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Cynthia A. Phillips
Purpose-filled Economist, Consultant
and New Media-Data Social Entrepreneur
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Work
- C.A. Phillips & Company
Building High-Impact Partnerships in Business & Non-Profit Consulting and Transformative MediaClients/Collaborations include:
- USAID: 2012 USAID Data Ideation Group
- The Global Water Crisis: Symposium & Fundraiser
- World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and Social Change Film Festival: Every Drop Counts
- Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa
- Public News Service
- A Network for Grateful Living
- Pathways to Gratefulness
- Center for Mind-Body Medicine
- California State University
- Woodside Capital Partners
- De Young Museum
- One Degree Media
- 2020 Fund
- Channel G
Global Change Media Partners
GCMP focuses on social change entertainment curation, distribution, production and audience engagement/campaign promotion. GCMP distribution platforms include satellite TV, cable, internet, VOD, and mobile. Our focus is to line up distribution platforms with a strong built-in audience & community base and targeted sponsors to drive revenues.Social Change Film Festival & Institute
www.socialchangefilmfestival.org
The Social Change Film Festival & Institute (SCFFI) is a global community with a local presence, promoting transformative filmmaking & fostering social change. SCFFI features four days of films, panels, workshops, selected shorts and special events to inspire and build a global community focused on expanding the reach of conscious social change film and media.
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- Consultant- Change Management at Cisco SystemsManagement Consulting | San Francisco Bay Area, USSummary
Over 20 years’ experience spearheading and driving sustainable growth opportunities and initiatives for nonprofits, communities and businesses. Analytics, strategic communications, change management and capability enhancement across international organizations and markets. Track record in the development and coordination of high performing teams. Proven ability to bring together ideas and talent to create and drive change, strong communications and innovation successfully. Innovator in developing and leveraging partnerships, events, and media for business growth, investment impact, sustainability initiatives and education.
Specialties:
Business Strategy & Analytics, Change Management, Marketing, Social Change Entertainment Media, Ideas, Strategic Partnerships
Experience- Mar 2013 - PresentConsultant- Change Management / Cisco Systems
- Sept 2012 - PresentFounder & CEO / Global Change Media Partners
Global Change Media Partners is a social enterprise that creates a more informed and engaged citizenry by providing the highest quality social change entertainment media and avenues for personal and social action.
We focus on social change entertainment curation, distribution, production and audience engagement/campaign promotion. GCMP distribution platforms include TV, cable, internet, VOD, and mobile. Our focus is to line up distribution platforms with a strong built-in audience & community base and targeted sponsors to drive revenues.
Other Projects
• Online Global Screening Room
• Global Change Game
• Social Change Film Festival (through our sister non-profit, Channel G)
• eToolkits for Media & Film - Nov 2009 - PresentFounder & Chairperson / Social Change Film Festival
The Social Change Film Festival & Institute (SCFFI) is a global community with a local presence, promoting transformative filmmaking & fostering social change. SCFFI features four days of films, panels, workshops, selected shorts and special events to inspire and build a global community focused on expanding the reach of conscious social change film and media.
By creating spaces for dialogue, education, and connection:
• We support filmmakers to be more effective social activists
• We support social entrepreneurs to become more engaging storytellers
• We promote transformative media, campaigns and engagement
• Selected films will be offered access to distributors post-festival globally on multiple platforms - Nov 2008 - PresentCEO / C.A. Phillips & Company
Independent consultancy to support non-profits, NGOs, academic, social profit organizations and businesses in Monitoring and Evaluation of programs as well as Business & Strategic Planning, Change Management, Marketing & Communications.
- Nov 2001 - Mar 2009Director, Marketing & Economist-Risk Management / American Express
Based in US and Singapore during tenure with roles as a Director of International Marketing and as a Risk Management Economist/Econometrician. Roles included:
• Risk Management for International Markets
• Channel Optimization & Integration for International Markets
• Marketing & Information Capabilities Innovation
• Change Management Program Leader
• Forecasting, Budgeting & Strategic Planning
• Management large and small technical and marketing teams across global business units.
• Lead Econometrician for risk management special reports, scorecards and business policy.
Education- Michigan State UniversityDoctorate in Agricultural Economics
- Michigan State University - The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementMasters in Economics
- University of MichiganB.A. in Economics & Statistics
Activities: ADARA - Leadership Honorary, Michigan Student Assembly
Additional Information-
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Interests:Advisory Board- San Francisco Green Film Festival
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Tweets
- @Croaghie Thanks for the follow will do the same! cheers!May 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Simple Steps to Creating an Effective Social Media Strategy http://t.co/Adqm2h9XKI via @sejournal
- Anyone, Anywhere .... http://t.co/5eXVm4IoqY
- Using Investing Acumen To Put Dollars Into Impact http://t.co/MKMxlXP28M
- Using Investing Acumen To Put Dollars Into Impact http://t.co/e7aMQ3ViA7 via @FastCoExist
- RT @HuffPostGreen: Learn more about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and some of the people living in its path http://t.co/W93tY5s3UeMay 11, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @cleantechnica: Growth Of Distributed Electricity Systems On Verge Of Transforming Utility System — “Real Dialogue” At... http://t.co/DM…May 11, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Creativity?? http://t.co/NMOAb9XtksMay 11, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations Surpass 400 PPM Milestone http://t.co/uLNRKAchHN via @HuffPostGreen
- Join our friends at First Peoples Worldwide in this new initiative! http://t.co/3qHgIdgoQY
- RT @SteveCase: Top 32 Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Live By http://t.co/YrKUq4Ti4C #StartupAmerica #StartupWeekend
- RT @CharityIdeas: "Your time is limited; don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let others' opinions drown out your own inner voi…
- Ron Finley is amazing - Urban Gardner visionary - check out his Ted Talk and NY Times article! http://t.co/H1naN4FV0rMay 05, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Urban Gardening: An Appleseed With Attitude http://t.co/Mo5Dn0DDNL Ron Finley is amazing ! #channelG #socchangefilms
- RT @SFGreenFilmFest: Come join us on 5/7 at Ninth Street IFC for the San Francisco Green Film Festival 2013 Program Launch Party! http://t.…Apr 28, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Beautiful article!! Small Talk: Life on a Farm http://t.co/VWS5GWyNG5 via @goproject #socchangefilms
- RT @AshokaEA: African Farmers Celebrate Earth Day by Saving the World http://t.co/He8rgQYH0o #HappyEarthDayApr 23, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @rachelsf: RT @sfgreenfilmfest: A tale of two Earth Day heroes: Tim DeChristopher and Sandra Steingraber http://t.co/ch4KV0GTed via @gri…Apr 22, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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- Apr 20, 13
This initiative engages youth and their families in better understanding carbon and other environmental footprints.. please check this out. I will be updating process through our collaboration via Social Change Film Festival! We are working to translate the calculator into Portuguese to be shared during our 2013 events in Rio in October.
