Social Enterprise and Social Change: Should Nonprofits Embrace Business and the Market?

Michael Edwards, author of Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World Featured Speaker Michael Edwards is a writer and activist affiliated with the think tank Demos, the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University in the UK. From 1999 to 2008 he was director of the Ford Foundation’s Governance and Civil Society Program, and he previously worked for the World Bank, Oxfam, and Save the Children. Panelists include: Ann Cramer, Director Americas, IBM, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs Rhonda Mims, President, ING Foundation; Senior Vice President, Office of Corporate Citizenship and Responsibility Jackie Parker, Vice President, Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Philanthropy, Newell Rubbermaid Corporation