Bobby Fishkin co-leads CrowdDoing which is the publisher of this course. CrowdDoing is a joint initiative of Reframe It Inc. and Match4Action Foundation. 

A decade ago Bobby Fishkin won the McKinsey Harvard Business Review award for collective intelligence- the Management 2.0 Challenge.

20 years ago Bobby Fishkin co-founded Books For Teachers which has created thousands of micro libraries for teachers.

15 years ago Bobby Fishkin co-founded ACCESS Arts Creating Community Energy and Social Solutions Baltimore which at the time got mentors and at-risk youth ticketless to live theatre, music and museums.

Bobby co-founded Reframe It after receiving his B.A., magna cum laude, in Philosophy from Yale University. Reframe It has become a strategic partner of M4A Foundation with whom it has developed the CrowdDoing initiative.

Five years ago, Bobby Fishkin co-founded CrowdDoing us where he co-leads

virtual volunteers around the world collaborate to tackle complex problems.

One CrowdDoing initiative is Wildfire Prevention Derivatives. Recently, the world has seemed to catch fire. Devastating fires across the globe cost billions of dollars, causing expensive corollary environmental issues including flooding, landslides, and other forms of environmental damage. There is a tremendous demand for wildfire prevention; the challenge is to develop schema which can be deployed cost-effectively across all stakeholders. The earth is burning; e.g., USA/California, Brazil, Australia. Regional impacts of wildfires are widespread and affecting health, housing, agriculture, biodiversity, and economies. CrowdDoing is developing a new approach to reduce wildfire risk and prevent damage, while simultaneously regenerating nature and improving quality of life. This approach combines new analytic methods, data, financial tools, and collaboration. Our “prevention derivatives” thesis is that anchor stakeholders at risk could demonstrably identify their self-interest in preventing the air pollution and other damage caused by wildfires. Stakeholders share liabilities. Catastrophes cause harm to insurers, reinsurers, Insurance-linked-security holders, corporations, individuals, and whole regions. If we can prevent these risks cost effectively through social innovation, that is a collective opportunity. For example, preventing wildfires can reduce risk for multiple types of stakeholders if combinations of social innovations are financed and adopted. Meanwhile, the bias against valuing positive risk prevents social innovations from getting adopted even if there would be remarkable benefits to all stakeholders through their adoption.

CrowdDoing is a joint initiative of Match4Action Foundation and Reframe It. CrowdDoing is focused on addressing the social, economic, and environmental challenges our world faces by collaborating with professionals and volunteers from many different industries. We offer a platform for individuals to connect and collaborate toward creating systemic change. What makes us different? CrowdDoing aims to support social innovations with transformative impact potential through global multi-disciplinary volunteering, micro-leadership and service learning. We work through operating leverage for systems change to achieve collective agency. We orient to ikigai and self-determination theory in order to help each person have the perfect role.

Bobby co-lead a consultation of the technology community via Reframe It in collaboration with TechCrunch, the Knight Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Bobby has presented results from his work on deliberative democracy internationally, including at the Global Citizen Foundation in Geneva, at the European Association of Wind Energy Producers, the Institute For The Future, at Tedx Hayward and the 4th Annual Summit on Public Consultation and Engagement in Toronto. Bobby has presented on impact investment work he has done at SOCAP. Bobby through Reframe It co-led the Social Impact Bond feasibility Study for Marin County and the Marin Community Foundation along with Total Impact Advisors and Heritas.

Bobby co-authored a report for the Center For Global Development about citizen consultation on global issues. Bobby was part of the team which advised and provided training for the Center For Global Development’s deliberative democracy initiative in Tanzania in 2015. Bobby co-authored a report on social enterprise and impact volunteerism’s potential for the Provida Foundation.  Bobby served on the board of directors of the Bay Area Social Enterprise Alliance. Earlier in his career, Bobby was a playwright, who co-directed and co-produced his historical play at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London which was also presented in workshops at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) and at the Theatre Museum, and had a different play of his produced in Texas and New York City. served as a Special Advisor to Tomorrow’s Europe, a Deliberative Democracy project of the European Commission and as a fellow of the Richard Florida Creativity Group.