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Detailed Agenda
FRIDAY | JULY 24, 2015

MANAGING BUDGETS AND ASSETS FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS
Hermitage Room

The session will focus on best practices for progressive budget management and
administration of assets.
Simon Greer

Cambridge Heath Ventures
Simon Greer has been involved in social change work for the past 25
years. Considered to be a serial entrepreneur in the nonprofit world, he
has three times served in a CEO role in “turnaround” undertakings where
the organizations’ missions were as noble as ever but their impact and
approach needed an overhaul. Today, as the founder of Cambridge
Heath Ventures, he works with private sector companies, purposedriven organizations, and governments to help them overcome their
most pressing challenges. Greer has worked at the local, national, and
international levels to address issues ranging from poverty to lack of energy
access and other forms of injustice through philanthropy, advocacy, and direct service. Throughout
these efforts he has been known for a commitment to innovation, risk, and unconventional thinking.
Greer has led organizations through periods of dramatic institutional growth, including mergers, joint
ventures, high profile campaigns, programmatic innovation, and increased philanthropic impact.
These successes include launching the Jewish Social Justice Matching Fund and helping to launch
the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Greer also moved millions of dollars in low-interest loans to
help businesses and homeowners revive the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.

1:00 PM–2:30 PM
LUNCH PLENARY
REFORMING JUSTICE AND REINVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITIES
Grand Ballroom

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This panel will create a dialogue around the racism, violence, militarization,
and misconduct that plague our criminal justice system. It will also look at
interconnected issues of growing inequality and poverty, the school-to-prison
pipeline, and mass incarceration, as well as the systemic reforms, reinvestment, and
restorative models that can counter these failures of justice.