David Green (social entrepreneur)
{{short description|American social entrepreneur (born 1956)}}
{{see also|David Green (disambiguation)}}
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| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| nationality = American
| alma_mater = University of Michigan
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| occupation = Social Entrepreneur
| known_for = Aurolab
| awards = MacArthur Fellowship
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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.
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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sph.umich.edu/alumni/findings/spr05_findings_green.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613141034/http://www.sph.umich.edu/alumni/findings/spr05_findings_green.pdf |archive-date=2010-06-13 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/03/198065436/one-mans-quest-to-make-health-care-accessible-and-affordable#commentBlock|title=One Man's Quest To Make Medical Technology Affordable To All|author=John Ydstie|date=3 July 2013|newspaper=NPR|access-date=3 July 2013}} He also developed suture and surgical blade manufacturing for Aurolab.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1537855/david-green-fast-50-2003|title=David Green – Fast 50 2003|date=2003-02-28|work=Fast Company|access-date=2017-12-16|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.ashoka.org/en/fellow/david-green|title=David Green|work=Ashoka {{!}} Everyone a Changemaker|access-date=2017-12-16|language=en}}
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;{{Cite web|url=http://www.ashokaglobalizer.org/david-green|title=David Green {{!}} Ashoka Globalizer|website=www.ashokaglobalizer.org|language=en|access-date=2017-12-16|date=2016-03-29}} the Lumbini Eye Care Project, Nepal;{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiatogether.org/articles/lwcstman-health/print|title=Business with humanitarian goals - {{!}} Print View|website=www.indiatogether.org|access-date=2017-12-16}} the Tilganga Eye Institute, Nepal;{{Cite book|title=Fighting Global Blindness: Improving World Vision Through Cataract Elimination|last=Ruit, Tabin, Wykoff}} the Grameen Eye Hospitals, Bangladesh;{{Cite web|title=David Green {{!}} Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship|url=http://www.schwabfound.org/content/david-green|website=www.schwabfound.org|language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130185342/http://www.schwabfound.org/content/david-green|archive-date=2017-11-30|access-date=2017-12-16}} the SadGuru Trust, Chitrakoot, India; the Al Noor Magrabi Eye Hospital, Egypt; and the Visualiza, Guatemala.{{Cite web|url=http://www.seva.org/site/DocServer/Visualiza_Case_Study_May_2015.pdf?docID=2661|title=Visualiza Eye Care System - Case Study}}
He co-founded Sound World Solution,{{Cite web|url=http://www.soundworldsolutions.com/about/management-team/david-green|title=David Green {{!}} Co-Founder {{!}} Sound World Solutions|website=www.soundworldsolutions.com|access-date=2017-12-16}} a social enterprise to make affordable hearing devices with a novel fitting named LegWorks, which makes high quality prosthetic knees affordable.{{Cite web|url=https://legworks.com/team/|title=Team|website=LegWorks|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-16}} 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.
His work has been profiled in Fortune Magazine,{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/10/27/351684/index.htm|title=See Me! Hear Me! - October 27, 2003|website=archive.fortune.com|access-date=2017-12-16}} NPR,{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/07/03/198065436/one-mans-quest-to-make-health-care-accessible-and-affordable|title=One Man's Quest To Make Medical Technology Affordable To All|work=NPR.org|access-date=2017-12-16|language=en}} the Economist, Forbes,{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2014/03/31/how-philanthropists-and-investors-can-work-together-to-create-social-change/|title=How Philanthropists And Investors Can Work Together To Create Social Change|last=Ashoka|work=Forbes|access-date=2017-12-16|language=en}} on CNN and in the PBS documentary series, "The New Heroes".{{Cite web|url=https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/The+New+Heroes+-+Episode+2a++Doctor+V,+David+Green/1_gd1474ns|title=The New Heroes - Episode 2a - Doctor V, David Green|website=MSU MediaSpace|language=en|access-date=2017-12-16}}
Life
Green is an Ypsilanti, Michigan native.{{Cite web | url=http://erbsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/compassionate-capitalism-serving-the-poor-profitably-with-david-green/ | title=Compassionate Capitalism: Serving the Poor Profitably with David Green| date=2009-10-30}} He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MPH. He is listed as a notable alumni of University of Michigan and the University of Michigan School of Public Health.{{cite web |title=David Green, ’78, MPH’82 |url=https://alumni.umich.edu/notable-alumni/david-green |website=University of Michigan Alumni Association}}
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.
Awards
In 2002, Green was named an Ashoka Fellow{{Cite web |url=http://www.ashoka.org/node/3146 |title=Ashoka International |access-date=2010-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706060901/http://www.ashoka.org/node/3146 |archive-date=2010-07-06 |url-status=dead }} and featured as a Leading Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation.
In 2004, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship{{cite web|title=MacArthur Fellows: September 2004|url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142741/k.998D/Fellows_List__September_2004.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416064638/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142741/k.998D/Fellows_List__September_2004.htm|archive-date=April 16, 2010|access-date=April 6, 2010}} 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."Rebecca F. Johnson, USA Today, Sept. 28, 2004. Accessed Sept. 22, 2010. [https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-09-28-macarthur_x.htm]
In both 2004 and 2006, he was listed as one of the recipients of the Fast 50 Award by Fast Company Magazine.
In 2009, he received the Spirit of Helen Keller Award, given by Helen Keller International,{{Cite web|url=http://www.hki.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/02/Awards%20list%20and%20Descriptions%20Public%20Version%2002.25.2015.pdf|title=Helen Keller International Award Recipients 1960 - 2014}} and the University of Michigan Humanitarian Service Award.{{cite web |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/alumni-friends/get-involved/humanitarian-service-awards/lsa-humanitarian-service-award-winners.html |title=LSA Humanitarian Service Award Winners {{!}} U-M LSA U-M College of LSA |website=lsa.umich.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702020047/http://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/alumni-friends/get-involved/humanitarian-service-awards/lsa-humanitarian-service-award-winners.html |archive-date=2017-07-02}} He was also voted as the leading social entrepreneur from the University of Michigan by the University of Michigan Engineering School.{{Cite web|url=http://www.umsocialventure.com/people/david-green/|title=David Green – Social Venture Fund {{!}} University of Michigan|website=www.umsocialventure.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-16|archive-date=2015-05-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510064429/http://www.umsocialventure.com/people/david-green/|url-status=dead}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://dil.berkeley.edu/event/dil-fail-faire-fail-hour-with-keynote-speaker-david-green-aurolab-aravind-eye-hospital/|title=Development Impact Lab {{!}} DIL Fail Faire & Fail Hour, with Keynote Speaker David Green (Aurolab, Aravind Eye Hospital)|website=dil.berkeley.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-16}}
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