New York Change-Makers Ball 2021

11TH ANNUAL CHANGE-MAKERS BALL NEW YORK PIER SIXTY, CHELSEA PIERS NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Africa’s Rural Communities Have Our Support Difficult challenges require a long-term approach. Enstar is proud to support Self Help Africa in its work to end poverty in rural African communities. By helping farmers gain access to agriculture education, business skills and micro finance, local people will have better opportunities to increase their incomes, create environmentally sustainable crops and engage with a reliable route to market.

For many families, where farming is the occupation of choice, the impact of global warming can be devastating. African farms are vulnerable to high temperatures, fluctuations in rainfall and variable yields which dramatically impact the daily lives of local people. Enstar stands behind Self Help Africa as it works alongside the people of rural Africa to improve their future.

As a global business, with a global care for people, it’s a privilege for us to sponsor Self Help Africa and we congratulate everyone involved in this important programme.

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U.S. TEAM: William Galvin - Executive Vice President Kerry McGlade- Vice President, Business Development

OUR BOARD

RISING TO THE CHALLENGE

NEW YORK

BOSTON

THE ADVISORY BOARD

THE ADVISORY BOARD

Chair: Karl Wall – The Carrick Group Marc Abrams – Mintz Levin Carletta Downs – Independent Advisor Margaret Banda, Zambia

Ronan Downs – Beckett’s Bar and Restaurant Orlaith Farrell – 150 Bond

T

he two years since our last in-person New York Change-Maker’s Ball have been tough for everyone.

Africa’s experience during the pandemic has been so different to that of the US. There were lower initial rates of infection and deaths but the very low vaccination rates across Africa have left it in a continuing vulnerable position.

Travel continues to be restricted, supply chains have been interrupted and farmers – who often rely on more lucrative cross-border trade to make ends meet – face continued hardship.

We’ve adapted to the challenges of the last two years, just as most US businesses have changed their ways of working too. More of our work now takes place virtually, of course, but we’ve also leaned in on our microfinance and small business grant work, enabling entrepreneurs across the continent to invest in their plans and their futures.

And, at a time of great challenges, we took on an extra one with the acquisition in mid-2021 of another non-profit, United Purpose, whose programs across seven countries have always impressed us.

That’s why this event is more important now than in 2019 – we’ve expanded our footprint in the last 24 months, increasing the impact of our work significantly. With your help, we’re determined to continue investing in the women and men who can power its future. From to Burkina Faso to Zambia (and now Bangladesh too!), you can hear the words ‘asante’, ‘merci’, ‘ameseginalehu’ and ‘natotela’. On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of people who will engage with Self Help Africa’s work across Africa in the next 12 months, thank you.

Hugh Finnegan – Norris McLaughlin LLP Richie Huggard – Independent Advisor Paul Galligan – Tullett Prebon Fiona Gibbons – Independent Advisor James Kelly – Independent Advisor Mary McEvoy – PepsiCo Neasa Nic Dhonaill – Ticksmith Corp.

Tom Nichols – Carrick Holdings Paul O’Connor – Mad Dog & Beans Nicola Parish – Parish PR

Joe D’Alton – Independent Advisor Phil Hartmann – EY Ben Hincks – Torres, Scammon, Hincks & Day Peter Lennon – Brookline Bank Kevin Malloy – Avison Young Gillian McColgan – Rockstar Consortium Rob MacGoey – Apollo Global Management Lisa McKelvey – Green Feet Peter Merrigan – Taurus Investment Holdings Tom Olivier – Pacific Crest Securities Eddie Roche – Roche Bros Brad Routhier – EY Brian Sugrue – Bernstein

THE ASSOCIATE BOARD THE ASSOCIATE BOARD Chair: Merit Webster – Independent Advisor

Emily Hansen – EY Mike Hutchinson – Marsh Michael Gidaly – Douglas Elliman Real Estate

OUR IMPACT

Veronica Kelly – Google

Cara Tallon – Tavern29

Mike Bubolo – USI

In 2021, we will impact the lives of almost 6 million people in 16 countries across Africa.

