// COLLABORATION CONVENES

• FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010 – ARRIVAL DAY

  Airport Shuttle Service

  Complimentary, reserved airport shuttle from the Zihuatanejo, Mexico airport is provided for Delegates with flight itineraries submitted on or before September 30, 2010.

  Delegate Mailboxes

  Welcome Packets containing personalized agendas await Delegates in their individual mailboxes. Mailboxes are located at the Collaboration Communications Center (near the Estrella Terrace) which all Delegates will be shown upon check-in en route to their rooms.

  Delegate Literature Library

  

  The Delegate Literature Library is centrally located at the Conference Center. The Library is a display hub for educational and organizational literature supplied by Delegates. While respecting the environment and a 300 Delegate audience, Delegates may display whatever materials they would like and should plan to deliver materials to the Library upon arrival. Advance shipping is not possible, so Delegates are advised to bring materials with them.

  Collaboration Network News

  During the Opportunity Collaboration, view in-room television videos and films supplied by Delegates about their organization, mission and work. Videos are broadcast 24/7 via Collaboration Network News (CNN). For information about submitting a video, see Collaboration Network News.
• 6:30-8:30pm – Networking Dinner (El Encanto Restaurant)

  Healthful Cuisine

  

  Sourcing fresh ingredients and local foods, breakfast, lunch and dinner are gourmet buffets offering a selection of local and international cuisines. A daily selection of dishes suitable for low-fat diets is included in the buffet. A baby-corner allows parents to prepare meals for their little ones.

  Conversational Seating Choices

  For all meals, Delegate seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Dining areas are designated for quieter conversations with tables for 2, 4 or 6 people. Other areas are comprised of tables of 8 or 10 people for topical discussions. Delegates can freely enjoy meals with their children; high chairs, booster seats and baby food are available.
• 8:30-9:00pm – Collaboration Convenes (Estrella Theatre)

  Welcome Remarks about the nature of a collaborative community and aspirations for the Collaboration.

• 9:00-11:00pm – Welcome Reception Under the Stars (Estrella Terrace)

  Delegates mingle with other thought leaders, foundation executives, social investors, policy makers and innovative non-profit and for-profit entrepreneurs.
  
  

• SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010 – WORLD FOOD DAY
• 6:30-7:30am – Yoga at Sunrise (Miramar Palapa)

  Yogic principles focused on heart-centered work and the social entrepreneurial experience.

  Yoga Instructor

  

  Yoga classes led by Rich (Raghuri) Goldstein, social entepreneur & president, Yoga Yoga, Austin, Texas.

• 7:30-9:00am – Networking Breakfast & Study Hall (El Encanto Restaurant)

  Delegates network in private consultations or read in the study hall. 

  Study Hall

  In this designated seating area, a “no talking” rule is respected for Delegates studying Colloquium readings or preparing for Collaboration Challenges and Cluster-Forks.
• 9:00-11:00am – Colloquium for the Common Good: Leadership & Human Nature (Leadership Village Seminar Venues)

  The Colloquium for the Common Good is the Opportunity Collaboration’s signature seminar on executive leadership, economic justice and the good society. The Colloquium addresses the transcendent principles that drive poverty alleviation and asks Delegates to think realistically about the nature of economic justice and the good society. The final Colloquium session includes an opportunity to debrief the entire Opportunity Collaboration experience.
  
  All Delegates participate in this core curriculum via small groups, creating a common experiential bond and shared set of learnings. Delegates are strongly encouraged to complete the “homework” readings for each Colloquium session which are distributed via USB memory stick in advance of arrival day. For the full syllabus and readings, see Colloquium for the Common Good.

• 11:00-12:00pm – Connections & Corridors (Entire Leadership Village)

  Private business meetings and spur-of-the-moment, self-directed small group discussions occur throughout campus and grounds.

  Networking Concierge

  Connections & Corridors is the Opportunity Collaboration’s "networking concierge" service. In advance of the event, Delegates are interviewed about their hoped-for outcomes, work agenda and institutional mission. Delegates are then offered personalized email introductions and customized suggestions for on-site, individual networking meetings.
• 11:00-12:00pm – Capacity-Building Sessions (Conference Center)

  For Colloquium for the Common Good Moderators and Collaboration Challenge Catalysts, customized training sessions are provided.

  Challenge Catalysts

  Challenge Catalysts participate in a specially designed capacity-building workshop on how to think about and lead conversations for change, organized and taught by the design and innovation firm IDEO. This interactive IDEO-led workshop will discuss how to incorporate these newly acquired tools as Challenge Catalysts and beyond. In the words of IDEO about design thinking:
  
  “Design thinking enables us to collectively tackle problems and ideas that are more complex than the lone designer can imagine: inaccessible healthcare, billions of people living on a few dollars a day, energy usage outpacing the planet's ability to support it, education systems that fail students, and beyond. These problems all have people at their heart. They require a collaborative, human-centered, iterative, and practical approach to finding the best ideas and ultimate solutions. Design thinking is just such an approach to innovation.”
  

