Structuring Collaboration: Mergers, Partnerships And New Business Models
Video Description
To achieve impact at scale, social entrepreneurs are inventing new ways to collaborate with a diversified range of partners. This session will share three successful approaches that have led to sustainable scale: merging two social ventures as a means for collaboration and growth; partnering with government, private sector, banks and endusers, and shaping sustainable development practices through new business models such as spin-offs structured for growth and leverage.
Speakers
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Andrea Coleman has always a gimlet focus on 'closing the distance' to enable access to goods and services for health care at the last mile. Her emphasis is on the woefully overlooked issue of transport and mobility for real access to the last mile. This requires behavioral and systems changes and the outcome is efficiency, transparency and predictable and traceable delivery.
Andrea Coleman is co-founder of Riders for Health and President of Riders for Health ll. Riders for Health has played a vital role enabling public health information, contact tracing and sample transport for rapid diagnosis during the COVID crisis. The need for appropriate, reliable transport with experienced riders and drivers will increase as vaccine distribution becomes necessary.
Andrea founded Two Wheels for Life in 2016 to create nimble funding streams for Riders for Health's work in Africa.
She has recently co-founded the Transport and Mobility Alliance together with Susan Bornstein from World Bicycle Relief. Andrea's focus is on institution transport and mobility for health while Susan brings the issue of individual mobility particularly for women and girls in education and agriculture. Their goal is to raise the profile of the crosscutting issue of transport on the UN SDGs.
Andrea is also a founding member of The Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs.
Her organisational guiding principles:
Working with government, other partners and collaborators
Collaborative systems change
African leadership
Gender balance
Environmental awareness
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CEO, Solutions Journalism Network
David Bornstein is CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which works to establish the practice of solutions journalism — rigorous reporting that examines responses to social problems — as an integral part of mainstream news. He has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for 25 years, having started his career working on the metro desk of New York Newsday. Since 2010, he has co-authored, with Tina Rosenberg, the “Fixes” column in The New York Times. He is the author of three books: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (2003, Oxford University Press), The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank (1996, Simon & Schuster), and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010, Oxford University Press).
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Gary White is an observer, an innovator, and a problem-solver. As a passionate, problem-solver he has created solutions that have empowered millions of people in need with access to safe water and sanitation.
Gary is the CEO and co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity. He brings 30 years of experience in sustainable innovation in water and sanitation.
As a nonprofit organization Water.org focuses on financing, harnesses philanthropy to correct market failures, empowering people in the developing world to gain access to safe water and sanitation. Water.org is the resulting organization of the July 2009 merger between WaterPartners, co-founded by Gary in 1990, and H2O Africa, co-founded by actor Matt Damon. He developed Water.org’s WaterCredit Initiative, creating new financing options for families living in poverty to meet their water and sanitation needs. He also developed WaterEquity, an asset manager that raises and invests capital in water and sanitation enterprises serving the water and sanitation needs of people living in poverty.
Gary is a leading advisor in the water and sanitation space, counseling organizations such as the Skoll Foundation, MasterCard Foundation, PepsiCo Foundation, IKEA Foundation, Caterpillar Foundation, and the Clinton Global Initiative on responses to the global water crisis. He is also a founding board member of the Millennium Water Alliance and Water Advocates. Named to TIME magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, Gary has been awarded the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship, named to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water, and selected as Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur and a Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur.
Gary’s educational credentials include three degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Missouri University of Science & Technology.
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Sue Riddlestone is Chief Executive of Bioregional, and a Skoll, Schwab and Ashoka award-winning social entrepreneur.
Sue co-founded Bioregional in 1994, who initiated the iconic BedZED eco-village in London, where Sue lives and where Bioregional has its headquarters.
Sue and the team work with partners to create homes, communities and eco-products and services which enable us to live a good life with a sustainable carbon footprint, within in the natural limits of our one planet.
To further scale their work, Bioregional systematised their approach to create a sustainability framework called One Planet Living which has been used in over $30billion of real-estate development. As well as by municipalities, cities, organisations and companies around the world from Mexico to China, the USA and Australia.
For system change, Sue draws on the work of Bioregional and partners to change policy and industry practice from zero carbon policy to eco-towns. Sue was a London Sustainable Development Commissioner from 2002-2014.
Sue was actively involved in creating the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a formal role as UN NGO focal point for Sustainable Consumption and Production, where Sue and the team succeeded in securing text and targets for the SDGs, particularly for Goal 12.
Sue is a founding board member of global social entrepreneur network Catalyst 2030 and chairs the work to foster partnerships with governments and recognition of social entrepreneurs at the UN and national level.
In 2013 Sue was awarded one of the UK’s highest honours, an OBE, for her work on sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Founder & CEO, Dallant Networks, LLC
Paris-born Victor d’Allant is a cultural anthropologist turned digital media practitioner. His work includes field research on French truck drivers in the Middle East, mental health issues in India for the World Health Organization, and agricultural development in Burkina Faso for the World Bank.
He is the Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Dallant Networks, the social enterprise building online communities for large foundations and international organizations. Current and past clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Skoll Foundation and the World Bank Institute.
He started his career as a photojournalist and his photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. He holds an MA/ABD in social anthropology from the Sorbonne and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
His motto: “Only jet. No lag.”
