Innovators Making a Difference: Ideas with Global Impact

September 294pm Panel, Rubin Campus Center, Odeum

Reception to Follow

Meet the Panelists Brown Bag Lunch12:00pm, Mid-Century Room, Rubin Campus Center

Drinks and dessert provided

Sponsored in part by Fred Molinari ‘63

Martin BurtFounder, Fundacion ParaguayaFundación Paraguaya supports two linked initiatives: sustainable agricultural education, and poverty measurement and eradication. It pioneered schools that provide 100% employability to poor rural youth through a market-based curriculum in free, quality, 100% financially self-sufficient schools. There are now +50 partner organizations in 30 countries replicating the model. The Poverty Stoplight is an inclusive approach to poverty measurement and elimination, with a pilot project addressing 50 tangible and intangible poverty indicators. In 2012, 5,050 families’ income rose above the poverty line, while 550 women were lifted out of poverty in all of FP’s 50 poverty indicators.

Rodrigo Baggio Founder, President, Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI)a global NGO headquartered in Brazil that seeks to empower people to fight poverty, stimulate entrepreneurship and create change makers through the use of information and communication technology. Rodrigo is also Senior VP of Ashoka, an organization leader in Social Entrepreneurship. Rodrigo has won more than 60 awards from organizations such as UNICEF, UNESCO, Time, Fortune, CNN and the World Economic Forum. He has been named Entrepreneur for the World (World Entrepreneurship Forum); One of 100 Young Global Leaders (World Economic Forum); One of 50 Latin American leaders who will make a difference in the third millennium (Time Magazine); and One of 10 ‘Principal Voices’ in the economic development field (CNN, Time and Fortune).