Annie Chen

Chair at RS Group Asia - Hong Kong

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RS Group is a family office and our focus is on sustainability. Working on the belief that it is not possible to overcome our mounting social and environmental challenges using industrial era thinking, one in which for-profit and non-profit remain the dominant economic paradigms. New, collaborative approaches to investment, business and philanthropy are needed if the world is going to build a global community where social progress and economic development occur in harmony with nature.

Niklas Adalberth

Founder Norrsken Foundation - Sweden

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Norrsken want to create a world that is optimised for both people and planet. They believe that entrepreneurs building rapidly scalable businesses are the best bet to solve some of the problems facing our world so are using their experience from founding and leading startups to support the best impact entrepreneurs across the world. Norrsken is an ecosystem consisting of Norrsken House, a coworking space for over 350 impact entrepreneurs in Stockholm, and their seed fund Norrsken Founders Fund which invests in companies with the potential to radically improve the world.

Thippaporn Ahriyavraromp

Co-Founder of Buddharaksa Foundation - Thailand

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Works through thoughtful investments with measurable and scalable social impact to foster a variety of innovative solutions for sustainable development and to inspire lives of full potential for children in need by providing the education necessary to acquire life-changing skills, knowledge, and self-confidence. Over 9,500 companies based in over 160 countries, both developed and developing, representing nearly every sector and size.

LeBron Raymone James

Founder Lebron James Foundation and I Promise School - American Samoa

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I Promise School (IPS) is a public elementary school in Akron, Ohio, opened in 2018, supported by the LeBron James Family Foundation, and specifically aimed at at-risk children.

Warren Buffet

Founder Buffet Foundation - American Samoa

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The Buffett Foundation is a charitable organization formed 1964 in Omaha, Nebraska, by investor and industrialist Warren Buffett as a vehicle to manage his charitable giving. Of the $17.6 million that the Buffett Foundation donated in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999, nearly $3.8 million went to Planned Parenthood, among its top contributors. It also involves itself directly at the clinic level. By 2008, the Foundation had nearly $4 billion in assets. The co-founder of The Giving Pledge is a campaign to encourage people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

Bill Gates

Founder of Bill and Melinda Gates - American Samoa

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the largest private foundation in the world, holding $50.7 billion in assets. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the U.S., to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The co-founder of The Giving Pledge is a campaign to encourage people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

Michael Rubens Bloomberg

Founder Bloomberg Philanthropies - American Samoa

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Bloomberg Philanthropies has focused on combating climate change and moving toward clean energy sources. Led by epidemiologist Kelly J. Henning, the Bloomberg Philanthropies public health program has focused on reducing tobacco use through the MPOWER tobacco control strategy, making roads safer and eradicating polio, among other public health initiatives. Bloomberg Philanthropies supports efforts to make city government more efficient and innovative. In January 2013, a $16.2 million grant was awarded to five different cities to establish Financial Empowerment Centers, which were set up to provide free financial counseling for low-income individuals. Bloomberg Philanthropies focuses on driving public policy initiatives and education leadership at a local level as a means to improving America’s school system.

Walton Family

Founder of Walton Foundation - American Samoa

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The Walton Family Foundation work in three areas: improving K-12 education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in their home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta. The mission of the foundation is tackling tough social and environmental problems with urgency and a long-term approach to creating access to opportunities for people and communities. While the vision is to live in a world where people can accomplish anything when they have opportunity and encouragement.

George Soros

Founder of Open Society Foundations (OSF) - American Samoa

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Under George Soros’s leadership, the Open Society Foundations support individuals and organizations across the globe fighting for freedom of expression, accountable government, and societies that promote justice and equality. Today, the Open Society Foundations support a vast array of projects in more than 120 countries, providing hundreds of grants every year through a network of national and regional foundations and offices.

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan

Founder Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - American Samoa

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative missions' is to find new ways to leverage technology, community-driven solutions, and collaboration to accelerate progress in Science, Education, and within our Justice & Opportunity work.