David Stoker

Current

• Development-Finance Liaison at Ashoka

Past

• Masters of Public Health Graduate Student at BYU
• Research Intern at Freedom from Hunger
• Research Intern at RACHA

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Education

• Brigham Young University
• Brigham Young University

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Connections

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Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Websites

• microfranchising.blogspot.com

David Stoker’s Summary

Dedicated to the vision of sustainable enterprise/social entrepreneurship. Projects with which I have been involved: biodiesel in Tonga, portable ‘pharmacies’ in rural Ghana, and breastfeeding promotion programs in Cambodia. Independently started blogging about a certain mechanism of social enterprise called microfranchising. Member of winning team of a Social Venture Competition at BYU.

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David Stoker’s Experience

• Development-Finance Liaison

  Ashoka

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years )

  Reconstructing data systems and processes for the revenue side of a complex international organization. Additionally splitting time to promote the concept of the Citizen Base and marketing Ashoka's new website www.citizenbase.org. Reaching out to Ashoka Fellows, the Ashoka Community, the blogging community and the social sector at large.

• Masters of Public Health Graduate Student

  BYU

  (Research industry)

  September 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 3 months)

  Graduate degree at Brigham Young University. My research/project activities have involved: Market research for microfranchises selling health products in rural Ghana in conjunction with MFI's and Freedom from Hunger; a social business venture in Tonga making biodiesel from farmers coconuts and jatropha seeds; survey research in Cambodia evaulating the impact of a breastfeeding promotion program; and survey research in Cambodia on the health status of children within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to guide their humanitarian efforts.

• Research Intern

  Freedom from Hunger

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  April 2006 — August 2006 (5 months)

  Conducted interviews and focus groups with microfinance clients in rural Ghana to provide recommendations for a microfranchise targeting the main health problems threatening productivity and absenteeism.

• Research Intern

  RACHA

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

  Monitored research standards and execution of an interview team in rural Cambodia during a baseline study of RACHA's Wat-Nun Grannies Breastfeeding Promotion program.

David Stoker’s Education

• Brigham Young University

  MPH , Public Health , 2005 — 2007

  Besides my own graduate work I contributed significantly to the projects of two previous graduates.
  
  Co-author in article published in Journal of Maternal and Child Nutrition

  Activities and Societies:

  Center for Economic Self-Reliance, Ballroom Dance Company, Phi Kappa Phi

• Brigham Young University

  BA , International Studies , 2001 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Magna Cum Laude, Minors in Business, Asian Studies and Ballroom Dance. Phi Kappa Phi, Mentored Research ORCA award recipient, Ballroom Dance Company

Additional Information

David Stoker’s Websites:

• microfranchising.blogspot.com

David Stoker’s Interests:

Poverty, social enterprise, social innovation, microfinance, microfranchising; health, technology for the BOP; monitoring and evaluation; dance, music, the arts in general; philosophy, theology, science and culture; photography; games with the fam, most activities involving water, BYU football, Playing with my niece and nephews.

David Stoker’s Honors:

Social Venture Business Plan Competition 1st place, BYU 2007
Fulton Grant
ORCA Grant
Publication in Journal of Maternal and Child Nutrition
2nd place and honorable mention Kennedy Center Photo Contest 2006

David Stoker’s Contact Settings

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