Our Advisory Board

Some folks just go on giving and giving. Our Advisory Board brings together some of the remarkable individuals who have generously shared their enthusiasm, advice and contacts to help the One World Futbol Project move far faster and farther than we possibly could do by ourselves.

 

Claire Wineland

Claire Wineland is a 14 year old girl who has been living with cystic fibrosis since birth. She is inspired, passionate, and very excited about making a difference for other children and teens by sharing her experience, strength, and hope with them.  Claire has recently suffered many setbacks including landing in a coma in April 2010 with a 1% chance of surviving. Survive she did, and the experience has given her a new appreciation for her life, just as it is.  She continues to maintain a positive attitude and believes this is the key to living a fulfilling life. She has been asked to share her story of positivity and hope with people and children all around the world.

In honor of Claire’s experience and enthusiasm for life, a group of admirers created Claire’s Place Foundation, Inc., a charity committed to providing heartfelt help to families affected by Cystic Fibrosis. Its mission is to heighten public awareness about Cystic Fibrosis and improve the quality of life for the families it affects by providing education, life skills, inspiration, and positive support.

 

Alisa Swidler

Alisa Swidler is one of the world’s leading activists and campaigners for funding and awareness across a host of issues in the developing world. She thrives on finding and connecting individuals who tackle global problems.

In the past 5 years, Alisa has co-chaired The One Foundation, allocating over £2 million for projects in Malawi. She has partnered with both the Clinton Foundation to provide access to vaccines in Timor Leste and with Sir Richard Branson’s foundation, Virgin Unite, advising their civil society work in Zimbabwe. She has also maintained an ongoing relationship with the Liberian Philanthropy Secretariat, founded by President Sirleaf-Johnson.

Alisa currently chairs The Walkabout Foundation, which distributes wheelchairs in developing countries. She is a Trustee of Millennium Promise UK and the Gates Foundation-funded Sabin Vaccine Institute. Alisa is also on the Advisory Board of The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic in Tanzania. Finally, she serves on the Development Board of Prince William’s Centrepoint, the UK charity for homeless youth. Alisa is married to a Portfolio Manager and has five young children.

 

Nick Gates

Nick Gates left his role as a Business of Football Executive in the English Premier League to form Coaches Across Continents, a not-for-profit development program that uses soccer as a vehicle for social change. In 1990 Nick launched the “Soccer as Education” curriculum in the USA that has now been used by more than 1.5 million children and 9,000 coaches/teachers. He is a former England U-18 National team player and a graduate of Millfield School, England, and Harvard University, where he played on the varsity soccer team. Coaches Across Continents, winner of the prestigious 2009 Beyond Sport Award, is using the One World Futbol throughout its global program in 2011.

 

 

Charlie Hernandez and Lori Tierney

Charlie Hernandez and Lori Tierney are the driving force behind Just a Bunch of Roadies, a nonprofit organization formed by musical touring industry professionals to respond to humanitarian crises. The idea took root in 2005, when veteran production manager Charlie Hernandez, president of QED Productions, co-produced a benefit concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, raising nearly $8 million for relief efforts in the aftermath of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.

Then, Charlie and his long-time friend and former business partner, Lori Tierney, began considering ways that their years of moving people and equipment around the world for the world’s biggest rock bands could be put to use more directly in future disaster response and relief efforts. In January 2010, Charlie was working in China when the earthquake struck but immediately contacted Lori, and the two began making phone calls and assembling a team from around the world. Just a Bunch of Roadies formed virtually overnight.

