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Keystone is a self-governing multi-constituency initiative currently hosted by AccountAbility, the pre-eminent international professional body supporting organizational accountability and sustainable performance. AccountAbility provides fiduciary oversight as well as supporting Keystone through its knowledge and networks on standards. For more information about AccountAbility please visit www.accountability.org.uk.
Keystone is governed by a small Executive Committee that was formed in October 2004 from the larger Steering Committee that had been operating furing the two years leading to the launch of Keystone in September 2004. The Executive Committee members have supported the ACCESS Initiative (now Keystone) since its inception stage and form a group that demonstrates expertise in social entrepreneurship, grantmaking, public development, commercial finance, business consulting and corporate social responsibility.
ExCo members are: David Bonbright, Jeremy Nicholls, John Goldstein, John Samuel, Pamela Hartigan, and Simon Zadek. See ExCo minutes
Executive Committee Members
David Bonbright (david@keystonereporting.org) is founder and chief executive of Keystone. Most recently, David directed the Aga Khan Development Network’s Civil Society Programme. As a grantmaker and manager with Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Oak Foundation, and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, David has sought to evolve and test innovative approaches to strengthening citizen self-organization for sustainable development as an alternative to prevailing bureaucratic, top-down models of social service delivery and social value creation. While with the Ford Foundation, he was declared persona non grata by the apartheid government in South Africa. In 1990 he returned to South Africa and entrepreneured the development of key building blocks for civil society, including the first nonprofit internet service provider, the national association of NGOs, the national association of grantmakers, and enabling reforms to the regulatory and tax framework for not-for-profit organisations.
Trained as a lawyer, David is an experienced designer and manager of citizen-led development services and programmes, with an emphasis on developing organizational capabilities. In the early 1990s, he founded and led two African citizen sector resource centres, one relating to organizational development (the Development Resources Centre, Johannesburg) and one relating to information and technology (SANGONeT, Johannesburg). From that base in South African civil society, he also conceived and guided the processes that gave birth to the Southern African Grantmakers Association (SAGA) and the South African NGO Coalition (SANGOCO). As a grantmaker and manager with Aga Khan Foundation (1997 – 2004), Ford Foundation (1983 – 87), Oak Foundation (1988 – 90), and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (1994 – 1997), David has sought to evolve and test innovative approaches to strengthening citizen self-organization for sustainable development as an alternative to prevailing bureaucratic, top-down models of social service delivery and social value creation.
He has authored and co-authored a number of publications, including most recently, The Keystone Inception Report (2003), Creating an Enabling Legal Framework for Nonprofit Organizations in Pakistan (Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy, 2003), Enhancing Indigenous Philanthropy for Social Investment (Aga Khan Development Network, 2000), Philanthropy in Pakistan (Aga Khan Development Network, 2000), Leading Public Entrepreneurs (Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, 1997)
He sits on the boards, advisory councils and knowledge networks of Alliance magazine, Allavida, Goldman Foundation Environmental Awards, and the Johns Hopkins University Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project. In 2003, he selected as a Synergos Senior Fellow.
Jeremy Nicholls (jeremy.nicholls@usa-is.co.uk) works in a range of areas relating to accountability and inclusion. He is a founder and director of the Cat’s Pyjamas which runs programmes to help people manage a double bottom line in their organisations. He has recently launched the Beta Model, an online database for the analysis of changes in the number and type of UK businesses. His current work includes developing models of assessing social return on investment and developing frameworks for business engagement and representation in regeneration programmes. For the past seven years, as a director of Urban Strategy associates, he has worked on economic regeneration projects in the UK. Prior to this he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and spent several years in Tanzania and Liberia. He is a chartered accountant and the Chair of AccountAbility.
