Our 2014 Award Recipients
Alejandro Gac-Artigas
Springboard Collective closes the reading achievement gap by coaching teachers, training family members, and incentivizing learning such that our scholars have the requisite skills to access life opportunities. Winner of The 2014 Gratitude Award. Springboard’s Founder is Alejandro Gac-Artigas.
Minhaj Chowdhury
Based in India (and also serving Bangladesh), DrinkWell transforms the arsenic and fluoride water crisis affecting over 200 million people across rural India and Bangladesh into entrepreneurial opportunity by blending proprietary filtration technology with a franchise business model.
Heather Franzese
Operating in Bangladesh, LaborLink is the first platform to leverage the disruptive power of mobile to give voice to the global workforce and deliver real-time data to companies like Cisco and Patagonia to align sourcing practices with worker needs – like SurveyMonkey for the 5 billion people without internet access.
Brian Hill
Edovo improves inmate outcomes by incentivizing educational and vocational progress through tablets in correctional facilities. Investment in inmate education leads to reduced recidivism and lower taxpayer liability, however, programming is extremely limited, politically challenging, and doesn’t meet inmate demand.
Our 2013 Award Recipients
Sajan George
Matchbook Learning, based in New York City, offers a unique blended, competency-based model for K-12 schools in the US who are seeking to deliver a radically different result with students of high need communities. The company has focused on addressing the needs of the “ ottom” 5% of US schools, working with failing public schools in challenged communities of Detroit & Newark.
Tonee Ndungu
Kytabu allows K-12 students in Africa to “ lease” textbooks via a unique tablet- and computer-based system. Content is preinstalled on a device that is affordable and accessible to middle and low income families. Kytabu helps students in the developing world to leapfrog the limitations infrastructure and cost have placed on the access and use of learning content in a developing world context. The Kytabu app provides a new channel to access learning material that comes as a requirement for children learning in a government curriculum environment.
Mark Collin
Dovetail Learning ,based in Mill Valley, California, is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening children’s innate capacity for resilience, self-mastery, and empathy for others through its “ToolBox" curriculum, practices, and methods. The Toolbox curriculum is used in thousands of K-6 grade programs/schools around the US. It calls upon social-emotional learning techniques and presents these to children in the classroom via paper, online, and trainer-delivered systems.
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