David Green (social entrepreneur)

David Green (born March 17, 1956) is an American social entrepreneur. His work has focused on making technology and health care services more accessible and sustainable.

See also: David Green (disambiguation)
David Green
Born (1956-03-17) March 17, 1956
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
OccupationSocial Entrepreneur
Known forAurolab
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship

Spirit of Helen Keller Award

Ashoka Fellow

Career

Green helped Aravind Eye Care System's founder Dr. G. Venkataswamy and his team to establish Aurolab in South India, a nonprofit manufacturer of low cost intraocular lenses for treating cataracts.[1][2] He also developed suture and surgical blade manufacturing for Aurolab.[3][4]

He is known for developing many eye care programs and for making them self-financing from user fees while serving the lower economic strata. These include: the Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India;[5][6] the Lumbini Eye Care Project, Nepal;[7] the Tilganga Eye Institute, Nepal;[8] the Grameen Eye Hospitals, Bangladesh;[5] the SadGuru Trust, Chitrakoot, India; the Al Noor Magrabi Eye Hospital, Egypt;[5] and the Visualiza, Guatemala.[9]

He co-founded Sound World Solution,[10] a social enterprise to make affordable hearing devices with a novel fitting named LegWorks, which makes high quality prosthetic knees affordable.[11] He also co-founded the Eye Fund, a $15M social investing fund in collaboration with Deutsche Bank, Ashoka and International Agency for Prevention of Blindness, that provides affordable loan financing for sustainable eye care programs.[6][5]

His work has been profiled in Fortune Magazine,[12] NPR,[13] the Economist, Forbes,[14] on CNN and in the PBS documentary series, "The New Heroes".[15]

Life

Green is an Ypsilanti, Michigan native.[16] He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MPH.

He serves as a Board Member for the Johns Hopkins Social Innovations Lab, the Stanford University Biomedical Fellowship for India, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business Social Investing Fund, and the Seva Advisory Board.[6]

He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, Tanya Shaffer, and their children, Daniel and Elon.[17]

Awards

In 2002, Green was named an Ashoka Fellow[18] and featured as a Leading Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation.[5]

In 2004, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship[19] for his work as "a pioneer in the manufacture and distribution of advanced health care products for patients in the developing world who could not otherwise afford them."[20]

In both 2004 and 2006, he was listed as one of the recipients of the Fast 50 Award by Fast Company Magazine.[3]

In 2009, he received the Spirit of Helen Keller Award, given by Helen Keller International,[21] and the University of Michigan Humanitarian Service Award.[22] He was also voted as the leading social entrepreneur from the University of Michigan by the University of Michigan Engineering School.[23]

In 2011, he received the Certificate of Honorary Award of Liaoning Province as a foreign expert who has made great contributions to the economic and social development of Liaoning Province.[24]

References
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2010-04-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. John Ydstie (3 July 2013). "One Man's Quest To Make Medical Technology Affordable To All". NPR. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  3. "David Green – Fast 50 2003". Fast Company. 2003-02-28. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  4. "David Green". Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  5. "David Green | Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship". www.schwabfound.org. Archived from the original on 2017-11-30. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  6. "David Green | Ashoka Globalizer". www.ashokaglobalizer.org. 2016-03-29. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  7. "Business with humanitarian goals - | Print View". www.indiatogether.org. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  8. Ruit, Tabin, Wykoff. Fighting Global Blindness: Improving World Vision Through Cataract Elimination.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. "Visualiza Eye Care System - Case Study" (PDF).
  10. "David Green | Co-Founder | Sound World Solutions". www.soundworldsolutions.com. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  11. "Team". LegWorks. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  12. "See Me! Hear Me! - October 27, 2003". archive.fortune.com. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  13. "One Man's Quest To Make Medical Technology Affordable To All". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  14. Ashoka. "How Philanthropists And Investors Can Work Together To Create Social Change". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  15. "The New Heroes - Episode 2a - Doctor V, David Green". MSU MediaSpace. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  16. "Compassionate Capitalism: Serving the Poor Profitably with David Green". 2009-10-30.
  17. Wall, Alix (October 1, 2004). "MacArthur Foundation names 2 Bay Area Jews geniuses".
  18. "Ashoka International". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2010-09-23.
  19. "MacArthur Fellows: September 2004". Archived from the original on April 16, 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
  20. Rebecca F. Johnson, USA Today, Sept. 28, 2004. Accessed Sept. 22, 2010.
  21. "Helen Keller International Award Recipients 1960 - 2014" (PDF).
  22. https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/alumni-friends/get-involved/humanitarian-service-awards/lsa-humanitarian-service-award-winners.html
  23. "David Green – Social Venture Fund | University of Michigan". www.umsocialventure.com. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  24. "Development Impact Lab | DIL Fail Faire & Fail Hour, with Keynote Speaker David Green (Aurolab, Aravind Eye Hospital)". dil.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
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