Friday, December 30, 2011

Dear Sandboxers,

We hope you are enjoying the final days of 2011 and will slide into 2012 with a strong start. For us at Sandbox, preparations for the Global Summit in Lisbon are in full swing, and we can’t wait to see many of you there at the end of January (see below for an update on Summit tickets).

On that note, after reviewing close to a 100 incredible applications for the Bloomberg Businessweek Fellowship for the Summit, we are now thrilled to announce the winners.

Announcing the Bloomberg Businessweek Fellows for the Global Summit
First of all, we would like to extend a thank you to the many organizations, including Startup Weekend, Ashoka, and the Cherie Blair Foundation as well as all Sandboxers, who helped us spread the word about the fellowships. With your help, the launch video got viewed hundreds of times and we were able to get the message to inspiring female leaders around the world whose work empowers other women in a remarkable way.

The winners of the fellowship are:

Cynthia Hellen is the founder of GIRLS WHO ROCK, a crowd-pleasing, change-making benefit concert which aims to bring together the strongest voices in technology, entertainment, and design to advocate and fundraise for girls’ education worldwide while mentoring local student volunteers to be leaders.
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Tammy Tibbetts passionately advocates the power of social media to create social change. She is the Founder and President of She’s the First, a not-for-profit that sponsors girls’ education in the developing world, helping them be first in their families to graduate.
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Tiphani Montgomery is passionate about learning new ways to teach single mothers about entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and how to love themselves. Her work impacts communities by taking the single moms out of a victim mentality and empowering them to start lucrative businesses and to give back to their communities.
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Kelley Calvin is the Founder of Lilypad, an events company for young professional women, the Founder of DC Young Entrepreneurs, and the Founder of Michelle In Training (MIT), an organization that teaches professionalism, self-esteem and life skills to promising underprivileged high school girls in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Lina Lustig is a pioneer in the blue economy - an international community of companies, innovators and scientists that strive to improve the quality of life for all. She is developing the business model, research and a prototype for a new approach towards fertility management for women. Her goal is to allow all women on the planet to manage their own fertility without the need to take hormones and deal with their side effects.
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Virgilia Singh is the co-founder of So What’s On Your Plate, an action focused organization that brings women of all ages, ethnicities and belief systems together over a common love of food to build trusted relationships, collaborate on personal/ professional projects and apply their skills to create positive development in their local communities.
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"Bloomberg Businessweek is thrilled to award six remarkable women with scholarships to attend the 2012 Sandbox Network Global Summit," said Elena Putilina, Bloomberg Businessweek Global Marketing Director. "From supporting girls' education in the developing world to empowering single mothers in the U.S. to fostering entrepreneurship, all of the winners have the talent, passion and diligence that are the hallmarks of an emerging business leader."

Congratulations to the winners! We can’t wait to see you all in Lisbon and support you in letting the world know about your organizations.

Happy holidays and all the best in 2012,

Nadia