2008 Echoing Green Fellowship Finalists
Community Improvement |
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Disaster Accountability Project West Hartford, Connecticut |
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The Bold Idea: Improving the nation's disaster management systems through public accountability, citizen oversight and empowerment, whistle-blower engagement, and policy research. |
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The Op-Ed Project New York, New York |
| The Bold Idea: Targeting, training and channeling women experts to the op-ed pages of top newspapers, online sites, and other key forums of public debate to project new diverse voices into national conversation. | |
Economic Development |
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Gabriela Enrigue and Leticia Jauregui CREA Davis and Berkeley, California |
| The Bold Idea: Developing an integrated method for channeling remittances to income-generating projects for impoverished women entrepreneurs in Mexico. | |
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FORGE Oakland, California |
| The Bold Idea: Building capacity and increasing future prospects in war-torn African communities by investing in individuals affected by war to pursue education, economic self-sufficiency, and local development solutions. | |
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Yasmina McCarty and Nandini Narula GreenMango Hyderabad, India and New York, New York |
| The Bold Idea: Bringing the power of online marketing technologies to poor business owners in developing countries to enable them to grow their businesses and increase their income. | |
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GTECH Strategies Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| The Bold Idea: Reclaiming vacant land in Pittsburgh through alternative energy crops to remediate soil, produce biofuel feedstock, and serve as a platform for green job training. | |
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Hot Bread Kitchen Brooklyn, New York |
| The Bold Idea: Creating well-paid careers for immigrant women while preserving baking traditions, harnessing lost human capital, and building esteem for immigrant communities. | |
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Livelihoods Equity Connect New Delhi, India |
| The Bold Idea: Investing in and supporting businesses that are owned by or employ poor producers, thereby creating successful enterprises in India. | |
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Opportunity Maine Portland, Maine |
| The Bold Idea: Engaging business, labor, education, community, and youth groups in partnerships that will expand educational opportunity, upgrade the skills of Maine’s workforce, and promote sustainable development. | |
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Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) New York, New York |
| The Bold Idea: Unleashing girls' and women's economic potential by starting up female-run franchises that manufacture and distribute low priced, high-quality, and environmentally friendly sanitary towels for domestic and international markets. | |
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TERRA Resource Development International Laguna Beach, California |
| The Bold Idea: Partnering with Bolivian villages in drought-prone areas to develop groundwater, thereby improving its agriculture outputs and the health of its citizens. | |
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Ventures in Development Hong Kong and Shanghai, China |
| The Bold Idea: Growing the field of social entrepreneurship in Greater China by identifying, incubating, and implementing ideas that have the potential to become sustainable business enterprises yielding quantifiable direct social benefits. | |
Education |
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Indian School of Education Ahmedabad, India |
| The Bold Idea: Training principals to turnaround failing rural public schools in India. | |
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New Orleans Parent Organizing Network New Orleans, Louisiana |
| The Bold Idea: Establishing parent groups that advocate for excellent public schools, build parent leaders, and rate school performance in New Orleans. | |
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School Invest Alexandria, Virginia |
| The Bold Idea: Improving access to capital for schools for the poor in Africa through an online marketplace that connects schools to non-traditional investors that can support their work. | |
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Christina Hall and Jennifer Green The Urban Teacher Institute Edgewater and Baltimore, Maryland |
| The Bold Idea: A comprehensive re-engineering of teacher training that holds teachers accountable for teaching excellence and student outcomes. | |
Environment |
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Will Bradshaw and Reuben Teague Green Coast Enterprises New Orleans, Louisiana |
| The Bold Idea: Building environmentally sound structures that can withstand the rigors of hurricanes, termites, heat, and humidity at a price that is within the reach of average people. | |
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Village Projects International Berkeley, California |
| The Bold Idea: Providing villages in rural Africa "credits" to support their community-based development efforts easily and without paperwork to generate large-scale poverty-reduction and health improvements. | |
Food and Nutrition |
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Urban Harvest: The Portland Fruit Tree Project Portland, Oregon |
| The Bold Idea: Increasing equitable access to fresh, healthy food and strengthening communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of urban fruit trees. | |
Health |
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Chordoma Foundation Greensboro, North Carolina |
| The Bold Idea: Pioneering a system to rapidly translate advances in biomedical research into meaningful knowledge and effective treatments for patients with overlooked cancers. | |
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Embrace Sunnyvale and Los Altos, California |
| The Bold Idea: Developing and comprehensively distributing a low cost infant incubator for use in developing countries. | |
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Tahir Amin and Priti Radhakrishnan Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK) New York, New York |
| The Bold Idea: Creating a public interest team of attorneys and scientists who ensure that patents do not obstruct access to affordable medicines for impoverished patients in developing countries. | |
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Operation ASHA New Delhi, India |
| The Bold Idea: Developing a cost-effective pipeline to deliver tuberculosis treatment to the most disadvantaged patients, at a convenient time and place, to ensure complete treatment. | |
Human Rights |
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Advocates for Informed Choice Cotati, California |
| The Bold Idea: Protecting the civil rights of children born with variations of sex anatomy. | |
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Blanket And Sponge Project In Asia (BASPIA) Seoul, South Korea |
| The Bold Idea: Bridging the gap between human rights and development to address root causes of poverty and build common ground among all key stakeholders for sustained positive change in North Korea. | |
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The Seven Women Center Neve Shalom, Israel |
| The Bold Idea: Establishing a center for helping women fight the phenomenon of honor killings in the Arab community in Israel. | |
Legal Advocacy |
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Asociación Nacional de Derecho Ambiental (National Environmental Law Assoc.) San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| The Bold Idea: Bridging the environmental justice gap in Puerto Rico through education and access to legal services directed at triggering community participation for a healthy environment and sustainable development. | |
Public Service |
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Global Citizen Year Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| The Bold Idea: Institutionalizing a global service "Gap Year" for young Americans, which will prepare a pipeline of leaders to combat global poverty and injustice throughout their lives. | |
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ServeNext.org Washington, DC |
| The Bold Idea: Uniting, supporting, and training a broad-base of citizens to be effective grassroots advocates that, together, will be a powerful voice to make National Service a national priority. | |
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