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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: Barbara Harrison’s Wednesday’s Child initiative finds loving families for children in foster care; 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 |
Panel Discussion |
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM |
More Schmooze |
Price
$49
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Barbara Harrison
Morning Anchor
NBC4
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| Barbara’s current Wednesday’s Child initiative is exemplary of why she was recently honored with the Ted Yates Award for outstanding community service from the Washington Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Wednesday’s Child is a weekly segment about adoption that helps find permanent, loving, adoptive families for children in foster care. Previously, Barbara played a central role in NBC4’s major outreach campaign, "Beautiful Babies Right From the Start," a television journal motivating women to seek early prenatal care, thereby decreasing the extremely high infant mortality rate in DC. |
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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 initiatives. |
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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 involvement. |
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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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