November 13, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm UTC+0
It is our pleasure to invite you to a private reception on 13th November 2024 in London co-hosted by Forward Global, The Beam Network and Freedom Fund to discuss non-profit leadership, in celebration of the launch of “How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose into Impact to Change the World” recently published by Freedom Fund CEO & non-profit leader Nick Grono.
During the evening Nick Grono will be joined by three inspirational leaders for a lively panel discussion on nonprofit leadership:
Ashif Shaikh
Mabel van Oranje
Michelle Yue
After the panel discussion, we will enjoy conversation over canapes and drinks.
Event details
Time: 6.00 – 8.00pm (panel discussion at 7.00pm, followed by drinks and canapes)
Location: Mayfair, details upon RSVP
RSVP by Monday October 28th.
The full address will be shared the week of the event. This invitation is non-transferable.
Biographies
Ashif Shaikh is co-founder Jan Sahas. He has 24 years’ experience working for safe migration, worker protection, eradication of manual scavenging and forced labour practices and support to survivors violence against women. Ashif is leading the Migrant Resilience Collaborative (MRC) which works with 3.2 million migrant households across 98 districts of 13 states of India. Jan Sahas has rehabilitated 66,000 people from manual scavenging and other forms of forced labour and supported 28,000 survivors of rape and sexual violence. Ashif is part of various committees of NITI Aayog, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and other ministries of Government of India, and has received various national and international awards and fellowships including the Schwab Foundation Social Innovator Award 2020, Ashoka Fellowship, Times of India Social Impact Award and Star Impact Award by Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States. He is on the boards of multiple national and international CSOs and networks.
Mabel van Oranje is a serial entrepreneur for social change working globally to advance equality, freedom, and justice. During the last decade, she played a catalytic role in the global movement to end child marriage, including the creation and growth of three entities central to efforts to support girls’ futures: Girls Not Brides, the Girls First Fund, and VOW for Girls. Mabel is currently a board member of Fondation Chanel and the Sigrid Rausing Trust. She is also an advisor to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund, Global Witness, and The Elders. Mabel is a global champion of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, and a co-founder and chair emeritus of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Michelle Yue is an investor, philanthropist and entrepreneur passionate about helping women and girls fulfil their potential to change the world. Michelle is a Co-Founder of The Beam Network, a global community of women changemakers forging a brighter future through financial education, connection, and values-driven investing. She is Co-Founder and Chair of The Millby Foundation which champions adolescent girls to empower the next generation of innovators. Michelle is also a Board Member of the Freedom Fund, Chair of the Freedom Fund’s Council of Advocates, and a Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Trustee. Previously, she was Vice-Chair of the Board of Women for Women International UK and Chair of Foreign Sisters UK. A long-standing member of Women Moving Millions, a philanthropic organisation catalysing large-scale investment in women and girls, Michelle is also a member of Forward Global, a diverse international network of over 400 philanthropists activating resources to maximise social impact.
Nick Grono is an Australian human rights campaigner, working to end modern slavery and human trafficking and other egregious human rights abuses. He is CEO of the Freedom Fund, a leader in the global movement to end modern slavery.
Nick has twenty years of leadership experience of US and international nonprofits, and another decade before that working in corporate law, government, and investment banking. His past roles include CEO of the Walk Free Foundation, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, and Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser to the Australian Attorney-General. He has served on many nonprofit boards and currently is a member of the advisory council of Global Witness. He writes and speaks regularly on nonprofit leadership and coaches a number of nonprofit CEOs.
Nick has briefed the United Nations Security Council and testified before parliamentary committees in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands. He has appeared on national and international tv and radio shows, and written for various international publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Nick spent a number of years in his early life sailing around the world in a 100-year-old square-rigged sailing ship with his family and other crew members. He is Australian by birth, picked up Belgian and UK nationalities along the way, and now lives between London and Brussels.