Meeting Speaker for March 3, 2014 - Charley Ansbach

Charley Ansbach

Charley has spent the last 30 years successfully helping nonprofit organizations in Sacramento and throughout the world raise millions of dollars to support their missions.  Charley is also among the early ‘modern’ social entrepreneurs in the US, even before the field got its current name.  He started the Ansbach & Associates fundraising firm in 1985 in Sacramento and now provides management and enterprise development services to nonprofits, corporate social responsibility (CSR) transition services to corporations and market development support to social entrepreneurs worldwide.  He was the first adjunct professor in social entrepreneurship the Eberhard School of Business at University of the Pacific and teaches social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility at the Graduate School of Management at UC Davis.  His former students are starting social enterprises around the world and helping companies create new value in partnership with nonprofits. He is a contributing author to Building Strong Nonprofits (Wiley, 2008), a soon to be released 2-volume set on social media marketing and his own book now underway: CSR: From Cost Center to Profit Center. 

Charley will be speaking on how the concepts of social entrepreneurship, CSR and nonprofit community service are taking on new meaning and moving center stage as the global business market shifts toward the integration of economic and social priorities as a basis for creating value.