SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR | BACKYARD PHILANTHROPIST
Beverley Claire Pomeroy is the Founder and CEO of Global Currents.
Beverley is the creator of Global Currents. Having founded Global Currents with the intention to facilitate online giving, GC continues to grow into a recognized social giving platform globally.
Beverley's community service began with a fifteen year career in private health care working for MDS Inc (LifeLabs), formerly Metropolitan, and then Metro-McNair Laboratories. This community health care role developed her acumen not only for serving people in need, but also her strength in business management and organizational renewal.
Beverley's journey into Not for Profit occurred when her youngest child was born with a life limiting illness and she suddenly found herself on the receiving end of philanthropy. After several years, she decided to be a part of the solution.
Beverley is a woman who, despite enormous personal challenges, is spearheading the growth of a business that is being recognized globally for its innovation and ability to help non-profit organizations and corporations achieve their philanthropic goals. She is an inspiration to everyone she meets through her passion and unwavering commitment to her vision of backyard philanthropy – making communities better by giving back. She embodies passion, purpose, integrity, generosity and a remarkable capacity to be able to find good in the world and in her own backyard. Beverley has a remarkable gift to convene collaborative partners to design/redesign human systems through the aggregation or adaption of technology.
Beverley is currently on Vancity Community Foundation's Community Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Women Entrepreneurs – Financing Opportunities and Growth (WE-FOG) Project and recently became a member of Vancouver Foundation's Women Give Well.
Beverley is a Top 40 Under Forty recipient for 2009 as well as a Finalist for a Stevie Award recognized as one of Canada's Top Female Entrepreneurs in 2009. She has spoken at the UN Informal Regional Network, Social Media for Social Good, SXSW, Social Venture Institute and participated in the Transatlantic Forum in NY. In 2011, Beverley won the YWCA Women of Distinction award for Technology and Innovation.
Bev also speaks on behalf of the Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and BC Children’s Hospital, fundraising galas, media events, advocating to governments for hospice care and children’s healthcare services; Bev has also participated as one of seven families in a documentary entitled “Living with a Life Limiting Illness” produced by Dr. Leora Kutner. This documentary aired as an educational piece for hospital staff and aired on CBC (Dr. Suzuki).
In her spare time, don't chuckle, she does have some...Beverley can be seen on the golf course, at the barn or scouting out the best burger and beer combo in any given city.
AWARDS and NOMINATIONS:
Beverley Claire Pomeroy is the Founder and CEO of Global Currents.
Beverley's community service began with a fifteen year career in private health care working for MDS Inc (LifeLabs), formerly Metropolitan, and then Metro-McNair Laboratories. This community health care role developed her acumen not only for serving people in need, but also her strength in business management and organizational renewal.
Beverley's journey into Not for Profit occurred when her youngest child was born with a life limiting illness and she suddenly found herself on the receiving end of philanthropy. After several years, she decided to be a part of the solution.
Beverley is a woman who, despite enormous personal challenges, is spearheading the growth of a business that is being recognized globally for its innovation and ability to help non-profit organizations and corporations achieve their philanthropic goals. She is an inspiration to everyone she meets through her passion and unwavering commitment to her vision of backyard philanthropy – making communities better by giving back. She embodies passion, purpose, integrity, generosity and a remarkable capacity to be able to find good in the world and in her own backyard. Beverley has a remarkable gift to convene collaborative partners to design/redesign human systems through the aggregation or adaption of technology.
Beverley is currently on Vancity Community Foundation's Community Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Women Entrepreneurs – Financing Opportunities and Growth (WE-FOG) Project and recently became a member of Vancouver Foundation's Women Give Well.
Beverley is a Top 40 Under Forty recipient for 2009 as well as a Finalist for a Stevie Award recognized as one of Canada's Top Female Entrepreneurs in 2009. She has spoken at the UN Informal Regional Network, Social Media for Social Good, SXSW, Social Venture Institute and participated in the Transatlantic Forum in NY. In 2011, Beverley won the YWCA Women of Distinction award for Technology and Innovation.
Bev also speaks on behalf of the Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and BC Children’s Hospital, fundraising galas, media events, advocating to governments for hospice care and children’s healthcare services; Bev has also participated as one of seven families in a documentary entitled “Living with a Life Limiting Illness” produced by Dr. Leora Kutner. This documentary aired as an educational piece for hospital staff and aired on CBC (Dr. Suzuki).
In her spare time, don't chuckle, she does have some...Beverley can be seen on the golf course, at the barn or scouting out the best burger and beer combo in any given city.
AWARDS and NOMINATIONS:
- YWCA Women of Distinction Award: Entrepreneurism and Innovation (2011)
- Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 Under Forty (2009)
- Stevie Award Finalist: Best Canadian Female Entrepreneur
- SXSW Panel Expert
