One Acre Fund Receives Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2010-04-08 11:43
Congratulations to One Acre Fund for receiving a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship! Founded by 2006 Echoing Green Fellow Andrew Youn, One Acre Fund provides comprehensive service bundles to farm families stricken by severe annual hunger.
Each year, the Skoll Foundation invests in organizations with a large-scale impact, in the later-stages of development, and have a model that can be replicated. One Acre Fund, along with the other winners, will receive a $765,000 grant along with being honored at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford next week.
One Acre Fund is one of five projects that received a Skoll Foundation investment this year. Read more about the incredible work of One Acre Fund and the other Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship winners on the Skoll Foundation website.
