Plenary 9: Mobilizing for Action — Feeding the Mind, Tickling the Funny-bone, Touching the heart
[Moderator] Sally Osberg, President and CEO, Skoll Foundation
Richard Curtis, Co-Founder and Vice Chair, ComicRelief [United Kingdom]
Ben Cohen, Co-Founder, Ben and Jerry’s; President, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Angélique Kidjo, Singer & Songwriter; UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador [Benin]; Founder, The Batonga Foundation
Bobby Shriver, CEO, Product (Red)
Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Duration : 1:17:19
Keynote Address: Financing Global Health
Introduction: Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org
William H. Foege, Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Duration : 0:27:44
http://www.weforum.org 19.05.2007
Defining Global Citizenship: From Philanthropy to Activism
Contributing to the common good takes many forms, from individual acts of philanthropy to ongoing patterns of social activism.
1) How can individual philanthropists make the best use of their resources? What successful frameworks exist inside and outside the region?
2) Do companies have a responsibility to the wider community, or should they simply contribute funds to “specialist” institutions?
3) What can ordinary members of society do to become active global citizens? How can such activism be encouraged?
H.R.H. Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud, Prince of Saudi Royal Family; Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
Carly Fiorina, Chairman, Fiorina Foundation, USA
Fadi Ghandour, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aramex International, Jordan; Global Agenda Council on Entrepreneurship
Omar Ghobash
Barbara L. Ibrahim, Founding Director, John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Moderated by H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Global Agenda Council on the Welfare of Children
Duration : 1:15:38
Plenary 6: Financing Poverty Alleviation
[Moderator] Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women’s World Banking
Fola Adeola, Chairman and Founder, FATE Foundation; Co-Founder, Guaranty Trust Bank [Nigeria]
Laurie Spengler, President, Shorebank International Ltd.
Reemaben Nanavaty, Director, Economic and Rural Development, Self Employed Women’s ociation (SEWA) [India]
Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Duration : 1:6:47
Keynote Address: Financing Poverty Alleviation Introduction: Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President, Global Online Sales and Operations, Google John Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Duration : 0:32:30
Clipped version of Bill Clinton’s Keynote address at the Global Philanthropy Forum at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. A call to action for sustainable, scalable social change projects. Clinton: “I hope I live long enough to see Drayton win the Nobel Prize.”
Duration : 0:2:8
http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting 25.01.2008 Corporate Global Citizenship in the 21st Century As the global agenda is increasingly shaped outside the traditional framework of nation states, corporations not only have licence to operate in the global system, but also a civic duty to contribute to its sustainable health. How should corporations exercise their civic duty with regard to major global issues? Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John T. Chambers, Chairman and …
Duration : 0:49:30
Plenary 2: Financing Efforts to Combat Climate Change [Moderator] Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund Monique Barbut, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility James Cameron, Vice Chair, Climate Change Capital [United Kingdom] Jan-Peter Onstwedder, BP Project Director, The London Accord [United Kingdom] Ira Magaziner, Chairman, Policy Board, HIV/AIDS Initiative, and the Clinton Climate Initiative, The William J. Clinton Foundation …
Duration : 1:4:2
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, speak with Jane Wales, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, at the Global Philanthropy Forum’s 6th Annual Conference, hosted at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA, on April 11-13, 2007.
Duration : 1:6:21
Angélique Kidjo, Singer & Songwriter; UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador [Benin]; Founder, The Batonga Foundation
Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Duration : 0:39:46
