September ReThink Purpose Hour
EVENT DETAILS
Date: September 24, 2024
Time: 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Location: Club CiviCO
250 Fillmore, Suite 225, Denver, CO, 80206, United States
CiviCO Member: FREE Nonmember: $75
Democracy & Enterprise: Building the Future Together
Discover how private sector leadership can strengthen civic participation and democratic health bolsters business success.
Join us for a timely and relevant discussion around Corporate Civic Responsibility (CCR) and the intersection of civic responsibility, corporate leadership, and democracy. Our panelists include Charles Gilford III, Christa Nenaber, Eleanor Allen, and Richard Eidlin.
Bring your curiosity as we engage in a conversation to:
- Explore the nexus between citizenship, leadership, and corporate success
- Dive into data about democracies driving the healthiest economies around the world
- Understand how gaps in civics education impact the workforce and what needs to change
- Uncover how your organization can make an impact this election season – without taking sides
Reserve your spot today to learn how CCR is good for businesses, brands, communities, and our country!
About Charles Gilford III
Charles S. Gilford III is a proud Colorado native and servant leader of social change and innovation. He currently leads as the CEO of Inner City Health and Chair of the Board at the Denver Housing Authority. Previously, he served as a mayoral appointee, Director Regional Affairs to Mayor Michael B. Hancock in the City and County of Denver.
With experience across private, public, and nonprofit sectors, Charles is a thought provoking social advocate in the Denver metro area, rolling up his sleeves and doing the work to make our community a better place for all. As a graduate of CiviCO’s Governor’s Fellowship program, he elevated his commitment to cross-sector civic engagement.
About Christa Nenabar
Christa Nenabar has worked for Patagonia over 13 years. She has had the opportunity to support several stores and markets over the years and got her start in the Denver Patagonia store.
Christa has led Patagonia’s on-the-ground efforts with Time to Vote and other election work in recent cycles, including supporting her county as a poll worker. She is passionate about supporting elections, activating others in the community to get involved and generally just giving a damn about the world and the people in it.
About Eleanor Allen
As an executive coach and business consultant, Eleanor Allen leverages her experience as a CEO in both for profit and nonprofit organizations to boost strong, resilient, and self-aware executives and teams grounded in wellbeing. She especially helps women and other underrepresented leaders bring their full selves to the C-Suite and the boardroom with a confident and powerful voice so that they can drive impactful change.
Eleanor has donned various hats in her career such as CEO, business leader, board member, technical expert, management consultant, and professional engineer. Her experience demonstrates a strong track record in building: high performing teams, global growth strategies, transformational business plans, and organizational cultures grounded in wellbeing and purpose.
About Richard Eidlin
Richard has worked at the intersection of sustainable business, public policy and advocacy for thirty-five plus years. Over the years, he has helped establish several influential organizations that have improved the quality of life in America and across the world. Those include the American Sustainable Business Council, the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, Business for America and the United Nations Environmental Finance Initiative.
His experience involves work in the private, public and nonprofit sectors. Richard has coordinated United Nations programs, been an adjunct professor at the University of Denver and Boston College, co-owned a solar energy firm, consulted to multinationals, and led advocacy campaigns for businesses on sustainable economy, voting rights, democracy and clean energy/environmental issues.
Since the late 80’s, Richard has a played a key role in building the responsible and progressive business movement in America. As an educator, lobbyist, advocate, fund raiser and campaigner he has championed the idea of the triple bottom line and corporate social responsibility.
Today, Richard serves as the National Policy Director of Business for America, a national, nonpartisan not-for-profit working to mobilize the business community to support a healthy democracy, depolarization, election security, civics education and nonpartisan political reform initiatives at the federal and state level.
In 2010, Richard launched the Greater Good Academy, an eight-week training program for early stage, low and moderate-income social entrepreneurs on how to build triple bottom line companies and enterprises. Over three years, the Denver-based program trained 120 entrepreneurs, twenty-five percent of whom went on to start new social enterprises and businesses.
Richard earned a master’s in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor’s in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland. He has resided in Denver, Colorado since 2003 with his wife, Heather.
Questions?
Contact the CTLF Team at info@ctlf.org