July 9, 2010 POSTED IN Awards, Press
By Micha Thomas
PopTech, the renowned international thought leadership and innovation accelerator network, today unveils its 2010 class of Social Innovation Fellows. The Fellows program equips world-changing innovators with the tools, insights, visibility and social network to help them scale their work and truly achieve impact in some of the most pressing arenas, including social, economic and environmental challenges. Joining the program in its third year, the new class is working on potentially transformative solutions to a wide range of global challenges in categories such as conflict resolution and violence prevention, energy, environmental technology, international development and sustainable agriculture.
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February 5, 2010 POSTED IN Awards, Press
In 2010 Janah and Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower were awarded the the Prix NetExplorateur by the French Senate for their collaborative Give Work iPhone application serving work to refugees in Dadaab, Kenya.
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January 1, 2009 POSTED IN Awards, Press
The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded Samasource over $200,000 (verify) in grants for generating employment opportunities for women, youth, and refugees in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Initiative: PRIDE
Geographic Focus: Kenya
TERM of the Grant: 8/1/2009 – 3/31/2011
Amount: $67,900
Toward the costs of generating employment opportunities for women and youth in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya by providing skills training at existing information and communication technologies centers.
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January 1, 2007 POSTED IN Awards, Press
The Social Entrepreneurship Challenge follows the structure of the e-challenge, but is focused on companies with a clear focus solving a pressing social issue. Nonprofit or for-profit companies that demonstrate scalable business ideas with quantifiable social or environmental impacts have the opportunity to win up to $50,000 in prize money. Participants have access to mentors and are invited to attend a series of workshops and networking events.
Winners of the Social Entrepreneurship Challenge have included Kiva, One Acre Fund, Samasource, DripTech, Embrace, and many other great innovations.
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January 1, 2007 POSTED IN Awards, Press
Samasource’s “Market for Change” business plan won €15,000 in the BiD International Challenge for impacting workers in Ghana. In 2007, BiD Network awarded between €5,000 and €20,000 to fourteen established start-ups. more >>
2010 PopTech Fellows
