Harvard Conference 2021

This past weekend I had the opportunity to go online and listen in on Harvard University’s Social Enterprise Conference. This conference had many a wide variety of different speaker from all around the world. Every speaker at the conference had different issues to deal with, whether it was a problem with starting their business or a issue around the globe. They all came up with different solutions to fixing their problem and that is what I while discuss today.

The section I will be talking about today was hosted by Ken Wateri. Ken spoke with a number of CEOs and high-ranking officials about their organizations’ efforts to assist the poor. Kanika Bahl, the CEO of Evidence Intervention, was the first speaker, and she discussed how her organization has responded to the African water crisis. When she spoke, she had a lot of evidence to back up why providing clean water to African children would benefit them greatly in the future. She had a chart on her slides that depicted the effect, acceptance, implementation, and change. The adoption was that they would send a worker to test the water from the dispenser to see if the program is working and clean water reduces infant deaths by minimizing diarrheal diseases. The implementation phases included a concern about whether their water dispensers were working and helping, and the final step was progress, ensuring that the work they were doing was contributing to the cause of providing clean water to African children.

What I found was that it’s not only about donating money to a cause and making them deal with it; it’s also about jumping in and helping solve the issue by analysis and monitoring the company’s actions.