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Featured Speakers


Jenny Kassan of Cutting Edge Capital helps with financing startup and scale. Cutting Edge Capital provides small and mid-sized businesses with the information, tools, and expertise they need to raise capital in a way that fits with their unique business model and long-term goals. As experienced business lawyers, entrepreneurs, and finance experts, the CEC team has identified capital raising strategies that allow businesses to solicit non-traditional sources of funding. In addition to being a great way to raise capital, these strategies allow businesses to build public support and recognition at the same time they are raising funds.


To engineer is human, and, science alone will not solve our global problems. So says author Henry Petroski, Duke Professor and author of many titles addressing the role and value of design, engineering, and, most essentially, human problem solving. In his latest book, "The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems" Petroski calls for us to roll up our sleeves and start building, thinking, and solving problems. He also explores a little-followed strategy--that of focusing on failure. He will keynote Day 2 of ReVV2011 where we begin to explore how to generate community innovation.

Woody Tasch is a true innovator. His idea is simple: create appropriate finance tools that meet the needs of the social change. Drawing inspiration from the Slow Food movement he focuses on the relationship between our food, farms, and finance, uncovering the fatal flaw in the funding. Where nature is in charge, finance deals must follow her lead--fast money doesn't work. In his book "Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money" Woody suggests that finance tools should match the reality, not the other way around. We're honored to have Woody be our morning keynote come March 7, 2011. Read more about him on Slow Money.

"Indispensable reading, to be placed on the same shelf as Wendell Berry and E.F. Schumacher." - Gregory Whitehead, Treasurer, The Whitehead Foundation

"It goes along with Small is Beautiful on my 'books that matter' shelf." -Joan Dye Gussow, Professor, Columbia University

Why attend a two-day event where you discover new opportunity from cutting edge innovation?

From Canada’s social innovation leader to the Mayor of Port Townsend.

These are visionaries with cutting edge ideas, so new you may not have heard of most of them. This is vision that is leading the globe.
 
The focus is on building economic and social wealth through innovations in business, legal structures, nonprofit strategies, and finance.

ReVisioning Value (ReVV2011) March 7&8, Portland OREGON
ReVV2011 is a new kind of conference… a gathering of experts and visionaries willing to share how-to ideas with leaders-- from bankers to business to boomers to b-corps to MBAs to nonprofit managers. A TRUE cross-sector event.

Hosted by Springboard Innovation: The nonprofit quietly building the biggest idea in the county.

  1. Woody Tasch, founder Slow Money. As if community, food, and soil mattered
  2. Henry Petroski, noted author, Duke Professor, latest book: The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
  3. Tim Draimin: Director of Canada’s social Innovation Generation (SiG) This is a wonderful opportunity to speak with a very articulate and innovative national leader making US look pathetic as the US strives to create innovation. See: www.sigeration.ca 
  4. Louise Pulford, Director Europe’s Social Innovation eXchange (SIX) www.socialinnovationexchange.org
    Mike Van Patten: Founder, Mission Markets.com   An astounding innovator, 20 years on Wall ST. Built the first online investing platform for mission-driven business.
  5. Tom Loughlin: Yes, the executive director of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will be here. When he took the helm of this venerable institution he decided that it wasn’t enough to be a standards organization. He wanted to make “making a difference” the new standard, and creating something JUST UNVEILED called www.engineeringforchange.org
  6. Heather Fleming founder, Catapult Design  http://www.nextbillion.net/blog/2011/01/05/engineering-for-change Native American industrial designer-turned inventor for good.
  7. Michelle Sandoval, Mayor of Port Townsend: Co-founder of LION: Local Investing Opportunities Network
  8. Gretchen Garth, Philanthropist, founder of a new kind of “community center” in Woodinville, WA, called 21 Acres. See: http://21acres.org/

This conference is unique for Portland and the US.  Focused on financial and social innovations, cross-sector collaborating, and growing our economic and social wealth. Grassroots leadership in entirely new ways.

"It's my dream conference!" --Malaika Maphalala, Natural Investments

Malaika Maphalala

Malaika Maphalala

"I see ReVV as not just an incredible opportunity to listen to and talk with some of the thought leaders and drivers of the most inspiring kinds of social change movements, but a vortex that really supports and encourages collaboration and ACTION right here, right now. I love the focus ReVV puts on moving from talk to action - taking the great ideas and bringing them home to organizations and community leaders to really take the ball and run with it. It's a great jump-starting kind of event and has the potential to really be a unifying force to drive the NorthWest to be a leader in social innovation. I'm particularly looking forward to hearing the update from one of my favorite new movements in local investing, Slow Money, by its founder, Woody Tasch. It's going to be a great gathering of minds not to be missed."

We at Innovative Changes are attending ReVV2011 to learn from experts about new impact investing models that promote financial and social returns for our nonprofit social venture!

-Sarah Chenven, Program Director, Innovative Changes
   

"Yea! It's almost time for REVV2011 - the place to go for help from real people, making real change, sustainably, and across for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors."

--Kristin Wolff, Aspiring Rainmaker
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

Springboard Innovation enables community members to launch innovative, sustainable solutions to community problems. They do this with unique educational programs, facilitated forums, an online social innovation exchange, and a model for city-wide support of social innovation. Our goals are to bring more people into the discipline of leading change, and to help foster a new breed of change organization. Springboard focuses on educating, convening, funding, and building the ecosystem for social innovators, helping launch solutions to issues from global poverty to local food and family health.