Funding Systems Change: Option A

Florian Rutsch, Silvia Bastante de Unverhau, Katharina Wagner Meagan Fallone

Ashoka, Europe

Start time: 09:30 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Join for a 90min interactive event on the report "Embracing Complexity: towards a shared understanding of funding systems change" by Ashoka, Catalyst 2030, Co-Impact, Echoing Green, McKinsey, Schwab Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and Systemiq. Featuring Silvia Bastante de Unverhau (Co-Impact), Meagan Fallone (Barefoot College International) and Katharina Wagner (McKinsey).

SDG17

Ensuring food security in Asia

Marie Lisa Dacanay

Institute for Social Entrepreenurship in Asia (ISEA), Philippines

Start time: 10:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

The session introduces our COVID19 Social Enterprise Response and Visioning Effort in Asia. We have a pilot in the Philippines to scale up vegetable seed-to-table social enterprise systems for food security.

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Schwab Foundation Awardee

Feminine Intelligence

Karen Downes, Indra Adnan | Urvashi Sahni

The Flourish Initiative, United Kingdom

Start time: 11:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

For centuries we have separated the domestic from our public personas and roles. COVID19 is changing all of this. The domestic space suddenly holds a new status. Women and girls are being more directly impacted by isolation and in the convergence of the personal and the public spaces. We are supporting women and girls to manage their physical, emotional and mental health.

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Local, decentralized production of PPE

Soeren Lex, Andreas Papp, Nikolaus Hutter

plasticpreneur by doing circular, Austria

Start time: 14:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Discussion on the global shortage on Personal Protective Equipment. Production, distribution channels and logistics are challenges we face during this crisis. With decentralized production possibilities, PPE can be produced out of resources available almost anywhere.

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Restarting Education Paused by COVID-19

Abhinav Mathur, Dr. Mona Mathur

Million Sparks Foundation, India

Start time: 14:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

We enable capacity building & training of teachers in scholastic & coscholastic topics (SDGs) at scale using a mobile app. The SDGs cannot be met if each teacher does not regularly explain to each child the child' role, the family's role and the communiy's role in solving the SDGs in at an age-appropriate level.

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Keep Children and Youth Reading During Covid-19

Colin McElwee, Rebecca Chandler Leege, Ethel Sakitey

Worldreader, United States

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Worldreader is an organisation focused on reading. We empower local ecosystems in Africa, India, Middle East and Latin America to embrace the opportunity to use digital means get their populations reading. We provide cost effective and highly scalable solutions both in and out of schools. For COVID-19, we have two free apps for children and youth, each including local regional content on them.

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Schwab Foundation Awardee

The Missing Infrastructure on the Ground

Indra Adnan, Pat Kane

The Alternative UK, United Kingdom

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Until now solutions to the SDGs have been available but not deliverable. Covid-19 has seen massive self-organising at neighbourhood level. UK has been developing these responses as citizen action networks capable of connecting personal, social and global development at town, city and regional level. Our aim is to provide the media and infrastructure to tell a new story about people power.

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Flourish: Building True Resilience

Karen Downes

the Flourish Initiative, United Kingdom

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Flourishing is no longer a nice to have, it is critical to our future. Powerfully dealing with crisis and uncertainty is having a foundation of robust resilience by building our physical strength, emotional resilience, mental focus and spiritual intelligence. We aim for leadership development programmes to create more human centric organisations.

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Mental Health in a Pandemic

Nancy Lublin, Elisha London

Crisis Text Line, USA

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Crisis Text Line is free, 24/7 support for those in crisis. Crisis Text Line trains volunteers to support people in crisis. This session will explore how we can work together to help people feel strong. as Crisis Texline is scaling its crisis service around the world.

SDG3
Schwab Foundation Awardee;Skoll Awardee

Covid-19: A Data-driven Response

Michael Green, Matthew Bishop, Amit Kapoor

Social Progress Imperative, United Kingdom

Start time: 16:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Which communities will be hardest hit by Covid-19? Which communities will need most support? Covid-19 is a new and evolving challenge. Using data from the Social Progress Imperative, Michael Green, co-presenting with Amit Kapoor, and Matthew Bishop will share new insight on how the world can respond better to this crisis.

