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Contact: Laurel Higbee
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School Ventures CEO Awarded Echoing Green Fellowship

(Washington, DC) July 21, 2008 – School Ventures CEO Mubuso Zamchiya received a fellowship from Echoing Green (www.echoinggreen.org), a New York City-based organization that works to accelerate social change. He was selected from more than 1,450 applicants from 83 countries.

According to Echoing Green President Dr. Cheryl L. Dorsey, “The 2008 Echoing Green Fellows answered our call to 'be bold' by breaking through the boundaries that separate the private from the nonprofit sector.”

The 2008 Echoing Green Fellows group currently represents 19 start-up organizations targeting social issues around the world in the areas of community improvement, economic development, education, the environment, health, human rights and legal advocacy.

This group represents the beginnings of the kind of social change Echoing Green hopes to spark, forming a society of empowered everyday individuals who strive to bring about real change for the world's pressing social issues. Since 1987, Echoing Green has invested $27 million in more than 450 leaders touching the lives of millions around the world.



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