Between January 30th and February 4th, the Roadie relief team completed four rotations of supplies and medical personnel in and out of Port-au-Prince; moved approximately $2 million worth of medical equipment from Project C.U.R.E. into Haiti, delivering it directly to hospitals run by Partners in Health; transported 48 doctors, nurses, and medical support staff into Haiti from Partners in Health, Project Medishare, and Airline Ambassadors; and, on its return flights, brought home almost 90 medical personnel and relief volunteers who had been working in Haiti since the earthquake. Later, Just a Bunch of Roadies helped facilitate the movement of over 500,000 meals from Madison Meals for Haiti in Madison, WI, to Relief International in Haiti. In the photo above right, Charlie Hernandez is front and center holding the One World Futbol, flanked by Lori Tierney and One World Futbol Project Founder Tim Jahnigen. (Photo: RoadieRelief)

 

Ann Kletz

Prior to serving as Development Director, West Coast at Right to Play, Ann co-founded Sports, Business, and Philanthropy Consulting, a professional services firm committed to helping its clients leverage their celebrity or position in the business community to utilize sport as a vehicle for social change. Prior to that, Ann served as the Director of Girls Sports & the Founding Director of Coaching Corps at Team-Up for Youth in Oakland, California,  an organization that supports and funds sports programs for low-income youth and works to make California the leader in quality after-school sports for all young people. Ann’s commitment to empowering youth through sports began in 1995 when she served as Founder and Executive Director of SportsBridge in San Francisco, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization for girls that used the power of sports to enable girls to recognize their strengths and pursue their dreams. Ann was a member of the U-19 National Team and played four years at the collegiate level for the Harvard Women’s varsity team.

 

Kevin Carroll

Raised by his grandparents in the Philadelphia area, Kevin spent endless hours at the neighborhood playground where he found his calling: a red rubber ball. His subsequent pursuit of sport and play (aka his “red rubber ball”) has led to Kevin’s becoming an author, a speaker, and an agent for social change.

Kevin has helped turn creative ideas into reality for organizations such as Nike, Starbucks, Walt Disney, Target, Proctor & Gamble, Mattel, Ashoka, and many others. He is the author of three highly successful books published by ESPN, Disney Press, and McGraw-Hill.

Kevin has dedicated his life to advancing sports and play as a vehicle for social change. He addressed the United Nations as part of the UN Year of Sports for Development and Peace in 2005 and hosted the Beyond Sport Summits in 2009 and 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Chapman

For eight years (2002 to 2009), Jennifer Chapman served as Chief Operating Officer of Wild Planet Toys,a specialty toy developer and manufacturer, helping grow the business from 25 to 90 staff and quintupling revenue. During her 11 years at the company, she led  the strategic and annual planning processes; oversaw senior management goal setting, implementation, and evaluation; led human resources, including organization design and development, hiring, training, and retention programs; and  managed operations and information technology (planning, purchasing, inventory management, customer service to large and small retailers, consumer service). Previously, Jennifer had served as Vice President of Social Venture (1993-97), a nationwide network of business leaders committed to making social and environmental responsibility a reality in their companies and the business sector generally. Jennifer attended Stanford University (B.A. with Distinction), Columbia University (M.A.), and Yale (M.B.A.).

 

Scott James

Scott James, who operates FairTradeSports.com, a B Corporation, is an entrepreneur, instructor, advisor, and investor in the world of sustainability. Forbes Magazine profiled him as a leading eco-entrepreneur in 2010 and BusinessWeek named Scott as one of “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs” in 2009. The products from his companies have been featured in publications ranging from Oprah’s O Magazine to the Washington Post. Scott teaches the Marketing course at the green MBA program, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, and the sustainability inter-term course at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves on the Advisory Council. Scott also writes a monthly piece about sustainability for Forbes. Scott previously worked in the high-tech sector, including Visio and Microsoft. He completed a BBA in Marketing at Baylor University and an MBA at the University of Notre Dame.

 

 

Stevanne Auerbach (“Dr. Toy”)

Dr. Toy (Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D.) has been for many years one of the nation’s leading professionals on children’s play and educational toys and related products. She relies on 30 years of hands-on experience to select the best educationally oriented, skill building products from both large and small companies in her original, annual award programs. Millions of parents, teachers, and toy buyers around the world use Dr. Toy’s guidance in making their selections. Dr. Auerbach is the author of 15 books for parents, professionals and children including The Whole Child, Choosing ChildCare, and Dr. Toy’s Smart Play/ Smart Toys:How to Raise a Child with a High P.Q. (Play Quotient), which has been published in 12 countries and is soon to be translated and published in Arabic.