StartingBloc Fellow profiles deck

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Fellows dancing to save the world at the 2008 London Institute Mitchell Wade educating at the 2010 New York Institute LA ʻ11 Fellows at the 2011 LA Institute Launch Party Mentors at the LA ʻ11 Institute The StartingBloc Fellowship

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Fellows dancing to save the world at the 2008 London Institute

Mitchell Wade educating at the 2010 New York Institute

LA ʻ11 Fellows at the 2011 LA Institute Launch Party

Mentors at the LA ʻ11 Institute

The StartingBloc Fellowship

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Vinay Nagaraju (LON ʻ08) with Mohammed Yunus

Howard Buffet educating at the 2010 New York Institute

Presentation from the 2008 London Institute

WHAT IS STARTINGBLOC?

Since 2005, StartingBloc has helped social innovators by giving them the skills and the tools they need to address the most

pressing global challenges of our time.

Sean Carasso, Founder, Falling Whistles at the LA ʻ11 Institute

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STARTINGBLOC FELLOW PROFILE

Generation Enterprise (“GEN”) is adapting venture capital and lean start-up methodology from

Silicon Valley (and Silicon Alley) and taking it to bottom-of-the-pyramid markets in megacities like

Lagos. In doing so, they're integrating so-called "unemployable" youth into the local and global

economy as entrepreneurs, employers, and community leaders.

Prior to GEN, Clara worked at McKinsey & Company. She also served as a project manager at

the New York City Economic Development Corporation. She is an alumna of the University of

Pennsylvania and Sciences Po Paris.

Founder & CEO, Generation Enterprise Clara Chow, NY ’05

“StartingBloc gave me the push I needed to start Generation Enterprise: the tools, the confidence, and the friends and teammates who helped us go from an innovative pilot project to a high-impact global organization.”

“The ILO estimates that halving youth unemployment could boost GDP in places

like sub-Saharan Africa by 12-19%.  In the words of Kofi Annan: empowered,

young people can be key agents for development and peace.”

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STARTINGBLOC FELLOW PROFILE

Mark Laabs is a serial environmental entrepreneur based in Shanghai as the COO of Climate

Bridge Ltd., a multinational company dedicated to combatting climate change by facilitating

the deployment of clean technologies around the world.  In China, He has supervised the

carbon implementation of more than 100 clean energy and energy efficiency projects. Prior to

Climate Bridge, Mark was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He graduated as a Robertson

Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.

COO, Climate Bridge Mark Laabs, BOS ’07

“StartingBloc simultaneously clarified my path and paved the road. At least two non-profits, my career, and several of my deepest friendships and mentorships would not exist if not for StartingBloc.”

“From policy advice to financial structuring to technology evaluation, Climate

Bridge is engaging with the senior-most public, private, and social sector thought

leaders in China to forge new innovations in the world's response to its most

ominous environmental challenge.”

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STARTINGBLOC FELLOW PROFILE

Shortly after becoming a StartingBloc Fellow, Nitin co-founded and ran two social enterprises in

India – Let Me Know, a unique portal that helps students across India find opportunities of various

kinds and Engineers for Social Impact, a unique fellowship program that connects top

engineering talent to credible social enterprises driving market-based solutions to development

in India. Nitin’s latest venture, dplay seeks to democratizes access to high-performance design

tools, and generate massive improvements over today's CAD market. Nitin was also a TED Fellow

and has an MBA from MIT Sloan.

President & Co-Founder, dplay Nitin Rao, LON ’07

“More importantly, I could start a number of ventures that all started in some way or the other through StartingBloc. I have been fortunate for the ventures I have been creating now to be able to recruit StartingBloc Fellows.”

“We're hacking at hard problems in gaming, cloud and computational design,

have presented at TED, and are bringing to market innovations from partners at

Stanford, Princeton, MIT and UC Berkeley.”

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STARTINGBLOC FELLOW PROFILE

Sara Potler, a life-long dancer, was a Fulbright Scholar when she developed an innovative peace

education, conflict resolution program: Dance 4 Peace. Today, Dance 4 Peace has trained over

1,000 PeaceMovers and students around the world in an evidence-based, sustainable pipeline

curriculum and an international exchange of peace building skills through creative movement.