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Funding Systems Change: Option B

Florian Rutsch, Silvia Bastante de Unverhau, Eleanor Allen, Sophia Krosche

Ashoka, Europe

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Join for a 90min interactive event on the report "Embracing Complexity: towards a shared understanding of funding systems change" by Ashoka, Catalyst 2030, Co-Impact, Echoing Green, McKinsey, Schwab Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and Systemiq. Featuring Silvia Bastante de Unverhau (Co-Impact), Eleanor Allen (Water for People) and Sophia Krosche (McKinsey).

SDG17

Supporting Women and the Homeless in New Delhi

Shelly Batra, Radhika Batra

Operation ASHA, India

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

We distribute masks, food, soaps, hand sanitisers to homeless and women in New Delhi. The session will be on building partnerships to amplify our Covid-19 response. Each of us has a certain geographical focus. But by having implementing partners in other states of India and even other countries, we can extend outreach and serve many more people.

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Schwab Foundation Awardee;Echoing Green Awardee;Skoll Awardee

New Leadership for a New World

Vipin Thekk, Luzette Jaimes

Ashoka, United States

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

This 60 min experiential workshop is an exploration of what we need to pay attention to within ourselves as we are called to action in exponentially changing times. How can we arrive at a better balance between ‘human being & human doing’ and be the most powerful changemakers we can be?

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Sanitation & Hygiene. First Line Defense

Jack Sim

World Toilet Organisation & BOP HUB, Singapore

Start time: 18:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

This talk is about Hygiene as First line of Defense. World Toilet Organisation is the voice for Sanitation and we created a massive global Sanitation movement. Our founding day 19 Nov is the official UN World Toilet Day. We want to create professional cleaning jobs through scaling World Toilet College

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Ashoka Fellow;Schwab Foundation Awardee

Impacto del COVID19 en America Latina

Gabriela Arenas de Meneses, Celina de Sola, Lala Lovera y Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter

Taller de Aprendizaje para las Artes y el Pensamiento, Colombia

Start time: 18:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Esta sesión busca analizar el impacto que el COVID-19 ha tenido sobre las poblaciones más vulnerables en América Latina, y compartir algunas soluciones que han sido fundamentales para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria y el bienestar de quienes están en pobreza o en situación migratoria.

SDG17
Ashoka Fellow

Financing: Short and Long During COVID19

Cathy Clark

CASE at Duke, USA

Start time: 18:30 CEST (convert to my timezone)

What are the best ways to manage cash during this COVID-19 crisis? In this session, we will walk through a 3 part model of how to think about cash management and fundraising differently, as a result of new resources and mindset change among investors.

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COVID-19, Systems Change & Philanthropy with Don Gips

Matthew Bishop, Don Gips

SPI, United States

Start time: 18:30 CEST (convert to my timezone)

In the depths of the COVID crisis, there is an opportunity for philanthropy to invest in transformational systems change. A series in which journalist Matthew Bishop engages philanthropy leaders in probing, action-oriented conversations on the how of taking this once in a generation opportunity. Join the discussion with Don Gips, CEO of the Skoll Foundation.

SDG17

Alianzas estrategicas Colombia Cuida Col

Maria Jose Rubio, Gabriela Arena de Meneses

Colombia Cuida Colombbia, Colombia

Start time: 20:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Explicaremos cómo la unión de varios sectores puede responder y contribuir a una emergencia humanitaria.

SDG17
Ashoka Fellow

Abolishing U.S. Immigration Detention

Christina Fialho

Freedom for Immigrants, United States

Start time: 20:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought public health sharply into focus, as the global death toll surpasses 200,000. For you to be kept safe, I must be too. And nowhere is this more apparent than in immigration detention, which will act as a ‘tinderbox’ if urgent calls for release are ignored. We released an interactive real-time map that tracks the government's response in immigration detention

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Ashoka Fellow;Echoing Green Awardee

Supporting Indigenous Changemakers

Nick Tilsen, Michael Zakaras

NDN Collective, United States

Start time: 20:30 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Let's not return to the old normal. Let's aspire to a better world after COVID-19 that includes a re-valuing of Indigenous principles: care of elders, care of the Earth, care of each other. NDN Collective launched a $10M Covid-19 response project to support the tribes and Indigenous-led groups.

