Sentences with phrase «by social innovators»

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«Many of the great innovators in history can be explained by grit,» says Jason Keath of Social Fresh, the organizers of Innovation Congress.

With the grants, «we are joining forces with leading social innovators to fuel the pursuit of a more equitable and efficient labor market,» according to ablog posted today by Jacqueline Fuller, President of Google.org, and Kathleen McLaughlin, President, Walmart Foundation.

Social Intrapreneurism and All that Jazz: How Business Innovators are Helping to Build a More Sustainable World by David Grayson, Melody McLaren, and Heiko Spitzeck of the Cranfield University School of Management

In 2011, Dr. Swedlow was named Social and Overall Innovator of the Year by the BBSRC and in 2012 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Cathy Murphy, Psychological Health and Safety Specialist, has achieved a reputation as a social innovator, developing with individuals and groups powerful idea's and innovative practices that improve individual lives and the organizational culture, by addressing the most difficult workplace issues and interpersonal problems.

The Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards (TDIA), an annual gathering of the most progressive innovators in sports, education, media, philanthropy, economics, health care, civic engagement, and social justice, was launched by Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff in 2010, in collaboration with Christensen.

In 2010, Laina was named a Woman Innovator by Pipeline Angels, a network of investors who fund social ventures.

Alejandro has since been honored as «one of the world's best emerging social innovators» by Echoing Green, a leading impact investor that selected 20 startups from 3,500 global applicants.

About Innovators OC Innovators OC invests in individuals and organizations in Orange County who are working in innovative ways to create self - sustaining enterprises that address social problems by becoming effective agents of positive community and economic impact.

Hope Street Group: Hope Street Group is a network - driven organization dedicated to expanding economic opportunity for all Americans by leveraging their network of practitioners, entrepreneurs, tech innovators and more to align market forces for social good.

A graduate of the University of Virginia, Sara is a 2016 Stevie Award Winner for «Female Innovator of the Year;» a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum; an American Express Ashoka Emerging Innovator; a Cordes Fellow with the Opportunity Collaboration; a Peace X Peace 2012 Women, Power, & Peace Award Winner (Generation Peace Award); the only U.S. recipient of the Youth Leader Award in the Americas by the Inter-American Development Bank Annual Board of Governors Meeting; an Ashoka Activating Empathy Award Winner; a three - time Beyond Sport Award Finalist; named a «Woman Entrepreneur» by World Resources Institute New Ventures Mexico; a Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies; a StartingBloc Fellow; a Finalist Nominee Social Entrepreneur / Innovator for the Women's Information Network 18th Annual Young Women of Achievement Award; 1 of 3 Artists Transforming the World by the Arts and Healing Network; Global Good Fund Fellow; honored among The Jewish Week NY's «36 Under 36»; and a Susan Schiffer Stautberg Leadership Fellow.

A relentless innovator always pushing the traditional boundaries of art, Oiticica moved rapidly and radically from early works influenced by European modernism to large - scale installations that were meant to be physically experienced and often to critique political and social issues.

This situation is what leads a growing call for a much broader energy quest, from the laboratory to the light socket, that starts with the «no brainers» delineated by many studies, particularly a McKinsey analysis of ways to cut energy waste, but also includes a direct, increased and sustained American investment in pushing the frontiers of knowledge on energy — and boosting efforts, from the classroom to the boardroom, to build the community of technological, financial and social innovators necessary to drive the needed change.

It is an amazing line - up of speakers from all over the world, capped by legal technology innovator Richard Susskind and social media visionary Clay Shirky as the keynote speakers.