Leading with Purpose: Transforming Nonprofits for Global Impact

Leading with Purpose: Transforming Nonprofits for Global Impact

We’re excited to invite you to an event hosted by our co-founder, Michelle Yue, on November 13 from 5:30-8:30 pm. The event will focus on nonprofit leadership and celebrate the launch of “How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose into Impact to Change the World" a new book by Freedom Fund CEO and nonprofit leader Nick Grono.

Nonprofit leadership is challenging—many people enter the field without fully considering the dual demands of managing a business while delivering measurable impact. To shed light on what it takes, Michelle will lead a lively panel discussion with three inspiring change-makers: Nick Grono, Ashif Shaikh, and Mabel van Oranje.

Drinks & canapés will be served

RSVP by Monday October 28th.

The full address will be shared the week of the event. This invitation is non-transferable.

Speaker biographies:

Ashif Shaikh

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 the 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

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.

Nick Grono

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.

Michelle Yue

Michelle is an investor, philanthropist, and entrepreneur passionate about helping women and girls fulfil their potential to change the world. She is Co-Founder and Chair of The Millby Foundation which champions adolescent girls to empower the next generation of innovators. Michelle is on the Board of the Freedom Fund, Chair of the Freedom Fund’s Council of Advocates, and a Robert HN Ho Family Foundation Trustee. A long-standing member of Women Moving Millions, Michelle is also a member of Forward Global, an international network of philanthropists activating resources to maximise social impact. Originally from Vancouver, Michelle resided in Hong Kong before settling in London where she lives with her partner, her two teenagers and their Catalan Sheepdog.

Because of her own experience with roadblocks when engaging with the financial industry, she built The Beam Network to provide the knowledge to overcome these obstacles and provide holistic support for individuals in managing their wealth.