Kevin Starr to present at the IDSA Western District Conference

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Kevin Starr is the managing director of the Mulago Foundation. He directs the Foundation and the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program. Kevin had a perfectly good career in medicine when he stumbled into philanthropy in 1994. His friend and mentor Rainer Arnhold died suddenly when they were working together in Bolivia, and the Arnhold family asked Starr to help carry on Rainer's work through the Mulago Foundation. 

Kevin spent the next decade working with projects from Afghanistan to Zambia, trying to figure out what makes for real impact at big scale. At the request of the board, he established the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program in 2003 to apply Mulago's principles and tools to help social entrepreneurs turn good ideas into lasting change at scale. Kevin went through medical school and residency at University California San Francisco and has lived in San Francisco ever since. He teaches and mentors fellows in other programs for social entrepreneurs and still practices medicine part time.




Is Social Design Good Business?

Socially responsible design can make positive changes within a community by addressing economic, humanitarian, political and environmental issues.  It can also be personally rewarding to a designer.  But, can socially responsible design be financially sustainable?
At the 2011 IDSA Western Conference we offer success stories from designers and organizations that are not only able to do good but also do well financially.  This dialogue helps answer questions like: How can you target nonprofits as potential clients? How can your social design work be billable, not just pro-bono? How can you apply social design to your career? What opportunities are there for designers to get involved in projects in their local communities? How can design thinking tackle the social problems of our world, locally and abroad? 
Become part of the dialogue. Get insipred by timely and informative sessions, benefit from exceptional networking opportunities and enjoy great nights out at the 2011 IDSA Western Conference
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, May 6-8, 2011
 Register here. The early registration discount ends March 18th.

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