  Colloquium Moderators

  In addition to pre-event training sessions conducted over the summer, Colloquium for the Common Good Moderators participate in a capacity-building workshop to refine their facilitation and moderating skills. Moderators debrief their experiences from the first morning Colloquium session, sharing experiences and best practices for successful Colloquium leadership.
• 12:00-2:00pm – Conversational Cluster-Forks & Networking Lunch (El Encanto Restaurant)

  Delegates select between structured small group discussions entitled Conversational Cluster-Forks, private business meetings or self-directed discussions. Conversational Cluster-Forks are mealtime discussions exploring a Delegate's focused topic of interest. Topics cover a wide range of policy, geographic, organizational, entrepreneurial and poverty-related themes, allowing Delegates to showcase their ideas, organizations and expertise. Discussions are attended by Delegates on a first-come, first-served basis.
  

  Avoiding Leadership Burn-Out

  

  Dana Taylor, social philanthropist, leads a discussion on achieving work-life balance in the classic anti-poverty pressure-cooker work environment.

  Folding Financial Sustainability into Development Projects

  Tina Sciabica, Executive Director, READ Global (Rural Education and Development), leads a conversation about decreasing reliance on external aid through the creation of "sustainability projects" that provide jobs, teach rural communities about entrepreneurship, and generate revenue to cover the on-going operating expenses of a development effort.

  Global Social Enterprise to Save One Million Infants

  John Anner, President, East Meets West Foundation, discusses a social enterprise hybrid (NGO and for-profit) that brings appropriate newborn medical technologies to developing countries, combining a robust sales effort with a training and monitoring program to ensure sustainability and effectiveness.

  Banking After the Debacle

  Donna Katzin, Executive Director, Shared Interest, leads a discussion about nonprofit and philanthropic strategies to move major financial institutions to play their part in combating poverty.

  The Circles Campaign

  Scott C. Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Move the Mountain Leadership Center, leads a discussion on building effective relationships across income lines to help families out of poverty.

  Guarantee Social Finance Model Explained

  

  Gary M. Ford, Chief Executive Officer, Microcredit Enterprises, leads a discussion about how to finance $20 million in microloans without raising a dime of donations or a nickel of investment capital. The model is in the public domain, copyright waived.

  Making Money Work for Poor Women

  Monique Cohen, Founder-President, Microfinance Opportunities, leads a discussion around the power of financial education as an economic empowerment tool for poor women. Effective money management and increased financial capabilities are key drivers of individual and family well being.

  Design Thinking for Social Innovation

  Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO, leads a conversation about design thinking and how it can be applied to addressing challenges related to poverty. Tools for innovation including observations, brainstorming, prototyping and storytelling will be discussed.
• 2:00-3:00pm – Cordes Fellows Symposium: Models for Financial Sustainability

  Cordes Opportunity Collaboration Fellows participate in a four-day series of classes and clinics covering a range of issues and skills critical for successful social entrepreneurs. Upon successful completion of the course, Fellows earn a University of the Pacific Certificate of Completion for Social Entrepreneurship for Emerging Leaders.
  

  Clinic Coach

  Models for Financial Sustainability is taught by Shari Berenbach, Chief Executive Officer, Calvert Social Investment Foundation. For a short biography, see the Delegate Roster. The moderator is Jerry Hildebrand, Director, Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship, University of the Pacific, California.

  Recommended Readings

  Fellows are strongly encouraged to complete the “homework” readings for each clinic which are distributed via USB memory stick in advance of arrival day. Recommended readings for this clinic are _(pending)_.
• 12:00-3:00pm – Wellness Programs (Entire Leadership Village)

  Delegates enjoy health, wellness & sports activities. 

  Wellness Facilities

  Complimentary use of the campus gymnasium, tennis courts, kayaking and sailing equipment, yoga classes, dance classes, trapeze work, beach walks, basketball, soccer, ping pong, volleyball and more is offered all Delegates.
• 3:00-5:30pm – Collaboration Challenges (Conference Center)

  Collaboration Challenges are extended work sessions in which Delegates intensively share missions and common issues around a central question or theme. Topics explore effective multi-dimensional poverty-alleviation strategies. Each session follows a common format that is designed to elicit a genuine search for collaborative solutions and spark cross-sector insights and partnerships.

