Preparing 
Leaving
Spent the day at Volans, doing the first round of the selection process of the Phoenix 50 organisations for our third report for the Skoll Foundation. In addition to Alejandro, Charmian (and her partner Sam, a venture capitalist in the health sector), Smita and I, we pulled in Alexa Clay and Patrin Watanatada from SustainAbility and Molly Webb from The Climate Group. Really demanding process, particularly on a Saturday when the sun was shining wonderfully outside, but we made a huge amount of progress – and reached consensus on pretty much everything. Still lots of work to do, though, with several rounds of assessment still to do, but we had previously managed to get 422 nominations down to around 160, with Smita’s help, then today’s session worked on those to get the number down to around 60. In the evening, JP Renaut (of SustainAbility) and his wife Caroline came to Barnes for supper.
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