Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
y10000 at facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22045349892

London Calendar for 2007 - May http://24weeks.com attempts to be the biggest social entrepreneur event that youth have ever used the internet to collaborate around -tell us how your experiences of this benchmark; August - the world's greenest 100 person stage rises on London's South Bank alongside the Queen Elizabeth Hall; hopefully this space will stay open only public debates have resolved the sustainability crisis our world is in or closed the BBC down in 2012 if the world's largest broadcaster is still diverting more attention to spectator sports than interacting human sustainability. http://passports.jp
- if your city has an event for the next 5 year diary pleas mail it to info@worldcitizen.tv so we can post it everywhere that sustainability people can link.

007 Past http://africanidol.tv is launched to correct ghalstly errors in funding that American Idol Gives Back will liely repeat if Bono's choice of charities have not elarnt from make Poverty History 2005 - the case of Kibera becomes Africa Child's number 1 global news story until the disgrace 0f 50000 orphans per African city is seen as worldwide responsiblity to colaborate around http://kibera.tv

log track started here in 1984 http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html


Action Updates

Join your city to the London Round the World 5 year Marathon: Passports to Sustainability overlall weblog is at http://passports.jp

we started spring 2007 London at http://southbank.tv - from march 18 2007 24 days of virtual conversations are being hosted out of London's main green tv webs eg http://green.tv ; in parallel 100 people meetings wilol be convened in the greenest building of its sixze ever built over looking te thames of the terrace of the Queen Elizabeth concert hall; Londoners aim to return in our olympic year with the biggest round the world celebrations of sustainability ever sported -does your city want to join in - mail info@worldcitizen.tv to start a discussion of how

or help us co-edit the weblog http://climateangels.blogspot.com where citizens rate which climate speakers helped question the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth

we are launching 2 entreprenurial revolution books in the series my dad began at The Economist with his trilogy on micro up globalsiation: 1976 The System of Entrepreneurial Revolution; The Service Economy of We're All Intrapreneurial Now, and the Original Flat World "Death of Disdtance" Networking generation 1984-2024 book which forecast this decade 2005-2015 as the one when economics would need to change more than ever before if future generations are to be sustainable and key to this is the search for the 30000 most open social entrepreneurs we all can map:
book 2008.1 changing economics so we are never again ruled by professions that only want the big toi get bigger and their own separate business case to rule
book 2008.2 - the start of annual mapping 200 hi-trust people thgat world citizen networks can enjoy sustainably connecting round; we are hoping there is a close connection between up200.tv and the futurestocks.tv of social business entrepreneurs that Muhammad Yunus is asking all his supporters clubs to help cheerlead

as internationalists we strongly support Gandhi's PeaceCentury year of 007 and in vite you to continue playing with this jigsaw of peaces - ask for the html code if you want to shape your own one editing in and out what's already there

both books have a deadline - my dad's 85th birthday sept 2008
we're searching leading social entrepreneur gathering space such as the ashoka owned changemakers.net using world citizens own reporting and debating space changemakers.info to collect information that connects

if you want to linkin to this personally, then we have a quarterly newleller at maclink

you can also connect to this catalogue of ideas on how to see Africa Rising which seeks to link the 100000 people who met in Kenya's world social forum with that segment of the 20000 people at the omidyar.net who regularly talk or walk for Africa

info@worldcitizen.tv chris macrae usa DC tel no 301 881 1655

Change World: Imagine an olympics but one where the sports icons are replaced by other compasses

let's substitute the track and field with pursuit of peace

swimming with exploring every way to alleviate climate crisis

rifle range = every way to sustain discriminated groups out of poverty

the football = education revolutions now that we have abundant evidence that a
networked globe needs a whole new way round than that so very 20th century top-down geo-segragated

and the scoring -and the expert commentaries - needs revisioning so that cheats are out ; open collaboration is valued; those you'd like your 9 year of daughter to heroise have better chances of gold medal than those you hope she nevers connects with

well believe it or not, many many Londoners value the world change olympics in 2012 as being as vital as the sports ; this stern warning in Oct 2006 turned the tide

a month earlier we became the city with the biggest share of voice for sustainability with Branson's 3 billion dollar pledge for climate crisis

we still have the largest peoples broadcaster; the 2006/2007 goal for Britian must be to get the BBC to understand we are serious stop wasting our time and money on sports if you have not got the courage to ask the world's biggest crisis questions until the day before doomsday instead of years earlier

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Help make Social Entrepeneurs' story exciting, fashionable, worldwide. How's this: SE Yunus won 2006's Nobel peace prize because he discovered that banks wouldn't loan the first dollar to very poor people and determined this was disatrously inhuman. His adventure for humanity began 30 years ago: now Grameen ( microcredit) is one of the fastest growing investments in the world taking 100 million families out of extreme poverty this millennium. http://grameen.tv/ for details info@worldentrepreneur.net welcomes more stories and will log them here

SENSE- Social Entreprepreneur Networks Sustainability Economics

Every Month , Social Entrepreneur Networks and WorldCitizen.tv identify a big debate which we believe needs future discussion until the world believes it has found a sustainability solution

Nov 2007 - will google -and media interactions - sustain the world?

Oct 2007 - What's the deepest most diverse gift to sustainability brought by each region's peoples

Sept 2007 - What do children and youth bring to sustainining the worldwide?

Aug 2007 - What's the most surprising and multi-ethnic market sector for educating every other sector? In the USA, could it be restaurants?

Sept 2006- Is the No Loss Pharmaceutical Corporation a system model which every sustainable global market sector needs to enjoy revolving around?

