Rock Creek Institute
Partners
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Founders
David Levy, Founder, Chairman of Mayacamas Sanctuary Partners + Ventures. David is the lead investor, Community builder and Capital Formation organizer and serves as a founding Steward and President of Rock Creek Institute. From 2006 until 2017, when the Tubbs Fire burned Mayacamas Ranch, David was the co-owner with his wife Betsy of the Paradise with Purpose Hospitality Co. an iconic wellness group retreat gathering hub for social venture collaborations. For over 20 years, David has helped incubate a variety of successful startups and philanthropic initiatives as a founding team member, trustee, or advisor. David is a co-founder of the Mayacamas Design Studio (MDS), which utilizes the Wellbeing Innovation Accelerator (WIA) process created by Harold Glasser to design + incubate + accelerate sustainable wellbeing-oriented ventures. David is also the 1993 30+ US National Squash Champion.
Harold Glasser, Chief Purpose Officer, Platform for Change and WIA Designer, Mayacamas Design Studio co-founder, and Project Lead. Harold is professor emeritus of Environmental and Sustainability Studies and was the founding Executive Director of Western Michigan University’s (WMU) nationally recognized Office for Sustainability (2010-2018). He worked on the Finnish Innovation Fund’s project on the learning foundations of sustainable wellbeing societies, was instrumental in creating the US’s first United Nations University (UNU) Regional Center of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development (Grand Rapids), and was a Resource Person for UNU’s Institute of Advanced Study’s Education for Sustainable Development Program. He applies tools from primatology to neurobiology and design theory to behavioral economics to identify, rapidly prototype, field-test, evaluate, and—if appropriate—help scale-up technical and social innovations to accelerate the creation of sustainable wellbeing societies.
