This particular panel, at the Forbes 400 Summit On Philanthropy last June, included two Silicon Valley venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Jim Breyer, along with Dr. Cheryl Dorsey, a Harvard-trained pediatrician, former White House fellow, and now the president of Echoing Green, a pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement.

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He currently serves on the board of directors of Echoing Green, the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, and the advisory board of the American Humanics Nonprofit Workforce Coalition.

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The call for a fair funding formula to prevent them losing out to school sixth forms has been echoing across the green benches.

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These 10 competitors were selected through an online contest that showcased 25 semi-finalists of the fellowship program run by Echoing Green, a global nonprofit that provides seed funding and technical assistance to emerging social entrepreneurs.

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Echoing Green seeds fellows through its own fundraising, and has no financial stake in the businesses it funds.

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Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green (at 02:30 mark in video below) explains how she spots winners from among the 3, 500 business plans that enter her annual competition.

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