a YouMyWikiTube for human rights. If you imagine the technologies and the philosophies of YouTube, MySpace, and Wikipedia, you get close to what we're trying to do at the Hub, which is a site that will be premiering in the fall of 2007. So this is a destination, a website, to which anybody anywhere could upload visual imagery, whether it's photographs or video, or possibly even audio content, of human‑rights‑related issues in their communities, here in the United States and around the world. They can upload it and opt in to a community of people that care about those issues and support campaigns for change. Lucy: Well, so, it's real evidence of how technology supports social entrepreneurism. And that gets me to my first question about technology in general: what technologies do you see on the horizon that are really going to make a difference for you, in addition to the Web 2.0 and Internet types of technology? Gillian: Well, of course, the cell phone, and particularly video‑ and photograph‑enabled cell phones, are really making a difference. I mean, historically, when people thought about the Rodney King beating, they thought "Oh, if you can just capture the abuse as it happens, it will make all the difference"; and the reality is that, with the larger video cameras people have historically used, you're unlikely to be in the wrong place at the right time. But, now, with the handheld cell phones, so many of which are video‑enabled and photograph‑enabled, there is a brand new opportunity to capture that abuse as it happens. If you think back to the London Tube bombings, just a couple of years ago, when a so‑called citizen journalist was reporting live from inside the London Tubes and the BBC moved ahead to create an email address to which anybody could email imagery of news‑related stories in their community, you start to realize that the cell phone is actually really revolutionizing the way we access information, as is text‑messaging and, of course, the Internet, which really didn't exist when Witness was founded. Lucy: And the cell network is very ubiquitous as well, especially in developing countries. Gillian: Right. I mean we still have a massive digital divide: but the beauty of the cell networks is that many of the countries which have historically been confronted with that massive divide will be able to leapfrog over the physical infrastructure, as those cellular networks are strengthened; and we'll be able to embed larger and larger files and transmit larger files over the cellular networks. But it is a concern, still, of course, when we think about the challenges of the Hub. And to take, for example, perhaps a humanitarian‑aid worker in Darfur, who happens to be on the spot as a genocide unfolds, who captures some of that imagery on their cell phone, and who wants to upload it to the Hub so that maybe the Save Darfur Coalition, in Washington, D.C., can then download it and provide that to the Congressional subcommittee: that aid worker faces several challenges. First of all: What's the bandwidth? What's the cost? What's the expense to upload that content? And does he have the strength of signal to do it? And secondly: What about the security risks? Here's a big issue for us, because, of course, if we log the IP addresses of the people who are uploading content, even if we enable them to upload the content anonymously, they really may be at risk, and we could face a subpoena, as Yahoo! Did in the case of Chinese dissidents. So the simple size of the file, of the video file, as it stands, makes it very difficult to encrypt or anonymize those files and it does put people at risk. So the technology is still insipient in terms of really fully enabling what we're talking about. Lucy: It is interesting how you've continually used the latest technologies to help in the pursuit. So, if we switch gears a little bit and we think about you being an entrepreneur: why did you decide to be an entrepreneur, and what is it about entrepreneurship that really makes you tick? Gillian: Well, I mean it's interesting that I have been sort of dubbed a social entrepreneur by a variety of organizations that recognize people in that field, whether it's Ashoka, or the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, or the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, really going back to about 2001. And a social entrepreneur is defined variously; but it's really understood as somebody who's really taking an innovative and sustainable approach to an old problem. And what Ashoka says about social entrepreneurs is that they're born that way. And it's funny: it isn't a primary identity for me; but, more and more, I do understand myself as somebody who's genetically inclined towards innovation and towards growing new ideas and towards thinking really tactically and strategically about what's sustainable. But my passion is not earning income: my passion is doing work that feeds my soul; and that's why I've always invested myself in work that delivers social value.. Larry Nelson: Gillian, who in your life really helped, supported your ‑ whether it was genetically inclined beginnings, or was it a mentor that came along the way? Was it a particular group that really had a major influence on your direction? Gillian: Well, I think, like so many people, the most formative influences for me were both my family ‑ particularly parents, who were not, themselves, deeply involved at a political level but who really had what I would call progressive values and who were very driven by integrity, in terms of how they thought about the world ‑ and then, of course, my teachers, particularly my history teachers, in grammar school and in high school, who introduced me to Amnesty International. I began running my high‑school chapter of Amnesty International when I was 12 years old; and I recall organizing weekly Urgent Action letter‑writing campaigns with students, getting dozens of students to write letters to President Zia‑ul‑Haq, in Pakistan, at the time, about