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Ashoka Fellow

How do you survive a pandemic when you can't wash your hands?

George McGraw, Emma Robbins

DigDeep, United States

Start time: 21:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

More than 2 million Americans still don't have running water at home, a problem that especially impacts indigenous people, rural communities, and Americans of color - making it nearly impossible to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We're trucking water to remote homes in 3 states and distributing 124,000 gallons of bottled water.

SDG6
Ashoka Fellow

The Missed-Out Communities - Urgencies and deeper needs

Anshu Gupta

GOONJ, India

Start time: 08:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

In India lockdown fast turned into a reverse migration crisis as thousands of migrant workers, started walking hundreds of kilometers, to their homes. Back at the root with a tough time ahead can be turned into an opportunity to dignify life and energise rural economy, the base of India. We have already activated large scale relief and food support in 20 states with 100+ grassroot organisations.

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Ashoka Fellow;Schwab Foundation Awardee

Transforming Education

Urvashi Sahni

Study Hall Educational Foundation, India

Start time: 09:30 CEST (convert to my timezone)

For 34 years now we have been trying to build curricula, pedagogies and school cultures to realize gender equality through education. We run several K-12 schools, community based teaching centres, teacher training programs in urban and rural areas for students from all kinds of background.

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Ashoka Fellow;Schwab Foundation Awardee

COVID-19. Before you act. Stop. And think.

Simon Berry

ColaLife, United Kingdom

Start time: 11:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

In the current COVID-19 crisis the urge to 'just do something to help' is stronger than ever, especially if you're a social entrepreneur. In this short session Simon Berry will explain why it's important to stop and think before you act. He will share his principles for creating change that lasts.

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Ashoka Fellow

Creating Medicines for Future Pandemics

John Bamforth

READDI - Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Discovery Initiative, United States

Start time: 14:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

READDI is a global open science consortium aimed at developing drugs to put “on the shelf” for clinical trial testing in anticipation of future viral pandemics. Dr. John Bamforth will share how READDI is bringing all hands on deck to save lives during this pandemic and prevent future pandemics. We are creating antiviral medications for this pandemic and the future.

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We Love Reading

Rana Dajani

We Love Reading, Jordan

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

We Love Reading is a Program that changes mindsets through reading to create changemakers. Training youth and adults mainly women to read aloud to children in the neighbourhoods makes them social entrepreneurs solving their own challenges. Children are engaged with learning through reading for fun.

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Ashoka Fellow

Donate

Education NGOs responding to COVID-19

Roeland Monasch

Aflatoun International, Netherlands

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Sharing of findings of Aflatoun Impact & Response survey among 100+ NGOs (67 countries) from the network. These partners all work to empower children/youth with essential social & financial skills. We will highlight impact & response - Two partners will present their innovations.

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Skoll Awardee

Youth-led community transformation

Janet Longmore, Sharon Nyangweso

Digital Opportunity Trust, Canada

Start time: 16:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Janet Longmore will share how Digital Opportunity Trust is mobilizing the talents of youth to tackle pressing digital education and COVID-19 response issues in their communities. Janet will be joined by young Kenyan/Canadian social entrepreneur Sharon Nyangweso.

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Ashoka Fellow;Schwab Foundation Awardee

Guardianes de Semillas

Juan Gerardi, Juan Ignacio Gerardi

Bioconexion, Argentina

Start time: 16:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Democratizar el acceso a las semillas: primero se fue la semilla; después, el agricultor de su tierra. La semilla como generador de valor en lo social, comercial y en lo ambiental. ¿Cómo se domesticó la semilla ? ¿Cuánto sabemos del proceso de domesticación? ¿Podemos ser semillas de cambio?

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Co-creating a New Future for Education

Ross Hall, Victoria Haro, Vishal Tareja

The Weaving Lab, United Kingdom

Start time: 16:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

As the impact of the pandemic unfolds, it is becoming clear that traditional learning models have not equipped us and our children to make meaning, respond and adapt to uncertainty and vulnerabilities emerging from the current crisis. What is the current crisis teaching us about our education system? We are conducting a campaign global campaign to pause and re-imagine education.

