Jennifer Morris (Conservation International) - Effective Models for Sustainable Growth

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this informative lecture, Conservation International Executive Vice President Jennifer Morris shares her organization's commitment to creating programs to support sustainable development. Morris articulates the importance of developing innovative financing and business models to address ecosystem services and resource management issues. She also describes the entrepreneurial initiatives her organization has built to sustain partnerships between corporate partners and local communities around the globe.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:17.0	So Jennifer Morris, she's from Conservation International in D.C.
0:23.8	She's the executive vice president for this organization that you may or may not have heard about.
0:30.6	I've had the pleasure and honor knowing about this organization for quite a while.
0:35.0	They're in the same sort of ballpark
0:39.4	as World Wildlife Foundation and others like that.
0:42.9	But what's interesting about Conservation International
0:46.3	is they bring an entrepreneurial spirit
0:49.9	to environmental nonprofit work. In other words, they run it like it feels like an internet startup company,
0:59.0	even though they have offices in 60 countries,
1:03.0	excuse me, offices in 60 countries all over this planet.
1:09.0	Jennifer in particular is interesting. She's on the leadership team,
1:13.6	the senior, senior management of this NGO, but she also is responsible for their connecting
1:18.6	with business and running even funds that feel like a venture capital fund. So what's
1:25.6	fun is to compare this to the principles of Silicon Valley. How are
1:30.3	the principles of Silicon Valley being able to be used by organizations that are in social innovation?
1:37.3	So without further ado, let's welcome a graduate of Emory University and Columbia University.
1:43.3	Let's welcome her to Stanford University.
1:45.2	Jennifer Morris.
1:49.8	Thank you so much. I'm really happy to be here today, and I'm honored to be kicking off your
1:56.8	spring series here at Stanford. As Tom said, my name is Jennifer Morris and I do work
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