5th Women’s Social Leadership Awards
index o about the awards o about ogunte o categories 2011 o example of previous winners o captured impact o become a patron o judges 2011
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the ogunte women’s social leadership awards … recognise the achievements of influenCal female leaders, campaigners and social entrepreneurs, women who: o offer innovaCve and bold soluCons to pressing social and environmental issues o can evidence their social impact o know how to engage and inspire people to think differently and do more
about ogunte A Be%er World. Powered by Women Ogunte is a Social InnovaCons Development company focused on women-‐led social ventures and their networks of influence. We believe that women have pracCcal answers to pressing social and environmental challenges. Based in London and acCng in several global ciCes, Ogunte has a track record of adding value to pre due-‐diligence, investment and commissioning processes by clarifying and assessing social enterprises' proposals, help them arCculate their social impact, and develop strong market places. Web: www.ogunte.com TwiQer: @ogunte Blog: www.globaltribal.co.uk
“At Oguntê we are passionate about connec4ng women of courage, who bring about genuine innova4ve ideas and ac4ons to solve social problems. We encourage them to come forward and demonstrate how they create a posi4ve social impact, and how they make the world a fairer place. These women prove that with generosity, focus, confidence and robust networks, you can achieve great and measurable social change.” Servane Mouazan, CEO Oguntê Ltd.
three categories Leader in the Workplace 2011 | UK & World A woman providing acCviCes reaching other social businesses, chariCes or campaigns; a woman leading a CSR iniCaCve, a department or a corporate iniCaCve that contributes to social and/or environmental change. Social Business Leader 2011 | UK & World A woman founder or the leader of a social business (enterprise whose social purposes are aligned with commercial objecCves), with a track record. Leader in Networks / Campaigns for Social/Environmental Change 2011 | UK & World A woman whose campaign/network has made waves and changed people’s lives -‐ no commercial purposes – chariCes belong to this category.
previous winners & runners up Sample | Explore their work here
Julie Brown Growing CommuniCes Kate Griggs Xtraordinary People
Samantha Collins The Aspire FoundaCon
previous winners & runners up Sample | Explore their work here
Daniela Soares Impetus Trust
Ruth Churchill Dower Early Arts UK
Jobeda Ali FairKnowledge
previous winners & runners up Sample | Explore their work here
Pari Project Cambodia Allie Hoffman Rioch Edwards-‐Brown The 5 Percenters
Catherine Conway Unpackaged UK
captured impact sample
Confidence: parCcipaCng women see themselves as agents of change rather than recipients, reducing the delay to achieve impact. Sustainability: winners feel they have the credenCals to approach investors and funders to pursue their mission. Learning: nominees and audience from various sectors discover best pracCces and get peer support to grow their own campaigns. Media: winners and runners-‐up get exposure beyond their usual networks, boosCng their impact. Leadership: awards audience inspired to do more and deliver beQer, thanks to amazing public speakers who know how to arCculate the passion for their cause and translate it into pracCcal steps. Eg:Petra Stefankova
become a patron opCons
You can parCcipate in making the Awards a success by either: Sponsoring one or more categories: PlaCnum: £3000 | Gold: £1500 | Silver £1000 | Bronze: £500 | CoQon: £200. Giving some exposure to the event: markeCng, social networking, press release, Radio -‐ TV interviews. Donate a prize to winners and runners-‐up: Anything connected to the sustainable principles of the awards. Eg: Products, support services, shadowing opportuniCes. Being a media contributor: photographers, filmmakers, radio/tv interviewers, bloggers Previous and Current patrons: Ernst and Young, BT plc, The RSA, Merism Capital, UnLtd, Aspire FoundaCon, Social Enterprise Magazine Contact us on 079 32982379 or servane@ogunte.com
the judges | 2011 A panel of 7 professionals, based in Europe and America, all passionate and proficient in social business, global campaigning, impact investment, networks, social impact, media, in a corporate as well as community context.
natalia oberti noguera Pipeline Fund
Natalia is Founder and CEO of Pipeline Fund, a social venture fund that invests in women-‐led for-‐profit social ventures and trains women to become angel investors through educaCon, mentoring, and pracCce. She is also the creator of #womaninnovator, a media campaign to increase the visibility of women changemakers and mainstream their stories. As Chapter Leader of New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE), Natalia launched the network in January 2008 and has grown the community from six women to over 1,200. Her background includes work experience in the non-‐profit and social entrepreneurship sectors. Natalia is passionate about women’s empowerment, harnessing her knowledge of social media, co-‐mentoring pracCces, talent development, social innovaCon, and change management to support and promote women innovators.
