Prabhjot Singh Dhadialla is the Director of the Program for Health Systems, Development and Research at Columbia University's Earth Institute. In this capacity, he serves as the Community Health Worker and Quality of Care/CommCare advisor to the Millennium Villages Project. In 2009, he co-founded Community Lab. Prior to working at the Earth Institute, he was a technical advisor in the International Rescue Committee's Health Unit focusing on refugee health. He grew up in Nairobi and currently lives in Manhattan.
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Ellen Gustafson is the President and Co-Founder of the FEED Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to the vision of a sustainable food system and a well-nourished world. She is also Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of FEED Projects, LLC, a charitable company that creates good products that help better the world.
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Reverend Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani have been transforming lives for over 40 years. Reverend Cecil Williams has expanded the limits of spirituality, compassion and diversity as Founder and Minister of Liberation of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. As minister, author, social activist, lecturer, community leader and spokesperson for the poor and marginalized, Reverend Williams is respected and recognized as a national leader on the forefront of change and in the struggle for civil and human rights. Janice Mirikitani is nationally recognized as a visionary, community activist, leader, poet, and editor. She is San Francisco’s second Poet Laureate, author of four poetry books and editor of nine anthologies. Mirikitani is the Founding President of the Glide Foundation where she in partnership with Cecil Williams, have achieved worldwide recognition for their groundbreaking organization which empowers San Francisco’s poor and marginalized communities to make meaningful changes in their lives.
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Musician, father, philanthropist, and professional sports team owner Jon Bon Jovi is a motivating force on the issue of affordable housing and poverty in America. His partnerships with Project HOME, Help USA, Habitat for Humanity, and Kenneth Cole Productions have helped create new homes for low-income families from Louisiana to Pennsylvania. As co-owner of the Philadelphia Soul Arena Football team, Bon Jovi introduced a new type of philanthropy, making it the team’s mission to make a difference in their community.
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Maria Cuomo Cole is the chairperson of HELP USA, the nation’s largest nonprofit builder, developer, and operator of permanent and transitional housing with on-site services for the homeless. Founded in New York by her brother Andrew Cuomo in 1986, under her leadership the organization has grown nationally, providing services in job training, domestic violence, and affordable housing.
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Chris Gardner’s struggle to overcome homelessness was the subject of the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness, based on his memoir by the same name. Now the owner and CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings and a highly successful stockbroker and entrepreneur, he is also a committed philanthropist and speaker, working with a number of organizations to help the homeless, including Glide Memorial Church and CARA, among others.
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Former business executive George McDonald launched the not-for-profit Doe Fund in 1985 to help address New York City’s rapidly escalating homeless crisis. The Doe Fund’s award-winning Ready, Willing & Able (RWA) program empowers homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals to become self-sufficient and independent by offering housing in conjunction with paid work opportunities, job skills training, and counseling.
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Acclaimed actor, director, and producer Stanley Tucci is a long-time spokesperson and board member of the Food Bank for New York City. He has also been a supporter of Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity, the James Beard Foundation, and amfAR, among others.
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Pre-eminent economist Jeffrey D. Sachs is at the forefront of the challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization. He is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, special advisor to former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, and co-founder of the Millennium Promise, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme poverty.
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Zoravar S. Dhaliwal is the CEO of Community Lab, a nonprofit providing tools and resources to strengthen health, nutrition and education systems globally. He gained extensive experience in finance through his work at Merrill Lynch, UBS and Trinorth Capital, and in management consulting during five years at Accenture, specializing in technology, process engineering, strategy and performance analytics. He has also created start-up firms in real estate investment and development. Zoravar received his MBA in 2008 from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was elected student body president, and his Bachelor of Commerce in Operations Management from the University of Alberta in 2001. He is also the Co-Founder and Director of the Network of Sikh Professionals.
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Former model, activist, and presidential niece Lauren Bush is the Co-Founder and CEO of FEED Projects, a charitable company with the mission of creating good products that help better the world and an honorary spokesperson for the UN World Food Programme. She created the FEED bag with the idea that a reusable bag can feed the world.
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Kirsten Clark participated in the second Kenneth Cole Fellowship on Community Building and Social Change program at Emory University in 2003. She now works with World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
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Philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson, CEO of Salamander Hospitality, president of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, and co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), fights the underlying causes of poverty working as an ambassador for CARE, an international relief and development organization.
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Social entrepreneur and globetrotter Blake Mycoskie is the founder, designer, and “chief shoe giver” of TOMS Shoes for Tomorrow, which, for every pair of shoes purchased, donates a pair to a child in need. Originally hoping to sell 250 pairs of shoes, Mycoskie has since given away 60,000.
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Since the tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004, Kristin Davis has been a passionate supporter of Oxfam. Her work as an Oxfam Global Ambassador has helped raise awareness for the organization’s programs in South Africa and for Oxfam America Unwrapped, which aids poverty relief around the world.
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Former event planner Scott Harrison was inspired to create the nonprofit charity: water to help bring safe, clean drinking water to communities in Africa, India, and South America. For every 200 bottles of charity: water sold in the United States, a well can be built in a developing country. To date, the organization has funded more than 624 projects in eleven nations, providing 250,000 people with clean water.
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