Who’ll be at the European Summit? Check back to see new participant profiles each week:
Meet Anna from the 1%CLUB! 1%CLUB is a marketplace that connects smart development projects with people, money and knowledge around the world. You choose or post a project and find resources online (knowledge, time, funding) — what a great network and idea! 1%CLUB will surely find new members at the European Summit.
The European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) will be on hand at the European Summit, answering the question, “What is Venture Philanthropy?” and sharing the six key characteristics they’ve identified and cultivate to turn philanthropy into partnership. Encouraging engaged giving, the EVPA is a unique network of venture philanthropy funds and others committed to promoting high-engagement philanthropy in Europe.
Marie-Noëlle Keijzer met Bill Liao at last year’s European Summit. Her life is forever changed. Together they run WeForest with a target to halt climate change by achieving a 2% increase in cloud cover through the sustainable reforestation of 20 m km2 of the Earth. Before joining WeForest as CEO, Marie-Noëlle spent 17 years directing large organizations and projects in corporations such as Moulinex and Rockwell Automation. Fluent in French, English, Spanish, German and Dutch, proficient in Italian and Portuguese, she has lived in France, USA, Ecuador, and Spain. She lives in Belgium, where she’s married and has a son, who is also planting trees. Meet both Bill and Marie-Noëlle at this year’s event!
Meet Estrella Rosenberg! She’ll be joining us from Chicago, where she’s founded and runs four (!) non-profit organizations: Little Leo Foundation, One In One Hundred, Big Love Little Hearts and The 4F Club – Fabulous Female Foundation Founders. Estrella’s life was changed by a chance meeting with a 10-year-old on a golf course. Now she believes in philanthropy as a way of life. Her work has touched the lives of hundreds of children in need of life-saving operations.
Stacey Monk, Sanjay Patel, and Mama Lucy Kamptoni are the heart and soul of Epic Change. Together they’ve raised tens of thousands of dollars for Mama Lucy’s Shepherds Junior School in Arusha, Tanzania. They’ve built classrooms, wired the school, launched the TwitterKids of Tanzania, built a library and supported the kids on their way to scoring the second highest exam scores in the region. Check out Melissa Leon explaining the Internet to the kids.
Mike Dickson co-founded Whizz-Kidz, which provides mobility equipment for disabled children. Whizz-Kidz is the largest UK supplier of paediatric mobility aids outside the NHS, and has raised over £50 million to provide equipment for more than 7,500 children and young people. Mike writes regular columns about philanthropy for the Business Spectator. He is also the author of Please Take One & The More You Give, The More You Get, which explains how both individuals and companies can give effectively, and how the charity world works. He’s ‘been round six marathons’, led fundraising treks in the Himalayas and Peru, is married with two children and lives in West London.
Meet Aashika Damodar, founder of Survivors Connect, an organization that works to build global advocacy & support networks of survivors and activists working to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Aashika will be at the 2010 European Summit with the Survivor’s Quilt, designed to raise awareness about modern-day slavery and to honor stories of survival globally. The Survivor’s Quilt provides survivors with a creative medium of expression, healing and a space to directly participate in their own awareness movement.
Beyond Profit, the premiere publication for social entrepreneurship on the Indian subcontinent, has plans to be on hand at the Summit, offering expert advice for media planning and distribution and interviewing participants for upcoming publication.
