[Stoves] GACC Webinar coming up in less than 10 hours

[Ronal W. Larson]

List:

	This is a brief summary of today’s GACC webinar.

	It was almost entirely based on a report from May this year, totally unrelated to stoves - that can be found at:  https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/FINAL%20Scaling%20Pathways%20-%20Pivoting%20to%20Impact%20(5.11.17).pdf?FUAG78FHtelgEUrQzC26YVmcN8apeovu <https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/FINAL%20Scaling%20Pathways%20-%20Pivoting%20to%20Impact%20(5.11.17).pdf?FUAG78FHtelgEUrQzC26YVmcN8apeovu> .  The producing group and the author’s names are there - again, not stove related.

	Two Principals at a young growing stove company (EcoZoom - headquartered in Kenya):  Amanda West (one of 3 founders, now at Mercy Corps  and Oli Raison (the present CEO) alternated back and forth on different aspects of this report.  They especially concentrated on five roadblocks summarized in this figure I took from the report.  Amanda (leading off) and Oli spent more than 5 minutes on each of the 5 topics - mainly concentrating on the EcoZoom experience.



	I thought the two webinar stove participants were exceptionally good.  EcoZoom (about $2.5 M/yr) has a portion of their business on solar lamps, which was especially interesting to me as I was a Board member of such a company (In Namibia) that clearly had many of the growing pain issues I heard this AM.

	If you couldn’t hear today’s message (sponsored by GACC, but minimal participation by GACC staff this time) I recommend the webinar much more than the above-cited report.  The GACC site for the webinar, when it is ready, is likely to be http://cleancookstoves.org/events/414.html <http://cleancookstoves.org/events/414.html>

	You might also get something from these sites:
https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/resources/scaling-pathways-pivoting-impact <https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/resources/scaling-pathways-pivoting-impact>  (where Amanda’s name also appears) ,  
https://www.mercycorps.org/sites/default/files/Mercy_Corps_Social_Venture_Fund_Overview_May_2016.pdf <https://www.mercycorps.org/sites/default/files/Mercy_Corps_Social_Venture_Fund_Overview_May_2016.pdf> ,
http://skoll.org/contributor/amanda-west/ <http://skoll.org/contributor/amanda-west/>
and  https://ecozoomstove.com/pages/about-us <https://ecozoomstove.com/pages/about-us> .

Ron


> On Sep 5, 2017, at 9:46 PM, Ronal W. Larson <rongretlarson at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 	I think not to late to sign up at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8382972803538663169 <https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8382972803538663169>.
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