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

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

2017 Winner: We Care Solar

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We Care Solar promotes safe motherhood and reduces maternal mortality in developing countries by providing health workers with reliable lighting, mobile communication, and medical devices using solar electricity. 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