2008 Echoing Green Fellowship Semifinalists

Echoing Green is proud to announce that the following organizations have been named semifinalists in our 2008 fellowship competition. We received nearly 1,500 applications this year, of which only 347 (24%) were selected as semifinalists. These incredible social entrepreneurs work in 41 countries (from Argentina to Zimbabwe), 38 states (from Alabama to Wisconsin), and just about every program area (from arts and culture to youth and children).

So congratulations to these organizations and good luck in the next phase of the competition!

1 to 1 Revolution
1in6, Inc.
2trustu
4-Word Thought
A Single Light
Activist Legal Support
Activists Training Network
ADEA AGROVET (Agricultural Development East Africa AGROVET)
ADEPROFE
Advocates for Informed Choice
Adwene Student Corps
African Leadership Connection Inc (ALC)
AfterProductions.org
AIDEC
Alaska Seeds of Change
Alternative Realities
Appropriate Rural Technologies for Social Transformation (ARTFORST)
Arriba Casas Grandes Citizen Education Center
ArtistAsCitizen.org
Arts, Culture, and Entrepreneurship (ACE) Academies
Asian Women Giving Circle
Asociación Nacional de Derecho Ambiental (National Environmental Law Assoc.)
ASTITVA
Atlas Corps International Fellowship Program
Austin Community Design and Development Center
Awake Africa
Back to Our Roots, Cultivating Jobs and Healthy Lifestyles
Bait & Tackle, Inc.
BetR-blok TM
Beyond Good Intentions
Biodiversity and Company LLC
Blanket And Sponge Project In Asia (BASPIA)
blueEnergy
Border Crossers
Border Statements
Boston Workes Alliance
Bringing Orphans Hope in Ukraine (BOHU)
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School--Charter School 2.0
Brown Paper Studio
BUSTAN
BYkids
Campaign 5000: Coordinated Cultivation of Jatropha for Poverty Reduction in the NWP of Cameroon
Capital Sisters International
CARIFEM
Cascadian Edible Landscapes
Center for Advancement of Development Rights (CEADER)
CENTRE FOR FORTIFIED CASSAVA PRODUCTS FOR RURAL NUTRITION
Children and Nature Network- Fort Collins
Children's History Interactive Museum (C-HIM)
Chordoma Foundation
Citizen Action for Accountable Governance and Development
Citizens Action for Accountability and transparency [CAAT] India
City Hall Fellows
ClassLinks
Clean household energy for rural population of developing countries
CleanStar
Climalink
Climate Refugees
Community Cafe Cooperative (CCC): Changing the Lives of Children through Conversations that Matter
Community Climate Initiative
Community forestry practical schools
community forum
Community Health Insurance Association (CHIA)
Community Human Rights Defenders Network
Community Roots
Community School of Building o/a OpenWorks School of Building
Community Voice International
Conscious Lifestyle
Consciously Rebuilding- Almost Home
Co-opportunities
CREA
Create Culture
Creating a Culture of Learning and Empowerment in the Amazon Region (cCLEAR)
Creative Citizens
CulinaryCorps
D2 - Democracy 2.0
DC Housing Justice Center
DesiCrew Solutions
Detainee Family Organizing Project
Determined2Heal
Developing a Green-Certified Wood Cooperative
Development In Gardening
Development of Rural Muslim Women’s Leadership for Eliminating Gender Violence
Digital Technologies Workshop: Different Employment
DIGITULAY
Disaster Accountability Project
Dronacharya and Ekalavya Foundation
EcoSystems - Products for Environmental Harmony
Elder Outreach Project of the Urban Justice Center
Embrace
ENERGY SUPPLY FOR RURAL AREAS IN MALI
Entrepreneurship and Small Scale Business Education and Training
Envest
Envirolution
Equal Opportunity Schools
Ethiopian Israelis - Community Renewal
e-TRI: Educational Technology and Research International
Face Homelessness
Fair Reconstruction of Historically African American Communities Post-Katrina
Fair Trade Handicraft Foundation
Farm Incubator and Grower (FIG) Program
Fathers Engaged
FeelGood
Fired Up Media
First Step Initiative
Floodspace
FORGE
Foundation Rwanda
freeFormed
Future Innovator in China Foundation
Gansu
Generate Change
Girls Matters!
