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  • Angela Dazey
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    Community Engagement Director, Food Bank of Northern Nevada.

    Mission

    "...to find a solution to end hunger in our region."

    Community Engagement Director Food Bank of Northern Nevada McCarran, Nevada
  • Deborah Lindholm
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    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Women. Founding Board Member, Global Rotarian Action Group for Microcredit. Member, Women’s Leadership Board, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Board Member, International Women’s Coffee Alliance. Recipient: San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame.

    Mission

    "...serves impoverished women locally and globally by funding and creating microcredit programs."

    Chief Executive Officer Foundation for Women La Jolla, California
  • Emily Guegbeh Peal
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    Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Women/Liberia. Recipient: African Students Association, World Bank Scholar.

    Mission

    "...serves impoverished women locally and globally by funding and creating microcredit programs."

    Chief Executive Officer Foundation for Women/Liberia Monrovia, Liberia
  • Christopher Dunford
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    President, Freedom from Hunger. Recipient: Twenty Most Influential People in Microfinance, Imp Act SPM Network.

    Mission

    "We bring poor women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America a powerful combination of microfinance, education, and health protection to help them achieve a sustainable, self-help end to hunger."

    President Freedom from Hunger Davis, California
  • Christopher Hest
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    Chief Executive Officer, Friends Without A Border/Angkor Hospital for Children. Former, Development Director, Living Goods. Former Vice President for External Affairs, Freedom from Hunger. Former, Chief Philanthropy Officer, William J. Clinton Foundation.

    Mission

    "... to improve the health and well being of the children of Cambodia by providing quality medical care, extensive outreach and crucial medical education."

    Chief Executive Officer Friends Without A Border/Angkor Hospital for Children New York, New York
  • Katya Smyth
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    Founder and Executive Director, Full Frame Initiative. Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer, On The Rise, Inc. Board Member, Governor's Council to Address Sexual and Domestic Violence, Massachusetts.

    Mission

    "to find and partner with...innovators, learning what makes for their uncommon success. We connect them to one another, building a network to shore up and to spread what works—quickly and efficiently. By actively engaging funders and policy makers in our change process, we make systems, not just programs, work for people who seek support and help."

    Executive Director Full Frame Initiative Ashfield, Massachusetts
  • Rasmia Kirmani-Frye
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    Director, Community-Based Policy, Full Frame Initiative. Former Director, Programs and Operations. Brownsville Partnership.

    Mission

    "to find and partner with...innovators, learning what makes for their uncommon success. We connect them to one another, building a network to shore up and to spread what works—quickly and efficiently. By actively engaging funders and policy makers in our change process, we make systems, not just programs, work for people who seek support and help."

    Director, Community-Based Policy Full Frame Initiative New York, New York
  • Martin Burt
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    Founding Chief Executive Officer, Fundacion Paraguaya. Co-Founder, Teach a Man to Fish. Co-Founder, Bertoni and Mbaracayu Forest Foundations. Former President, Paraguayan-American Chamber of Commerce. Former Mayor, Asuncion, Paraguay. Recipient: Microfinance Award for Excellence in Social Responsibility, Inter-American Development Bank; Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur Award; Templeton Freedom Award; World Innovative Summit for Education Award; Social Innovation Award, Brigham Young University; Most Innovative Development Project Award, Global Development Network.

    Mission

    “A world free from the extremes of absolute poverty, one in which all individuals are able to enjoy the empowering benefits of an education that meets their needs and aspirations in life. To broaden access for the poor to a high quality education combining vocational training and entrepreneurship by supporting institutions working in this field to increase their financial self-sufficiency.”

    Chief Executive Officer Fundacion Paraguaya Asuncion, Paraguay
  • 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
  • Lucia Alcántara
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    Principal and Founder, Futures Today.

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    Principal Futures Today Riverdale, New York
  • Carola Barton
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    Senior Consultant, Geneva Global, and Director, Global Expansion,LinkTV. Former Director of Commitments, Clinton Global Initiative (Asia), Former Executive Director, Global Institute for Tomorrow. Former, Vice President, Saga Foundation.

    Mission

    "....giving should be treated as a sound investment. Identifying excellent opportunities for philanthropic investment and understanding the impact of those investments requires careful due diligence and independent evaluation. We identify and assess the most effective international giving opportunities in some of the world’s hardest places."

    Senior Consultant Geneva Global, Inc. Santa Cruz, California
  • Mark Hanis
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    President, Genocide Intervention Network. Recipient: Ashoka Fellow; Echoing Green Fellow; Draper Richards Fellowship; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum.

    Mission

    "...to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide."

    President Genocide Intervention Network Washington, DC
  • 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
  • Whitney Smith
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    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Girls For A Change.

    Mission

    "... to invite young women to design, lead, fund and implement social change projects that tackle issues girls face in their own neighborhoods."

    Chief Executive Officer Girls For A Change Santa Cruz, California
  • Spencer Ton
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    Program Manager, Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific. Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Friends of Hue Foundation.

    Mission

    “…to create a whole new generation of solution-minded pragmatists that are pioneering practical, inventive, and sustainable approaches to address the world’s most pressing social issues: poverty, disease, malnutrition, environmental degradation, injustice and illiteracy.”

    Program Manager Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Stockton, California
  • Gerald (Jerry) Hildebrand
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    Founder and Executive Director, Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific. Former Chief Executive Officer, Katalysis Partnership.

    Mission

    “…to create a whole new generation of solution-minded pragmatists that are pioneering practical, inventive, and sustainable approaches to address the world’s most pressing social issues: poverty, disease, malnutrition, environmental degradation, injustice and illiteracy.”

    Executive Director Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship Stockton, California
  • 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. 

    Mission

    "...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
  • Vineeta Gupta
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    Program Officer, Global Fund for Children.

    Mission

    "...to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC pursues its mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that, through books, documentary photography, and film, highlights the issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which we all live."

    Program Officer Global Fund for Children Washington, DC
  • Hoa Duong
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    Program Officer, Global Fund for Children.

    Mission

    "...to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC pursues its mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that, through books, documentary photography, and film, highlights the issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which we all live."

    Program Officer Global Fund for Children Washington, DC
  • Chet Odendahl
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    President Emeritus, Global Greengrants Fund. Co-Founder, Grantmakers without Borders.  Member, Board of Directors, Council on Foundations.

    Mission

    "We believe that grassroots groups are a key to solving the intractable problems of poverty, powerlessness and environmental destruction. Our experience has shown that there is no better investment than supporting passionate people with great ideas."

    President Emeritus Global Greengrants Fund Boulder, Colorado
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