Application areas of SE:

Microfinace -eg grameen.tv

Privitisation of essential family services for and by the poorest - eg brac.tv

Mapping and investing in nearly 2000 SE's work - ashoka.org - identifying group areas of ashoka's SE's work - changemakers.net

ways of introducing CEOs to SE's - sustainabilityclub.com leadersquest.org

education entrepreneurs and herstory.tv

climate crisis entrepreneurs

service economy "intrapreneurs"

100 hi-trust leaders of all time - cross-cultural/mentor/social network/youth links entrepreneurs

will google sustain the world? Put simply: if 6 billion people fail to connect to sustain the world, it will have been one hell of a communications problem, the devil of all media crises. Instead of transparently connecting around the longest-term goal that unites our species, we will have been divided and conquered by short-term speculators in greed, or systemic ignorances. As of this first decade of M3, the google brand seems to be: nearest to being all peoples' epicentre of all media choices; as goodwilled as any corporation on the planet in being accountable to the long-term's compound consequences as well as short-term vitality. This discussion invites us all to track if google is living up to sustain the world- and if not who is taking over this : sustainability s the most epicentral of all networking and communications roles for humanity

Let's create space for logging up what the component services of google are. Please help post in references to other component services (I am a media guy not a hi-tech one) so we can update this table or family tree of google
GOOGLE=google.com (a stockmarketed company that began as the internet's most interconnecting search system)*google.org (which innovated the first for-profit charity for sustaining the world)

google.com from search to googlepack (video 11M40S) click for free soft for docs and spreadsheets to open stands of talk and tube

google.org

google's visiting speakers must be the envy of every corporate university and they are among the greatest online videos world changers could hope to see:
global climate crisis -not so hard to solve?
social entrepreneurial revolutions?
India rural poverty alleviation - a world class benchmark?

What's the deepest most diverse gift to sustainability brought by each region's peoples -ideas pre-assembling here

What do children and youth bring to sustainining the worldwide? -ideas forming here

follow up of CEO question at ClintonGI 2006 - what can our global company do to help the partnering initiatives being priortized? Context: we profit from globalization as is, and I cannot see that our business has special impacts on the 4 Clinton Crises of lost sustainability: climate, heatlh rights for all, cross-cultural peace and ending extreme local poverties www

NOW Enterprising Ideas Program Schedule
2007 - 2008
May 25, 2007 — CFW Shops, KenyaThis project uses a franchise model to deliver accessible and affordable healthcare to rural areas of Kenya.
June 22, 2007 —Bonnie CLAC (Car Loans and Counseling), New HampshireCLAC provides low-interest car loans to low-income buyers, while offering financial management courses to them as part of the package.
July 27, 2007 — Coin Street, EnglandA nonprofit group that successfully fought off powerful land developers to regenerate 13 acres of prime real estate on London's South Bank
August 31, 2007 — CityFresh Foods, BostonA food-service business that has found its niche in a highly-competitive market, while incorporating community and economic development.
September 21, 2007 — Compartamos, MexicoThe largest microcredit program in Latin America now transitioning into a full-service bank.
October 5, 2007 — Greenworkers, BronxA worker cooperative that collects demolition and construction refuse and rehabs and resells it.
November 2, 2007 — To Be Determined
November 23, 2007 — IDE IndiaA company that develops low-cost irrigation technology for farmers, thereby allowing them to work their land for the whole year, instead of migrating during the dry season.
Check for more broadcast times in your viewing area

I think the idea that we should encourage debates on priority crises to the future of children and human sustainability is absolutely critical .It's actually a better way of cataloguing fields of social entrepreneurship that prizegivings to heroes imo http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com/

But equally I found the particular analysis you asked us to read disagreeable or wrong in various ways

This only goes to show after 24 years of rehearsing this 1984 storyline
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
that we do not need one report nor several worldly summits but ongoing and transparent and iterative debates/searches as to which crises will end humanity if we do not turn the systems round by particular deadlines.

In any country that has a public broadcaster, animating this debate to go way beyond one dimensional politics or other historic vested interests merits as much show time as any other programming genre. Out of the UK cultural creatives are developing collaboration campaigns of potentially huge reach - see eg http://24weeks.com - to democratically close down the British Broadcasting Corporation by Olympics year 2012 unless it accepts that issues of human sustainability need at least as much time to explore as spectator sports. http://passports.jp

Of course broadcast media needs also to be connected to interactive media and much more independence journalism needs to be brought to play to moderate virtual communities in exciting ways than to assume that all this can de be designed around computer software alone

What I particularly dislike about the report you sent us is that it reads as if the crises are all about how much money you throw at them. Which brings back to probably the number 1 transformation contention of social entrepreneurs. Money is not the prime energiser of social. They are arguing for the most opposite type of organisational system design that can be imagined from global top down planning which both big corporations and big nations are monopolised by. And which almost all MBAs are taught to genuflect in front of.

One of your report's immediate good opportunities to make progress on is malaria. http://immconsortium.org Absolutely, but not by throwing money at it the same way that global funds and world bank have done. The tragedy is that will all the money already spent on malaria could have made it history by now but it needed grassroots up empowerment models and deep understanding of con text. This is the empowerment clarion call uniting both social entrepreneurs and whatever you call entrepreneurs who replicate grassroots up models interlocally

rowntree foundation starts picking SE laureates http://www.jrct-visionaries.org.uk/page.asp?section=000100020005