Global Citizen Year
Global Reach Out Inititative, Inc.
Global Young Investors' Network (GYIN)
Good To Be Green, Inc.
Grafftruth
Green Coast Enterprises
Green Collar Vets
GreenLeaf Market
GreenMango
Ground Report LLC
Growth Through Energy & Community Health (GTECH) Strategies
Haven Youth Center Incorporated
HealthCare Volunteer
Heshima Kenya
Homeostasis
HOPE 4 D FUTURE INITIATIVE
Hope Runs
Hot Bread Kitchen
HUNGER AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN MWEA-KENYA
I.T.S.C.O.O.L. - Innovative Tactics for Sea level and Climate change Outreach & Opportunity Leaders
Icon Partners & Associates
IdeaEncore Network
Ideas at Work
Improving Measurable Outcomes for Children with Incarcerated Parents
Incentive Mentoring Program
Indego Africa Project
Indian School of Education
Indigenous Law Project
Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK)
Inspiring Kids
Institute for Service Learning and Environmental Education (ISLEE)
Institute for Sustainable Mining (Artminers)
Intelligent Mobility International (IMI)
International Center for Dialogue and Education
International Health Development Organization
International HIV/AIDS Legal ResourceFree Legal Services for Sexual Minorities a
International Human Rights Counsel
International Justice Network
Internet Resource Mediation (IRM) Centre
Invested Citizens, Inc.
Investors Without Borders
Inwelle Project Success
Isoko: The Theatre Source
JM Brain Power
JND ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICS - (JET)
Jovenes para Derechos de Indigenas y Medio Ambiente
Kindred
Knowledge As Power
KOMAZA - Tree Farming to End Chronic Poverty in East Africa
Kounkuey Design Initiative
Lead Nigeria
LGBT Community Career Resource Center
LGBT Foreign Policy Project
LIGARDE
Livelihood Equity Connect
Logos
M12: Sustainable Solutions Through Public Art
Maasai SchooL (Centre Of Entrepreneurship)
Maputo Bairro Recycling
Market for Change
MBAs Without Borders
Mentor Artists Playwrights Project
Meridian Foundation
Midwives for Haiti
Minority Women in Action
Mission Access
Mission Against Defilement (MAD)
Montana Children's Law Center
MuJER - Mujeres por la Justicia, Educación y el Reconocimiento
My Journey Home, Inc.
My Right Uganda
NADA
Natural Doctors International
Near Horizons Foundation
Network for Environment and Economic Development (NEED)
New Mexico GLBTQ Centers
New Orleans Parent Organizing Network
NOLA YURP Initiative (NYI)
NORPRA
Nuestro Herencia
Nuru International
Nutrition & HIV Project- The Food Basket
Ohmji, Inc.
One Voice
OneChild
Open Class Network
Operation ASHA
Opportunity Maine
OutReach(Project John)
Palestinian Residency Training Initiative
Paradigm Initiative Nigeria
Parents As Primary Teachers, Inc.
Passport:ATX
pastoral care and counseling service centre
Pastoralists Center for Policy Dialogue
PharmaSecure - Addressing counterfeit drugs
Philly Orchard Project (POP)
Pioneer, Inc.
PIRP
Planting Empowerment
Postsecondary Pathways
project 054: developing grindstaff construction company to build monolithic dome homes
Proyecto de Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales, A.C.
PUENTES
Purple Ribbon Council to Cut Out Domestic Abuse
Queen City Farm
RACHNA
RAINBOW ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRANT WOMEN IN JAPAN
Ramen Ya - the Noodle House
Ratepayers United of Colorado, LLC (RUC)
REFOCUSING THE NIGERIA STUDENTS' UNNION GOVERNMENT;BREEDING CHANGE AGENTS
Reliable Business Outsourcing
Ren Ai Organization for Street Children
Rencontre pour la Paix et les Droits de l'Homme (RPDH)
Resolve Uganda
Richmond Community Land Trust
Rural Exchange Delegation, Inc.