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Creative Dignity

Neelam Chhiber

Industree Foundation, India

Start time: 16:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

We are working with artisans to ensure that at this time, they are able to maintain their livelihoods. We are conducting continual risk assessment to inform emergency relief and working to ensure that producers are covered by the appropriate gurantees and insurances

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Schwab Foundation Awardee

Fast Tracking Regenerative Agriculture

Luis Camargo, Melina Angel, Eduard Muller

OpEPA, Colombia

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

We propose to rapidly activate local food production utilizing regenerative agriculture methods in several bioregions in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil within the Regenerative Communities Network.

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Ashoka Fellow

Collective Visioning

Zineb Mouhyi, Morgan Silver Greenberg, Pavel Luksha, Jessica Spencer-Keyse

Weaving Lab, Morocco

Start time: 18:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

While we need to find ways to combat the health crisis, we also need to create civic methods of overcoming the crisis of uncertainty. Our idea is to conduct a project of citizen engagement through sensemaking, visioning (scenario building) connected to projects. Our COVID-19 response involves holding facilitation sessions ( and packages) for communities to imagine and co-create scenarios together

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Improving Aid Effectiveness Globally

Ben Smilowitz, Natalie Bridgeman Fields

Disaster Accountability Project / Accountability Counsel, USA / Global

Start time: 19:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Leveraging data, advocacy, and research so intended beneficiaries have a voice in financial flows impacting them and so that humanitarian aid is more transparent, effective, and locally distributed. We wish to increase transparency and accountability of public and private sector COVID19 responses.

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Echoing Green Awardee

COVID-19, Systems Change & Philanthropy with Tim Hanstad

Matthew Bishop, Tim Hanstad

SPI,, United States

Start time: 20:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

In the depths of the COVID crisis, there is an opportunity for philanthropy to invest in transformational systems change. A series in which journalist Matthew Bishop engages philanthropy leaders in probing, action-oriented conversations on the how of taking this once in a generation opportunity. Join the discussion with Tim Hanstad, CEO of the Chandler Foundation.

SDG17

A Call to Action: Community Health Workers as Central to COVID-19 Response

Alexandra Quinn, Rishi Manchanda, Denise Smith, Emily Wroe, Claire Qureshi

Health Leads, USA

Start time: 20:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Hear from Health Leads, Health Begins, NACHW, Partners in Health, and WHO on how to advance a community-based workforce strategy to meet needs of most vulnerable communities in COVID-19 response, enhanced contact tracing and long-term recovery. Co-hosts will share their learning from the US and globally.

SDG3
Skoll Awardee

Brazilian Social Entrepreneurs' Response to the COVID-19 Global Challenge

Gisela Solymos, Rodrigo Baggio, Vera Cordeiro, and Carola Matarazzo

CREN - Centre for Nutritional Recovery and Education, Brazil

Start time: 22:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Brazilian Schwab Foundation Awardee Social Entrepreneurs will present Catalyst 2030 and share how they are innovating and partnering to face the challenges of the pandemic and serve the most vulnerable populations, in addition to discussing the change in society in the post-coronavivus world. We are providing food and consultancies to malnourished children, with vegetables bought to urban farmers

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Ashoka Fellow;Schwab Foundation Awardee

COVID-19 Increases Plastic Pollution?

Tommy Tjiptadjaja

Greenhope, Indonesia

Start time: 10:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

COVID-19 seems to roll back some progress in fighting waste pollution. The world increases use of single use plastic bags, etc., to reduce transmission. It might look like a tough tradeoff between lives vs environment, but it shouldn't. With the right mindset and collaboration we can win both. We are supporting food and aid deliveries through Greenhope's donated biodegradable tech bags.

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Schwab Foundation Awardee

Roundtable: Mental Health

Aggie Xenakou, Rati Moyo, Sarah Kline, Stella Motsi

The Smile of the Child, Childline Zimbabwe, United for Global Mental Health, Childline Zimbabwe

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

With 1 in 10 people facing mental health issues, and this rate growing, what can countries do to alleviate this? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

SDG3

Roundtable: Systems change

Francois Bonnici, Seema Patel

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Global Knowledge Initiative

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Creating the environment for scaling social innovations in a post- COVID world. How can the systems change approach be leveraged for scale? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session of for you!