political prisoners. And I remember organizing a school symposium on torture. And, I think, there, again, not just my parents and their support of my commitment to doing social‑justice work, but the teachers that encouraged me. And then additionally, interestingly, the work of an artist by the name of Leon Galag, who died quite recently, but who did a series called The Mercenary Series, which was very powerful, enormous canvases of mercenaries in Latin America torturing political prisoners. And, strangely enough, because I lived in the back of an art gallery in SoHo, in New York, when I was growing up, those paintings were in my living‑room for a period of time. In fact, I've often commented that, in these paintings, in The Mercenary Series, there was always a perpetrator looking at you looking at them, almost making a witness out of you and demanding that you do something about it. So I see a very consistent narrative thread, in terms of my focus on social justice and my focus on enterprise, going back to the days when I used to host regular bake sales on the local street corner to try to earn a little income. Lucy: I'd say this is genetically baked into you. Leigh: No pun intended. I thought it was really interesting, too: you're a lawyer. Did you pursue a law degree in support of your social activism? Gillian: Yes. I decided to get a law degree because I wanted additional credibility and depth, in terms of doing policy‑oriented work. I didn't intend to practice, although I did enjoy the short period of time in which I practiced, both at the administrative level, representing disability applicants, and then also working with special‑education cases and discrimination cases, before I got involved in a big undercover investigation on the Russian Mafia and their involvement in trafficking women for forced prostitution. And that undercover investigation utilized hidden‑camera technologies. We posed as foreign buyers interested in purchasing women. And that was my real introduction to video advocacy, as I now call it. But the law degree was always intended to help give me a little bit more credibility, a little bit more depth. And I didn't ‑ I couldn't anticipate at the time that it would be as useful as it is, of course, in the context of running an organization like Witness, where, you'd think, most of my legal training would come into play in the context of human‑rights law, when, in fact, most of what I really deal with on a daily basis, through the three pro‑bono law firms that support our work, has to do with intellectual‑property and trademark protection. Lucy: That's what I was going to ask you about: digital rights management. But that's probably a discussion for another time. Larry: Yeah. Leigh: So, Gillian, when you think about your career as a social entrepreneur, what's really been the toughest thing that you've had to do? Gillian: The biggest challenge is recognizing that the only thing that will be constant is change, particularly in an organization like Witness, where you're focused on integrating new technologies into social‑change work. You have to stay adaptable and evolutionary, which means you're never standing still. So, while I've been running witness for almost ten years now, I can honestly say that the organization looks, feels, and acts very differently from quarter to quarter. When I started, it was just me; and, at this stage, for fiscal '08, we're going to have a budget of $4.2‑million and a staff of 30. So that's a very different operation than it is to run something that's just two or three people. I think the other thing is that, if you're working as an entrepreneur in a social context, you're constantly in the midst of a so‑called stretch assignment: you're learning as you move through the process. And what's so important is being sure that you're really thoughtful about reaching out to get the advice and guidance and support that you need along the way, and that you build a system and an infrastructure of support surrounding you, because it may not always exist within the organization itself, but there are people that have done it before and you're not always needing to reinvent the wheel. Lucy: Well, and speaking of advice: if you were sitting in a room with some young people, what advice would you give them about entrepreneurship? Gillian: Well, again, I look at it through the perspective of social enterprise. So, for me, the most important advice I could give anybody is to stay committed to evolution; and that means that you have to live as a learner. I think that Gandhi once said that we should live like we are going to die tomorrow but learn like we will live forever. And I really believe that's the case: if we aren't open to learning, and if we don't spend as much time listening as we spend speaking, we can't do anything well. So I think that's the most important thing: to stay adaptable, to stay evolutionary ‑ and to build leadership. Somebody who really is a leader is ultimately somebody who takes all the blame and none of the credit. And that's a hard thing to map your mind around; and, at times, it is a bit of a thankless task, because there's just as many nuts and bolts as there are opportunities for big‑picture strategic visioning to take place. But it's really important to stay humble and to stay open and to stay learning. And, as you mature, over time, you realize that, the more you know, really the less you know, I think. Lucy: That's really true. I have to say Gandhi is ‑ I love his quote: "Be the change you want to see in the world." Gillian: Yeah; well, that's also about really living your values. I think it's so easy to compartmentalize our values and to try to articulate them through the check we write at Christmastime or the bottle we put in the recycling bin. But the reality is that living your values is a full‑time occupation, and it really requires us to challenge ourselves all the time to think and wonder: you know, "Was the thought that just passed through my mind racist?", "Was the