Sara is also the Chief Operating Officer for Atlas Corps. Sara is a Cordes Fellow and graduated

magna cum laude from the University of Virginia.

Founder & CEO, Dance 4 Peace Sara Potler, BOS ’11

“StartingBloc has helped give me the confidence and the community I needed to embrace the risk of running with Dance 4 Peace and building it up; allowing me to take our violence prevention program to more youth in more corners of the world.”

“Dance 4 Peace is unique as a peace education program in our ability to offer

interdisciplinary, dance-based character education and violence prevention as

part of core curricula. We are the pioneers in movement-centered learning and

measurement.”

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STARTINGBLOC FELLOW PROFILE

Alex Abelin joined Google in 2005, after graduating with a Bachelor's of Science from the Haas

School of Business, UC Berkeley. In Alex’s first two years at Google, he was a member of the

Online Sales team. As the Community Affairs Manager for East Coast Offices and Data Center

Communities, he leads outreach efforts in communities where Google has a presence in the U.S.

Alex seeks opportunities for Googlers to volunteer their time and expertise, engage in local grant

making and helps to build relationships with local stakeholders. He currently lives in Manhattan,

and has worked for Google at their Mountain View, San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland.

Community Affairs Manager, Google Alex Abelin, NY ’11

“Surrounding myself with incredibly inspiring, fearless young leaders gets your heart rate going. Impossible ideas seem plausible, taking risks start seem to less risky, and changing the world not only becomes digestible, but likely.”

“Google is a young organization and open to big progressive ideas. I'm able to

influence the direction of our outreach. I focus our efforts on bridging the digital

divide, supporting STEM educational programs and carbon-reduction activities.“

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Our signature leadership development program, the StartingBloc Fellowship exposes young leaders to new models for achieving social impact. Our community currently consists of 1800 Fellows representing over 55 countries and more than 221 universities.

The 2011 Boston class of StartingBloc Fellows

THE STARTINGBLOC COMMUNITY

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Multi-sector Experience: Top Firms / 60% Entrepreneurs

Global Trailblazers aged 18 - 30

Proven leaders with strong academic credentials

Diverse: 65% minorities / 55% women / Speak 53 languages / From over 50 countries

Focused on action, change and market-driven

approaches to solving social issues

THE STARTINGBLOC FELLOW PROFILE

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The 2010 New York Fellows taking part in a Transformative Action exercise

Institute for Social

Innovation

Survey of Social

Innovation

Corporate Partners

Graduate Schools

StartingBloc Community

110 Social Innovators

Social Innovation

Competition

Training on Harder Skills

15 Inspiring Experts

Andrew Zolli educating at the 2010 New York Institute Fellows working on the SIC case challenge at the 2010 Boston Institute

Jonathan Evans (NY ʻ10) presenting at the SIC Jeff Chapin educating at the 2010 Boston Institute

THE INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION

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Cynthia Koenig (LON ʼ08), Founder, Wello Water Wheel © Josh Dick Photography www.joshdickphoto.com

Mike Del Ponte (NY ʻ08), Founder, Sparkseed © Sharlene Yang / Catalyst -  www.sharleneyang.com

Jesse Gossett (NY ʼ08) & Jayson Uppal (BOS ʻ09), Co-Founders, Emergent Energy Group © Bloomberg Businessweek

Tammy Wang (LON ʼ07) © Robert Wu

Shabnam Aggarwal (NY ʼ09), Founder, t | e a | c h © ThinkChange India www.thinkchangeindia.org

Maria Springer (BOS ʼ10), Founder, Kito International © Maria Springer / www.trueslant.com

POST-INSTITUTE

Fellows return to their communities with the tools they need to affect systemic change. Our Fellows start ventures, initiate

projects within their companies and establish new ways to build cross sector partnerships and create massive systems change.

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LA ʻ11 Fellows take part in an exercise during Scott Shermanʼs Transformative Action Session.