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  • Abby Falik
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    Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Global Citizen Year. Former Strategic Advisor to the CEO, Room to Read. Member, Leadership Committee, Service Nation. Member, Steering Committee, Brookings Institution on Internatinal Volunteering. Recipient: Harvard Business School Social Entrepreneurship Fellow; Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar; Draper Richards Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs; Mind Trust Fellowship for Education Entrepreneurs; Rainer Arnhold Fellowship; Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellowship. 

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    "...to prepare a new generation of Americans to provide innovative and effective leadership to address the global challenges of the 21st century."

    Chief Executive Officer Global Citizen Year San Francisco, California
  • Patricia Farrar-Rivas
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    Chief Executive Officer, Veris Wealth Partners. Former Investment Consultant & General Securities Principal for Progressive Asset Management. Board Member, The Academy of Friends and As You Sow Foundation.

    Mission

    "...to provide high net worth families, their foundations, and endowments sustainable investment and wealth management solutions."

    Chief Executive Officer Veris Wealth Partners San Francisco, California
  • Theresa Fay-Bustillos
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    Founder and Principal, IdealPhilanthropy LLC. Former Vice President, Worldwide Community and Corporate Citizenship Department for Levi Strauss & Co.; Former Vice President, Legal Programs, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Treasurer, Board of Directors, International Funders for Indigenous Peoples; Board Member, TransFair USA.

    Mission

    "...to offer personalized philanthropic advisory services and grantmaking. We have the capability to solve tough social issues almost anywhere in the world through a lean and unique organizational structure."

    Principal Ideal Philanthropy San Francisco, California
  • Martin Fisher
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    Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KickStart International. Co-Founder, ApproTEC.

    Recipient: Fulbright Scholarship; IDEA Design Gold Medal, TIME Magazine European Hero Award; Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship; Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award; Design News Engineer of the Year; Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability.

    Mission

    "...to help millions of people out of poverty....[to] promote sustainable economic growth and employment creation...[to] develop and promote technologies that can be used by dynamic entrepreneurs to establish and run profitable small scale enterprises."

    Chief Executive Officer KickStart International San Francisco, California
  • Heather Fleming
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    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Catapult Design. Staff Writer, NextBillion.net. Adjunct Lecturer, Stanford University. Recpient: Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellowship; Echoing Green Fellowship Finalist; Social Venture Networks Finalist; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum.

    Mission

    "The majority of our world’s population lacks access to life’s basic needs. We develop and implement human-centered products to help them thrive."

    Chief Executive Officer Catapult Design San Francisco, California
  • William Foote
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    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Root Capital. Former Director, Latin American Corporate Finance Group, Lehman Brothers. Board Member, Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs. Founding Board Member, Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade. Recipient: Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum and Ashoka Global Fellow.

    Mission

    Chief Executive Officer Root Capital Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Sean Foote
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    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Principled Capital. Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California.  Forming Managing Partner, Labrador Ventures.

    Mission

    Chief Executive Officer Principled Capital Redwood City, California
  • Gary Ford
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    Chief Executive Officer, MicroCredit Enterprises. Former Managing Partner & Principal, Groom Law Group. Former ERISA Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Labor and Human Resources. Former General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Recipient: The Best Lawyers in America, Employees Benefits Law, and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Employee Benefits.

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    President & Chief Executive Officer MicroCredit Enterprises Washington, DC
  • Ulrich Frei
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    Executive Director, FUNDES (Foundation for Sustainable Development).

    Mission

    "...to promote the competitive development of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Latin America."

    Executive Director FUNDES (Foundation for Sustainable Development) Heredia, Costa Rica
  • Robert Freling
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    Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF). Recipient: King Hussein Leadership Prize, the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Awards.

    Mission

    "...to deliver solar power and wireless communications to rural villages in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. SELF facilitates a new generation of "whole village" solar electrification projects to power water pumping and purification, drip irrigation, health clinics (including vaccine refrigeration), schools, household and community lighting, and income-generating micro-enterprises that can be scaled up through the private sector or through public/private partnerships."

    Executive Director Solar Electric Light Fund Washington, DC
  • Robert Friedman
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    General Counsel, Founder & Chair, Board of Directors, Corporation for Enterprise Development. Board Member, National Fund for Enterprise Development; EARN; D2D Fund; the Family Independence Initiative; Rosenburg Foundation; Friedman Family Foundation; Koshland Committee, San Francisco Foundation. Author, Safety Net as Ladder: Transfer Payments and Economic Development.