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Wildlife Trade and Preventing Future Pandemics

Kristine Pearson, Dale Lewis, Andrew Muir

Lifeline Energy, Wilderness Foundation in South Africa, COMACO in Zambia,

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

This session examines the link between trade and consumption of wildlife and disease outbreaks like COVID-19, SARS, HIV, and Ebola and to look at steps we can take to prevent future pandemics - drawing from community based conservation in Africa. We recommend to strengthen international laws against illicit wildlife trade, alternate protein sources to wildlife wet markets.

Mobilize for Change

Maria Modigh, Sofia Breitholtz, Markus Granlund, Olle Gemfors

Reach for Change, Under Kevlaret, Qvarts, Sweden

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 45 mins

The spotlight is on the crucial role social entrepreneurship has to play in crises. Join us as we share unique insights about SE challenges, how they are tackling the situation and what support they need. Get inspiration from our partnership with Bain, and help us mobilize for change! We are launching a program to mobilize and empower selected social entrepreneurs world wide.

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Roundtable: Learning in the Time of Covid-19, and Beyond

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

During and post-COVID-19, how to ensure getting children back to school? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

SDG4

Roundtable: Social Cohesion & Peace

Cheryl Dorsey, Kristen Powell, Sarah Gardiner, Shona McDonald

Echoing Green, Center for Policing Equity, Freedom for Immigrants, Shonaquip Social Enterprise

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

How to build on the current social cohesion to ensure better treatment for migrants, minimize racial and ethnic discrimination and gender disparity? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

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Roundtable: Client Driven Evaluation

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

How do we ensure client centered evaluation as the new formal and ensure that this feedback builds into the Social Progress Imperative? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

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Roundtable: Growth of Regenerative Economies

Jessica Fleuti, Neelam Chhiber, Njideka Harry, Yves Moury

Skoll Foundation, Industree Foundation, Youth for Technology Foundation, Fundación Capital

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

With millions of jobs lost and economies entering into a depression, how do we ensure livelihoods? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

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Fireside Chat: The Role of Intermediaries - Evolving the Ecosystem

Matthew Bishop, Cheryl Dorsey, Diana Wells

SPI,, Echoing Green, Ashoka, United States

Start time: 19:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

In the depths of the COVID crisis, there is an opportunity for philanthropy to invest in transformational systems change. A series in which journalist Matthew Bishop engages philanthropy leaders in probing, action-oriented conversations on the how of taking this once in a generation opportunity. Join the fireside chat with Cheryl Dorsey from Echoing Green & Diana Wells from Ashoka.

SDG17

Governance, Funding & COVID-19 Response

Tim Hanstad, Julie McCarthy, Kathrin Frauscher, Christopher Stone

Chandler Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Open Contracting Partnership, Blavatnick School of Government - University of Oxford, United States

Start time: 19:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

Philanthropy has committed billions of dollars in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments have committed trillions. Can funders have an outsized impact by supporting efforts to improve government efficiency, accountability, and effectiveness in response to the pandemic?

SDG16
Skoll Awardee

Soap Bubbles As a Solution to Reduce Hunger

Rolf Helberg jr.

Home2Live, Spain

Start time: 20:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

Soap bubbles are the next big thing to create zero carbon buildings and reduce hunger. Soap bubbles contained in a strong, transparent fabric cover will insulate the agricultural structures while saving 80-90% energy for heating and cooling and the closed ecosystem will save 80-90% water. Efficient cultivation of fish and growth of vegetables with minimum double the produce per year.

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It's Not All About COVID-19

Simon Berry, Jane Berry

ColaLife, United Kingdom

Start time: 10:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

While the world's attention currently is focused on the immediate needs of the COVID-19 response, existing diseases that result in high mortality and morbidity, such as childhood diarrhoea, have not disappeared. What should be the next steps? This is a plea to not forget other diseases and a call to action.

SDG3
Ashoka Fellow

Global Movement to Transform Education

Vishal Talreja, Suchetha

Dream a Dream, India

Start time: 10:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

A session on the impact of COVID-19 crisis on education systems and an invitation to a new global movement in education: #WhatIf #KindnessIsTheNewNormal. Our global movement is an invitation to take a breath, a moment, a pause and imagine your own #WhatIf. What is the #WhatIf you wish to invite?