John Goldstein (jgoldstein@medleyadvisors.com) is Senior Managing Director of Medley Global Advisors and Executive Director of the Medley Institute. MGA is the leading macro-political advisor to the world's largest financial institutions and multinationals. Its clients -- top investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and global corporations -- collectively control over $10 trillion in risk capital. The Medley Institute's mission is to find opportunities where an applied understanding of the intersection between policy and markets and the interactions amongst policy-makers, market participants, and civil society can foster sustainable development. The Institute pursues this mission through proprietary research, conferences, and organizational partnerships with governments, citizen organizations, philanthropies, think tanks, corporations, and financial institutions.
Prior to joining Medley Global Advisors, John was a management consultant in the Strategy practice of Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). While at Andersen, he worked with senior executives around the world in a number of industries on issues such as brand strategy, "buyer values" market research, global M&A, scenario planning, and new product development. He was an honours graduate of Yale University where he was awarded the Richter Fellowship and the Townsend Prize.
John has a particular focus on the use of market mechanisms to facilitate social change. As such, he is an Advisory Group member for 3iG, an effort consisting of 42 religious traditions, working together with the goal of achieving a greater correlation between a sound financial return and support through investments of socially and environmentally sound development, industry and practice. Additionally, he is a Strategic Advisor to GlobalGiving, a group dedicated to revolutionizing the global development industry by creating a real marketplace where resources flow to the initiatives and people that make the biggest impact.
After stints with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation based in the United States and Zimbabwe, and as an independent education and training consultant, in September 2001, John was appointed Chief Executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Pamela Hartigan (pamela.hartigan@schwabfound.org) is the Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Foundation’s work is dedicated to advancing the field of social entrepreneurship globally, building and supporting its practitioners whose efforts have achieved transformational social change. She holds a master’s degree in economics and public health and a medical degree from Georgetown University. Her career includes positions with academic and community-based organizations as well with the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). Before joining the Schwab Foundation, Dr. Hartigan was Executive Director of the Department of Health Promotion at WHO. In November 2000, Klaus Schwab, Founder and President of the World Economic Forum, invited her to spearhead the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
Simon Zadek (simon@accountability.org.uk) is Chief Executive of the AccountAbility, the pre-eminent international professional institute committed to promoting accountability for sustainable development. He sits on the board’s, advisory council’s and knowledge networks of the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, the State of the World’s Commission for Globalisation, the ILO’s World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalisation, and the UN Commission for Social Development Expert Group on CSR. He has until recently represented AccountAbility on the Steering Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative and Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and previously was the Development Director of the New Economics Foundation, and founding Chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative. He was recently named as one the World Economic Forum’s ‘Global Leaders for Tomorrow’ for 2003. He has extensive experience working as advisor and mentor to, and external reviewer of textiles and apparel, mining and energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and finance sector businesses in Europe, the USA and Africa, as well as working on sustainable development issues with development and human rights NGOs, and international agencies and governments.
He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous publications, including most recently, The Civil Corporation: the New Economy of Corporate Citizenship (Earthscan, 2001), Corporate Responsibility and the Competitive Advantage of Nations (AccountAbility/The Copenhagen Centre, 2002), Third Generation Corporate Citizenship: Public Policy and Business in Society (AccountAbility/Foreign Policy Centre, 2001), Conversations with Disbelievers: Encouraging Increased Business Social Engagement, and Business Partners for Development: Endearing Myths, Enduring Truths (BPD, 2002), and The Economics of Utopia: the Democratisation of Scarcity (Avebury, 1994).
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 Keystone ExCo Minutes 14 Mar 05.pdf | 78.8 KB |
| Keystone ExCo Minutes 25 Nov 04.pdf | 91.44 KB |
| Keystone ExCo Minutes 30 Oct 04.pdf | 110.84 KB |
| Keystone ExCo Minutes 27 Apr 05.pdf | 90.51 KB |
| Keystone ExCo Minutes 26 May 05.pdf | 81.19 KB |
| Keystone ExCo Minutes 20 Jan 05.pdf | 72.93 KB |
