America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs in 2012

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Bloomberg BusinessWeek : America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs:    2012   Winners

From reader's  suggestions 25 were chosen and 7,500 cast their votes. Top Five:

 1. The Paradigm Project, which sells clean-burning wood or charcoal cookstoves in  Kenya and Guatemala, received the most votes, 15.8 percent.

 2.  (InterSchola turns unwanted assets into cash selling surplus goods for school districts and public agencies on EBay. It got 12.6 percent of the vote.

 3. Sseko Designs helps poor women in Uganda with academic promise earn money to pay for university. Sseko landed 8 percent of the vote.

 4. Retroficiency  makes software that crunches data to find potential energy savings in existing structures,received 6.2 percent of the vote.

 5. InVenture helps microfinance borrowers track their income and expenses and report the data to lenders through text messages  got 6 percent of the vote.

For  full info: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-19/america-s-most-promising-social-entrepreneurs-2012-winners