  Profits and Pitfalls in Social Investing

  Profit-seeking investors are employing sustainable social finance models and creative financing tools to address seemingly intractable poverty problems, yet competitive financial returns remain elusive and rare. Beyond microfinance, few social enterprises are profitable, many lack solid management and most are under-capitalized. “Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.” (Dilbert aka Scott Adams). Buyer beware or an asset class with conscience? Are there leverage and marketing opportunities to attract more investors? Catalyze an eco-system for impact investing.
  
  Conversation Catalyst: Ronald D. Cordes, President, Cordes Foundation
  Collaborating Contributors: Martin Fisher, Chief Executive Officer, KickStart; Peter H. Johnson, Partner, Developing World Markets; Jan Piercy, Executive Vice President, ShoreBank; Gerhard Pries, President, Sarona Asset Management; Keely Stevenson, Chief Executive Officer, Bamboo Finance USA

  The Teaching Company

  121 million children worldwide are not in school of which 72 million are of primary school age -- 57% are young girls. For the long-term, life-changing education is the widely-recognized pathway out of poverty for both adults and youth. Building, staffing and sustaining affordable schools for impoverished families requires new models. Government schools? Community-based school districts? Private charter schools? Learning networks? Schools without walls? Educate for all age groups, for all communities.
  
  Conversation Catalyst: Øyvind Aadland, Secretary-General, Strømme Foundation
  Collaborating Contributors: Clarke Blynn, Chairman, Nurturing Minds; Martin Burt, Executive Director, Fundacion Paraguay; Adam Weinberg, Chief Executive Officer, World Learning; Sakena Yacoobi, Chief Executive Officer, Afghan Institute of Learning
  

  Brace for Impact! Looking for the Poverty Black Box

  In America, airplanes are 45 times safer than autos per mile traveled because a centralized system systematically investigates the cause of each and every airplane accident. Poverty activists, social entrepreneurs, foundations and governments rarely investigate their failures and can be mediocre at understanding their successes. Is a common system of metrics in the poverty sector feasible? Are there desirable alternatives for peer-to-peer accountability and system improvement? What information do we need in the “black box”?
  
  Conversation Catalyst: Anne Marie Burgoyne, Portfolio Director, Draper Richards Foundation
  Collaborating Contributors: David Henderson, Chief Executive Officer, Idealistics; Melanie Moore Kubo, Chief Executive Officer, See Change; Katya Smyth, Founder, Full Frame Initiative; Heather B. Weiss, Director, Harvard Family Research Project

  Half the Sky is Falling

  “WHO estimates that over 500,000 women perish in pregnancy or childbirth annually, a toll that has barely budged in 30 years; 99% of those deaths occur in poor countries. Women aged 15 to 44 are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined. 40% of all pregnancies globally are unplanned or unwanted and almost half of those result in induced abortions. (source: Half the Sky). End gender genocide.
  
  Conversation Catalyst: Jensine M. Larsen, Chief Executive Officer, World Pulse Media
  Collaborating Contributors: Patti Chang, Chief Executive Officer, Feed the Hunger Foundation; Susan Plimpton, Chair, Board of Directors, Minnesota International Center; Charles V. "Chip" Raymond, Partner, Hudson Heights Partners; Whitney Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Girls For A Change

  UnSocial Entrepreneurs

  A common view holds that business creates social and environmental problems and the role of non-profits and government is to clean up the mess. Support for this claim is everywhere: From tainted baby formula to predatory lenders, from oil spills to Wall Street greed. Can for-profit models be used to create widespread positive change? How should the power of markets and financial returns be leveraged to address the world's most pressing problems? With practitioners from across the ecosystem: entrepreneurs, investors and everyone in-between, write the future of social change for the 21st Century.
  
  Conversation Catalyst: Benjamin Rudick, Director, Programs, Schoenfeld Foundation
  Collaborating Contributors: Alex Hartzler, Principal, WCI Partners LP & Chair, Sarona Fund; Jordan Kassalow, Chairman, VisionSpring; Todd Manwaring, Managing Director, BYU Economic Self-Reliance Center; Terry Provance, Executive Director, Oikocredit USA; Kim Scheinberg, Founder, Presumed Abundance
  

  Fattening Up the Food Supply

  Seventy-five percent of the world's poor, over one billion people, live in rural areas. Agriculture is the largest employer in the developing world. In most developing countries the amount spent on food ranges from 50% to 60% of household income. Does overcoming hunger hinge on slash and burn, ecosystem-destroying agricultural? Is financing smaller, high-end food import companies the overlooked catalytic solution? Link the world's poorest farmers to international markets, strengthen local food systems and sustain eco-friendly agriculture.
  
