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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
11/15/10Changemakers: Skoll Awardees Win Ashoka/G-20 Competition
The G-20 has committed more than one-half billion dollars to support the winners of the G-20 SME Finance Challenge. Pres. Barack Obama, Korean President Lee Myung-bak, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulated the winners in person and announced the funding commitment at the closing of the G-20 Seoul Summit. The 14 winners included two Skoll Awardees: Scott Gilmore for Peace Dividend Trust and Willy Foote for Root Capital.
11/4/10NYTimes Fixes: Filling the Gap Between Farm and Fair Trade
“While the global market for natural goods is booming, millions of small producers who dream of accessing it are shut out,” writes David Bornstein in his column Fixes in The New York Times. He goes on to describe Skoll awardee Willy Foote and Root Capital’s history, strategy, and achievements filling this gap by providing environmentally sustainable grassroots businesses access to capital, skills and markets.
10/21/10HuffPost: Pieces of the Behavior Change Puzzle
Gary Slutkin, Executive Director CeaseFire, tells the story of Skoll awardee Molly Melching and the work of Tostan in a column in Huffington Post. Slutkin explores the parallels and draws larger lessons from the work of Tostan to stop female genital cutting and Ceasefire to stop shootings and killings. Slutkin writes:
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