Chair: Dr. Peter Hirst – MIT

R. Sharon Smith – Ambac

Ana Barros – Riverside Company Will Galvin Self Help Africa

OUR BOARD

Siobhan Keenan – Group Nine Media Chantal McLaughlin – Independent Advisor Alexandra Schrecengost – Virtual with Us, Culture with Us Sean Schrecengost – Virtual with Us

Co-Chair: Laura Cuddihy – Boston Consulting Group Matt Allen – EY Jenna Brink – Hunneman Rebecca Chitro – Avison Young Christina Easton – Avison Young Alexandra Ferreira – Turbonomic Michelle Healy-Serpa – Invest Northern Ireland Christina Lambertson – Avison Young Stephanie Myrie – Avison Young Conor Peal – Timetric Matt Ross – Massachusetts General Hospital

WHERE WE WORK

OUR PATRONS & EVENT SPONSORS Key Prize Sponsor: Enstar Change-Maker Cocktail Sponsor: Collective Arts Creativity

Following our historic merger with UKbased organisation United Purpose in 2021 we will now work across 16 African countries, as well as in Brazil and Bangladesh.

A/V & Livestream Sponsor: Debevoise & Plimpton Entertainment Sponsor: Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Agency Whiskey Sponsor: Misguided Spirits Coat Check Sponsor: FGI Design After-Party Sponsor: Tavern29

TABLE SPONSORS Enstar – Paul O’Shea

Mad Dog & Beans (Fidi) Mad Dog and Beans (38th)/Bierhaus NYC – Paul O’Connor

Merit Webster Conor Elliott Wayne Reade

Moelis & Company – Jared Dermont Platinum Table Sponsor Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP – Peter Tomlinson Gold Table Sponsors Ambac – Sharon Smith Carrick Holdings – Karl Wall, Tom Nichols Debevoise & Plimpton – Steven Slutzky Nelson Taplin & Goldwater/CCMSI – Norm Taplin Silver Table Sponsors Burgher Gray LLP – Gopal Bugher HMR Group – Wayne Read Locke Lord LLC – Alan Levin

Norris McLaughlin LLP – Hugh Finnegan Odeon – Andrew Feldschreiber Sidley Austin LLP – Michael Devins Tavern29/Stone Street Tavern/ Taproom 307 – Cara Tallon, Ronan Downs Great Oaks Capital – Andrew Bozshardt USI – Mike Bubolo Personal Table Heads Matthew Ross James Kelly Kerry McGlade Chantal McLaughlin Elaine Moleski Paul O’Connor

BURKINA FASO ETHIOPIA UGANDA

We will support close to six million people, providing agricultural support and training, improving access to markets, savings and loans services, and water and sanitation.

Journal Sponsor: Mintz

Diamond Table Sponsor

ERITREA

KENYA

SENEGAL & THE GAMBIA

The programme countries denoted in green (right) are countries where Self Help Africa is working, the countries in orange where United Purpose has projects.

GUINEA

MALAWI

NIGERIA

ZAMBIA DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC)

MALAWI MOZAMBIQUE

The graphic below is an illustration of the impact of Self Help Africa’s projects, last year.

Featured Mixologist Lorcan Maguire: Originally from County Wicklow, Ireland, Lorcan has been a resident mixologist in New York City for the past four years holding tenure at several bars throughout the city.

With a passion for hospitality, he has worked in notable places including The Elgin, Ida’s Nearabout, Elder Greene, Stage 48, and Churchill’s Tavern.

Currently, he is a valued member of the Tavern 29 team in midtown.

PROJECT SNAPSHOT 10%

187,497

increase on 2019

Households with increased production

7%

229,742

increase on 2019

Diversified farming systems

Thank You to Our Generous Prize Sponsors: Aer Lingus, Alexandra Schrecengost, Altrosero, Ballybunion Golf Course, Bar 23 & Grill, Becketts, Berkeley & Stuart, Master Sommelier Brahm Callahan, Cara Tallon, Carletta Downs, Chantal McLaughlin, Diamaird O’Sullivan, Elaine Moleski, Emily Hansen, Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, Factory 380, Lake Hopatcong Adventure Company, Kenya Airways, James Kelly, Great Plains Conservation (Kenya), Madison Wells, Native Spirit Bermuda, Lake Hopatcong Cruises, Live the Lake, Mad Dog and Beans, Mallory Portraits, Maurice Byrne, Mill Pond Inn, Sharon Robinson-Clayton, On Point Beauty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paul O’Connor, Dr. Peter Hirst, Riverside Company, Riverside Pilates, Roberta Souza, Ronan Downs, Route66 Smokehouse, Royal Portrush Golf Club, Sharon Smith, Stone Street Tavern, Taproom307, Tavern29, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Windlass Restaurant, Virtual with Us.

