by Elizabeth Gage | Feb 4, 2019 | Africa, In The News
Boris Bulayev, who founded Educate! in 2009 with Eric Glustrom and Angelica Towne, was awarded the CHF100,000 Jacobs Award for Social Engagement (worth over $100,000 US), along with representatives of nine other social entrepreneur organizations last November. Boris...
by PRW Admin | May 4, 2018 | Africa, In The News, On The Ground, Uncategorized
$1.25 million Skoll Foundation Award goes to 2016 and 2017 grantee myAgromyAgro EnrollmentThe Skoll Foundation’s stated mission is “investing in change agents whose innovations disrupt the status quo and accelerating their progress toward impact at scale.” It was...
by Laura Power | Sep 28, 2017 | Africa, In The News, Standard of Living
Former Project Redwood Grantee, Compatible Technology International (CTI) has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development. CTI spent several years working with locals in Senegal to develop a low cost thresher that...
by Laura Power | Jul 20, 2017 | Africa, Asia, In The News
What do Mia Hamm, Troy Aikman, and Kristi Yamaguchi have in common? All three are successful professional athletes, born with clubfoot. That’s a congenital condition that prevents sufferers from walking normally, or at all, because one or both feet are twisted inward,...
by Laura Power | Feb 2, 2017 | In The News
Heads up! Look for a feature about Project Redwood, titled Once Upon a Class Panel, in the January/February 2017 issue of the Stanford Magazine. Here’s a link to the on-line version: The magazine goes to Stanford alumni, students and their parents, and donors....
by PRW Admin | Dec 31, 2015 | Americas, Design for Extreme Affordability, Health and Nutrition, In The News
We are proud to share that one of our grantees was an award winner at the 2015 Tech Awards Gala that took place on November 12. An evening the San Jose Mercury News compares to the Cannes Film Festival or the Oscars, Tech Awards Gala celebrates innovation across...
