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PROGRAM
International Venture
Philanthropy Forum
October 1- 3, 2001
Budapest Hilton Hotel
Budapest, Hungary
Ocotber
2 Sessions with Images and Presentation material
October
3 Sessions with Images and Presentation material
Download the Forum
Evaluation Form
Download
the Final list of Forum Participants
Download pre-recorded message from
Professor Klaus Schwab
Download pre-recorded message from George
Soros
View the extension of remarks from
Congressman Tom Lantos
View IVP Award acceptance remarks
from George Roberts
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 17:00 Welcome and Opening Session (Ballroom A)
Lee Davis and Nicole Etchart, Co-Directors, NESsT (Chile)
Dick Cook, NESsT Board of Directors (USA)
Peter Fath, Executive Director, American Chamber of Commerce (Hungary)
Pavol Demes, Director, Central and Eastern Europe, German Marshall Fund of the United States
(Slovakia)
18:00 Press Conference (Ballroom A)
The press conference included:
Pre-recorded messages of support from three prominent global citizens:
Honorable Tom Lantos, House of Representatives, US Congress and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Relations Committee (USA)
Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and President of the World Economic Forum and Founder and President of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (Switzerland)
George Soros, Financier and Philanthropist (USA)
The official public launch of the forthcoming NESsT book -- “Not Only for Profit: Innovative Mechanisms for Philanthropic Investment” -- an in-depth study of 11 innovative organizations that combine the practices and tools of long-term investment of the for-profit sector with the mission-driven principles of the social sector.
Presentation of the International Venture Philanthropist Award. The International Venture Philanthropist Award is given in recognition of the outstanding efforts of an individual/organzation to apply venture philanthropy approaches to solve a pressing community problem.
Award Recipient: Mr. George Roberts, Co-founder, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts (KKR) and founder of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) in San Francisco (USA)
19:00 Cocktail Reception (hosted by Nextra) (Dominican Churchyard)
Host: Robert Line, Nextra (Hungary)
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