Practicalities of Partnership Building

Speakers:

Miguel Achury, Manager, Empropaz, Banco de las Microfinanzas Bancamia SA
Caitlin Baron, CEO, The Luminos Fund
Mary Baskerville, Partnerships, HP, Inc.
Alejandra Botero, Regional Manager for Planning and Impact Development, CAF- Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
Thomas Debass, Managing Director of the Office of Global Partnerships, U.S. Department of State
Rebecca Distler, Strategist for AI, Data, and Digital Health, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Dr. Mary Margaret Frank, Dean, Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Dr. Vidya Mani, Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Cooper Miqueli, Manager, Partnerships, Concordia
Himanshu Sikka, Project Director, SAMRIDH Healthcare Blended Finance Facility; Chief Strategy and Diversification Officer, IPE Global Limited
Stephanie Steege, Director of Humanitarian Programs, Airlink
Rob Tashima, Senior Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Abha Thorat-Shah, Executive Director, Social Finance, British Asian Trust

with Patron Programming Partners

“There are core principles and practices that we can thoughtfully carry across different geographies, but education is inherently local.”

– Caitlin Brown

“As much as 75% of humanitarian funding is spent in the supply chain, from procurement and warehousing to transportation and customs clearance.”

– Stephanie Steege

“We know that those who sit closest to the health challenges are best positioned to help address them, which underscores the importance of supporting local entrepreneurs who are creating local solutions for local challenges.”

– Rebecca Distler

“It’s no longer just a cool thing to do, but it’s a must thing to do.”

– Thomas Debass

“We knew that even if we might fail in terms of our impact, we would be serving the children that we had sought to serve, and we’d be giving data to the system to show how learning happens during a crisis.”

– Abha Thorat-Shah

“How can we engage in a conversation, a growing conversation about how it is that we, as a cross-sector collaboration, are going to help address these global challenges?”

– Mary Margaret Frank

“How do you quantify peace? How do you quantify well-being? And yet that’s what we are grappling with right now.”

– Vidya Mani

“For Bancamia it’s very important to create social value to its clients as well as environmental value to its groups of interest, which is not the strategy of every financial institution.”

– Mauricio Achury