Can we still participate in Leapfrog fund

Dalia Abdou — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:18:43 -0400

Good Afternoon, Can we still partcipate in Leapforg fund? We would like to start an ewaste project in Egypt. Kind Regards Dali Abdou

Leapfrog Fund Winners Announced by Schwab, Lemelson

Rob Katz — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:45:58 -0500

Guest blogger Bill Kramer is principal of The Global Challenge Network, LLC, an executive education and training company. From 2001 through mid-2007, he worked on pro-poor business strategies with WRI. Previously, Bill founded a non-profit focusing on the relationship of knowledge to economic development and enjoyed a long career in the private sector, founding a dozen companies, most of which were in the book business.

By Bill Kramer

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the Lemelson Foundation announced the first winners of their Leapfrog Fund competition at the annual summit of Schwab social entrepreneurs on January 22 in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Leapfrog Fund supports the transfer and adaptation of technological innovations developed by social entrepreneurs. Rob Katz discussed the Leapfrog Fund as part of his review of The Power of Unreasonable People, and asked me to look into the details on behalf of NextBillion.net. This year's winners are:

Ashok Khosla, TARA India
Sewa Lanka, Sri Lanka
Fabio Rosa, IDEAAS, Brazil
Carlos Simão, Instituto Sertão Vivo, Brazil
Joe Madiath, Gram Vikas, India
Dr. RS Arole, Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed, India
Maqsood Sinha & Iftekhar Enayetullah, Waste Concern, Bangladesh
Tasneem Siddiqui, SAIBAN, Pakistan
Thulasiraj Ravilla, Aravind Eye Hospital, India
Martin Burt & Rainhald Deurksen, Fundación Paraguay & Fundación Visión, Paraguay

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Leapfrog Fund Winners Announced by Schwab, Lemelson