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Thursday, April 29, 8:30-9:30am
Catalyzing the Field - What are best practices for partnering with government? Here's a look at the way the public sector is working with social enterprises in four countries: The U.K., Australia, Canada and the United States

Jim Schorr, (moderator)
Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
Jim Schorr joined Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Management in 2008, to launch a new center of excellence focused on important social and environmental issues in business – including corporate responsibility, sustainability, and social enterprise – and to develop and teach related coursework. From 2000-07, Professor Schorr was CEO of Juma Ventures, a San Francisco-based organization that is widely regarded as one of the leading social enterprise models in the US. In 2007-08, he received a teaching appointment from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where he developed and taught the Social Enterprise & Entrepreneurship course. As a student at Northwestern University in 1993, he was a co-founder of Net Impact, an organization that has since inspired 25,000+ students at 200+ business schools on six continents to integrate social & environmental priorities into their education and careers. Jim currently serves as Board Chairman of Net Impact and on the boards of Social Enterprise Alliance, Global Social Venture Competition, The Nature Conservancy (TN), and Oasis Center.

Peter Holbrook
UK Social Enterprise Coalition
Peter Holbrook is CEO of the Social Enterprise Coalition -- the UK's national body for social enterprise representing a wide range of social enterprises, regional and national support networks and other related organizations. The Coalition's key activities are centered on informing and influencing the policy agenda, promoting the benefits of social enterprise and undertaking research to expand the social enterprise evidence base. Prior to taking on this role Peter was CEO of Sunlight Development Trust which works to tackle long-standing health and social inequalities. He developed 'project sunlight' from it's inception to become one of the country's most high profile and award winning 'community anchors.' In 2007, Peter was appointed to be one of the UK's Social Enterprise Ambassadors - a scheme supported by the Cabinet Office and coordinated by the Social Enterprise Coalition. In this role he advocated for social enterprise through lobbying politicians, speaking at events and representing the sector in the media.

Anne Jamieson
Toronto Enterprise Fund
Anne Jamieson has led the Toronto Enterprise Fund since 2003. TEF provides grants, technical assistance and ongoing research and evaluation for social enterprises. Anne launched the the Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise series in 2004 and is a founding member of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada, which brings together social enterprise leaders who leverage their networks, knowledge and experience in order to build a strong and enabling environment for social enterprise. Prior to joining the Toronto Enterprise Fund, Anne spent over 10 years in the micro-enterprise development field. As a business consultant, she has provided training and advice to hundreds of individuals wanting to become successful entrepreneurs, including youth, women, newcomers and marginalized populations. Anne has also worked in the international commercial banking sector in London, England.

Kathleen Martinez
Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy,
United States Department of Labor
Kathleen Martinez was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the third Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 25, 2009. As head of the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), Ms. Martinez advises the Secretary of Labor and works with all DOL agencies to lead a comprehensive and coordinated national policy regarding the employment of people with disabilities. Blind since birth, Ms. Martinez comes to ODEP with a background as an internationally recognized disability rights leader specializing in employment, asset building, independent living, international development, diversity and gender issues. She has previously served as Executive Director of the World Institute on Disability (WID); on the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a Congressionally-created agency dedicated to research and projects in conflict management; the State Department advisory committee on disability and foreign policy and the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency advising the President and Congress on disability policy.

Other invited speakers:
Patrick Corvington, newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for National and Community Service, United States; Tom Bentley, Advisor to Deputy Minister, Government of Australia

Thursday, April 29, 2:00-3:00pm
Engaging all Sectors - Can systems thinking help us gain traction? A cross-sector approach to tackling the challenges
We all have the same goal: to devise solutions that work to problems that matter. But what if the old categories into which we slot problems turn out to impede our ability to devise new, workable solutions? What if our old mental models are part of the problem, not part of the solution? This session will focus on the way blowing up old categories and embracing systems thinking can lead to the development of sustainable solutions that deliver real results in addressing deep-seated social, economic, and environmental problems.

Alan Webber, (moderator)
Founding Editor, Fast Company Magazine
Alan M. Webber is the author of Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths For Winning At Business Without Losing Your Self. Previously he was editorial director of the Harvard Business Review and founding editor of Fast Company Magazine. He is active in social entrepreneurially undertakings in a number of capacities around the world.

Rosanne Haggerty
Common Ground
Rosanne Haggerty is the President & Founder of Common Ground, an international leader in developing community strategies to end homelessness. She is an Urban Advisor to the Urban Land Institute, a board member of the Center for Urban Community Services, the Citizen's Housing and Planning Council, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and Quest Diagnostics, and is a Life Trustee of Amherst College. Prior to founding Common Ground Community in 1990, she was the coordinator of housing development at Brooklyn Catholic Charities. She is a graduate of Amherst College and is completing studies for a PhD in sociology at New York University. Ms. Haggerty is a 2001 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. In 2007, she was elected as an Ashoka Senior Fellow. Haggerty was a Japan Society Public Policy Fellow, an Adelaide Thinker in Residence, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and is a Hunt Alternatives Fund Prime Mover.