  Conversation Catalyst: Laura Hattendorf, Portfolio Director, Mulago Foundation
  Collaborating Contributors: William “Willy” Foote, Chief Executive Officer, Root Capital; Tony Kalm, Director, One Acre Fund; Florence Reed, President, Sustainable Harvest International; Rachel Zedeck, Managing Director, Medea Group Limited
• 5:30-6:30pm – Connections & Corridors (Entire Leadership Village)

  Private business meetings and spur-of-the-moment, self-directed small group discussions occur throughout campus and grounds.

  Networking Concierge

  Connections & Corridors is the Opportunity Collaboration’s "networking concierge" service. In advance of the event, Delegates are interviewed about their hoped-for outcomes, work agenda and institutional mission. Delegates are then offered personalized email introductions and customized suggestions for on-site, individual networking meetings.
• 6:30-8:30pm – Conversational Cluster-Forks & Networking Dinner (El Encanto Restaurant)

  Delegates select between structured small group discussions entitled Conversational Cluster-Forks, private business meetings or self-directed discussions. Conversational Cluster-Forks are mealtime discussions exploring a Delegate's focused topic of interest. Topics cover a wide range of policy, geographic, organizational, entrepreneurial and poverty-related themes, allowing Delegates to showcase their ideas, organizations and expertise. Discussions are attended by Delegates on a first-come, first-served basis.

  Microfinance: Making Poverty Capital?

  Ananya Roy, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, leads a discussion about the microfinance sector and its twin claims of financial sustainability and poverty alleviation.

  Grassroots Women Leaders

  Paola Gianturco, photojournalist and author of Women Who Light the Dark, leads a discussion about what we can learn from grassroots women leaders when it comes to creating change.

  Personal Growth for the Successful Social Entrepreneur

  Saul Garlick, Executive Director, ThinkImpact, leads a discussion on the critical areas every neophyte social entrepreneur needs to address NOW to reach their goals.

  Impact Investment Builds Bridges of Peace

  Gerhard Pries, President, Sarona Asset Management, leads a discussion among an inter-faith group of business leaders interested in bringing communities and capital together to create a global investment fund to benefit all people. Note: Maximum of four business leaders of any faith tradition (Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, etc) allowed at this table.

  Making Sure It's Microcredit

  Terry Provance, Executive Director, Oikocredit USA, leads a discussion about current trends in microfinance, commercialization of investment funds and the future significance of social impact management in the field.

  Evaluation and Consumer Feedback

  Maurice Lim Miller, Founder and CEO, Family Independence Initiative, leads a discussion on evaluating effectiveness. From the perspective of a foundation board trustee, he will review traditional experiences in data tracking and evaluation and discuss how technology makes it possible to use consumer feedback in the evaluation process, as well as other experiences.

  Focusing on Scale

  Anne Marie Burgoyne, Portfolio Director, Draper Richards Foundation, leads a discussion to explore philanthropic giving that anticipates that a grantee will scale and grow its programs. What are the strengths and limitations of this model?

  To Reach Your Target, You Have to Aim

  Bill Abrams, President, Trickle Up, leads a conversation in which participants can share ideas, questions and opinions about what it takes to truly "walk the walk, not just "talk the talk" about effectively serving the ultrapoor -- the 1+ billion people who live on less than $1/day in conditions of extreme vulnernability and disenfranchisement. If you're looking for simple solutions, this is not the Cluster Fork for you.
• 8:30pm – Casual Convenings

  Delegates select from a menu of concurrent learning and networking programs.

  Collaboration Cinema - Manda Bala (Miramar Room)

  Feature length films about economic development, social change or poverty reduction are shown nightly. Tonight's movie:  Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) is a 2007 documentary film about, in the words of the director, “a very real broken and violent society." Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and Excellence in Cinematography at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

  Between the Covers (Estrella Terrace)

  Between the Covers are after-dinner discussions on a book, article or writing of interest to a Delegate. For specific book and article topics or to reserve a book discussion venue, see Between the Covers.

  Chat and Chatter (Estrella Cantina)

  On patios under the stars or in the cantina, Delegates gather for private conversations, unhurried reflection and exploration of collaborative opportunities.

  Concerts by the Pool (Estrella Terrace & Cantina)

  An open microphone in the cantina invites Delegates to perform impromptu mini-concerts. On the pool deck, casual jam sessions and singing fill the night. Bring your musical instruments.

  Dancing & Dialogue (Estrella Terrace & Cantina)

  To music ranging from mellow Sinatra to hot salsa, dancing occurs nightly. “To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.” - Hopi American Indian saying.

  Companies & Causes - Resource Change (Estrella Theatre)

  Delegates participate in collaboratively-designed, themed sessions structured to share resources for greater impact in the campaign against poverty. Tonight's ecosystem theme: Resource Change: Health, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture, etc.
  
  Moderated by Delegate Paul Herman, founding Chief Executive Officer, HIP Investor: Human Impact & Profit, and author, The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World. For more information and to participate, see Companies & Causes.