Youth wanted. The Zerofootprint Youth Calculator empowers world youth to reduce resource consumption.
Ron Dembo, Zerofootprint, Earth Day 2013
Today’s youth are taking the future into their own hands in over 100 countries through the Zerofootprint Youth Calculator initiative that engages them in a worldwide network to measure, compare and change their behavior. As both a carbon calculator and social engagement platform, the Zerofootprint Youth Calculator connects young people to one another around the world to mitigate their collective carbon footprint. Already during Phase 1, over 230,000 active users have committed to a reduction of 150,000 tons of CO2 released into Earth’s atmosphere and our Oceans.
Earth Day 2013 – Launch of Phase 2. On Earth Day, the Zerofootprint Youth Calculator will launch a new platform in English, French, Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic. Through a partnership with iEARN (International Education and Resource Network), Phase 2 hopes to scale up to 1,000,000 active users and achieve a reduction of 600,000 tons of CO2 by Earth Day 2014.
iEARN’s database of over 60,000 schools in more than 130 countries enables Zerofootprint’s Youth Calculator to reach over 2,000,000 students. A partnership with WGBH Boston’s “Meet the Greens” initiative expands this reach even further.
Partners and volunteer translators wanted. In order to be accessible to children around the globe by Earth Day 2014, Zerofootprint seeks volunteers to help translate the platform into fifty languages. Find out how you can help youth take the future into their own hands through the Zerofootprint Youth Calculator by becoming a partner or volunteer translator. Please contact us at youth@zerofootprint.net.
Zerofootprint’s VELO™ social energy programs have engaged hundreds of thousands of people around the world since 2005. The company’s solutions include a mix of program design, services, and technology based on the VELO software platform. The company has completed both large- and small-scale social sustainability programs for educational institutions, corporations, community programs, green cities, and green buildings. Zerofootprint’s groundbreaking programs have been recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative, the United Nations, the US Department of Energy, and the White House.
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 60,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 130 countries. Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their own countries and around the world. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
- Mar 24, 13
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
- Mar 14, 13
Reblogged from Green Galaxy Enterprises:
Lately, I’ve been talking an awful lot about my car. My pride in my ride is the kind most men have with their fine set of wheels. At grocery store parking lots, heads turn, and perfect strangers grin curiously. I park and eagerly invite them to take a peek inside. When I spark up the engine, they smile with awe and wonder at the technology as it boots up around them.
Terrific update from Nicole Hansen! - Mar 05, 13
Reblogged from Climate Interactive - The Blog:
Youth climate leaders rightly argue that it is they - not current-day politicians, executives, and administrators – who will have to live with the consequences of today's decisions when it comes to fossil fuel use. As these young people mobilize in hundreds of fossil fuel divestment campaigns we are excited to release a new tool designed to help them make their case powerfully, creatively, and rigorously.
An essential tool! - Mar 03, 13
- Feb 24, 13
This week I was given the gift of a pass to Wisdom 2.0 Summit. A conference in San Francisco which asks a very timely question:
How can we live with greater presence,meaning, and mindfulness in the technology age?
The conference brings together wisdom teachers, technology leaders, politicians, media superstars, social change artists and others. All sharing the stage- creating highly engaging discussions. Speakers include CTOs, technologists, CEOs & Founders from Cisco, Twitter, LinkedIN, Google, Facebook, Huffington Post and others. All are here to share their vision for the WHAT as well as the HOW of the present and future. Bill Ford, CEO of Ford Motor Company, was a truly inspired speaker. I grew up in Detroit and around Ford so the transformation and evolution of this company and its leadership is very exciting. As a an entrepreneur, these perspectives from business leaders and wisdom teachers deeply inspire and there should be more forums like these!
Today is the last day of the conference. We will learn from veterans about their journey back from experiences we cannot imagine through wisdom and healing practices. Wisdom and Social Change in the Digital Age promises to be an amazing session with Marianne Williamson and Congressman Tim Ryan hosted by the gifted Rachel Bagby. Tune in for the Live Streaming: http://www.wisdom2summit.com/Live-Stream conference videos will be available after the event as well.
Related Articles:
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/technology/silicon-valley-worries-about-addiction-to-devices.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577207142527586790.html
