Hany El-Miniawy, an Ashoka Fellow working in civic engagement, has been featured in online magazine FLYP’s most recent issue in an article entitled “High-Tech Humanitarianism.” The Tech Museum of Innovation, located in San Jose, California, has named El Miniawy a 2008 Katherine M. Swanson Award Laureate for his organization Appropriate Development, Architecture & Planning Technologies [...]
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Hany El Miniawy wins 2008 Tech Award
Posted in Housing & Construction on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fazle Abed and BRAC
Posted in Arts & Dance, Uncategorized on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In his Forbes article from November 26th, Andrew Kuper writes that Fazle Hasan Abed has “labored to demonstrate the power of microcredit as an alternative asset class.” Abed, a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, founded the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, or BRAC, in February of 1972. Today, the foundation is the largest non-governmental organization with over 100,000 [...]
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