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Education gains checked by challenges, new Pratham report shows

Education gains checked by challenges, new Pratham report shows

by mbeck | Feb 11, 2015 | Education, Kravis Prize, Poverty Reduction, Pratham

Are education efforts and outreach to children in rural India producing positive results? The answer is both encouraging and troubling, according to NGO Pratham’s 10th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), released this week in New Delhi. “While more...
More ‘bucks’ for Landesa

More ‘bucks’ for Landesa

by mbeck | Aug 29, 2014 | Civil Society, Community Development, Kravis Prize, Landesa, Poverty Reduction, Roy Prosterman

Say you find an old dollar bill in a pair of jeans … where does that dollar end up? Paying for your morning coffee? Carefully deposited in your bank account? What is the best way to invest a single dollar? Melissa Warnke, author of “Bang for Your Buck,” an article...
Prosterman’s report: improved farming rights in Vietnam

Prosterman’s report: improved farming rights in Vietnam

by mbeck | Feb 24, 2014 | Landesa, Poverty Reduction, Roy Prosterman

The following is a report from Roy Prosterman, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Landesa. For his work with Landesa, Mr. Prosterman was named the 2006 Recipient of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership. Since our initial work on land tenure reform took place in what...

A garden makes a difference: Seattle Times spotlights Landesa’s work with young Indian women

by mbeck | Mar 27, 2013 | Community Development, Female Empowerment, Landesa, Poverty Reduction

A garden grows more than vegetables. It also grows opportunities for women in impoverished Indian villages – that’s the message behind a pilot program developed by Landesa that’s the focus of a recent special report in the pages of the Sunday Seattle Times. That...

Landesa: Storytelling at Sundance

by mbeck | Feb 11, 2013 | Community Development, Landesa, Poverty Reduction, Tim Hanstad

More than 25 years after inaugural Kravis Prize winner Roy Prosterman founded Landesa to focus on one of the chief structural causes of global poverty – rural landlessness – Landesa’s current president and CEO was inspired to re-focus his approach to leading the...

FAWE: Gender is My Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) Summit

by mbeck | Jan 18, 2013 | Community Development, Education, FAWE, Female Empowerment, Poverty Reduction

At the Kravis Prize, we’re proud to honor those at the forefronts of their fields and exemplary leaders in the nonprofit community, knowing that their work has a tremendous impact on the larger world. In 1992, female education ministers of from five African countries...
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2015 Endeavor

2014 Helen Keller International

2013 Right To Play

2012 INJAZ Al-Arab

2012 mothers2mothers

2011 Fundación Escuela Nueva

2010 Pratham

2009 Afghan Institute of Learning

2008 FAWE

2007 BRAC

2006 Landesa

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