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Ashoka Fellow

Roundtable: Food Security

Atsuko Toda, Gisela Solymos, Luis Camargo, Marie Lisa Dacanay, Roy Steiner

African Development Bank, CREN - Centre for Nutritional Recovery and Education, OpEPA, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia, The Rockefeller Foundation

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

In a time when crops are dying that could lead to a possible food shortage, what are feasible solutions to ensure food security, especially in vulnerable areas? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

SDG2

Roundtable: Crisis & Disaster Response

Anil Gupta, Anshu Gupta, Bill Toliver, Patrick Krens

Honey Bee Network, Goonj, Matale Line, Child Helpline International

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

How do we ensure that we are properly prepared for future crises and disasters? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

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Roundtable: Water & Sanitation

Eleanor Allen, Nicole Wickenhauser

Water for People, Water.Org

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

How do you survive a pandemic when people do not have access to clean water and basic sanitation facilities? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

SDG6

Roundtable: Digital Transformation

Rodrigo Baggio

Recode

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

We are more dependent on digitalization now than ever. Will post-COVID-19 see a digital transformation of our work structure? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

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Roundtable: Gender Equality

Shelley Zalis, Sister Gayatri Naraine

The Female Quotient, Brahma Kumaris

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

As women and girls are being more directly impacted by isolation and in the convergence of the personal and the public spaces, how do we ensure gender equality? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

SDG5

Roundtable: Catalyzing Urgent Climate Actions for a Green Recovery

Anders Wijkman, Jim Fruchterman

Club of Rome, Tech Matters

Start time: 19:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

With the global emissions dropping, has COVID-19 affected how we look at climate change and does this mean any radical changes for the future? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

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Roundtable: Changing Funding Systems

Start time: 19:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

There needs to be more focus on funding systems. How can we change the way systems are funded in a post-Covid world? If you have a scalable solution or policy recommendation on this topic, this is the session for you!

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Catalysing Access to Justice Under COVID-19

Karen Tse, Sanjeewa Liyanage

International Bridges to Justice (IBJ), Switzerland

Start time: 19:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

Driven by SDG-16, IBJ's teams of COVID-19 Justice Responders are working with governments and prisons to ensure access to justice under the pandemic, aided by an IBJ suite of COVID legal tools. Can COVID-19 catalyse positive systems change for access to justice? We recommend prioritising early access to justice under SDG 16 and connect the justice eco-system via online technology.

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Ashoka Fellow;Skoll Awardee

Making UN SDG16 More Investible

Scilla Elworthy

Business Plan for Peace, UK

Start time: 20:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

Dr. Scilla Elworthy is a tripple Noble Peace Prize nominee and has been working on peacebuilding for four decades. The Business Plan for Peace works with Impact Investors to identify the initiatives and projects in conflict prevention and peace building worldwide, that are most attractive and viable for impact investment resulting in a financial or reputational dividend.

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Building Effective Global Partnerships

Valeria Merino, Lucy Perkins, Shamil Idriss, Lesley Pories

Systems Entrepreneurs Advisors, Search for Common Ground, Water.org, United States

Start time: 20:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

To achieve SDG Goal 17, impact-based, multi-stakeholder, complex collaborations must be systems change focused to succeed. In this session, we will explore together what it will take to build SDG-advancing collaborations, identifying possible policy recommendations for the HLPF. We aim to report on global survey and interviews about the impact of COVID-19 on Social Change Organizations.

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Co-creating Healing & Agency

Reyna Montoya

Aliento, United States

Start time: 20:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

As we strive to adapt and aim to provide support to the most vulnerable communities impacted by COVID-19 in the U.S. We must center the voices of DACA, undocumented students, and mixed-status families. It is paramount to center the healing and agency in the education continuum. We must include undocumented and mixed status families in local, state and federal economic relieves.

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Echoing Green Awardee

Is Unsustainability an Accounting Error?

