Dreams Indeed International

Programs: Strengthening social entrepreneurs: strengthened a network of over 3,500 volunteers in middle east conflict zones befriending 935 mentally challenged persons and sustaining support to 480 internally displaced families, by providing leadership mentoring, strategic planning, financial stewardship, and network weaving. Transcended sectarian lines to educate over 140 refugee children, host inter-ethnic children's summer camps, and mobilize civic service campaigns across the middle east by advising a regional visionary, coaching local management, and providing stipends and equipment. Reinforced a network that educated over 100 boys laboring in brick factories by mentoring a local visionary, guiding mission and values definition, assessing network potential, advising board development, and upgrading financial management systems. Strengthened a volunteer network to rescue, restore, and reintegrate over 50 vulnerable women, girls, and their infant children and orphans, by encouraging the founding visionary, guiding mission and values definition, and advising on program design and resource development. Prospected six local visionary candidates in the middle east and six in southeast asia; guided their mission and values self-reflection; and advised on their enterprises in the fields of blood donation for peace, rural preventative health, rural physician training, trafficking prevention, agricultural cooperatives, rural literacy, minority advocacy, mentally challenged integration, and youth vocational training. Developed program methodology and piloted tools among indigenous networks across the middle east and southeast asia to identify prospect networks, guide mission and values definition, assess social enterprises, and develop local servant leadership.

mobilizing social entrepreneurship: catalyzed social entrepreneurship thought leadership by serving as a resident expert of the skoll centre for social entrepreneurship at oxford university; participating in a network leadership colloquium hosted by the uc berkeley haas school of business; presenting in plenary at the rising global peace forum at coventry; and delivering the keynote in lebanon at the international youth forum of the international federation of blood donor organizations. Strengthened international support for social entrepreneurship initiatives in hard places by providing social enterprise and venture philanthropy advisory services in six countries across the middle east and southeast asia and among stakeholder networks in australia, canada, switzerland, the united kingdom, and the united states; and contributing as a practitioner expert on the new network leader site http://www. Newnetworkleader. Org