Kenneth Kaplan
MIT Collaborative Initiatives
Ken Kaplan serves as Associate Director of MIT Collaborative Initiatives, an incubator for projects that rethink the way we think about complex problems. The Collaborative engages experts from engineering, design, education, business, medicine, and the hard and soft sciences to design innovative models for tackling big-picture social issues such as Health. The first project to emerge from the Collaborative Initiatives developed a comprehensive strategy for improving stroke treatment across the full cycle of care. Ken Kaplan became an architect after an earlier career as a psychiatric social worker. These two professions give him a unique perspective on how systems and people work and interact. His experience includes architectural design, teaching, writing, and research; social work; and healthcare system design. He has held professorships at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University as well as the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Thursday, April 29, 4:15-5:15pm
Keynote Presentation
Chip Heath, co-author of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching courses on business strategy and organizations. He is the co-author (along with his brother, Dan) of two books. Their most recent book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard debuted at #1 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Their first book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, was a New York Times and Business Week bestseller, and was an Amazon Top 10 Business Book for 2007 for both editors and readers. It was translated into 27 languages including Thai, Arabic, and Lithuanian. His parents are just happy that their sons are playing well together.

Thursday, April 29, 7:30-8:30pm
Shaping a new Economy - What are we aiming for? The features of a new economy

We know we need a more inclusive and sustainable economy – what would that look like? What do we have to do to get there? What are some key elements already in place that we can build on? This panel answers these questions from the perspectives of social enterprise, the social economy movement, the local living economy movement, and the next generation.

Jay Harris, (moderator)
Founder and President, Earthshaking Productions
former Publisher, Mother Jones
Jay Harris is the founder and president of Earthshaking Productions, a social enterprise recently formed to help change the country's dysfunctional political culture. In October 2009, Jay stepped down after 19 years as the publisher of Mother Jones, the investigative news organization. During his MoJo tenure, the organization built on a tradition of groundbreaking public interest reporting, launched (in 1993) Webby Award-winning MotherJones.com, opened an eight-reporter Washington, DC reporting bureau headed by David Corn, and won two National Magazine Awards (for General Excellence, in 2001 and 2008). Jay serves on the Governing Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (home of "the Doomsday Clock") and the board of the First Amendment Coalition. In 2006 he helped found The Media Consortium, an alliance of independent, progressive media working together across multiple media platforms to extend the reach and impact of their journalism. He is a frequent speaker on the business of journalism. Before joining Mother Jones in 1991, Jay was general manager of Newsweek International's Pacific edition, based in Hong Kong. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Marcia Cohen.

Elliott Brown
Springboard Forward
Prior to founding Springboard Forward in 2002, Elliott Brown straddled the fields of Workforce Development and Career Development, searching for effective strategies for helping people advance in meaningful and sustainable ways. He has experimented with a variety of models and is now growing Springboard Forward, a nonprofit organization twice recognized as a "Top Changemaker" in the United States by Fast Company/Monitor Group and called "a wonderful example of leveraging capitalism to address the economic divide" by former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich. Elliott is an international Ashoka Fellow and was invited into the American Leadership Forum (ALF) of Silicon Valley in 2009. His model for social change has recently gained the attention of the national leadership, including Newt Gingrich and the Obama Administration's Office of Social Innovation.

Ethel Côté
Canadian Centre for Community Renewal
During 25 years, Ms. Ethel Côté fostered the implementation of some thirty work, services and production cooperatives in addition to supporting agricultural, agrifood, housing and child care cooperatives in Canada. She supported capacity building missions in Mali, Niger, Senegal and Morocco and was part of the organizing committee for the World Conference on Globalization of Solidarity (Dakar 2005 and Luxembourg 2009). In addition to teaching in College and Universities, Ms. Côté has mentored hundreds of communities and promoters of social enterprises. Involved with the Canadian Community Economic Development Network and the Intercontinental Network of Social Solidarity Economy, she is a founding member of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada. She is a social enterprise practitioner at the Canadian Center for Community Renewal (CCRC).

Leila Chirayath Janah
Samasource
Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to microwork - small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource was a winner in the International Business in Development Challenge in 2007 and the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge in 2008, and is a current grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation. In recognition of her work with Samasource, she received the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship and has been invited to serve as a TED and Social Enterprise Institute Fellow. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and GOOD, and she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Social Edge.

