Jacob Donnelly
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Jacob Donnelly is a social entrepreneur passionate about technology, sustainability, and development. He is the current co-founder of Farm Builders, a mission driven company helping smallholder farmers repair tree crop farms in Liberia. He is also the previous co-founder of The Freedom Campaign, a grassroots effort to raise awareness of human rights in Burma and Fans Artists Memories, a for-profit new media company that created online communities for musicians such as John Legend, Kanye West, and Ludacris.

Jacob started his career as a management consultant and has worked previously in the Government of Liberia for H.E. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

In 2011 he will receive a MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MPA-International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Blog Entries by Jacob Donnelly

[How To] Design for (Real) Impact

Posted September 10, 2010 | 18:51:32 (EST)

What do Kickstart, Bridge International Academies, and the One Acre Fund have in common? First, they are all extremely high performance organizations that have grown substantially since launching. However, and more interesting to this conversation, is that all three have been specifically designed to...

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Searching for Questions, Not Answers

Posted May 3, 2010 | 17:30:50 (EST)

Last month former US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson visited the Harvard Kennedy School and following his initial remarks, moderator Professor David Gergen asked HKS Professor Roger Porter who spent many years in the White House under Ford, Reagan, and Bush for his own thoughts. Porter remarked:

One of the...
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Languages and Practices of Business to Drive Social Change

Posted April 20, 2010 | 11:44:25 (EST)

A recent online debate facilitated by What Matters from McKinsey & Company asks readers to weigh in on the question "Should social entrepreneurs adopt the language and practices of business?" Paired in the debate are Matthew Bishop of The Economist and Bunker Roy of the Barefoot College. Mr....

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