10%

65,596

Households with increased resilience

increase on 2019

26%

224,996

Households practising Climate Smart Agriculture

increase on 2019

November 5, 2021 Dear Friends: It is a pleasure to welcome everyone as Self Help Africa hosts its 11th Annual Change-Maker’s Ball.

Since its establishment, Self Help Africa has strengthened rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa through its programs that uplift small-scale farmers and women entrepreneurs, improve food security, advance gender equality, and promote sustainable economic development. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it has also advocated for vaccine equity and raised awareness about how to curb the spread of the virus in the countries it serves. Tonight’s Change-Maker’s Ball will unite diverse New Yorkers to advance this organization’s important mission, and it also signifies our city’s

resiliency and the tremendous progress we have made in our efforts to reopen safely. I applaud everyone gathered for their efforts to fight poverty and hunger and invest in the future of Africa.

Together, we will come back from this crisis and increase opportunity in the five boroughs and beyond.

On behalf of the City of New York, please accept my best wishes for a wonderful evening and continued success..

Sincerely, Bill de Blasio Mayor

A market trader sells roast corn from her stall in rural Malawi.

SPECIAL PROJECT

MALAWI SAVINGS & LOANS

M

alawi is consistently ranked by the World Bank as one of the ten poorest countries in the world.

Think about all you can do with a bank account.

You can save, manage your budget, create a buffer for emergencies, or take a loan to begin to build a business.

Unfortunately, banks are out of reach for many poor people in developing countries.

In Malawi, an estimated 75% of people do not have access to formal banking services - and a large number of those are women.

in the world. We serve rural communities only, many of whom struggle to feed their families and fulfill their strong desire to send their children to school.

Many of them are exploited when harvesting season comes because of their low literacy levels and lack of influence over selling prices. At least 24% of women clients have no formal education at all while a further 66% have elementary school education only.

“This is critical support, helping impoverished communities across Malawi to start or grow their small businesses”

Our microfinance subsidiary in Malawi, known as Cumo, provides small loans and savings accounts to over 80,000 people, 83% of them women.

Loans range in size from $50 to $3,000, and are based on simple business plans submitted by applicants.

Cumo takes no collateral for these loans. This means that there are no financial barriers to receiving a loan from it, allowing us to reach some of the poorest women

This is critical support, helping impoverished communities across Malawi to start or grow their small businesses, focused on individual entrepreneurs who have ideas and energy but little to no capital.

To grow our microfinance portfolio, Cumo needs your support – to reach further into rural Malawi, to the thousands of communities who have no access to financial services. Will you support a rural entrepreneur in Africa this year?

We are proud to support the Eleventh Annual Change-Makers Ball and salute Self Help Africa in their mission to transform communities.

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For an Africa that is free from hunger and extreme poverty

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Self Help Africa and its strong supporter, our good friend,

Sharon Smith on the occasion of the

11th Annual Change-Makers Ball for their dedication to ending hunger and poverty in rural Africa.

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Self Help Africa’s Change-Makers Ball

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and the entire SELF-HELP

AFRICA team and board.

We support their unwavering commitment to ending hunger and poverty in rural Africa.

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BOTTLE SIZE

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TASTING NOTES

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BOTANICALS

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Artist & muralist Lawren Alice is best known for creating vibrant, freehand, flourish pattern designs that are slowly taking over both private and public wall space in her home city of Philadelphia. Finding inspiration in color palettes painted on Pakistani art trucks, compositional elements found in Norwegian rosemaling, and drippy background layers present in aerosol and graffiti work, Alice’s free-flow style perfectly couples traditional decorative arts with a fresh modern twist that feels both refreshing and balanced.

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