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Alok Vajpeyi, a veteran of the mutual fund industry and then the vice-chairman and managing director of Dawnay Day AV, was in the process of selling his stake and closing down his business. On 26 November 2008, he had a dinner...
Connie Siskowski, a 1967 Johns Hopkins Nursing graduate, earned the 2009 Purpose Prize for creating the Caregiving Youth Project in Palm Beach County, FL , an organization that provides support to youths who act as caregivers...
The Tech Awards Honors Five International Innovators With $250,000 for Applying Technology to Benefit Humanity November 19, 2009 /India PRwire/ -- Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore today received the 2009 James...
The laboratory course taking place in the basement of Princeton's Friend Center is not a traditional one -- in lieu of microscopes, there are discussions of microfinance, and students seek to create not chemical changes, but...
Dr. Andrew Kuper is President and Founder of LeapFrog, the world’s first microinsurance fund, which he founded in 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Ashoka, a support organization for social entrepreneurs. He has...
Experiment by Ayyappa Masagi in his village changes his life He plans to work with corporate firms on water management ‘We have conducted 850 programmes on Bangalore: A small experiment in his native village, Veerapura, in...
100,000 Grant Celebrated with the Announcement of Staples Foundation and Hispanic Heritage Teacher Award Winner WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF), a national non-profit organization that...
An interview with Jack Sim, a Singaporean social entrepreneur and founder of the World Toilet Organization. Globally renowned, we asked him about his movement and his thoughts about social entrepreneurship in Singapore. Related...
By Ben Kaminsky and Genevieve Long Epoch Times Staff Jun 25, 2009 Tel Aviv, ISRAEL—Twenty-five years ago, an ambitious program to foster civil rights learning among Israeli lawyers was founded by an American. Today, the...