http://worldentrepreneur.net and http://macrae.tv would be interested in connecting maps with you
we believe this to be true from 2 generations of my Scottish family having interviewed more entrepreneurs from 1950 than anyone else; my father trilogy of entrepreneurial revolution surveys in The Economist 1976 to 1984 http://www.normanmacrae.com/intrapreneur.html ; the origin of the terms entrepreneur and economics as coined by Scot Adam Smith or his alumni since the late 1700s. It is relevant with any construct that turns out to be very valuable to study to go back to its origin because most of these words have in recent years been turned top-down by vested interests
the origin of entrepreneur was rooted in the questions : as new industrial or other markets emerge which will compound wealth and health by connecting sustainability interests of societies, people who commit their lifetune learning and service to the industry and those who supply capital and other long-term investment? - many may assume this is what economics as mapping systems of productive and demanding relastionships is also intended to transparently track - indeed it was Adam Smith's motivation in the late 1700s; it was the motivation for Scot James Wilson to found The Economist in 1843 as well as to get rid of about 90% of MPs who by that time were representing the vested interests of the empires greediest including slavetraders and the those who passed the corn law monipoly which soon caused starvation of tens of thousands of Irish and a century latter terror waves between Ireland and Uk
so noticeably, the origin of entrepreneur was syetmic and integrated society whereas if I look in the 3rd grade book on social studies that my 9 year old daughter is expected to cram her brain with in the US catholic edu system as reigns today, the exact opposite definition of entrepreneur as risking his money to make more money is brainwashed
for this reasons americans networking around Bill Drayton coined the term socila entrepreneur circa 1978 and since that time Bill at www.ashoka.org has invested in about 2000 develeoping country social entrepreneurs as well as inspired the recent networks of social entrepreneurs sponsored partly by the billionnaire Skoll (first president of ebay) on West Coast, partly by the conversion of the convenor of the world economic forum in Switzerland and elsewhere
It is worth noting that if you are not american, you can simply go back to the original word entrepreneur and draw up good and badwilled branches, of which social entrpreneur is one primary goodwilled branch
context is everything to all systemic entrepreneurs and it is worth having a crisis branch for every compass that could lose huiman sustainability- climate and learning are 2 of the 7 compasses that have concerned ny father and I most since out 1984 death of distance future history on : will networks sustain or end future generations http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html http://futurehistorian.tv
the first london to world travel guide to learning entrepreneurs is being co-edited out of London by Sofia and on climate photosynthesis innpvations as the only way to integrate clean energy, water, soils, and air by Rick Nelson whose photosythesis open space will be available foir use on London 's South bank outside the National theatre from March for as long as popular demand merits. Given that the UK is committing 18 billion of HM treasury and Branson money to climate crisis, we true entrepreneur networkers may well hope that is unitil or beyond Londons olympics in 2012
I try and keep track of all the crisis and goodwill networks , a research projevct which took on new networking speed when I presented Deceneber 2004 a white paper entitled the coming war between goodwill and badwill networks to the annual congress of www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org which a year earlier had convened its annual meeting at http://www.collapsingworld.org where www.eginitiative.org leader and former Irish preseident Mary Robinson was keynote speaker
happy to try and put anyone on the crisis entrepreneur map of most conern to them
chris macrae info@worldcitizen.tv

ref SEE1 Yunus SE of Microcredit- Bank for the Poor
Help make Social Entrepeneurs' story exciting, fashionable, worldwide. How's this: SE Yunus won 2006's Nobel peace prize because he discovered that banks wouldn't loan the first dollar to very poor people and determined this was disatrously inhuman. His adventure for humanity began 30 years ago: now Grameen ( microcredit) is one of the fastest growing investments in the world taking 100 million families out of extreme poverty this millennium. http://grameen.tv/ for details info@worldentrepreneur.net welcomes more stories and will log them here

SEE2
Warsaw Poland, Wojciech Onyszkiewicz : Mutually Beneficial Rural-Urban Exchanges.

Story: One of the most vital internal conflicts in post-soviet national economies was between people in cities going hungry and farmers in rural areas wanting a fair market price. First attempts to suggest to farmers that they should donate any surplus food to starving city youth were not very well received because farmers felt they had been long undervalued by the soviet regime. However it was discovered that farmers were concerned that their own children might get left behind in education and other city savvy knowhow over time; so an exchange was designed; swap some of your surplus food for citizens arranging visits and stayovers for farmers children.

I can well imagine thousand of twin city-rural exchanges being inspired by this simple franchise.
http://www.ashoka.org/node/2976

Discuss why the world needs not for profit corporations

At video Minute40/sec25 seeVictoria Hale's (oneworldhealth) revolution of the no loss pharma corporation provides cures - eg for black fever - that global pharma dismissed as unprofitable (Guardian world 1st, sept06)

extract from Guardian:
Years ago a treatment for black fever was found; however the pharmaceutical companies saw no profit in it simply because all who suffer from black fever are poor. So the drug was shelved.
Now a remarkable new kind of charity, a not-for-profit pharmaceutical company called the Institute for One World Health, has resurrected the shelved drug, paromomyocin, proved its efficacy to the Indian government and, with funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is planning to make it available in the worst affected parts of India. In tests 94.6% of patients treated with Paromomyocin were cured. The drug costs just $10 per patient, less than one-tenth of any available alternative.

The institute is brainchild of a remarkable American woman, Dr Victoria Hale. Its mission is to develop safe, affordable medicines for people with neglected diseases in the developing world. Herself a chemist, Dr Hale saw that these diseases could only be tackled by effective drug therapies. But to make these affordable to the world's poor, she realised that the profit motive, traditionally so important for pharmaceutical companies, had to be removed.

Let's discuss, in what aspects of human health care for-profit global pharma companies the wrong system ? are there other global market sectors in which for-profit global corporations are the wrong system for sustaining humanity?

this teenager's video is among the most inspiring I've seen (mail us info@worldcitizen.tv your video bookmarks of inspired innovators)

mapping questions I need to try and progress in June include

-so if major networks of social entrepreneurs such as Ashoka, Scwhab, Skoll are each compiling their own logs- what's the diiferent foci they are coming from? how do we integrate the full map? do they have different geographical specialities?

-civil society (citizens) organisations can be defined as human relationship systems enjoying and energising an opposite way round fomm of governance than any of the biggest organisational typologies to have ended the 20th (pre-internet) Century- does Gandhi's triangle of governance provide us with all the transparent valuation clues Einstein anticipated; how do we charter goverance and other mapmaking issues for civil society networks

I realise that as the oldest ashoka.org is everywhere but especially India, and Asia (south east, far east) and South America and more renetly Africa

I realise that Schwab's parentage out of the World Economic Forum provides some extra area coverage like the Middle East, and has come about from world class eladership for civili society that Brazilians have gifted to the world

Then when it comes to the arenas of Social Entrepreneurship:
it seems that ashoka has done a great job in bridging SE investors and Microfinance, especially at www.changemakers.net which is co-sponsored by Omidyar; and through recognising Bangladesh's Grameen and Brac in its top 16 dvd of world entrepreneurs