dynamic that I just participated in unfair?", "Am I carbon neutral?" I mean all of this is about integrity and about values and about being a productive member of the planet. Lucy: So, speaking of characteristics: when you think about yourself, what personal characteristics do you think have given you advantages in being an entrepreneur? Gillian: Well, I think I have a lot of assets in that department, which have served me really well. One is stick‑to‑it‑iveness: I am dogged and determined, and I will find a way; and that's absolutely necessary. You have to have passion driving your commitment; and I believe, if you're passionate, you can achieve whatever it is that you set out to. It's also important to have solid organizational skills. A lot of entrepreneurs are visionary but aren't fortunate enough to get the skills of discipline and the organization and detail orientation that is required to pull off an enterprise. So, for those people, I think, it's so important to recognize that and surround themselves with people that do complement them well in that way. I think the other issue, of course, is the strategic thinking. And, there, it's making sure not just that you give yourself space and opportunity to think strategically, but also that you create environments in which strategy can evolve through collective conversation. Too often, people at all levels of an organization are not involved in creating and participating and designing a strategy for an organization. And that's what builds ownership, and I think that's what builds better long‑term solutions... Larry Nelson: Gillian, with a background like you ‑ you've had this organization, now, for ten years; you now have a budget of $4.2‑million; you have 31 employees. Here's a question: how do you bring about balance to your personal and your professional lives? Gillian: Well, the quickest way to get some balance is to have some children. And I have two of those: I have a girl, named Tess, who's just about to turn five, and a boy, named Finley, who will be three shortly. And that really, really necessitates a balance, because I will not miss their childhoods. So it enabled me to really walk the walk and talk the talk when it comes to balance. You know, I have certain lines that I draw, in terms of the number of nights a month that I will be away from my children, and a commitment regarding the number of hours I want to be with them at the beginning and the end of each day. So that's really important. The other thing that is so important to me, which I'm really grateful to have been able to bring back into my life, is exercise. And I think everybody finds balance in different ways: some people, through spiritual practice; others, through meditation; and, for me, exercise and, at this stage, running is really critical. So I do run five to six days a week, for roughly 45 minutes; and that's a way to really stay balanced and attuned. Lucy: Well, Gillian, you've really achieved a lot. We haven't even really mentioned it on this interview; but you are an author. You're clearly a passionate activist. You're a lawyer. And, also, you're a techlaureate, from the Tech Museum, which is very impressive as well. You've achieved so much. Oh: and a mom, with great kids. What's next for you? Gillian: Well, interestingly, I'm not somebody who's ever had a clearly designed career path in mind. I'm fortunate that I've been able to work throughout my life in the things that are absolutely engrossing to me and that really make me feel passionate. So I don't have a next step in mind. One of the things that I am increasingly concerned about and do want to direct my attention to, in the context here at Witness and conceivably beyond that, is really the issue of the climate, which is collapsing around us. And I think, first of all, that we are sleeping on the job, in terms of recognizing how serious the issues are, and, second of all, that there is this arbitrary divide between the field of human rights and the environmental movement. And, in fact, if we don't work cohesively together to analyze the intersections between climate collapse and human rights, we're really going to be in trouble. Just by way of example: there will be, and already are, millions of environmental refugees as sea levels rise. Take a look at Bangladesh: much of Bangladesh will be underwater, millions of people forced from their homes. There is already, all over the world today, wars over resource extraction, whether it be wars for oil ‑ of course Iraq comes to mind there ‑ or gold or other natural minerals, which displace hundreds of thousands of people in countries and force them to confront unspeakable violence. There will be the massive spread of vectorial disease. We're already seeing that in disease mutations which function in higher‑temperature environments. So I really see that as a place for a lot more focus and energy; and I'm passionate about seeing what I can do, at Witness and beyond, in that area. Larry: Gillian, I have a feeling that you're going to see it, film it, and change it. Lucy: We really want to thank you for everything you're doing for our world and at Witness. We really appreciate the time that you have taken to talk to us. Gillian: Thank you so much for having me. Lucy: I just want to remind everybody that the podcasts are hosted at the NCWIT website, www.ncwit.org, and also w3w3.com. Larry: That's it. Gillian: And you can go to www.witness.org to learn more about the work. Lucy: Wonderful. Thank you very much. Larry: One more link. Leigh: Thank you, Gillian. Lucy: Bye‑bye. Gillian: O.K. Thank you. Series: Entrepreneurial HeroesInterviewee: Gillian CaldwellInterview Summary: Gillian Caldwell is the Executive Director of WITNESS, which uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. A film-maker and an attorney, she has always believed in the power of images to change people's minds. Release Date: August 9, 2007Interview Subject: Gillian CaldwellInterviewer(s): Lucy Sanders, Larry NelsonDuration: 20:50