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by Editor on June 22, 2006
This week HeathCliff Rothman of FilmYourIssue bows out and Gillian Caldwell of Witness takes over as the Audeamus social entrepreneur that advances to this round. But there are no winners and losers here really, and Rothman has been doing a great job with FYI, as this recent post testifies.
So, for this week, your social entrepreneurs. Please vote for the one you thinks deserves the most props and we'll send that person on to the next week. I'll probably do something at the end of the year, compiling those who have the most votes, and award an Audeamus SE of the Year Award. But that's a ways down the road.
*Advancing to this week is Gillian Caldwell, executive director of Peter Gabriel's Witness, an organization that helps small organizations around the world use video to assist in human rights advocacy. More on Caldwell at Global X on The Edge.
*From Nigeria, Super Eagles striker, Nwankwo Kanu, recently received the Stella Obasanjo Award for the NGO of the Year 2005 on behalf of the Kanu Heart Foundation. The Kanu Heart Foundation established in 1997 following a successful operation to correct Kanu's cardiac defect, was voted at the winner by THISDAY readers in February. More on the foundation at Africa Unchained. Unfortunately the Kanu website doesn't seem to be working, but if it did, you could find it here.
*Next up is Rohan Hall, author and president/CEO of Group Members Only, an online service set up to create a network of global online communities in the nonprofit and NGO sectors. Kind of like a 'MySpace' of social entrepreneurs.
*Haidy Duque Cuesta, an Ashoka fellow in Columbia, who founded the group Taller de Vida, or Life Workshop, to help displaced victims of the civil war in her country. Since it started, Taller de Vida has helped over 2,000 families. More at CNN.com.
*In the microcredit arena, there is Robert Graham's NamasteDirect, a project of the Namaste Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that connects individuals who wish to fund small loans to first-time borrowers, primarily women, in some of the most marginalized communities in Central America. The organization was originally founded as the Katalysis Partnership (now the Katalysis Microfinance Network of Central America) in 1984 by California businessman Graham.
*Finally comes Peter Mousaferiadis, founder of Cultural Infusion, a company which provides indigenous and culturally diverse programs to schools and communities in Australia, under a hybrid model.
Please vote below in the comments section. And feel free to suggest other social entrepreneurs out there who may not be covered in the media, which is usually how I come across these.
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Vote for Audeamus Social Entrepreneur Awards Round #5:
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Rating: 8.67 out of 3 vote(s) cast.
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Response from:
Rob
(06/23/06 4:52pm)
Namaste-Direct has been doing some great stuff on the microfinance front. My vote's for Robert Graham. Cheers.
Response from:
pitdesi
(07/03/06 9:12pm)
how about adding www.kiva.org in the next round? That being said, I vote for Rohan Hall
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