It seems that Skoll has done some of the bridging with Sustainability Investment 1 2 at the level of Al Gore (and of course Skoll is now an investor in Ashoka programs)

but there's still a feeling in my mind that all these guys could integrate their world catalogues in a way that would make both the overall atlas of people and the arenas of priority clearer fro SE Olympics -any ideas on how to be a constructive influence towards this would be most welcome

vote for people alive and coordinating networks today who are allcomers world champions as social entrepreneur olympians

number 1 alumni network ashoka (about 1500 certified members in many developing countries, also several hundred changemakers clustering around each themed mosaic -eg health for all, youth ventures that change the world... number 1 leader Bill Drayton

From Skoll's May 25 newsletter:
Among the Ashoka Fellows are eight recipients of Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship: Rodrigo Baggio of Committee for Democracy in Information Technology, which helps slum residents self-organize schools that have helped 750,000 overcome the digital divide; Jeroo Billimoria of Childline International, a global network of free telephone hotlines for and staffed by street children; Vera Cordeiro of Renascer Child Health Association, which treats whole families in Brazil to prevent the recurrence of disease; Paul Rice of TransFair USA, which expands brand awareness, consumer demand and distribution of fairly traded coffee and other products; Albina Ruiz of Ciudad Saludable, which cleans up cities in Peru by creating local enterprises to collect garbage; Kailash Satyarthi of Rugmark, which certifies carpets made without child labor and rescues and educates child laborers; J.B. Schramm of College Summit, which helps low-income students navigate the college application process; and Karen Tse of International Bridges to Justice, which promotes justice in China by training and supporting criminal defense lawyers.

Other well-known Ashoka associates include Muhammad Yunus, founder of the microcredit movement and now a member of Ashoka’s World Council; as well as two social entrepreneurs featured in the PBS series, The New Heroes: Fabio Rosa, who brought cheap electricity to rural Brazil; and David Green, who helped restore sight and hearing to millions in India by lowering costs and transforming how care is organized.

In 2003 the Skoll Foundation partnered with Ashoka to create the Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship, the first attempt to harness the talents of world-class entrepreneurs to open up new, underserved markets on a global scale. One of the Academy’s projects is the new Social Entrepreneurship Series of DVDs of interviews with individuals who have built global organizations and movements.

A three-year $3 million grant that Skoll awarded to Ashoka this year will help expand its global network, improve the quality and speed of the network, and shape support systems for social entrepreneurs.

By 2007, Ashoka plans to elect 30 percent more Fellows and expand into seven new countries, create knowledge products and develop and test new financial products that will direct capital to social entrepreneurs.

A Quiet Reformer
Bill Drayton doesn’t look like a radical reformer. Dressed in pin-striped gray suit with a blue shirt and pullover, with wispy hair and rimless glasses, the 62-year-old is a slight, ascetic-looking man who speaks in a soft voice. Judging by his modest demeanor, you would never guess that he is a graduate of Harvard and Yale Law School, was a Rhodes Scholar, a McKinsey management consultant, a MacArthur “genius” Fellow and served as second in command at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Carter administration.

As he travels around the world interacting with Ashoka’s huge network of social entrepreneurs, he knows from the excitement they generate that he’s on to something big. Young people are especially receptive. “Students get it. They understand this is the future,” he says. In fact, Ashoka has created an independent but closely aligned partner, Youth Venture, that is dedicated to helping young people become lifelong leaders.

There is much work to be done. Bill calculates that the richest 20 percent of people have 82.7 percent of the world’s income, while an awful lot of people have next to nothing—and the gap between rich and poor is continuing to grow.
He has his eye on the horizon. “Think of what it would be like if 50 percent of the population were changemakers,” he says. “You start imagining what human society would be like at that stage. It would be incredibly different. It would operate much more like the human brain, with synapses firing in all directions.”

Bill believes we need to radically change the way we treat our young people in order to get there. “Today,” he says, “if someone reaches age 21 or 22 and has not practiced applied empathy, teamwork and leadership, they won’t define themselves as changemakers—and they, in fact, won’t have the necessary skills.”

His vision of the future is so clear that he is aghast at the thought of those who don’t understand it. “How can you do a good job if you don’t understand this amazing historical phenomenon?” he asks. “Five years from now, any business strategist who doesn’t understand it should be up for malpractice.”

His ultimate goal is that everyone will be changemaker. “That world,” he notes, will be fundamentally different and a far safer, happier, more equal and more successful place.”
Ashoka is located at 1700 North Moore St., Suite 2000, Arlington, VA 22209. For more information, call (703) 527-8300 or visit www.ashoka.org.

'Uncommon Heroes' Films Now Available With Skoll Foundation support, award-winning filmmakers Carl Byker and Mitch Wilson have created seven-minute films of four recipients of Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship who are changing the world through innovations that bring hope to people who were previously living lives of despair. The “Uncommon Heroes” films were first shown at the recent Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, where viewers praised them for their passion and clear explanations of how a social entrepreneur takes an idea to fruition.

Featured in the films are Victoria Hale of Institute for OneWorld Health, which develops develop effective, affordable medicines for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect people in the developing world; Amitabha Sadangi of IDE-India, which provides drip irrigation systems and other income-generating technologies to farmers; Ann Cotton of CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education), which helps educates girls in poor, rural communities in Africa; and Martin Burt of Fundacion Paraguaya, which support 30,000 microentrepreneurs and has turned an agricultural school into a model enterprise.

You can view these films on our Skoll Web site at http://www.skollfoundation.org/videos/. If you would like to request a free DVD of the films to use as a tool in your work, please email Phil Collis at pcollis@skollfoundation.org, and include a brief description of its intended use and potential audience. The DVD is region free and encoded for NTSC.
View Highlights from the Skoll World ForumMore than 600 social entrepreneurs, practitioners, researchers and academics from 37 countries attended the recent Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, which focused on leveraging assets and growing social capital markets. Mingling with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Sir Ben Kingsley and Robert Redford were 30 recipients of Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship as well as representatives from the worlds of finance and the media. You can experience some of the great moments from the Forum by viewing video highlights on Social Edge or by reading Skoll Foundation founder Jeff Skoll’s keynote speech. Click here to be notified about the 2007 Skoll World Forum.