Rural Immigrant Justice Project
Rural lights
Rural Organization for Alternative Development
Rural Outsourced Production Enterprise (ROPE)
RWAMREC
S&C Financial Credit Resolutions Group (NFP)
Sage Consulting for Change, LLC
Sage Financial Solutions, Inc
Sanjiang Weishi (Three Parallel Rivers Guardians)
Save it Forward
Saving Our Sons
School Girls Unite
School Invest
Schools for Sustainable Communities
ServeNext.org
Shanghai Nanhui Wetland Ecological education base
Shaping Youth (Media & Marketing's Impact on Kids)
Sign Language Skill Development Centre for the Deaf in Nigeria
SnowGlobe
Social Security for the Rural Poor without taxes, contributions or savings
SoftShell Computers Inc.
SolarBond
Sole to Soul Power
South Bronx Food Cooperative
South Los Anglesles Community Kitchen
South Sea Exclusive
Southeastern Prison Education, Advocacy, & Reformation, Inc. (SPEAR)
Spot Journalism
SSA SolEnergy Ltd. - Under Registration
ST. CLARE'S WOMEN HEALTH AND LEARNING CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
Starting Artists, Inc.
STRETCH Program
Student Parent Outreach for Higher Education Program
Student U.
Students Helping Honduras
Subir al Sur (Up South)
Sudden Flowers
SuperBulbs
Sustainable Agriculture Connections
Sustainable Health Ventures
Sustainable Inclusive Tourism Opportunity Design & Development (SITODD)
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)
Sustainable Rural Entrepreneurship for Families, Inc.
Take Action Media
Tatriz
TEAM INDIA
teenzMATTER Productions
TELDI (Tribal Entrepreneurs & Leaders Development Initiative)
Terra Resource Development International
The Advocacy Lab
The Appropriate Technology Collaborative
The ARC Institute—Achieving Readiness for College
The Better Borrowing and Lending Coalition
The Brown Angel Center
The Catalyst Academy
The Center for Global Service (CGS)
The Center for the Working Poor
The Compost Club
The Concrete Garden Project
The CultureBank
The Daughters and Sons Initiative (DSI)
The DyingBreed Foundation
The Emancipation Network
The G.A.T.E. Project
The Global Coin Jar (Final Name -TBD)
The Global Consultation Network
The Green Apple Fund
The Heartspring Project
The Houda Project: Empowering Arab Youth Through The Arts
The Houdini Project, Inc.
The Life Force Project
The Op-Ed Project
The PEAS Community—For Peace, Empowerment, Action & Sustainability
The Public Press
The Seven Women Center
The Small Hands Fund
The SmallHolders Foundation Farmers Rural Radio
The Upper Manhattan Specialized Science High School Initiative, Ltd.
The Urban Teacher Institute
The Village Education Project
The Wooden Table
Third Millennium Alliance
Ties to the World
Tutor Amigos LLC
Two Wheeled Foundation, Inc.
Under One Roof Project
uNight: For the Children of Uganda
UnitedProsperity.org : Social Guarantees for Microfinance
Up Against the Wall
Upper Hill Eye & Laser Centre
Urban Harvest: Portland Fruit Tree Project
Urban Sprouts
UTSHARGO
Vanavevhu - Children of the Soil
Ventures in Development
Vijana FM
Village Business School for Young Women
Village Health Works
Village Projects International
Village the Game
Voices of Rwanda
Wokai
Women Connect Against Violence
Women's Education Project
WorkUp
World Ocean Council
Wormhole S.A.
Write Health Communications
Yad Soffin Foundation Jewish Helping Hands: Micro-loans for Israeli Ethiopian Jews
Yet to register an organization
young digital bridgers international
Youth Art Haven
YOUTH ENTERPRENEURIAL FOUNDATION
Youth Organizing Urban Revitalization Systems
Youth to Youth
YouthAssets
YouthBuild NIGERIA
Zambia Men's Resource Centre
Zebra Crossings