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Kevin Starr
Taking Projects to Scale 
In Kevin Starr’s mind there are four things budding social entrepreneurs must think about when they’re planning for growth. Seeding high potential solutions in health, development and conservation projects, Kevin, Director of the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, helps the brightest social entrepreneurs maximize the impact of their ventures in the developing world.
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Cheryl Heller
Branding 
Mission matters! The CEO of Heller Communication Design, Cheryl is an experienced strategist, writer and creative director. She partners with companies to create transformations that engender trust, loyalty and future support of their brands. An expert in the art of simple communication, Cheryl lets us in on how to tell people why your mission matters and inspire them to get involved.
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Clara Miller
Funding Social Enterprises 
Embrace the numbers! Learn how financial strategies can empower your cause. Clara Miller, President and CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, has a wealth of advice for social entrepreneurs. As a board member to many organizations including GuideStar, GEO, Working Today, Inc. and Community Wealth Ventures, Clara is a leading authority on helping nonprofits strengthen their financial health.
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Robert Fabricant
Designing for Social Impact 
Design + collaboration = positive change. Executive Director of frog design in New York and a key partner in PopTech’s Project Masiluleke, Robert Fabricant thinks running organizations for social good has to be fun and collaborative for everyone involved. There’s a lot to learn from his approach to generating deep customer insights and how rapid prototyping can produce better solutions to designing socially relevant products and services.
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Bunker Roy
Advice to Social Innovators 
One of the world’s most celebrated social innovators, Bunker Roy, founder of the “Barefoot College,” is improving the lives of thousands of India’s rural poor. Bunker has been the recipient of numerous awards recognizing his work in social innovation and has three vital lessons for entrepreneurs about what it takes to be courageous in pursuit of your vision.
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Jim Koch
Scaling Social Enterprises 
World-changing individuals and their projects are guided by sound strategic plans. Jim Koch, Founding Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society and the Global Social Benefit Incubator, influences positive change by empowering social entrepreneurs to overcome barriers to scale and impact. Jim shares invaluable insights on crafting a robust strategy for designing high-impact, sustainable ventures for social good.
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Josh Baran & Lisa Witter
Communication and the Media 
Communicate your way to success! Leaders at Fenton Communications, the largest public interest communications company in the US, Lisa Witter and Josh Baran share insights and invaluable advice for budding social entrepreneurs. Hear what they have to say on how you can really work the media and help change the world.
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Gideon D’Arcangelo
Digital Storytelling 
Pay attention to crafting your story. Learn how to make an audience care about your cause from Gideon D’Arcangelo, Director of Creative Strategy at ESI Design in New York. With an extensive background in digital storytelling, Gideon has spearheaded a global citizen journalism effort with the Action Center to bring attention to frontline humanitarian stories from the field.
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David Sasaki
Digital Storytelling 
Be authentic and have funders find you. Find out how digital storytelling can be the most powerful thing you do from David Sasaki, Director of Rising Voices, a global citizen media initiative of Global Voices Online. David’s projects use citizen media to effect social change and he has led new media training workshops to great effect throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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Paul Polak
Advice to Social Innovators 
Profoundly change your understanding of a problem and what to do about it. Paul Polak, the renowned founder of International Development Enterprises and dedicated to tackling solutions that attack poverty at its roots, talks about creating a revolution in social entrepreneurship. For 25 years he has worked around the world, helping design and produce low-cost products that have already moved 17 million people out of poverty.
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Vince Stehle
Fundraising for
Social Enterprises 
The most successful organizations Vince Stehle has worked with have solid business plans and an ability to present their stories in the most compelling way possible from the outset. Program Director for Nonprofit Sector Support of the Surdna Foundation and board member to a host of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, Vince knows what it takes for social ventures to change the world.
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Eva Haller
Philanthropy 
Aim for one thing and do it well. Get good advice from Eva Haller on how to ask for money. She should know – as a recognized social, educational, and environmental activist and philanthropist in the United States and across the globe, Eva has a long and distinguished career in social issues research, family and child therapy, and consulting work.
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Gustav Praekelt
Mobile Networks 
Mobile technology as change agent! Gustav Praekelt, a digital entrepreneur and obsessive technologist believes that mobile phones will transform Africa. Learn how the Praekelt Foundation, a technology incubator that develops open source mobile technology solutions, is improving the health and well-being of people living in poverty. The mobile expertise of the Praekelt Foundation is a cornerstone of PopTech’s successful Project Masiluleke.
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John Balen
Entrepreneur Pitch Workbook 
As General Partner at Canaan Partners and a board member at numerous early-stage firms, John Balen focuses on investments in digital media, mobility, and next-generation enterprise technologies. Here he shares actionable, tactical guidance on how to think like a VC and succeed in meeting your funding goals.
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