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Bite-size insights to enhance your understanding of social impact
- Support great vision
- Beyond overheads – Redefining philanthropy for maximum impact
- Tomorrow’s farming, today
- Unlocking opportunities in LAC (Latin America and Caribbean)
- Unlocking human potential
- Reimagining Disaster Philanthropy through Outcomes-based Funding
- Catalyzing investment in social enterprises through collective philanthropy
- Four trends in blended finance that will drive impact in 2024 and beyond
- Closing the pediatric cancer survival gap: A conversation with World Child Cancer
- Solutions with Impact Put to the Test: Pitching for Purpose with ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Global Visionaries
- Changing the game: Philanthropists driving the impact economy
- Meet our eight new Global Visionaries!
- Tiny bubbles, Huge impact
- Transforming nature into new medicines
- Making water safe and sustainable
- Tackling tough emissions challenges
- Helping companies clean up
- Harvest for the world
- A magnetic force for healthcare
- Rethinking plastic recycling
- A sweeter deal for cocoa farmers
- Top five trends in philanthropy in 2023
- New Years Revolutions 2023
- 2024 New Year's Revolutions
- How little-known cloud forests could unlock new sustainable income streams
- ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Global Visionary, Notpla is nominated as an Earthshot Prize finalist!
- How can philanthropy help create more access to clean and affordable energy?
- How can philanthropists ensure impact in education?
- A vision for inclusion
- Standing up for excluded communities
- Turning the tide
- Investing in nature
- Can we permanently remove carbon dioxide from the air?
- Living your legacy
- How real time data is helping nomadic farmers keep their animals alive
- Re-orienting Africa’s healthcare systems
- Accelerating clean home energy
- Tackling farm food waste B2B
- Here’s How Seed Banking Can Help Solve Climate Change
- Solving the healthcare delivery puzzle
- Permanently removing carbon dioxide from the air
- The future of learning
- Revolutionary skin graft
- Improving access to public health facilities for Mothers and Newborns
- Living your legacy
- How do we define impact?
- Catching an ocean of opportunity
- Podcast: Health Philanthropy - get the full picture!
- Ten trends for Philanthropy in 2022
- New Year Revolutions for 2022!
- How does Collective Philanthropy work?
- Is philanthropy over?
- Meet our five new Global Visionaries!
- Native Ecosystem Restoration
- Diet Change, Not Climate Change
- Indigenous practices meet mobile technology
- Seafood, Evolved
- Advancing Gender Equality
- Are rural markets the future?
- Leading the change, brick by brick
- The Future of Earth
- Rebuilding Indonesia
- How AI predicted the Coronavirus outbreak
- Empowering rural women
- We can all do better
- True green
- Radical generosity
- Seeds of Change
- No time to slow the fight for an equally female future
- Meet the Visionaries
- Problem-free palm oil
- Growing green bricks
- Keeping the lights on mid-crisis
- COVID ills vary by region
- Saving food made easy
- ‘We knew this epidemic was coming’
- 'Like sailing a boat through a serious storm'
- 'Covid is a ticking time bomb'
- 'Food waste is sky-rocketing'
- Keeping hope alive
- 'Social media is key'
- Empowering Kenya's slums
Tom Hall
Global Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ
With nearly 20 years’ experience working in impact and philanthropy, Tom leads the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Social​ Impact team of over 150 professionals across the globe to help clients and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ employees to maximize​ their impact locally and globally. Tom has personally advised over 2,500 clients and their families during his time at ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ and is passionate about finding ways to catalyse scalable solutions to the pressing social and environmental problems the world is facing. A regular speaker at conferences​ globally, Tom believes that through partnerships we can build an Impact Economy that values people​ and planet in all investment decisions and builds a world that is profitable for all.
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Head of Programs and Impact Transparency, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Optimus Foundation
Nalini joined the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Optimus Foundation in January 2019 and is the Head of Programs and Impact Transparency, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Optimus Foundation. She primarily oversees the strategies, philanthropic grant making and impact measurement of the Foundation s programs in Child Protection, Climate and Environment, Education and Health. Nalini started her career as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University and has since gained almost 20 years of experience in international development. She briefly worked for the Global Health Institute at Duke University and for the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, where she established the Evidence, Measurement and Evaluation team. In addition, Nalini worked for Big Win Philanthropy, where she developed their strategy and established their programs team.
Grégorie Muhr
Head of Collective Impact and Insights, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ
Grégorie Muhr is the global leader of the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Collective Impact and Insights team. She advises wealthy families on how to find their purpose, engage in multigenerational legacy planning, and have more impact with their wealth. She boasts almost 20 years of experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors and has co-authored several publications, thought leadership pieces and curated numerous global client experiences and events. Since joining ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ in 2007, Grégorie has worked as a client advisor for ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Wealth Management and at the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Optimus Foundation. She has also led various strategic and change management projects aimed at improving gender diversity in leadership. Prior to joining ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ, Grégorie worked for several large French companies in human resources roles.
Dhun Davar
Head of Social Finance, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Optimus Foundation, Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy, India & Middle East Africa, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ AG
Dhun Davar joined ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ in 2017 as Program Director, Education and Early Childhood Development. Since 2020 she has led the Optimus Foundation’s work in social finance across the thematic areas of education, health, climate and environment and a range of innovative finance products and field-building initiatives. She also leads Social Impact and Philanthropy in the Middle East Africa and India for ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ. During her time at ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ, Dhun has made significant contributions in social finance, collective philanthropy, and growing the Optimus foundation network. She has spearheaded the world’s largest development impact bonds in education and health, led an investment pipeline for the first global blended finance fund for outcomes contracts, been instrumental in building the social investments portfolio and investment team at Optimus and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ’s first philanthropic collectives.
Supporting great vision
We believe social entrepreneurs working to tackle the most pressing social and environmental issues have incredible potential to deliver change and create a better world. That's why we launched the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Global Visionaries program with two goals:
- to create opportunities for clients to connect with leading social entrepreneurs; and
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The ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Global Visionaries are chosen because their work illustrates the power of investing in the impact economy. We are particularly interested in changemakers with solutions to improve health, education, inequality and climate (SDGs 3, 4, 10 and 13).