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Telling Stories Over Stats: The S.E.VEN Film Competition
May 20, 2008
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Pioneers of Prosperity Documentary
May 6, 2008
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The SEVEN Fund announces Cinéma Prospérité
May 2, 2008
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Sisters make a difference, Times & Transcript (Brunswick, Newfoundland)
April 30, 2008
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Lucky S.E. VEN, Mount Allison University News
April 30, 2008
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Interview with Michael Fairbanks, Connexio Magazine
May, 2008
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Social Equity Venture Fund gives award to Thomas Aquinas College student
April 8, 2008
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Think Change India- The fine line: New research on what defines successful entrepreneurs
March 28, 2008
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Scaling Entrepreneurs at the BOP - Nextbillion.net
March 27, 2008
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S.E.VEN Fund Mini-Grant Competition Winners Selected
March 17, 2008
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The S.E.VEN Fund announces The WHY Prize, a first of its kind challenge.
March 7, 2008
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S.E.VEN Fund has announced its 2008-2009 Student Essay Competition.
March 7, 2008
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Johnson School's Mark Milstein to study U.S. military's economic efforts in war zones
February 26, 2008
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S.E.VEN Fund Awards $50,000 in Enterprise Based Solutions to Poverty Essays
Competition
February 7, 2008
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$400,000 in Grants Awarded to Enterprise Based Solutions to Poverty Researchers
February 7, 2008
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Brown student Chloe Lutts Column 1/30/08: Why are we here?
January 30, 2008
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Michael Fairbanks interviews President Paul Kagame of Rwanda (Video)
Part 1  |   Part 2

LEGATUM Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Awards - Ceremony 2007(Video)
Ceremony 2007

Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Prize: Firm Scoops $100,000 Prize
The New Times (Kigali), 3 Dec 2007
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Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Prize: Rugasira's Coffee Wins $50,000 Prize
New Vision (Kampala), 3 Dec 2007
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Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Prize: Eleven Firms in Final Innovative SME Awards
AllAfrica.com, 24 Nov 2007
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Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Prize Winners Announced (Press Release)
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A Templeton Conversation: Will Money Solve Africa's Development Problems?
I Thought So... But now I don’t. There is that threadbare maxim: If you hold a hammer
in your hand, every problem looks like a nail. What happens, then, when all we
hold in our hand is a checkbook? Checkbook Development suggests that poor
nations cannot build the skills necessary to solve their own problems. There is,
however, a notable exception.
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Enterprise-Based Solutions to Poverty Inaugural Request for Proposals (RFP)
Foreign economic and government programs have spent billions of dollars during
the past five decades to alleviate the high number of people living in poverty. No
country has been lifted out of poverty as a result of these efforts, but the mindset
remains the same: aid programs are the key to poverty alleviation.
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The S.E.VEN Fund has extended the submission deadline of its inaugural
Student Essay Competition to January 20, 2008

The S.E.VEN Fund has extended the submission deadline of its inaugural Student
Essay Competition. The competition will award three (3) undergraduate student
prizes of US $10,000 each and one (1) graduate student prize of US$20,000. The
new submission deadline is January 20, 2008 at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Due to multiple requests to extend the deadline to allow participants to complete
end of semester obligations, the S.E.VEN Fund will extend the deadline to allow for
maximum participation. The date of the announcement of winners will remain the
same – February 7, 2008. Any student who has submitted an essay that wishes to
edit their submission is hereby invited to do so.
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