Social Enterprise Advisory Council

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Miller Center is doubling down on our efforts to accelerate social entrepreneurship to end global poverty for the next generation. Our new Social Enterprise Advisory Council is a key part of our strategy — helping to inform our decisions and bring about our most ambitious outcomes. The eight amazing entrepreneurs on our council are all partners and alumni of our accelerator programs. They hail from Cameroon, India, Kenya, Mexico, Uganda, and the US, with their impact also extending to Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, and Tanzania.

Each enterprise is working in the areas of women’s economic empowerment or climate resilience (often both), with businesses focused on sustainable farming, women’s health, water and sanitation, food security and nutrition, empowering artisans, and energy access. All of them are having tremendous impact in improving lives and lifting people out of poverty.

Please watch my video introducing our inaugural Social Enterprise Advisory Council.

Author

  • Brigit Helms, Executive Director

    A Santa Clara University alumna, Helms is a veteran leader in global development, financial and economic inclusion, economic policy, and social entrepreneurship. Helms is the author of Access for All: Building Inclusive Economic Systems (2018), and has published papers and bylined articles in publications including the MIT Technology Review, The Guardian, the Journal of Microfinance, and The Huffington Post. She is a board member at the AlphaMundi Foundation, which seeks to boost the social and environmental impact of portfolio companies of impact investor AlphaMundi Group. She is also on the board of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee USA, which works to empower the poor in 11 countries across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.