David Stevens and Marianne Pellegrini are changing SME-Finance

Winners of Changemakers early entry prize for the G-20 SME  Finance Challenge, David Stevens and Marianne Pellegrini have developed a remarkably innovative approach to catalyze funding for Small and Medium  Enterprises (SMEs).

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Football Legend and Social Activist Raí Supports Changemakers and Changing Lives Through Football

Changemakers introduced Raí to the community last Friday. Now watch our exclusive interview with him to find out about his thoughts, experiences, and goals in the field of sport for development. 

Andre Blackman is a Changemaker

Andre is passionate about the innovative individuals, projects and organizations that are applying new media to the field of public health.

Hear what he has to say about the entries in the Patient | Choices | Empowerment Competition.

Charles Taylor is a Changemaker

Because he climbed onto the rooftop of the Hammond Street Senior Center to start a garden, he sparked a model project that inspires healthy eating, gardening for exercise, and a place for seniors to dream big.

By winning the Revelation to Action:  Your Place. Your Idea. Your Change competition, the "Still Growing" Senior Community Rooftop Garden project has been featured on network television, in the newspaper, and gained a collaborative partner.

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Clarisse and Michael are Changemakers

Clarisse and Michael Linke co-founded the Bicycling Empowerment Network to train and equip women in Namibia to be bicycle mechanics and instructors, a traditional male role that gives them access to income, affordable transport, and new skills.

They are winners of the Women l Tools l Technology competition.

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Harish Sadani is a Changemaker

Harish founded Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA) as the first men's organization in India to intervene directly against gender-based violence on women.

His Friendship Among Youths initiative was a winner in the Preventing Violence Against Women competition.

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Fabio Verani is a Changemaker

Fabio's Soccer Tournament for Ending Gender Based Violence is using football in Brazil to create an open dialogue about gender roles and violence against women. In Argentina, Mariana Battaglini’s Futbol Para Pensar brings includes people with disabilities in soccer matches that teach solidarity, cooperation, and social inclusion.

Read more about these initiatives . . . and prepare to vote in the Changing Lives Through Football competition.

David Dodson is a Changemaker

David founded Project Healthy Children to fortify foods with vitamins and minerals that can reduce by 50 percent the chance that an unborn child will develop a debilitating or fatal birth defect.

His entry was a winner in the Improved Nutrition: Solutions through Innovation competition.

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Dr. Laura Stachel is a Changemaker

She co-founded the organization WE CARE Solar to produce portable solar electric suitcase with high-efficiency light-emitting diode (LED) lighting and walkie-talkies so that hospitals no longer turn away patients in dire need of care because they lack light to perform a delivery or surgery, or a phone system to call a skilled doctor.

Her entry was a winner in Healthy Mothers, Strong World competition.

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Charles Best is a Changemaker

Charles' DonorsChoose.org is pioneering online citizen philanthropy where teachers from struggling schools can list the classroom materials they need, and anyone can chose to donate them.

Listen to this podcast where Best discusses the risks and rewards of engaging citizens in pressing social issues.

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