Bharat Sharma

Dakshas SFCT, India

Start time: 10:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 45 mins

Development-sustainability, economics-social welfare and business-nonprofit seem opposite. They may not be so far in reality. How do we integrate these seemingly opposite into combined pursuit? How do we move from SDG's to global sustainability with every business transaction? How do we earn life? We can combine business and nonprofit into one single entity - Sustainability = (QALY)^n.

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Nourishing Africa: SMEs Driving Innovation & Shaping Policy

Ify Umunna, Lawrence Haddad, Ndidi Nwuneli, Monica Musonda, Taziona Chaponda

Nourishing Africa, Sahel Consulting, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Java Foods, Malawi Agricultural and Industrial Investment Corporation,

Start time: 10:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

This session will explore the necessary policies, interventions and ecosystem changes needed for SMEs to successfully and sustainably nourish Africa. It will also discuss tools such as nourishingafrica.com, aimed at supporting entrepreneurs scale their agribusinesses. We have partnered for collective food responses through food banks and dialogue with policy makers.

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2020 Vision - Seeing Clearly in COVID-19

Jordan Kassalow, Ella Gudwin

Eyelliance, VisionSpring, United States of America

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

Join VisionSpring Founder Jordan Kassalow, and CEO Ella Gudwin, as they talk about the award-winning social enterprise's pivot from vision screenings for millions, to preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the emerging and frontier markets where they work. We are procuring PPE, mask-making for thousands, delivering hygiene kits and education.

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Ashoka Fellow;Schwab Foundation Awardee;Skoll Awardee

Roundtable: Creating and Enabling Social Entrepreneurs

Dan Berelowitz, Karen Spencer, Martin Burt, Maryam Uwais, Melissa West, Odin Mühlenbein, Olga Shirobokova, Sarah Prince-Robin

Spring Impact, Whole Child, Fundación Paraguaya, Issa Wali Empowerment Initiative (IWEI), VillageReach, Ashoka, Ashoka, High Commissioner for SSE and Social Innovation

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Roundtable Session to discuss the government infrastructure which needs to be in place to facilitate social entrepreneurs to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs.

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Roundtable: Mental Health

Elisha London, Helen Mason

United for Global Mental Health, Child Helpline International

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Following up from the last session on Mental Health and which scalable solutions and policy recommendations have come out of the first session through a 2-pager.

Roundtable: Gender Equality

Dr. Scilla Elworthy, Karen Downes, Katherine Lucey, Meagan Fallone, Urvashi Sahni

Business Plan for Peace, The Flourish Initiative, Solar Sister, Barefoot College International, Study Hall Educational Foundation

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

During COVID19 women are being disproportionately impacted, from domestic violence incidents rising to family care challenges escalating and livelihoods at risk. We will continue this critical conversation, to explore immediate actions and future policies.

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Roundtable: Health - The Triple Threat of COVID-19 to Health

Emily Bancroft, James Nardella, Mirella Domenich, Vera Cordeiro

VillageReach, Last Mile Health, Associação Saúde Criança, Associação Saúde Criança

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

In addition to the deaths from COVID-19 itself, there is a risk of steep increases in non-COVID deaths due to a potential collapse of primary care health services. A significant reduction in primary health care could lead to a 40%+ increase in maternal and child morbidity and mortality. Radical collaboration on solutions will be required to tackle the full spectrum of COVID-19 health impacts.

Roundtable: Changing Funding Systems

Gary White, Heerad Sabeti, Steve Waddell

Water.Org, Fourth Sector Group, SDG Transformations Forum

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Following up from the last session on Changing Funding Systems and which scalable solutions and policy recommendations have come out of the first session through a 2-pager.

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Roundtable: Climate

Alexis Grosskopf, Amandine Hersant, Frédéric Bailly, Julia Oliveira, Sue Riddlestone, Susan Bornstein

OceanHub Africa, Planete Urgence, Groupe SOS, Blue Ventures, Bioregional, World Bicycle Relief

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Following up from the last session on Climate and which scalable solutions and policy recommendations have come out of the first session through a 2-pager.

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Roundtable: Food Security & Agriculture

Jessica Fanzo, Ndidi Nwuneli

Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, Sahel Consulting

Start time: 19:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Following up from the last session on Food Security and which scalable solutions and policy recommendations have come out of the first session through a 2-pager.