Chid Liberty
Sustainable Global Sourcing / Liberian Women’s Sewing Project
Before founding SGS, Chid worked in finance and as an information systems analyst for several high-growth technology companies including Metavante Technologies, Mindjet Corporation, and Trilogy Integrated Resources. In 2009, Chid received the designation of Fellow by the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) where he works to bridge the divide between rural and urban small business owners with the intention that these collaborations will strengthen the movement for a more just and sustainable U.S. economy. Though a Liberian native, Chid left Africa as a child when his father accepted accreditation as Liberia’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. Following his father’s diplomatic service, Chid’s family took refuge from Liberia’s civil unrest in the United States where he attended grade school through university, excepting one term at Bordeaux Management School in France.

Friday, April 30, 1:00-1:45pm
Keynote Presentation
Thinking Different - How does the way we’ve been taught to think about charity and social change stand in the way of the causes we love?

What if we have everything backwards? What are the big cultural prejudices that impede - even suffocate - real progress? Where are our philosophical blind spots? What canons have we left unquestioned that may be undermining our efforts at the most fundamental levels? This presentation will look at the economic apartheid that exists between the nonprofit sector and the rest of the economy, how it impedes the development of social enterprises, and how it keeps us from moving the needle on the most urgent social problems of our time.

Dan Pallotta is a leading expert on innovation in the nonprofit sector and a pioneering social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days and changed the fundamental paradigm for civic engagement in and fundraising for important social causes. Dan is the author of two books: "Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential" and "When Your Moment Comes: A Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams," and a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review online. He is the recipient of the Liberty Hill Foundation Creative Vision award, the Triangle Humanitarian of the Year award, and the Albany State University International Citizen of the Year award. Read his Harvard Business Review blog post "What Nonprofits Can Learn from the Apollo Program."

Friday, April 30, 1:45-2:45pm
Thinking bigger? Yes -- but what does 'scaling' really mean?

We know we need to scale solutions to persistent social and environmental challenges. But what does scale mean? Is reaching more targets with a solution the only way to define it? What about going deeper instead of larger with a solution? Does scaling originate from individual social enterprises, or can it originate from entire communities? And what does it take to scale? Is the primary key more investment, or are there new ways of thinking and operating that social enterprises can adopt in order to have more impact?

Dan Pallotta joins the following experts for this dynamic panel discussion.

Sean Stannard-Stockton, (moderator)
Tactical Philanthropy Advisors
Sean Stannard-Stockton is CEO of Tactical Philanthropy Advisors, a philanthropy advisory firm that serves individual and family philanthropists. Sean is the author of the Tactical Philanthropy blog and writes a monthly column for the Chronicle of Philanthropy. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on Philanthropy & Social Investing and has been quoted or referenced in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times and many other media outlets.

Rick Aubry
Rubicon National Social Innovations
Rick Aubry, Ph.D., is the founder and CEO of Rubicon National Social Innovations which is helping create the next generation of scaled social enterprises in the United States in partnership with a network of nonprofits, corporations, foundations and government. Rick was President of Rubicon Programs Inc. one of America’s pre-eminent non-profit organizations from 1986 through 2009 when he founded Rubicon National. His work at Rubicon Programs has had a significant and measured impact on the lives of over 50,000 people confronting homeless, poverty and the challenges of living with mental health disabilities. Rick is a five time winner of the Fast Company Magazine “Social Capitalist Award” for its impact and innovation in addressing these issues. During Rick’s tenure Rubicon's impact grew from a staff of 12 serving a handful of clients with a $980,000 budget to an organization serving 4,000 people annually with 250 full time staff and over $16 million in revenues in 2009. Rick has beenb a faculty member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2002, a fellow of the Stanford Center for S ocial Innovation and inaugural chair of the World Economic Forum Council on Social Entrepreneurship. He is a CNN/Time Magazine "Principal Voice" and is an Ashoka Senior Fellow.

Shari Berenbach,
Calvert Foundation
Shari Berenbach joined Calvert Foundation as Executive Director in 1997. With over 20 years of experience ranging from microcredit to international business, Shari brings leadership and knowledge to the field of social investment. At Calvert Foundation, Shari has developed innovative financial instruments and partnerships critical to creating a level of transparency and discipline that engender consistent performance, investor confidence and broad market participation in the community investment marketplace. Prior to joining Calvert Foundation, Shari led finance projects for the International Finance Corporation. These projects, based mainly in Central America and the Caribbean, channeled more than $250 million to banking, power, telecommunications, tourism and agribusiness. Shari began her professional career as an Officer of the National Cooperative Bank, where she was responsible for technical services to US production cooperatives. She later served as Program Director for the non-governmental organization, Partnership for Productivity International. Shari has also held private-sector positions at Citibank, Salomon Brothers and a start-up international telecommunications company, Radio Movil Digital. Shari has an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.