Mar 14, 2012 | Award Ceremony, Kravis Prize
We’re only one week away from the 2012 Kravis Prize ceremony, where we will be hearing from this year’s winners, Soraya Salti and m2m, as well as past winners! Stay tuned to our Facebook page and Twitter feed for daily highlights and features on our 2012 winners in the coming week! We’ll also be live Tweeting from the event next Wednesday, so be sure to join in on the conversation then! In the meantime, you can get more acquainted with the Prize’s winners... read more
Mar 9, 2012 | Community Development, Education, INJAZ Al-Arab, Soraya Salti
In 2009, PBS’ Frontline/World discussed problems that youth are facing in Cairo, Egypt, noting that there is an average five-year wait for a decent job, even for college graduates. Thankfully, one of this year’s Kravis Prize winners, INJAZ Al-Arab Executive Director Soraya Salti, is working to broaden opportunities for Arab youth. INJAZ Al-Arab runs programs in a dozen countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, including Egypt, that aim to provide experiential education and training to Arab youth in work readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. PBS interviewed Salti regarding the organization’s mission. She discussed the importance of teaching students practical business-related skills in conjunction with their regular educational curriculum: “When you have youth who are educated and unemployed, what will they do with their lives? Either these youth become a burden on our economies or they become an engine of growth and prosperity. We want to catch them before they’re unemployed and we want to instill in them the entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial skillset so that they can create their employment opportunity. We want to create excitement. What’s the best thing to do more than create the competition for entrepreneurs?” As part of INJAZ’s goal to inspire entrepreneurship and invigorate Arab youth, the organization holds an annual competition for the best student company, which is judged by the innovativeness and profitability of the businesses. Watch the video to see how INJAZ is inspiring Arab youth to pave their own future through creative and interactive programs! You can also read PBS’ extended interview with Soraya Salti. To find out more about Soraya Salti, check out her Kravis Prize... read more
Mar 1, 2012 | Female Empowerment, m2m
Here at the Kravis Prize, we are proud to sponsor some of the most innovative nonprofits, including one of this year’s Kravis Prize winners, mothers2mothers. Not only does m2m help to educate pregnant women and new mothers on how to prevent HIV transmission to their unborn babies, the organization also provides social support to HIV-positive women and helps them access existing healthcare services. Unique in its innovative approach to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), m2m is widely recognized around the world and receives support from organizations including UNICEF. Studies have also been conducted to capture the impact of m2m’s programs, which show how m2m is truly a leader in this area. In 2007, USAID, the Human Sciences Research Council and the Population Council conducted an evaluation of 17 m2m sites in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which provide services five days per week to women at the clinics. m2m staff are also available to go home with a mother who requests support for HIV status disclosure to a partner and/or other family members. Researchers interviewed HIV-positive pregnant and postpartum women that participated in the m2m program and those who did not. The study found that “m2m participants had greater psychosocial well-being, greater use of PMTCT services, and better PMTCT outcomes.” In fact, “more than nine out of 10 pregnant program participants felt that they could do things to help themselves, cope with taking care of their infants, and live positively.” “The findings suggest that m2m plays an important role in providing a continuum of care for HIV-positive women and their infants. The program strives to keep women linked to health... read more
Feb 22, 2012 | INJAZ Al-Arab, m2m, Soraya Salti, Uncategorized
Established in 2006, the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership recognizes and celebrates extraordinary accomplishment and bold leadership in the nonprofit sector. Over the years, the Prize has provided funding for the extraordinary efforts of the Rural Development Institute, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, the Forum For African Women Educationalists (FAWE), the Afghan Institute of Learning, Pratham and Escuela Nueva. However, the Kravis Prize offers much more than just financial support – we strive to share our recipients’ best practices with the nonprofit community and inspire future generations to become nonprofit leaders. This year, we are delighted to announce not one, but TWO winners of the seventh annual Kravis Prize in Leadership: Soraya Salti, CEO of Arab educational mentoring program INJAZ Al-Arab, and mothers2mothers, an organization that helps to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS through the education and support of mothers with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa! We’ll feature our amazing winners on our blog over the next few weeks, but check out the press release to learn some basic facts about Salti and... read more
Feb 15, 2012 | Kravis Prize
It’s that time of the year again! We’re only one week away from the 2012 Kravis Prize announcement and we’ve got some very exciting news this year. Stay tuned to our Facebook page and Twitter feed to get all the latest news and join in on the conversation. We’ll also have highlights and updates about each of the past six Kravis Prize winners in the coming week! We’ll of course feature the winner on our blog next week, so check back then, too! In the meantime, you can get more acquainted with the Prize’s past winners... read more
