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Presented by Earth Protect and Earth Protect Productions
“From Image to Action”, Video Social Networking Hub on the World Environment
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Learn the compelling reasons why every organization can increase its success financially and in achieving its purpose through adopting sustainable, environmentally friendly policies and practices and producing green products and services. Capture the 8 benefits for your organization that being socially responsible will bring and learn what steps to take to gather the gold through socially responsible actions. Learn how video, film and web design and development can be used to enhance your corporate social responsibility and help you tell, educate, advocate and sell.
Examples of actions and results taken by different sizes and types or organizations will be presented. Participants will be involved in active discussion.
Led by: Carol Barbeito and Virginia Elliott
So Right So Smart is a feature documentary that shows the success of businesses that have begun to take positive steps toward a sustainable future. Those looking to find encouraging news in the midst of our current environmental crisis will be inspired by this story of leadership and hope.
So Right So Smart screening is followed by a Q & A.
Earth Protect’s President and Managing Partner is Carol L. Barbeito, Ph.D.
Carol has thirty years experience in executive management, of which eighteen years included leadership for companies that provided management consulting, research and training. She is knowledgeable in all aspects of organization management with special expertise in governance, human resource management, resource development and planning. She is experienced in major database development and a published author.
She has managed organizations ranging from local through regional to international. The largest staff she managed was 450 in a multi-million dollar organization. She has successfully raised and managed many millions of dollars through her executive career. The organizations she led included start-ups and turn-arounds plus negotiating mergers and opening subsidiaries. Carol has extensive networks through her work and civic involvement.
Dr. Barbeito has authored and/or edited twenty-three publications. She works across the United States and has been active in Australia since 1989. In addition, she has worked in Canada, Europe, East Central Europe, Bermuda, Egypt, New Zealand and Mongolia. She has traveled extensively including China, Eastern and Western Europe, Fiji, Africa, Central America, South American, Mexico and throughout the United States.
Virginia Elliott, M.Ed., Vice President for Programs, United Methodist Health Ministry Fund
Virginia joined the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund–a philanthropy established to advance health, healing, and wholeness throughout Kansas–in 1997. She manages a portfolio of more than 150 grants each year representing approximately $6 million. In her role with the Health Fund, she is also responsible for researching and developing strategic direction in health issue areas identified for focused funding. She has played a key role in recent years in the transition of the Health Fund into more strategic grantmaking. Virginia is a member of Council on Foundations, Grantmakers in Health, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.
Before entering the field of philanthropy, Virginia was engaged in public relations and marketing for more than 20 years including serving as a principal in an advertising agency. She has been involved in the development of a number of award-winning communications campaigns including two public information campaigns with the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund that received national recognition from the Council on Foundations.
Virginia is frequently invited to lead workshops on marketing and grantmaking topics. Nationally, she has most recently been invited to speak at a national health conference sponsored by the United Methodist Church and an international conference on behavioral health. She also gives dozens of presentations on the state level each year.
Virginia has a personal commitment to environmental issues and became an early investor in Earth Protect.
Drop by Drop: Water Stories, a video contest for youth created by the Social Change Film Festival & Institute (SCFFI), Channel G and EarthvisionZ, is now accepting submissions.
