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Innovator in International Development: Jonathan Greenblatt
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Jonathan Greenblatt is a successful social entrepreneur focused on creating profitable enterprises to change the world. Greenblatt co-founded Ethos Water in 2002 with his business partner, Peter Thum, in order to help children around the world get clean water by launching a brand of bottled water in the US whose profits directly would support humanitarian water programs in developing countries. Ethos was sold to Starbucks Coffee Company in 2005 and Greenblatt served as a vice president of global consumer products for the company, managing the bottled water business, as well as a member of the board of the Starbucks Foundation, developing the principles to guide its water-related investments. Today, Ethos is sold in more than 5,000 Starbucks locations and other premium retail outlets across the US and has achieved record performance for the company in bottled water sales. Equally importantly, Ethos is projected to invest more than $10 million through 2010 to bring clean water to children and communities in need around the world.
- The Innovator in International Development Award will be presented by Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green. An accomplished social entrepreneur with expertise in health care, labor issues and public policy, Cheryl leads a social venture fund which has awarded nearly $25 million in start-up capital to over 400 social entrepreneurs worldwide since 1987. Cheryl served as a White House Fellow from 1997-1998, serving as Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, advising the Clinton Administration on health care and other issues. She was later named Special Assistant to the Director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Labor Department, where she helped develop family-friendly workplace policies and spearheaded the labor secretary's pay equity initiative. Most recently, Cheryl served as the first Director of Public Health Initiatives at Danya International, Inc., where she developed products and services aimed at substance abuse treatment and prevention, child and family services, minority health and community outreach. She holds a B.A. from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, an M.D. from the Harvard Medical School and an M.P.P. from the JFK School of Government.
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