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Helping Social Enterprises Grow Sustainable Revenue with the Corporate Sector -

Mark Horoszowski

MovingWorlds, United States

Start time: 19:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 45 mins

How can we help social enterprises build more sustainable revenue streams with the corporate sector? In this short working session, we'll explore the biggest barriers keeping sustainable partnerships from being created, and how social enterprises can get around them to grow their organizations, accelerate their mission, and help herald in a more sustainable economy.

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Building Resilience for a New Future

Runa Khan, William Lebedel, Kazi Amdadul Hoque

Friendship, Friendship Bangladesh, Friendship France, Bangladesh

Start time: 10:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

Friendship is working to bring dignity and self-respect with the most vulnerable communities in this turmoil. Our greatest resource is people who are willing to mobilise to save lives, fight for human rights and make positive change. We need to focus on building resilience in this crisis. We aim to help through service delivery in health, education, relief, mask distribution and food security.

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Ashoka Fellow;Schwab Foundation Awardee

Fireside chat with Vic van Vuuren

Matthew Bishop, Vic van Vuuren, Sue Riddlestone

SPI,, International Labour Organisation, Bioregional, United States

Start time: 14:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

Fireside chat with Vic van Vuuren. Facilitated by Matthew Bishop.

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Growth of Regenerative Economies

Francois Bonnici, Nitin Gadkari, Jacob Mathew, Valeria Duflot

Schwab Foundation, Minister for Road Transport & Highways Government of India, Industree Foundation, Overtourism Solution,

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

A conversation between policymakers and social entrepreneurs to discuss the importance of responding to COVID19 by supporting economies that leave no one behind and advance the SDGs. Two sectors will be discussed: the creative economy, and the tourism industry with representatives from India and Europe. The goal is to explore collaborations between social entrepreneurs and institutions to create systemic change and preserve the livelihood of millions, building a more sustainable world.

Roundtable: Social Cohesion & Peace

David Lubell

Welcoming America

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Following up from the last session on Social Cohesion & Peace and which scalable solutions and policy recommendations have come out of the first session through a 2-pager.

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Roundtable: Bridging an unacceptable learning chasm by 2030

Abhinav Mathur, Brij Kothari, Colin McElwee, Daveed Benjamin, Eleanor Sykes, Neha Parti, Rana Dajani, Roeland Monasch

Million Sparks Foundation, PlanetRead, Worldreader, Bridgit.io, The Commonwealth Education Trust, Quest Alliance, We Love Reading, Aflatoun International

Start time: 15:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Sample solutions to rethink systems change, post Covid-19. Following up from the last session on Education and which scalable solutions and policy recommendations have come out of the first session through a 2-pager.

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Roundtable: Women Entrepreneurs - Africa's Emerging Juggernaut

Bayo Adelaja, Fatou Jobe, Kristine Pearson, Linda Davis, Melanie Hawken

Do It Now Now, Imadi, Lifeline Energy, Giraffe Bioenergy, Lionesses of Africa

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Africa has the world’s highest percentage of female entrepreneurs. Learn from leading women entrepreneurs who operate in Africa the impact that these and other women are making and the impediments they’re facing.

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Roundtable: Client Driven Evaluation

Fredrik Galtung, Katharina Hammler, Michael Green, Thomas Barker

TrueFootprint, Fundación Paraguaya, Social Progress Imperative, Project Schoolhouse

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Following up from the last session on Client Driven Evaluation and which scalable solutions and policy recommendations have come out of the first session through a 2-pager.

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Roundtable: Digital Transformation

Konstanze Frischen, Luvuyo Rani

Ashoka, Silulo Ulutho Technologies

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 90 mins

Following up from the last session on Digital Transformation and which scalable solutions and policy recommendations have come out of the first session through a 2-pager.

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Project ECHO: Responding to COVID-19

Dr. Sanjeev Arora, Cynthia McKinney

Project ECHO, United States

Start time: 17:00 CEST (convert to my timezone)

Duration: 60 mins

Dr. Sanjeev Arora will give an overview of the ECHO Model, how it started, and how we are building the workforce capacity in rural and underserved communities worldwide to respond to COVID-19, and save lives. We are training frontline clinicians in COVID-19 preparedness and care in underserved communities.

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Ashoka Fellow