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Ashoka Fellow Receives International Women of Courage Award
March 1, 2010 Ashoka Kenya Fellow Ann Njogu is one of 10 recipients this year, selected for her work against sexual and gender based violence and her role in the passage of Kenya’s Sexual Offences Act.
The International Women of Courage Award was created by Secretary of State Rice 3 years ago to recognize women who have shown exceptional courage and leadership.
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Bill Drayton Receives the Universal Peace Award
December 12, 2009 Bill Drayton was selected as the 2009 recipient of the Universal Peace Award by for his lifetime of extraordinary service to humanity, most notably his drive and accomplishments to effect systematic social change. The award is one of the world's pre-eminent awards for NGOs.
WANGO is an international organization uniting NGOs worldwide in the cause of advancing peace and global well being.
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5 Ashoka Fellows in top 10 for the Condé Nast Traveler Environmental Award
November 1, 2009 Five Ashoka Fellows were selected in the top ten of Condé Nast Traveler magazine's prestigious Environmental Award. This year’s selection by leaders of prominent environmental organizations demonstrates increasing acknowledgement of the role of social entrepreneurship in tackling pressing environmental issues
Ashoka Fellow Al Harris won for his work preserving the marine biodiversity of Madagascar.
Read more.Al was recently featured in Ashoka’s first eBook, Stories of Change: Fellows and Their Journeys, which is available for here.
Ashoka Fellow Prigi Arisandi was a runner up for his decade-long campaign to clean East Java's Surabaya River of industrial pollutants, which supplies drinking water to 1.7 million Indonesians.
Read more.Also in the top ten, to be featured on the Condé Nast Traveler site are Ashoka Fellows Sherif El Ghamrawy, Andy Lipkis, and Pati Ruiz Corzo.
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Ashoka Fellow Vicky Colbert Receives WISE Award
October 28, 2009 Ashoka Colombia Fellow Vicky Colbert has won the first World Innovation Summit for Education Award (WISE) given by the Qatar Foundation for her organization Escuela Nueva's effectiveness in improving the quality of basic education.
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U.S. News Media Group and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership Honor Eboo Patel as one of the 2009 America’s Best Leaders
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October 22, 2009 The Founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Youth Core, Ashoka Fellow Eboo Patel, was named one of America's Best Leaders for 2009 for his achievements in ensuring that the next generation is defined by interreligious cooperation rather than conflict.
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Ashoka Fellows recognized as 2009 Tech Laureates
September 30, 2009 Ashoka/Lemelson Fellows Joseph Adelegan and Howard Weinstein along with Ashoka Fellow Bright Simons have just been recognized as 2009 Tech Laureates by the Tech Museum. Presented by Applied Materials and a signature program of The Tech Museum, the Tech Awards recognizes innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity in five categories: environment, economic development, education, equality, and health.
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Karen Tse Receiving 2009 Gleitsman International Activist Award
September 29, 2009 Ashoka Fellow Karen Tse has been awarded the Gleitsman International Activist Award by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
She is being recognized for her efforts on behalf of people around the world who are denied their legal rights through arbitrary arrests, torture, and denial of counsel or a fair trial. The award and the $125,000 prize that goes with it will be presented to Tse at a ceremony in Cambridge on Tuesday, September 29th.
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Rebecca Onie Recipient of MacArthur "Genius Grant"
September 22, 2009 Ashoka USA Fellow Rebecca Onie had received a Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.
Rebecca was selected for her "exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work."
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Ashoka U.S. Fellows Dale Bell & Harry Wiland latest work being distributed by PBS
September 10, 2009 Ashoka U.S. Fellows Dale Bell & Harry Wiland latest work, a series called Going to Green, is being distributed by PBS. Going to Green combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire, and empower citizen learners to build greener and healthier communities.
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Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak Awarded 2009 Stockholm Water Prize
August 1, 2009 Founder of the Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, Dr. Pathak is known as a sanitation innovator. He is applauded for the socio-environmental results of his work.
*Image credit: Sulabh International Social Service Organisation
