Maurice Machenbaum (born August 7, 1970http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=728742298&v=info&viewas=713770169) is a

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and

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expert and philanthropy advisor. He was the appointed

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of the

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, the main executive body of the

World Organization of the Scout Movement The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM ) is the largest and, after the Order of World Scouts (formed in 1911), is the second-oldest international organization in the Scout Movement, having been established in 1922. It has 176 members. ...

, from 2007 to 2013. Machenbaum has been a

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leader,

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leader, trainer of Cub Scout leaders and founder of Scout groups of

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(boys and girls) in

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. He participated in the 1995, 1999, 2007 and 2011

World Jamboree The World Scout Jamboree is a Scouting jamboree of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, typically attended by several tens of thousands of Scouts from around the world, aged 14 to 17. At the jamboree, many scouts swap badges. The firs ...

s, among other international events. Machenbaum is a

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, a graduate in

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with a

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in Humanitarian Action from the

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. He started his career in 1994 as Street Educator with the

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Casa Alianza in

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, an international NGO dedicated to the defense and rehabilitation of street children in

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and

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. In 1995, he became Assistant to the Executive Director for

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and in 1998, he founded Casa Alianza in

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and became its Program Director. He was subsequently in charge of research on the topic of

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s at the

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. In 2000 he became Program Director for Latin America and the

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for

Terre des hommes Terre des hommes (; ), also capitalized as Terre des Hommes, is an international children's rights charitable humanitarian umbrella organization under the aegis of the International Federation of Terre des Hommes (TDHIF), with independent organ ...

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, Switzerland's largest independent child-focused NGO. In 2004 Machenbaum and Etienne Eichenberger founded WISE, a philanthropy advisor company, which facilitates links between wealthy individuals and

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s. He left the company in 2022. He was the co-founder and board member of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation from 2016 to 2022; used to be member of the board of

Médecins du Monde ''Médecins du monde'' (MdM; ), or Doctors of the World, is an international humanitarian organization which seeks to provide emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people. It also advocates for an end to health ine ...

Switzerland from 2010 to 2013 and currently serves on the board of Cansearch Foundation (focussing on children's cancer research), a foundation he also co-founded.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20080821173452/http://scout.org/es/information_events/news/2007/the_world_scout_committee_appoints_a_new_world_treasurer * http://es.facebook.com/people/Maurice_Machenbaum/728742298 * https://www.wise.net/ * http://www.medecinsdumonde.ch/ * http://www.cansearch.ch * http://www.swissphilanthropy.ch/en/index.php {{DEFAULTSORT:Machenbaum, Maurice World Scout Committee members Living people Scouting and Guiding in Switzerland 1970 births