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2012 Keynote Speakers
Dan Pallotta: Changing the Way the World is Changed 
Friday, November 9th, 8:15 AM - Register here
Dan Pallotta is a radical. His revolutionary ideas are challenging the status quo in the philanthropic sector. His evangelism to empower nonprofits to operate with the same economic freedoms that we give to business has taken the sector by storm. His keynote address at last year’s SVP Conference based upon his book Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine their Potential was a roaring success and his breakout session was packed.
Now he’s back. Dan wants to be in front of the SVP network again because he knows that if anything can change in the philanthropic sector, if nonprofits can have more strategic and effective champions, then SVP Partners can deliver.
Hot on the heels of his latest book, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World, Dan will speak about his blueprint for a brave national leadership movement to change the way the public thinks about charity. This is your opportunity to be among the first to hear from this strategic thinker and apply new ideas to the work you’re doing in your community.
Dan is an expert in nonprofit sector innovation and a pioneering social entrepreneur. He founded Pallotta TeamWorks which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Day. He is the president of Advertising for Humanity designed to help humanitarian organizations succeed by transforming their brands and to guide business’s social initiatives.
Dan is a weekly contributor to the Harvard Business Review. He has been written about in feature and cover stories in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, American Public Media’s Marketplace, and on numerous NPR stations.
Dan is a William J. Clinton Distinguished Lecturer, and has spoken at Stanford, Wharton, Harvard Business School, Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofits, Tufts University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Hewlett Foundation and the Gates Foundation, among others. Read Dan’s full bio. For more information on this speaker please visit www.apbspeakers.com.
Craig Kielburger, Audacious at 12
Friday, November 9th, 7:30 PM - Register here
Craig Kielburger co-founded Free The Children in 1995 at only 12 years of age. Today, he remains a passionate full-time volunteer for the organization, now an international charity and renowned educational partner that empowers youth to achieve their fullest potential as agents of change.
Free The Children delivers innovative programming to more than 4,000 youth groups and hundreds of thousands of young people in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. As the world’s largest network of children helping children through education, the organization has worked in 45 countries and built more than 650 schools and school rooms in developing regions, providing education to more than 55,000 children every day.
Every year, Craig and his brother Marc Kielburger organize We Day, Free The Children’s signature domestic event that reaches 90,000 students from 3,000 schools in person and more than 5.4 million through televised broadcasts. We Day has over two million followers on Facebook, making it one of the largest charitable causes in the world.
Free The Children has a proven track record of success, having formed successful partnerships with top school boards and leading corporations—including Oprah’s Angel Network, KPMG and Research In Motion.
Craig is also the co-founder of Me to We. An innovative social enterprise, Me to We provides people with better choices for a better world, including socially conscious and environmentally friendly clothes and accessories, life-changing international volunteer trips, leadership training programs and materials, a speakers’ bureau, and books that address issues of positive social change. In addition, half of Me to We’s net profit is donated to Free The Children, while the other half is reinvested to grow the enterprise and its social mission.
Craig has shared the stage, and his voice, with Nobel Peace laureates, heads of state, celebrities, rock bands, actors and pop icons, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Former President Bill Clinton, Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson and many more.
With Marc, Craig writes “Global Voices,” a weekly column about the pressing issues of our time, syndicated in the Vancouver Sun, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Winnipeg Free Press, The Huffington Post and Huffington Post Canada online. The Kielburgers also write a weekly advice column in the Globe & Mail called “Ask the Kielburgers.”
Craig is a New York Times bestselling author who has written nine books. His latest, released in April 2012, is Living Me to We: The Guide for Socially Conscious Canadians.
Craig has a degree in peace and conflict studies from the University of Toronto and is the youngest-ever graduate of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program. He has received ten honorary doctorates and degrees, The Roosevelt Freedom Medal, The World Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (often called the Children’s Nobel Prize) and is one of the youngest recipients of The Order of Canada. Craig’s work has been featured on multiple appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, 60 Minutes and The Today Show; and in People, Time and The Economist. Read Craig's full bio.
Sam Kaner, Leading Expert on Participatory Decision-Making
Saturday, November 10th, 9:00 AM - Register here
Sam Kaner comes to the SVP conference at just the right time as the network delves deeper into its burgeoning role in Collective Action. Sam is one of the US’s leading experts on collaboration and the senior author of Facilator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, which has gone through more than 20 printings and is now in its second edition. The founder and executive director of the consulting firm Community at Work, Sam has been a system-change consultant for the past 25 years. He’s worked with Omidyar Network, Stanford University Center for Social Innovation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Greenpeace, United Nations and more than 250 NGOs, foundations and community-based organizations around the world. His list of private sector clients is as impressive and includes VISA International, Charles Schwab & Company, Hewlett Packard and Symantec.
Matt Flannery, co-founder and CEO of Kiva
Friday, November 9th, 7:30 PM - Register here
Kiva is a nonprofit with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world that empowers people around the world to change their lives with a $25 loan. Matt began developing Kiva in late 2004 as a side-project while working as a computer programmer at TiVo, Inc. In December 2005 Matt left his job to devote himself to Kiva full-time. As CEO, Matt has led Kiva's growth from a pilot project to an established online service with partnerships across the globe and hundreds of millions in dollars loaned to low income entrepreneurs. Matt is Skoll Awardee and Ashoka Fellow and was selected to FORTUNE magazine's "Top 40 under 40" list in 2009. In 2011, Matt was chosen for the The Economist “No Boundaries” Innovation Award. He graduated with a BS in Symbolic Systems and a Masters in Philosophy from Stanford University.
Jill Vialet, founder and CEO of Playworks
Friday, November 9th, 7:30 PM - Register here
Playworks is the only organization in the country that provides trained, full-time program coordinators, called “coaches
,” to low-income schools in major urban areas to focus on recess and play to support learning. Playworks brought play and physical activity to more than 130,000 children in 300 schools in 23 US cities in the 2011-12 school year. Jill was selected as an Ashoka Fellow in 2004 and was named to the Forbes Impact 30 as one of the 30 leading social entrepreneurs worldwide. She was also recognized by the Womens’ Sports Foundation’s 40 for 40 list of women who have made a significant impact on society after playing sports in high school or college during the 40 years of the Title IX era.
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