2021 Grand Prize Winner: EarthEnable

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EarthEnable provides rural families in Rwanda and Uganda with affordable and environmentally sustainable solutions to unsanitary homes with dirt floors, which continually jeopardize their health.Read More

2020 Winner: Trees for the Future

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Trees for the Future (TREES) provides smallholder farmers pathways out of poverty and hunger by planting trees in forest gardens around the world.Read More

2020 Winner: Digital Green

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Digital Green is a global development organization that empowers smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the collective power of technology and grassroots-level partnerships.Read More

2019 Grand Prize Winner: World Bicycle Relief

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World Bicycle Relief builds and distributes specially designed, locally-assembled, rugged bicycles for people in need, improving access to education, healthcare, and economic opportunities in developing regions of the world where distance is a challenge.Read More

2018 Grand Prize Winner: myAgro

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myAgro is a nonprofit social enterprise that enables smallholder farmers in West Africa to use a mobile layaway model to invest their own funds in high-quality seed, fertilizer, and agricultural training to increase their harvests and income.Read More

2016 Winner: Hope Enterprise

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Hope Enterprise Corporation (HEC) is a not-for-profit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) with a mission of strengthening communities, building assets, and improving lives in economically distressed parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.Read More

2015 Winner: Innovation: Africa

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Innovation: Africa is an organization bringing Israeli innovation to African villages by engaging in top-quality, sustainable, scalable, and renewable infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa.Read More