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After bringing you 3 sold-out breakfast
events featuring DC’s most influential women,
Bisnow’s next philanthropic entrepreneurs
edition will focus on top women who have left
indelible impacts around the world, bringing
their products and services to remote regions:
The UN Foundation has granted over $1 billion
to gender equality, children’s health,
sustainability & other causes; FEED has
provided 55 million meals; and Kiva has
distributed $134 million of loans. Hear as they
recount their personal accomplishments,
struggles and other experiences. What is it
like making a global impact? What are the
challenges associated with being a female
entrepreneur? Please join us for what promises
to be an extremely lively and interesting (not
boring) conversation. And, as always, plenty of
schmoozing and networking.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Willard
Intercontinental
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW
Washington, DC 20004
Agenda
| 7:00
AM – 8:00 AM |
Breakfast &
Schmooze |
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
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Panel Discussion
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| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
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More
Schmooze |
Price
$49
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Space is limited
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Kathy
Calvin
CEO
United
Nations Foundation
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| Business mogul and
philanthropist Ted Turner created the UN
Foundation in 1998 with a $1 billion gift to
support UN causes. As CEO, Kathy builds
public-private partnerships to address the
world's most pressing problems and broadens
support for the UN through advocacy &
public outreach. Some of the results include
the immunization of 500m children, $140m
investment in support of empowering women, and
helping to create & sustain 50 sustainable
energy enterprises in developing countries.
Previously, she served as President of the AOL
Time Warner Foundation and was the chief
architect of AOL’s social responsibility
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Lauren
Bush
CEO &
Co-Founder
FEED Projects
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| FEED Projects has sold 540,000
FEED bags since 2007, and with a portion of the
sales going to feed children around the world,
FEED has provided 55 million meals. Lauren also
serves as Chairman for the FEED Foundation,
raising awareness and funds to ensure
nutritious school meals for all children. In
2004, she became an Honorary Spokesperson for
the UN World Food Program (WFP), visiting WFP
operations in 8 countries and helping to start
the Universities Fighting Hunger Campaign in
the US. Additionally, Lauren was a world-famous
fashion model and has recently launched a
fashion label, Lauren
Pierce. | |
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Jessica
Jackley
Co-Founder
Kiva.org
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| Praised by Oprah Winfrey &
Bill Clinton and one of NY Times Magazine’s top
ideas in 2006, Kiva.org is the world's first
peer-to-peer microlending website. Kiva lets
internet users lend as little as $25 to
specific developing world entrepreneurs,
providing affordable capital to help them start
or expand a small business. Today, Kiva
facilitates over $1M dollars each week from
lenders to entrepreneurs across 194 countries.
Jessica is also Founder & CEO of
ProFounder, a platform, to launch in fall 2010,
providing new ways for small business
entrepreneurs in the U.S. to access start-up
capital through crowdfunding and community
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MODERATOR |
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Barbara
Werther
Partner
Howrey
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| Barbara has represented both
contractors and owners in disputes regarding
substantial claims for delays, acceleration,
inefficiencies, default terminations and
construction catastrophes, both in the private
sector and on public projects, for over 30
years. Barbara has handled construction claims
for contractors in federal and state courts and
has litigated numerous claims for equitable
adjustment, as well as bid protests and claims
at the Boards of Contract Appeals and the Court
of Federal Claims.
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