As a founding member of the team, Keely Stevenson is developing the portfolio strategy for Bamboo Finance’s clients. Keely joined Bamboo after serving as a Fellow with the Acumen Fund in East Africa. Earlier in her career, at the Skoll Foundation, she led the team who created www.socialedge.org. She has also served as the Interim Director of a social enterprise in Peru (ProPeru) and a start-up professional development program for social entrepreneurs in India (Social-Impact International). She was a consultant on the viability of a UK based risk capital fund for Triodos Bank and economic development strategies for Africa’s wealthiest tribal community, the Bafokeng Nation. She has studied politics at UC Berkeley and her passion for social business led her to pursue an MBA degree at Oxford University.

 

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Community Development: What's Possible? - 2009

Practitioner Showcase: It has long been recognised that real change for real people in communities around the world happens from the ground up. Social entrepreneurs have learned that it is only with ...

Community Development: Transforming What Is Possible

 

 
 
 
 
 

Sessions

Thu, March 26, 10:45 - 12:15

Thu, March 26, 10:45 - 12:15

Community Development: Transforming What Is Possible

Speakers: Keely Stevenson, Craig Kielburger, Martin Burt, Vera Cordeiro