Béla Hatvany
From 2001 to 2017 Béla was quite active as an angel investor in early-stage companies in the UK and the US with particular emphasis on entities that made strong positive social contributions.
In 2001 Hatvany became the key investor and a board member of JustGiving in London where he mentored the founders Zarine Kharas and Anne Marie Huby.
JustGiving pioneered on-line giving and became the world's leading online fundraising platform enabling individuals to raise over £2Bn for charities.
Mustardseed enables organizations and individuals with a clear and compelling vision to create systems based on partnership that care for the web of life.
In 2013 Béla commissioned a short film called 'Change' Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine through producer Kelly Burks and Initiatives of Change, UK.
Narrated by Jeremy Irons, the film was a 'fire starter' and premiered at the TIGE Conference (Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy) in Caux, Switzerland in July, 2013.
Later in 2013, the film became the calling card for ‘The Béla Initiative’ which Hatvany announced as an alliance in which organizations, individuals, businesses and entrepreneurs could join to collaborate, share information and experience.
Communications team members attended the TIGE Conference see page 23 in Caux, Switzerland in July 2014 to film volunteers providing an unexpectedly powerful insight into the lives of people around the world.
From 2014 to 2017 Béla took the learning gained from the Change Enquiry and expanded his vision for enabling a world that works for everyone through the development of his concept for The Care Economy.
He met and liaised with a number of leading individuals calling for an economic revolution including Bernard Lietaer, Kate Raworth, Riane Eisler, Enno_Schmidt [de] Enno Schmidt], http://stephanie-ristig.de/wer-bin-ich/ Stefanie Ristig-Bresser], Christian Felber, Guy Standing and others.
Béla, Stefanie Ristig-Bresser, a pioneer from the Economy for the Common Good, UBI filmmaker, Enno Schmidt, and others guided this enquiry.
Béla and Lauren Hatvany, through the Mustardseed Trust, sponsored Overbeck and the team she formed to realise the first theCAREconomy Meet-up (1st) at Caux, Switzerland in June, 2018.
The meet-up provided ample time for an international gathering of 70 activists and practitioners to meet one another and work with economic experts, in person.
