by PRW Blog | Aug 14, 2016 | Education, Partners Out and About
After 27 years of solving problems for diverse clients with McKinsey & Company, fellow GSBer Antonio Puron “retired,” but not to the golf course. Driven by what he saw as deficiencies in the Mexican education system, Antonio conceived and established Inoma, a...
by Laura Power | Jun 24, 2016 | Africa, Education
Project Redwood has always sought grantees that can meet the challenges of scaling, but poverty-fighting non-profits face difficult tests as they seek to grow ideas from proof-of-concept to full-blown implementations with widespread impact.Former Project Redwood...
by Laura Power | Mar 7, 2016 | Africa, Americas, Asia, Education, Health and Nutrition, Standard of Living
In October 2014, Project Redwood seeded 13 projects with a total of $262,600. Most of those projects wrapped up in late 2015; here’s a summary of their many accomplishments!Embrace used its Project Redwood grant to make a measurable impact on the health of low birth...
by Rick Agresta | May 13, 2015 | Americas, Education, Partners Out and About
An audience of Cristo Rey sophomores and staff and Project Redwood partners listen to Deo speak about his life experiencesOn Friday May 1st, 100 neatly dressed students at Cristo Rey New York High School (CRNYHS) in Harlem gathered in their assembly hall for a special...
by prw80team | Mar 11, 2015 | Education, In The News, Standard of Living
NURU International was an early grantee of Project Redwood. NURU is an innovative NGO, started by Jake Harriman, GSB ’08, which fights extreme poverty in Kenya and Ethiopia. Jake has been selected as a member of the inaugural class of Presidential Leadership...
by prw80team | Feb 3, 2015 | Education, In The News
Haitian Educational Initiatives (HEI) founder Susan Whitcomb initially went to Jacmel, Haiti just after the earthquake in 2010 expecting to teach English for a few weeks. She quickly learned that 50% of children in Jacmel had no access to school and that the few...