christina jordan Evolutionize it
ChrisCna is an American social innovator with 25+ years of experience in internaConal development, including more than a decade designing and facilitaCng online collaboraCon strategies from East Africa. In 2001 she became the first Ashoka fellow in the east African region. ChrisCna currently lives in Brussels, Belgium, where she has founded Evolu4onize It, a social enterprise dedicated to facilitaCng collaboraCon in the social change sector worldwide. Her extensive global experience infuses her group facilitaCon and leadership style with a pracCcal and culturally inclusive analyCcal approach. ChrisCna also sits on the board of the Hub Brussels.
charlotte cooper Women’s eNews
CharloQe Cooper is the director of markeCng for New York based award-‐winning nonprofit news service Women's eNews. CharloQe has worked in independent publishing aiming to create social change including ethical lifestyle Ctle LUNCH and co-‐founding and designing SUBTEXT magazine. She has worked with a variety of non profit Ctles and organizaCons. She is a current fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and on the New York fellows’ coordinaCng team where she is working on creaCng a more fruiqul community of social innovators.
victoria anderson UnLtd | the foundation for social entrepreneurs
Based in London, Victoria is Director of Programmes and OperaCons at UnLtd arer having worked at ChariCes Aid FoundaCon where she led on their Advisory and ConsulCng services designing and supporCng the giving programmes of key corporate, non profit and individual donors. She brings experience of designing and running awards schemes and non financial support including consultancy, with her previous experience in statutory fundraising for Save the Children and Help Age InternaConal and grant making with the Big LoQery Fund. Victoria sits on the Non-‐Profit Panel at Knowledge Peers, a directors' network with a difference, that cuts out the armchair experts and enable people who run complex organisaCons to learn from each other's experience. She is also an advisory board member at Philanthropy UK, and a Board Director at Venture Partnership FoundaCon.
tommy hutchinson I-Genius
From Northern Ireland, Tommy studied economic at Leeds before becoming NaConal Treasurer of the NaConal Union of Students. He then joined NatWest Group as an aerospace analyst before becoming the bank’s PoliCcal Adviser. In 2000, he became Director of the Industry Forum developing relaCons between the business community and governments in UK, EU, WTO and Washington DC. For six years he chaired the trustees of youth charity ‘Kikass’. He also created Champ, which helped promote reconciliaCon in Northern Ireland/Ireland; and Eurobandits, which ran the official online campaign to encourage ciCzens to vote in the European parliamentary elecCons. Five years ago he joined social markeCng agency Equator Media Limited as a director and shareholder. In 2007 Tommy founded i-‐genius, a world community of social entrepreneurs. He is trustee of Maytree Respite Centre for the suicidal and co-‐authored a booklet enCtled ‘A risky business.’
nick temple UnCl recently Nick was responsible for the School for Social Entrepreneurs' policy work, evaluaCon, research, and external communicaCons. Previously, he was the Network Director in charge of sustaining and expanding the SSE franchise around the UK. Nick was also Director of the Global Ideas Bank, an online democraCc think-‐tank devoted to social innovaCon: creaCvity for social benefit. He also helped co-‐ordinate the Natural Death Centre, the UK's only independent organisaCon giving funeral advice and informaCon direct to the public
ruth churchill-dower Isaacs UK – Early Arts UK
Ruth is Director of Isaacs UK -‐ a cultural learning company and a social enterprise with an internaConal remit to build strategic knowledge networks across cultural and educaConal sectors. Isaacs UK provides specialist support in areas of early years, arts in educaCon, learning networks, professional development, social media business models, networked leadership, evaluaCon and impact assessments, and knowledge management systems, and is commiQed to supporCng cultural democracy. Ruth was Winner Women's Social Leadership Awards 2009 -‐ Category Social Business.
See you on June 14st 2011 in London to celebrate these women of courage… Servane Mouazan! 07932982379 | info@ogunte.com | www.ogunte.com More info on the awards hQp://www.ogunte.com/innovaCon/awards