    Mission

    "....a multi-faceted organization working at the local, state and federal levels to create economic opportunity that alleviates poverty. CFED sees the promise of tomorrow in the world today. We see abundant evidence of the desire and ability of middle and low-income people everywhere to become savers, investors, homeowners, skilled workers and entrepreneurs. We believe that such an opportunity economy would not only produce a fairer, more cohesive and inclusive society, but also a more prosperous, resilient and sustainable one."

    Chair, Board of Directors Corporation for Enterprise Development San Francisco, California
  • Anne Friedman
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    Member, Women Donors Network

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    Member Women Donors Network Hillsborough, California
  • Jim Fruchterman
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    President & Chief Executive Officer, Benetech, including Bookshare and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Founder, Calera Recognition Systems; RAF Technology, Inc.; Arkenstone. Founding Director, Social Enterprise Alliance. Recipient: MacArthur Fellowship; Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship; Outstanding Social Entrepreneur, Schwab Foundation; Francis Joseph Campbell Award, American Library Association; Robert F. Bray Award, American Council of the Blind.

    Mission

    "...to develop technology that truly helps to change the world."

    Chief Executive Officer Benetech Palo Alto, California
  • Elizabeth Funk
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    Chief Executive Officer/Founder, Dignity Fund. Co-Founder and Board Member, Unitus Investment Group. Board Member, Board of Directors, Deutsche Bank’s Global Microfinance Consortium Fund. Co-Founder, Silicon Valley Microfinance Network. Founding Chair,MicroPlace. Co-Owner and Chair of the Board, Imperial Parking, Hong Kong. Former Chief Executive Officer, CML Global Capital. Recipient: Female Entrepreneur of the Year, TiE.

    Mission

    "....to bring needed capital to the microfinance industry to fuel the social empowerment of the poor. The provision of “micro” loans and financial services to the entrepreneurial poor to start income-generating small businesses is one of the most significant anti-poverty tools at work in the world today."

    Chief Executive Officer Dignity Fund San Francisco, California
  • Maria Garcia-Moises
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    Chief Executive Officer, Ambito Productivo SA de CV SOFOM ENR.

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    Chief Executive Officer Ambito Productivo SA de CV Mexico City, Mexico
  • Saul Garlick
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    Founder and Executive Director, Think Impact. Former Managing Editor, SAIS Review, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Recipient: Truman Scholar; William C. Foster Award, Circles of Change Award; Fire Within Social Entrepreneurship Award.

    Mission

    "...connects American college students and recent graduates with rural villages in Africa to become social entrepreneurs....people-powered global development...the next generation of leaders. We offer students the ideas, leadership, and capital to leverage social innovation and local community resources to alleviate poverty."

    Executive Director Think Impact Washington, DC
  • Dan Geballe
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    Program Associate, Corporation for Enterprise Development.

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    Program Associate Corporation for Enterprise Development San Francisco, California
  • Paola Gianturco
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    President, Gianturco Family Foundation.Documentary Phtographer. Author, Women Who Light the Dark; Celebrating Women; ¡Viva Colores!; In Her Hands. Exhibitions: United Nations; U.S. Senate; Field Museum/Chicago; International Museum of Women/San Francisco; Museum of the African Diaspora/San Francisco; Norton Simon Museum/Pasadena; Smithsonian Folklife Festival/Washington, DC.

    Mission

    "...to motivate her readers to engage with, learn from and support women around the world....books are philanthropic projects for which she donates her royalties to carefully selected nonprofit organizations that relate to each book's content."

    President Gianturco Family Foundation Mill Valley, California
  • Patrick Gleeson
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    Chief Executive Officer, Meyer Family Enterprises. Former Executive Director, American Vineyard Foundation.

    Mission

    "We embrace the values of love, joy, respect, excellence, humility, cooperation, and integrity in our decisions and interactions with others. We seek to partner with like-minded organizations and individuals who embrace MFE’s values and philosophy. A critical determinant of working with MFE is the fun factor."

    Chief Executive Officer Meyer Family Foundation Oakville, California
  • Rich (Raghurai) Goldstein
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    Chief Executive Officer, Yoga Yoga. Chief Executive Officer, YogaSolve. Co-Founder, Yoga Care Foundation.

    Mission

    "... to educate the general public about yoga’s therapeutic applications and significantly add to the existing research in a way that will support yoga being embraced as a tool for self-care and improving quality of life.”

    Chief Executive Officer Yoga Yoga Austin, Texas
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