Just Leadership in conjunction with the Social Enterprise World Forum presents

Just Markets: Harnessing Capitalism for Social Change

The ‘justice of markets’ is intricately connected to the treatment of the poor and disadvantaged.
Nicholas J. C. Santos

Markets have become the most powerful instruments shaping the future.
Peter Ellyard

In the lead up to Anti Poverty Week we are delighted to invite you to the fourth and final Just Leadership Breakfast for 2009.

This is a fantastic opportunity to:
Gain a rare glimpse inside an exciting international conference.
Hear inspirational international and local speakers discuss innovative market based solutions to poverty and disadvantage.
Engage your friends and colleagues and meet others who are interested in exploring ideas about success, community and justice.
Be inspired to grow your courage, tenacity and leadership capacity so that together we can build a more just society.

Guest Speakers: Andy Kuper (Leapfrog, UK) Lilliam Masebenza (SEN, South Africa) and Rebecca Scott (STREAT, Australia)
Where: Chapter House (rear St Pauls Cathedral) 197 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
When: Thursday 8th October 2009
Time: 7am – 9am
Cost: $15.00
Registration: By email to Jesuit Social Services at justleadership@jss.org.au or to David Renouf on (03) 9427 7388

Just Leadership is an exciting collaboration between Jesuit Social Services, its partner the National Australia Bank, the City of Melbourne, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and BP.

Speaker biographies:

Andy Kuper
Leapfrog, UK
Andy is Founder and President of LeapFrog, the world’s first microinsurance fund. LeapFrog targets private equity returns while financing the provision of life-changing financial services to 25 million low-income and financially excluded people in Africa and Asia. Launched by President Clinton, the fund has been hailed by the likes of Bloomberg and Private Equity International as opening up a new frontier for social investment and microfinance. LeapFrog was inspired by Andy’s extensive experience enabling entrepreneurs in emerging markets. He is a former Managing Director of Ashoka, which has financed and connected over 2000 social entrepreneurs in over 60 countries. He worked with both Grameen and BRAC, the world’s largest microfinance institutions, to market their social ventures. He also co-founded Kuper Research, which designed The Daily Sun, now sub-Saharan Africa’s largest newspaper, with five million daily readers. Andy holds a PhD from Cambridge, where he was supervised by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen – who first stimulated Andy’s interest in market-based
solutions to poverty.

Lillian Masebenza
Mhani Gingi Social Entrepreneurial Networks, South Africa
Lillian is the CEO and founder of Mhani Gingi Entrepreneurial Networks, which she established in 2006 to provide innovative solutions and business opportunities aimed at alleviating poverty within Africa. Lillian is passionate about empowering women and youth through enterprise development. She would do anything in her power to help those in need. Her “power of the collective” model responds to the fact that marginalised individuals have difficulty accessing developmental finance and markets to expose their products. It also promotes that these individuals should be creating wealth together rather than always being consumers of services, products and suppliers of labour. It is this replicable model that won Lillian an Ashoka Fellowship in 2008.

Rebecca Scott
STREAT, Australia

Rebecca is the founder and CEO of STREAT, a new homeless and disadvantaged youth social enterprise due to start its foodservice operations at Federation Square this December. STREAT provides homeless and disadvantaged youth with a pathway from the street to long-term employment in the hospitality industry. Before starting STREAT Rebecca was the Vice-President of KOTO, a social enterprise café for homeless youth in Hanoi. Prior to this she worked for a decade in management positions at CSIRO, Australia’s premier science research organisation. Rebecca is passionate about the role that governments, non-profits, businesses and community groups can play together in poverty reduction and sustainable development and has worked hard to ensure STREAT takes a collaborative approach to addressing these issues.

Thanks to Jason Cotton from Dynamic Horizons for providing this information.
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Posted by Tian @ 11.51am, 30/9/09