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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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.”
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Sue Riddlestone OBE is CEO and co-founder of Bioregional, and a 2009 Skoll awardee. Sue and the team work with partners to create homes, communities and products and services which enable us to live well within a sustainable carbon and ecological footprint. Bioregional are behind many exemplary residential communities, including the iconic BedZED eco-village in London, and Bicester eco-town in Oxford.
To scale their work, Bioregional systematised their approach to create a sustainability framework called One Planet Living, 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.
Sue draws on this to influence policy and industry practice from zero carbon to eco-towns and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In 2013 Sue was awarded one of the UK’s highest honours, an OBE, for services to sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Gary is the CEO and Co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity, nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering people in the developing world to gain access to safe water and sanitation. Gary developed Water.org’s WaterCredit Initiative, creating new financing options for poor populations to meet their water supply and sanitation needs. He also developed and now leads WaterEquity, the first-ever impact investment manager dedicated to ending the global water crisis in our lifetime, with an exclusive focus on raising and deploying capital to water and sanitation businesses that serve people living in poor communities throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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.
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Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network
David Bornstein is the CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is working to establish solutions journalism as an integral part of mainstream news. He has been a journalist, focusing primarily on social innovation, for 30 years. From 2010-21, he co-authored the “Fixes” column in The New York Times, which focused on social innovation. He is the author of: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which has been published in 25 languages, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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As a professional, I have worked in marketing, public relations, sports management and fundraising. I co-founded Riders for Health, together with my husband, Barry Coleman, in 1996. The organisation is now 26 years old and operating nationally in four countries, working with ministries of health and other health focussed entities. The programmes in Africa have been African led from the outset and my work and focus now is to give resource support for the African leadership and to seek, with them, ways to have their authentic voices heard about their valuable health systems operations at the established global health level.
Together with two social entrepreneurs, Mel Young and Chris Underhill, we have founded the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurship.
