150. Impacting a Billion People on a Small Budget

Traditional models of charity are unsustainable. Prof Jack Sim is a Master of the Leverage Model of Social Innovation, and he will explain how to use small budgets to create massively scalable impact sustainably.Professor Jack Sim, a.k.a. ""Mr Toilet,"" took up a neglected global sanitation crisis and mobilized the world's governments to solve this problem. Over the last 25 years, he created a movement that brought proper sanitation to 2.5 billion people, created the UN World Toilet Day (19th November) unanimously adopted by 193 countries at the UN General Assembly in 2013, cleaned up all of China's public toilets, and successfully lobbied the Brazilian Senate to pass a privatization bill that attracted US $44B investments into Brazilian sewage treatment plants.To learn more, go to:https://www.worldtoilet.orgTo take a look at Sim's book, The Gumption of Mr Toilet, go to:https://www.penguin.sg/book/the-gumption-of-mr-toilet/