Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient (CGI 2011)
Nobel Peace Prize recipient and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus describes social businesses for 2012 and beyond.
2011
Cherie Blair, Foundation for Women (CGI 2011)
The work of Cherie Blair’s Foundation for Women continues to provide opportunities for those who never had them before.
Bill Brindley, CEO, NetHope (CGI 2011)
Committing to build thousands of jobs in low and middle income countries, NetHope CEO Bill Brindley explains how!
Talya Bosch, Western Union (BCLC 2011)
Talya Bosch of Western Union describes how the company, operating in all but three countries in the world, maintains community connections.
Margo Drakos, APPbridge (CGI 2011)
Tech entrepreneur Margo Drakos discusses creating jobs in home countries through mobile application creation and development.
Akhtar Badshah, Microsoft (BCLC 2011)
Akhtar Badshah, international expert on corporate community work, discusses the converging interests of business and society.
Stephen Jordan, Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC Conference)
BCLC’s Stephen Jordan discusses growing trends among businesses to improve communities around the world.
Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC-USA (CGI 2011)
Susan Davis, President and CEO of BRAC USA, explains how BRAC works in partnership to help people in poverty.
Bo Miller, Dow Chemical Company (BCLC Conference)
Global Sustainability! Dow’s Bo Miller describes the three considerations to achieve sustainability: economic, social and environmental.
Renee Acosta, Global Impact (CGI 2011)
Renee Acosta, longtime Global Impact President, discusses how the organization groups donations for world change.
Ed Martin, The Hershey Company (BCLC Conference)
Hershey’s Social Responsibility: Ed Martin of the Hershey Company describes methods of partnership among businesses and NGOs in enabling social change.
Jason Burger, CSS (BCLC Conference)
Jobs through recycling in Haiti: Jason Burger of CSS describes working with Executives Without Borders to provide opportunities for sustainable employment in earthquake-ridden Haiti.
Bob Goodwin, Executives Without Borders (BCLC Conference)
Executives Without Borders CEO Bob Goodwin, explains skills-based volunteerism around the globe.
Badham Mazumder & Hasanad Qader Mirza, Omnihaler (GSEC 2011)
Omnihaler: The Inhaler to the Poor: Asthma is a severe global problem with very high morbidity and mortality rate, medication for which is very costly to avail for the poor. To ensure affordable asthma medication among the poor segment, Omnihaler, Inc., introduces an inexpensive inhaler in Bangladesh, prepared from dhatura, a locally abundant phytomedicinal plant.
Prano Hiremath, POCiT (GSEC 2011)
POCiT is a nonprofit business with the mission of creating accessible medical technologies for use at the point of care in developing nations. We envision the development of accurate, affordable, user-friendly, and mobile medical solutions that transform the landscape of point of-care diagnostics by providing the potential to reach millions of patients.
Mdgaushey Shahariar, One4OneIT (GSEC 2011)
One4OneIT: E-power promises to develop skills of unemployed youths and create employment for them through online outsourcing jobs and work platforms.
Jim Jiambalvo, Foster School of Business (GSEC 2011)
Event Sponsor University of Washington Foster School of Business, www.foster.washington.edu.
Cynthia Konig, Wello (GSEC 2011)
Wello – A Simple Design Can Change the World: Wello aims to improve global access to water and reduce the physical and time burdens of water collection by manufacturing and distributing a water transportation tool, the WaterWheel. Our innovative Business in a Barrel model enables our customers to improve their economic status while improving the health of their communities.
Natasha Myles, LIFT Investments (GSEC 2011)
LIFT Investments improves the lives of the working poor and provides investment capital to high-potential businesses in Africa. Profits+ aims to provide working poor with part-time education programs that create access to higher paying jobs. The programs are financed by capital invested in the businesses that employ the low-paid workers; profits generated from this investment fund the programs.
Andy McShea, Theo Chocolates (GSEC 2011)
Supporters of GSEC! Theo Chocolates, www.theochocolate.com.
Salif Niang, Malo Traders (GSEC 2011)
Malo Traders, 2010 GSEC Judges Choice Award Winner
David Auerbach, Sanergy (GSEC 2011)
Sanergy produces electricity and fertilizer through providing safe, affordable sanitation across the slums of Kenya. In these areas with no infrastructure and limited resources, we are pioneering a model providing sustainable sanitation services by combining low-cost technology developed at MIT with an innovative deployment strategy.
David Anna, Online PayStation (GSEC 2011)
Online PayStation: To extend the benefit of online bargain shopping to the world’s poor by accepting cash. Our vision is to increase the accessibility and purchasing power of low income communities worldwide by establishing a network of pay stations that will provide savings on and online access to items such as school books, food, medicines, and water.
Saif Ahmed, Black Bengal Meats Company (GSEC 2011)
Black Bengal Meats Company: A just not for profit social business targeted towards providing nutrition and employment at the Base of the Pyramid in Bangladesh. Black Bengal Meats Company will use rural poor to generate low cost goat meat to sell to the urban poor.