'The New Heroes' Touches Viewers Around the World The numbers are in for The New Heroes, a PBS documentary series sponsored by the Skoll Foundation and hosted by Robert Redford that tells 12 dramatic stories of social entrepreneurs who bring innovative, empowering solutions to intractable social problems around the world:• The series reached 4.4 million viewers when it aired and is expected to reach 10 to 12 million viewers during the lifetime of the series.

The Social Entrepeneur Olympics Survey - April Update

Imagine that the top 30 arenas that Social Entrepreneurs connect around the world of humanity was as well known as the top 30 sports, what might these arenas look like as you browsed through a catalogue of them

We'll try and improve this answer every month; your collaboration help is of course indispensible. However clumsy our approach, a core group of Londoners intends to keep world attention of this going or move to cancel the 2012 sports olympics. Even that timeline will be 7 years behind where our chief economist forecast humanitarian globalisation needed to be back in 1984. The same source out of The Economist in London as has recently be accredited with changing Bush's mind, advised by Gathering storm leaders, on the need to end US addiction to petroleum economics and do what you can so that kids love learning science as much as they do sports or fashion idols.

And clearly the warning signs of how far behind the world's attention to social needs has got are everywhere evident as we sum up 2000-2005

Witness: Queen Elizabeth's end 2005 Commonwealth speech - Is humanity turning on itself ? Witness: how wave 1 of make poverty history or change Africa's sustainability does not seem to have turned the systemic spins round. Witness: how the top could get so divorced from its citizens core crises in London's 7/7 or Katrina's month 9, not to mention Pakistan's tragic 10.

In this 3 column format; the middle column decsribes a potential top 30 arena of social entrepreneur olympics; let's by all means re-edit this as the months progres; the left hand column searches through the 1000+ social entrpreneur databank of ashoka.org which has been developing over the same tikme period as death of distance dilaogues; and the right hand column notes some of the favourites noted by those who help co-edit many of the city-based observations that have compounded over 40 million bookmarks around collaboration knowledge city. This is only a start. Whilst social entrepreneurs face many challenges; our one advantage in surveying them is that by their nature they are the most transparenct and collaborative type of entrepreneur to be engaged in revolution.

Favio Rosa, Brazil	1 Solar/Photosynthesis (Clean Energy, Clean Biodiversity, Clean Air, Sustaining Climate/Nature)	*Rick Nelson algae architects network (Canadian now in London), *Franklin Frederick (The International Free Water Academy) Brazil
Maqsood Sinha, Bangladesh	2 Biodiversity webs: Organic waste & network models of biodiversity	Ray Anderson’s Mount Sustainability Networks
*Myrna Wasjman-Lewis, S Africa – founder of deep democracy alumni	3 Reconciliation: Collaboration methods facilitating democratic conflict resolution, cross-cultural understanding, diversity as co-creative opportunity	*Harrison Owen, Open Space
*Myrna Wasjman-Lewis, S Africa –primary pro bono context: developing education for children in parentless communities ravaged by HIV • Gloria de Souza , India • Jeroo Billimoria India: Childline & We Children Gathering Together • Kyle Zimmer, First Book • Mary Gordon – Emotional Literacy approaches • JB Scramm, College Summit (Montessori, Nightingale)	4 Education formats for parentless or other children at risk from disconnection with networking society’s futures; so that we all multiply productivities of virtual and real lives	*Myrna’s & Harrison’s methods apply to new participative learning formats * eg “Turn Up The Courage London” Antidote.org e-literacy databank Lucknow- world’s largest Montessori school and emergence of world citizen justice movements Foz : 80000 schoolchildren & 40000 teachers and 100 cultural ethinicities involved in learning curricula: biodiversity projects in river basins of world’s largest dam
	5 Community hubs in inner cities where youth & cross-cultural projects are nurtured safely; access to make a difference…	*Theresa W: Catalytic Community Brazil (co-sponsor omidyar); kind.org Nigeria * http://project30000.blogspot.com
Muhammad Yunus, Founder Grameen Fazel Abed, BRAC, Bangladesh John De Wit, S Africa	6 Microfinance, microfranchise, all community-up models sustaining global village transparency ; different citizen models of gov, ngo, .com and .net	Omidyar.net
Oded Grajew, WSF	7 Cheerleading public media, spaces and celebrities to be fearless, iterative and inspirational in inquiring into the Sustainability Crisis decade 2005-2015	Tiger Woods Children Education format *-mentoring space of University of Stars *The Economist & Royal Society of Arts as 140 and 250 year old champions of social entrepreneurship; Commonwealth models; BBC public media; *London’s collaboration café format importing to any collaboration city Future of BBC research & Reston-based : http://www.mediacenter.org/wemedia06/
(Intrapreneur Gifford Pinchot) David Bornstein’s Book	8 Dialogue scripts & sustainability system timeline priorities that changemakers and entrepreneurs –through nets and open spaces - can re-edit to explore heroines and leaders who were the most socially networked people in history and what deep contexts they gravitated emotional flows -eg trust, joy and sustaining communal love and rising health*wealth.	*Family tree of 10 preneurs and n7 primary collaboration waves needed for freedom & happiness across a worldwide economy of 2 million global villages Fast Company service economy (Intrapreneur) model: *100-fold return for investors but over a generation and only by investing in golden triangle of employee-customer-society *Tracking collaboration waves; eg learning network resources since 1973, photosynthesis, and Gandhi type conflict resolution since 1984, modelling world class sustainability of brands and intangibles since 1991
	9 Open projects & co-mentoring – how does a networked age uniquely enable people to find their own best mentors through life & help others likewise; how do we reduce degrees of separation wherever vital… How do we map grassroots correspondence networks capable of preventing interlocal disasters, and connecting up the deepest contexts of environmental change news that the top will otherwise see last	takingitglobal.org GloYo of GRN Pioneer networks ( out of S Africa and inspired by Meg Wheatley) * http://project30000.blogspot.com & mapmaking *Kyoto’s annual conference of world cultures
Medical : Vera Cordeiro Brazil, Rebecca Villalobos Costa Rica, David Green Legal: Karen Tse, Hong Kong; Peter Eigen (Transparency International) Housing: Antonio Paz Martinez, Mexico; Bill Kelly Global Branding: Ron Layton US Coops: Ismael Ferriera, Brazil Ethical Global: Mary Robinson	10 Peoples Economics & how do societies return Hippocratic oaths to professions and deep community connectivity through time and other system*system dynamics that compound exponential consequences	Medical & Reconciliation/Restoration : *Paul Komesaroff, GRN *Open sourcing missing maths of trust, boundary transparency and sustainability mapmakers *aSIN association Sustainability Investment Networks http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A4205819
Ashoka’s original heros…	11 Gandhi-type practices of governance of knowledge is that which liberates us: and what else is systemically and openly missing from the 40th grade curriculum of life and celebration of diversities of 21st Century societies worldwide	*Gandhi 2007 centenary, Ashram, Ahmedabad *Roosevelt (Bahamas)- sustainability of carnival approaches to collaborative leadership & reality-making Nomad research : Ganesh Devy Bhasha, Henry Schwarz Georgetown 100 rural villages connected over 25 years : Prem Kumar

