social entrepreneurs

We are extremely proud of 2008 Echoing Green Fellow Josh Sommer for his work to develop effective treatments for Chordoma.  

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An extraordinary filmmaker named Negin Farsad won the Every Woman's Filmmaker Competition for her film “Hot Bread Kitchen”. The film demonstrates the passion and verve that Jessamyn Waldman, a 2008 Echoing Green Fellow, brings to her social enterprise. It’s a delightful and inspiring nugget.

The film now stands a chance to be named a Lifetime Movie Network fan favorite.

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Rose Mapendo, a genocide survivor and co-founder of the refugee protection organization Mapendo International, has been acknowledged by actress and human rights advocate Susan Sarandon as a “CNN Hero”. Sarandon was deeply inspired, as I am, by Mapendo’s courage and strength in surviving sixteen months in a Congolese death camp before launching Mapendo International, with 2006 Echoing Green Fellow Sasha Chanoff.

J.B. Schramm, a 1997 Echoing Green Fellow, continues to have a year of wonderful success. After kicking off the year by being named Schwab’s United States “Social Entrepreneur of the Year,” J.B. now has an opportunity to expand the success of College Summit to even more students.

Yesterday, three Echoing Green staffers took part in The Feast, an all-day social innovation conference. Despite a severe initial shortage of fair-trade coffee, the day kicked off with high energy presentations from Dickson Despommier of The Vertical Farm Project, Tom Szaky of Terracyle, and Joshua Onysko of Pangea Organics.

And that was just before 11 am.