Ricardo Teran with Anne McNulty and the 2009 McNulty Award nominees.
Awards
Ashoka Fellowship
Ashoka is a global association of leading social entrepreneurs who innovate and use large-scale ideas to address social issues. Ashoka supports Agora’s innovative approach to supporting impact entrepreneurship in poor countries. Agora Partnership’s founder Ben Powell was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2010.
Yale World Fellows
Ricardo Teran was selected to Yale’s 2010 class of World Fellows for his work at Agora Partnerships. The Yale World Fellows Program is the University’s signature global leadership development initiative. It's goals are to provide advanced training to emerging leaders from diverse disciplines and countries, to link this network of world leaders to each other and to Yale, and to expand and deepen international understanding at Yale.
Draper Richards Fellowship
Ben Powell and Agora were awarded the Draper Richards Fellowship in 2008. This program awards six fellowships each year to help early stage entrepreneurs create wide-ranging social change. Draper Richards takes a venture capitalist approach to social entrepreneurship, providing business mentoring and funding to non-profit organizations in its portfolio.
Innovation Award, Honorable Mention, Social Venture Network
The Social Venture Network is a network of successful impact entrepreneurs in the U.S. committed to helping the next generation of socially responsible businesses and nonprofit entrepreneurs achieve success. The Innovation Award's program brings leader of emerging enterprises into the Social Venture Network community, a network of 500 successful and socially responsible businesses and nonprofit leaders, investors, and other resources. Organizations are judged based on innovation, impact, and scalability.
McNulty Prize, Finalist
Agora Partnerships and co-founder RicardoTeran were finalists for the 2009 McNulty Prize. This distinction recognizes the best leaders from the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Agora was one of five projects nominated for this award.
BMW Young Leader Program
Ben Powell was named a BMW Young Global Leader in 2008. The BMW Foundation has supported Agora’s participation in the Tallberg-YES summit in Sweden and is providing Agora with intellectual capital through it’s network and Young Leaders Program.
Dalberg Global Development Advisors i-Qubed Prize
Dalberg Global Development Advisors recognizes innovation, impact, and inspiration in the development field with the i-Qubed Prize. Ben Powell and Agora Partnerships were awarded the prize in 2007 for Agora's work to bring capital and support to high growth small businesses in Nicaragua.
Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI)
Ricardo Teran was nominated to be a CALI Fellow in 2005. The CALI Foundation is a non-profit private foundation based in Panama that seeks to motivate effective and responsible leaders across Central America to get involved with the pressing issues in their countries as they struggle to align the demands of globalization with local visions of a “good society”.
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