Our scripts on social entrepreneurs connect with the 140+ year archives of The Economists, founded by one of the 19th C's social entrepreneur world champions James Wilson. My father, Norman Macrae, was The Economist's most productive writer of leaders for The Economist, being its deputy editor over 4 decades 1950s-1980s. During that time:
The Economist published a trilogy of his work on Entrepreneurial Revolution (1976-1984); the third of which became a book I co-authored. This book:
began the death of distance future history genre now known also as the (networking) World is Flat, thanks to Thomas Friedman's recent best-seller
published the first biography stories of social entrepreneurs; the point being that national entrpreneur success stories of the 20th C such as Hong Kong and taiwan focused on manufacturing things (eg umbrellas) cheaply for richer international customers to buy; if the only networking age success stories of entrepreneurial places continue that way, the world will soon become glutted with umbrellas; so in timelining networking as the biggest revolution ever to hit generation 1984-2024, stories of social entrepreneur world champions take centre stage

in our 1984 book, these included :
founding scripts on the clean energy revolution of photosynthesis
founding transfres of basic healt care programs
transfers of best of breed labour intenesive franchises to developing countries

on our timeline 2005 was humanity's riskest year, when public broadcast media connecting with internet follow up project communities launched a socila entrepreneur olympics capable of generating 30000 projects which social entrepreneurs distributed through humanitiarin networeks of the world and by focusing first on global villages where people are in most desperate need; please note this is not just an appeal to any richer people's charitable instincts:
connecting a third of the world to be productive is a win-win-win for all of us (modern day refeneces : bottom of pyramid, green is next red, white & blue), microfinance, intangibles valuation's systemic trinity: trust-flow, transparency and exponential sustainability; whilst failing to do this will exponentially compound terror waves (both human and nature's) and externalise the greatest risk to sustainability of every global market sector

transparently mapping at least 7 waves of being pervasively networked and around whose collaboration the sustainability of the human race will ultimately stand or fall is the story of this first global*local generation's life and times. One which patterns what possibilities all future generations can evolve with nature and the globe. So let's gets cracking - how can networks you love most help cross-culturallly develop the Social Entrepreneur Olympics?
Chris & Norman Macrae, via wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

