Wake Up and Play the Call to Start Some Good
Social Technology for Social Impact Series
Convened by
the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Social Enterprise Alliance
Event co-Sponsored
by Generation Waking Up and StartSomeGood.com
DATE: Friday, February 17th
TIME: From 6pm to 9pm
LOCATION: SEA\SF Bay Chapter Office at
Rally Pad @ 144 2nd Street, in San Francisco, CA.
COST: FREE
From Egypt to Occupy,
the convening power of social technology has been demonstrated around the world.
From crowdsourcing to gamification, leaders and entrepreneurs are
using innovative social technology to facilitate collaborative action for the common
good.
The Social Technology
for Social Impact Series aims to foster an interactive dialogue to learn and
explore concrete opportunities for using social technology to engage
communities in taking action toward positive social change.
Join us in a fluid cross-cultural
and intergenerational conversation moderated by Antonio Aguilera, president of
the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of SEA, featuring Edgard Gouveia, founder of
Play the Call, Piya Banerjee from Generation Waking up, and Tom Dawkins, co-founder
of StartSomeGood.com.
Edgard Gouveia Jr is
a Brazilian architect and urban planner who has been active in innovative
social change for the past 20 years. His current project is the creation of
PlayTheCall, a visionary Global Game that aims to gameify social
activism, using open source technology to network the best energies and initiatives
of two billion people to save the planet in a methodology that is fast, free
and fun. Edgard is bringing his warmth and enthusiasm to northern California
this week. He is excited to create synergy with like-minded visionaries in the
Bay Area!
As part of GenUp’s
Core Team, Piya Banerjee manages communications & web, fundraising, and staff team
health & empowerment; and contributes in the areas of strategic
planning, program development, and community engagement. Piya graduated
with a B.A. in Finance and International Business from the University of
Washington. She has worked a variety of positions post-graduation
including Management Consultant, GMAT Instructor, and Public Relations and
Development Manager for an education-based non-profit in Hyderabad, India. She
is also a lifelong student of human development, yoga, and music and is excited
to embody all aspects of herself in her work with GenUp.
Tom Dawkins is
co-founder of StartSomeGood.com, a peerfunding platform for social change
initiatives that reduces barriers for emerging social entrepreneurs to raise
funds and grow a community of supporters. Tom founded Vibewire Youth Media
and Arts Inc. creating expression opportunities for young Australians through
media, arts and technology. Vibewire has received several international
awards including the NSW Non-Profit Microbusiness of the Year at the UN’s World
Summit on the Information Society. Tom is a recipient of the Future
Summit Leadership Award at the Future Summit and a Global YouthActionNet
Fellowship from the International Youth Foundation. In April
2008 Tom moved on from Vibewire and spent time traveling before being
appointed Digital Marketing Strategist and Social Media Director at Ashoka
utilizing social technologies to inspire people to become changemakers. In
2010 Tom moved to San Francisco where he worked as a Senior Social
Media Consultant for Small Act and as Manager of Communications and Emerging
Media at HopeLab, an Omidyar Network organization.
Moderator
Antonio Aguilera is
facilitating the participatory production of Crowd4all,
a crowdsourcing app that connects economically underserved people to
new work opportunities distributed online. Antonio is former Chief Social
Enterprise Officer at Community Vocational Enterprises in San Francisco, where
he directed 3 social enterprises that help people with mental health
disabilities get jobs: a staffing agency, a janitorial service, and 3 coffee
shops. In Mexico, Antonio launched a VoIP company to help people living with
HIV get healthcare access through employment. He has experience in providing
tech solutions for organizations in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and
Germany. Antonio is a passionate thinker and doer of business and technology
for the common good.
With your attendance, our conversation hopes to be
highly participatory.
About
the Social Enterprise Alliance, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of SEA brings existing and emerging
leaders together to build a stronger, more vibrant social enterprise community
in the San Francisco Bay Area. The
Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is the largest membership organization for
social enterprises in North America. Social enterprises are businesses and
organizations that apply market-based strategies in solving today’s pressing
social challenges. With regional chapters located in major cities throughout
the United States and nearly 700 members, SEA continues expanding its network
of social enterprises, foundations, lenders, educators and service providers;
helping develop revenue-generating strategies that harness the power of the
markets to achieve social missions.
About
StartSomeGood.com
StartSomeGood empowers people from around the world to become social
innovators. By connecting social entrepreneurs with the financial and
intellectual capital they need to transform an idea for improving the world
into a reality, together we can turn ideas into action and impact.
About
Generation Waking Up
Generation Waking Up is a global campaign that leverages social media
to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just,
sustainable world.
Alex Simon is Executive Director of Compass Partners, a social enterprise supporting students in their social entrepreneurship, connecting thems with opportunities to engage in microfinance and social innovation around the world. He has worked with a variety of organizations including the Young Presidents’ Organization, Ashoka, MFI Connect and Minga. He is a Startingbloc Fellow, a travel-addict, and former caterer extraordinaire. Alex graduated from George Washington University, where he was a Compass Mentor, with a degree in International Affairs.
Greg Wendt, CFP is founder of two non-profit organizations, Green Business Networking; a non-profit business community of over 4,500 business owners and professionals committed to greening the economy for Greater Los Angeles, and Green Economy Think Tank convening sustainability leaders in cities around the country to evolve actions and solutions for the green economy. The Living Economy Salon, fosters a dialogue and connects people around new innovations in economic models that promise a more fair and abundant economy for all living things.
Jeff Raderstrong is a community engagement consultant. He is the Founder and Editor of UnSectored, an online platform for people interested in developing collaborative efforts to create social change. He has garnered national recognition for UnSectored, as well as grown the site from a group blog into an organization that uses online engagement to facilitate offline action. Jeff co-founded the Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell (SEG) in college, which became a microfinance institution. Jeff assisted in a campaign to have SEG recognized as one of five White House Champions of Change.
Jason Hardebeck is a self-described dot connector and maker of things! He is Chief Instigator of gb.tc (formerly Greater Baltimore Technology Council). Armed with a cache of data sets made available by the federal, state and Baltimore city governments, GBTC and its volunteer force of tech hackers, data analysts and community activists gathered looking for answers to some of Baltimore’s seemingly intractable issues: vacant housing, substance abuse and a lack of educational opportunities.
Author of 34 books, Marc J. Lane is a nationally recognized business and tax attorney, founder of Marc J. Lane Wealth Group. Marc is an innovator in helping social enterprises, social entrepreneurs, investors, lenders, and philanthropists leverage capital to maximize financial results while driving positive social change. He teaches Social Enterprise at Northwestern University School of Law. Marc was recently appointed Chairman of Illinois’ Task Force on Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Enterprise by Governor Pat Quinn.
Antonio Aguilera is president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Social Enterprise Alliance, leaders across sectors advancing social enterprise to benefit communities; and part of the largest network of social enterprises in North America. Antonio is hosting usConverging sessions to generate joint business solutions to shared community challenges on the spot. He is founder of Crowd4all, a training game to access paid work online; and former Chief Social Enterprise Officer at CVE, Inc., where he directed 3 businesses that help people with mental health disabilities get jobs.
Susan Rae Ross is currently doing development work in Sri Lanka. If technology permits, she will join this conversation as a subject matter expert. She is a highly regarded business woman, international health and development expert, author and speaker. As founder and CEO of SR International, she provides corporations, nonprofits and government agencies with strategies and tools to actively manage their stakeholder engagement processes and facilitates successful partnerships across traditional sectors.