Schwab's Social Entrepreneur Certified Listing

This appears to be it
Schwab Entrepreneurs
Complete List
Fazle Abed, BRAC, Bangladesh
Helmy Abouleish, SEKEM, Egypt
Ibrahim Abouleish, SEKEM, Egypt
Rebecca Adamson, First Nations Development Institute, United States
Raj Arole, Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, India
Shobha Arole, Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, India
Jockin Arputham, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), India
Rick Aubry, Rubicon Programs, Inc., United States
José Ignacio Avalos Hernandez, Gente Nueva, Mexico
Rodrigo Baggio, Committee for the Democratization of Information Technology - CDI, Brazil
Felipe Berrios, Un Techo Para Chile, Chile
Ricardo Eugenio Bertolino, ECOCLUBES, Argentina
Ela Bhatt, Self Employed Women's Association - SEWA, India
Meera Bhattarai, Association of Craft Producers (ACP), Nepal
Jeroo Billimoria, Child Helpline International, India
Leonid Bogatyrchuk, Elbrus Recreation and Health Center, Ukraine
Michael Brown, City Year, United States
Martin Burt, Fundacion Paraguaya de Cooperacion y Desarollo, Paraguay
Gillian Caldwell, Witness, United States
Arnaud Castagnède, Acta Vista, France
Vicky Colbert, Escuela Nueva, Colombia
Andrea Coleman, Riders for Health, United Kingdom
Barry Coleman, Riders for Health, United Kingdom
Cristóbal Colón, La Fageda, Spain
Vera Cordeiro, Associação Saúde Criança Renascer, Brazil
Thulasiraj D. Ravilla, Aravind Eye Hospital, India
Isaac Durojaiye a.k.a “Otunba Gaddafi”, DMT Mobile Toilets Nigeria Limited, Nigeria
Christopher Elias, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), United States
Iftekhar Enayetullah, Waste Concern, Bangladesh
Ismael Ferreira, Associação dos Pequenos Agricultores do Município de Valente - APAEB, Brazil
Martin Fisher, KickStart (formerly ApproTEC), Kenya
Nicolas Frances, Easy Being Green Pty Ltd, Australia
Jim Fruchterman, Benetech, United States
Takao Furuno, Duck Revolution, Japan
Dener Giovanini, RENCTAS, Brazil
Javier Gonzalez, abcdespañol, Colombia
David Green, Project Impact, United States
Jorge Gronda, Centro Ginecologico Integral (CEGIN SRL), Argentina
Victoria Hale, Institute for OneWorld Health, United States
Suraiya Haque, Phulki, Bangladesh
Sara Horowitz, Working Today, United States
Javier Hurtado Mercado, IRUPANA, Bolivia
Muhammad Ibrahim, Centre for Mass Education In Science, Bangladesh
Laila R. Iskandar, Community and Institutional Development (CID), Egypt
Garth Japhet, Soul City, South Africa
Richard Jefferson, CAMBIA, Australia
Farouk Jiwa, Honey Care, Kenya
Maria Elena Johannpeter, Parceiros Voluntarios, Brazil
José E. Juárez, Unión de Ejidos de La Selva, Mexico
Alan Khazei, City Year, United States
Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives, India
Rut Kolínská, The Network of Mother Centers, Czech Republic
Wendy Kopp, Teach for America, United States
Sergey Kostin, The Way Home, Ukraine
Jackey Maarohanye, Ithuteng Trust, South Africa
Joe Madiath, Gram Vikas, India
Vijay Mahajan, BASIX, India
Helio Mattar, Akatu Institute for Conscious Consumption, Brazil
Bruce McNamer, TechnoServe, United States
Adair Antonio de Freitas Meira, Fundação Pró-Cerrado, Brazil
Roberto Milk, Novica.com, United States
Safia Minney, People Tree Limited, Japan
Nick Moon, KickStart (formerly ApproTEC), Kenya
Andrea Muccioli, San Patrignano Community, Italy
Armenia Nercessian de Oliveira, Novica.com, United States
Bernard Njonga, Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD), Cameroon
María Elena Ordoñez, Arcandina, Ecuador
Sheela Patel, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), India
Kristine Pearson, Freeplay Foundation, United Kingdom
Roy Prosterman, Rural Development Institute - RDI, United States
Lejla Radoncic, Bosnian Handicrafts, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Paul Rice, TRANSFAIR USA, United States
Orlando Rincón Bonilla, Fundación Parque Tecnológico del Software (ParqueSoft), Colombia
Fabio Rosa, IDEAAS, Brazil
Robert Roth, Job Factory Basel AG, Switzerland
Linda Rottenberg, ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC., United States
Bunker Roy, Barefoot College, India
Albina Ruiz, Ciudad saludable, Peru
Martha Isabel (Pati) Ruíz Corzo, Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda, Mexico
Barbara Sadowski, Barka, Poland
Tomasz Sadowski, Barka, Poland
Eugenio Scannavino Neto, Projeto Saúde e Alegria, Brazil
Markus H. Seidel, Off Road Kids e.V., Germany
Yoel Sharon, Etgarim, Israel
Devi P. Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Tasneem Siddiqui, SAIBAN, Pakistan
Jack Sim, World Toilet Organization (WTO) Ltd and the Restroom Association (RA), Singapore
A. H. Md. Maqsood Sinha, Waste Concern, Bangladesh
Rory Stear, Freeplay Energy Plc, United Kingdom
Jacek Strzemieczny, CENTER FOR CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej), Poland
Victor Suarez, ANEC, Mexico
Rick Surpin, Independence Care System (ICS), United States
Pierre Tami, Hagar, Cambodia
Govindappa Venkataswamy, Aravind Eye Hospital, India
Mechai Viravaidya, Population and Community Development Association, Thailand
Petra Vitousova, Bily kruh bezpeci, Czech Republic
Martha E. Wille, Coronilla SA, Bolivia
Qing Wu, Rural Women, China
Gisèle Yitamben, ASSOCIATION POUR LE SOUTIEN ET L'APPUI A LA FEMME ENTREPRENEUR - ASAFE, Cameroon
Mel Young, Homeless World Cup, Scotland
Roshaneh Zafar, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan
Anna Zucchetti, Grupo GEA, Peru

Leadership Quest arranges guided tour of great work going on in grassroots contexts. While its fellows may not all fit social entrpreneur criteria, we guess they are pretty close:

AFRICA

Mongezi Kambule
Christopher Maphuruma
Likhaya Nojaholo
Isaac Ntsane
Nelson Ntuli
Grace Sibeko

CHINA
Ms Zhang Fengying
Wei Gangyong
Cheng Pengfei
Bian Suqin

INDIA
Miss Naida Ansari
Ms Sharda M Arondekar
Ms Farhana Banu
Bhavani
Ms Biju Bhosle
Mr Rahul Gaware
Mr Govindappa
Mrs Grace Joseph
Miss Shahnara Khatoon
Mr Prasad Manjrekar
Ms Bharati Mohite
Mrs Mary N
Miss Meera Mangru Mhaske
Mr Inam Mukaddam
Mrs S Muniamma
Mr Munivenkatamma
Miss Saraswati Naidu
Miss Geetha Narsegowda
Mrs Pushpalatha
Mrs Mehrunnisa Shaikh
Ms Mumtaz Shaikh
Shanthi
Mr Shivkumar Yelumalai
BRAZIL
Natacha Amaral
Djalma dos Santos

Bill Drayton appears to have coined the term social entrepreneur around 1978. His is the largest certification networks of socila entrepreneurs comprising nearly 1500 people across over 40 countries - see the Ashoka website

One of the next most prestigious networks is that which Schwab (also founder of the World Economic Forum ) founded much more recently. The Schwab Foundation nominates heroic organisations listed at this bookmark:


ASIA
BRAC
Bangladesh
Centre for Mass Education In Science
Phulki
Waste Concern
Cambodia
Hagar
China
Rural Women
India
Aravind Eye Hospital
Barefoot College
BASIX
Child Helpline International
Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed
Development Alternatives
Gram Vikas
Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences
Self Employed Women's Association - SEWA
Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)
Israel
Etgarim
Japan
Duck Revolution
People Tree Limited
Nepal
Association of Craft Producers (ACP)
Pakistan
Kashf Foundation
SAIBAN
Singapore
World Toilet Organization (WTO) Ltd and the Restroom Association (RA)
Thailand
Population and Community Development Association


CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina
Centro Ginecologico Integral (CEGIN SRL)
ECOCLUBES
Bolivia
Coronilla SA
IRUPANA
Brazil
Akatu Institute for Conscious Consumption
Associação dos Pequenos Agricultores do Município de Valente - APAEB
Associação Saúde Criança Renascer
Committee for the Democratization of Information Technology - CDI
Fundação Pró-Cerrado
IDEAAS
Parceiros Voluntarios
Projeto Saúde e Alegria
RENCTAS
Chile
Un Techo Para Chile
Colombia
abcdespañol
Escuela Nueva
Fundación Parque Tecnológico del Software (ParqueSoft)
Ecuador
Arcandina
Mexico
ANEC
Gente Nueva
Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda
Unión de Ejidos de La Selva
Paraguay
Fundacion Paraguaya de Cooperacion y Desarollo
Peru
Ciudad saludable
Grupo GEA


NORTH AMERICA
United States
Benetech
City Year
ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC.
First Nations Development Institute
Independence Care System (ICS)
Institute for OneWorld Health
Novica.com
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
Project Impact
Rubicon Programs, Inc.
Rural Development Institute - RDI
Teach for America
TechnoServe
TRANSFAIR USA
Witness
Working Today

AFRICA
Cameroon
ASSOCIATION POUR LE SOUTIEN ET L'APPUI A LA FEMME ENTREPRENEUR - ASAFE
Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD)
Egypt
SEKEM
Kenya
Honey Care
KickStart (formerly ApproTEC)
Nigeria
DMT Mobile Toilets Nigeria Limited
South Africa
Ithuteng Trust
Soul City

EUROPE
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Handicrafts
Czech Republic
Bily kruh bezpeci
The Network of Mother Centers
Germany
Off Road Kids e.V.
Italy
San Patrignano Community
Poland
Barka
CENTER FOR CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej)
Scotland
Homeless World Cup
Spain
La Fageda
Switzerland
Job Factory Basel AG
Ukraine
Elbrus Recreation and Health Center
The Way Home
United Kingdom
Freeplay Energy Plc
Freeplay Foundation
Riders for Health


AUSTRALIA
Australia
CAMBIA
Easy Being Green Pty Ltd

PBS's catalogue of new heroes Find the New Heroes on the Web
Kailash Satyarthi
South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS)
Works to end forced child labor in South Asia.
Moses Zulu
Development Aid from People to People in Zambia (Children's Town)
Educates and integrates AIDS orphans in Africa.
Mimi Silbert
Delancey Street Foundation
Criminal rehabilitation center in which residents run various business enterprises.
David Green and Dr. V:
Aurolab
Hospital and manufacturer of medical devices serving poor people, mainly in India.
Nick Moon and Martin Fisher
Appropriate Technology for Enterprise Creation (ApproTEC)
Manufactures and markets simple agricultural tools that aid in business development in Africa.
Fabio Rosa
Agroelectric System of Appropriate Technology (STA) and The Institute for Development of Natural Energy and Sustainability (IDEAAS)
Distributes alternative energy sources in rural Brazil.
Muhammad Yunus
Grameen Bank
Grants small loans without requiring collateral.
Maria Teresa Leal
Coopa Roca
Brazilian sewing cooperative.
Albina Ruiz
Ciudad Saludable
Alternative waste management organization in Peru.
Dina Abdel Wahab
Baby Academy
Alternative preschool chain in Middle East.
Inderjit Khurana
Ruchika School Social Service Wing, Train Platform Schools
Educational opportunity for indigent children in India.
Sompop Jantraka
Development and Education Program for Daughters Community Center (DEPDC)
Education and socialization program for girls and women in Thailand who would otherwise be forced into prostitution.

Shouldn't social diversity be a core curriculum for every Nothern and Western Hemisphere (ie well off) schools of century 21

I know why I would include these on every student's journey into our networked www
please tell us of others you know why or ask at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you have any queries about this list

Ackoff- if system connections are wrong, increased precision compounds greater error; 9 boxes on this page require same living system health-networks=systems**2 or **3 (minimum triangle) 1

Gandhi –culture= religious faith/love in context up 1

Friere – everyone can learn empirically from what’s locally most stimulating 1

Dalai Lama- overcome ego & find space to resolve; there are no conflicts to openly true human pursuits 1

Kinsey- interact diversity is nature’s only rule

Gombrich - A Little History of the World

how close to venture capitalists get to social entrepreneurs - post us your benchmarks - eg contrast with this vc outfit

Don Wood Joins Draper Fisher Jurvetson as Managing Director to Lead Global Expansion of Network Funds
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Draper Fisher Jurvetson (“DFJ”), a leading international high-technology venture capital firm, today announces that Don Wood has joined the firm as Managing Director.
Mr. Wood is a seasoned entrepreneur, operating executive, strategy consultant, and venture capital investor. He spent the last eight years at Vanguard Ventures where he led numerous successful investments such as ZipRealty, Vocera, and Sylantro. His investment and operating experience spans the Internet, communication, consumer, and energy industries. Prior to Vanguard, he was president of Metricom where he led the creation of the metro wireless Internet service called Ricochet. Earlier, he was an executive at Octel and International Power Technology. He also worked for McKinsey and Company and the Environmental Protection Agency. He holds a patent for a laminated publishing product that has sold over 100,000,000 copies.
Mr. Wood currently serves on several public and private boards. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, a non-profit community organization. He earned his Bachelor of Arts and MBA from Stanford University.
“Don’s past success and breadth of experiences make him a strong addition to our DFJ team,” said Tim Draper, founder of DFJ. “He is the ideal person to lead the expansion of our global network of DFJ Affiliate Funds. Our partners and I have known Don for years; he is a great fit.” Tim added, “While there are still promising new investments to be found in Silicon Valley, DFJ’s strategy of investing globally through its Network Funds has paid off big time with the recent acquisitions of Skype and Mobile365, as well as the IPOs of Baidu and DIVX.”
DFJ Managing Director John Fisher added, “Don is a proven investor and company builder, and he will continue doing that here at DFJ. His primary role at DFJ will be to bring new value to our Network Funds and lead our expansion into new geographic and sector markets. We are planning new Network Funds in India, Korea, Vietnam, Canada, Brazil, Israel, U.S. South East, and elsewhere. Building out our global network of investment professionals is central to DFJ’s growth strategy.”
About DFJ
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the only venture capital firm with global presence through a network of affiliated funds, with offices in more than 30 cities around the world and more than $3.5 billion in capital commitments. DFJ's mission is to identify, serve and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Over the past twenty years, DFJ has been proud to back approximately 300 companies across many sectors including such industry changing catalysts as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Interwoven (IWOV), 411 (acquired by YHOO), Parametric (PMTC), and Digidesign (acquired by AVID). For more information, visit: www.dfj.com.