FACT SHEET

Purpose, Criteria, and Review Process The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership celebrates extraordinary accomplishment in the nonprofit sector and honors organizations that have demonstrated bold, visionary leadership and achieved significant impact over time. The Prize is awarded annually. The Selection Committee reviews a pool of candidates obtained from two sources: 1) formal nominations from a select group of individuals who are invited to serve as Nominators based on their knowledge and experience in the nonprofit sector, and 2) suggestions of candidates submitted through the Kravis Prize web site by any visitor to the site. Candidates span a broad range of fields within the nonprofit sector, including economic development, public health, law/justice/human rights, education, the arts, the environment, and capacity building in the nonprofit sector as a whole. Selection criteria include boldness, innovation, creativity, consistency, persistence, and effectiveness in bringing a vision to fruition. Nominees are also evaluated based on their accomplishments in realizing the mission of an organization and demonstrating best practices in managing that organization. Direct impact on beneficiaries is an extremely important element of our selection process. All of the Kravis Prize recipients to date have achieved a compelling track record of impact over time, demonstrated by data from rigorous impact evaluations. In addition, many of our recipients have scaled and achieved an expansive reach, often across multiple regions or countries. Kravis Prize recipients have demonstrated courage, persistence, efficiency, and effectiveness in bringing a bold vision to fruition and realizing the mission of an organization. They also have demonstrated the use of best practices in the management of their organizations. Nominees are assessed according to these criteria using carefully crafted quantitative measures focused primarily on direct impact and achievement. The assessment framework also provides for a qualitative analysis of bold, visionary leadership and review of financial stability and integrity, governance, and managerial performance. The Kravis Prize Selection Committee makes its final selection of a winner after reviewing extensive data and analysis.

The Prize A $250,000 prize is directed to each Recipient organization.

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Calendar for the 2015 Kravis Prize • Requests for nominations sent to Nominators. May 2014 • Nominations submitted and evaluated. Summer 2014 • Selection Committee convenes to choose finalists. October/November 2014 • Further research on finalists. December 2014 • Selection Committee convenes to select winner. January 2015 • Prize recipient notified. February 2015 • Award Ceremony and Dinner. March or April 2015

Kravis Prize Selection Committee

Marie-Josée Kravis Josette Sheeran Selection Committee Chair President and CEO, The Asia Society Senior Fellow, The Hudson Institute Vice Chairman, The World Economic Forum New York, New York Former Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme Harry T. McMahon New York, New York Senior Advisor, G100 Network Chairman Emeritus, Claremont McKenna James D. Wolfensohn College Board of Trustees Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, L.L.C. Los Angeles, California Former President, The World Bank Washington, D.C. Ratan Tata Chairman, Tata Son’s Limited Surin Pitsuwan Mumbai, India Former Secretary General, ASEAN Jakarta, Indonesia

Prize Affiliations The Kravis Prize is presented by Claremont McKenna College (CMC), the alma mater of Henry Kravis. Claremont McKenna College is a highly selective, independent liberal arts college educating leaders in business, the professions, and public affairs. The Prize is affiliated with the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, which integrates academic research with leadership development programs.

RECIPIENTS OF THE HENRY R. KRAVIS PRIZE IN NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP

2006 Recipient: Landesa

Roy Prosterman founded Landesa (then called the Rural Development Institute) 31 years ago to institutionalize the work he began in the mid-1960s, fighting one of the chief structural causes of global poverty—rural landlessness. With passion and professionalism, the young attorney attracted a small team who shared his vision and his commitment. As a result of Mr. Prosterman’s leadership, Landesa has become an extraordinarily effective advocate for international land law and policy reform. Based in Seattle, with field offices in China, India, and Indonesia, Landesa professionals have 2 worked with the governments of 45 developing nations, foreign aid agencies, and other partners to design and implement fundamental legal, policy, and programmatic reforms to help the world’s rural poor. Through a comprehensive understanding of rural land issues and the interaction among financial, land, and labor markets, the work of Landesa has resulted in more than 500 million people gaining ownership or ownership-like rights to more than 90 million acres of land.

2007 Recipient: BRAC

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed founded the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) in 1972, in a remote area of northeastern Bangladesh, to provide relief and assistance to refugees returning from India after Bangladesh’s Liberation War. Over the last 40 years, Mr. Abed has led BRAC’s expansion across Bangladesh with a holistic and multifaceted approach to serving the poor. Today, BRAC operates major programs in microfinance and income generation, public health, education, and social development. BRAC has grown into the largest development organization in the world and has had an extraordinary impact on poverty reduction and the empowerment of the poor in Bangladesh. BRAC’s microfinance program currently assists more than 5.5 million borrowers, and its health programs serve more than 120 million people. Moreover, an estimated 1.14 million children, 65% of whom are girls, are currently enrolled in more than 20,000 pre-primary and 30,000 non- formal primary schools operated by BRAC’s education program.

In addition to its work in Bangladesh, BRAC expanded operations into Afghanistan in 2002, Sri Lanka in 2005, Tanzania, Uganda and Southern Sudan in 2006, Pakistan in 2007 and Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2008. Notably, BRAC generates nearly three-quarters of its annual budget from its own operations and enterprises, including interest fees on micro-enterprise loans and revenues from craft shops, printing presses, dairy projects, and various other enterprises.

2008 Recipient: Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)

In 1992, Ministers of Education from five African countries established the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) to advocate for girls’ education across Africa. At that time, an estimated 24 million school-age girls were out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa. FAWE’s founders recognized the direct personal benefits that accrue to girls who attend school as well as the extensive indirect benefits for society at large. For example, research shows that educating girls reduces fertility rates, reduces child and infant mortality rates, improves child nutrition and health, increases economic productivity and growth, and protects girls from abuse, exploitation, and HIV/AIDS.

Since its founding, FAWE expanded its programs and developed a strong geographic presence across the continent, working in 32 African countries. Today, FAWE is the leading non-governmental organization in Africa that directly addresses issues relating to girls’ education. It is estimated that through FAWE’s efforts, 12 million girls and women have been able to access education and improve their standard of economic and social well-being. FAWE improves access to education as well as quality of education, inspiring girls to stay in school and learn.

3 2009 Recipient: Afghan Institute of Learning

Dr. Sakena Yacoobi founded the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), which provides an estimated 360,000 women and children with access to education and health care each year in Afghanistan and Pakistan. One of Dr. Yacoobi’s enduring contributions is focusing attention on the issue and importance of girls’ education in Afghanistan. In 1990, she left a successful career as a professor and consultant in the U.S. and returned to Afghanistan during the Taliban’s rule to work with her nonprofit organization. AIL’s first program initiative was to establish learning centers in refugee camps in response to women’s requests for educational opportunities for themselves and their children. AIL grew and evolved to fulfill unmet needs and currently operates 38 women’s learning/education centers and five health centers and clinics. Seventy percent of AIL’s 450 staff members are Afghan women. Under Dr. Yacoobi’s leadership, AIL has become one of the largest nonprofit organizations in Afghanistan. The organization achieves this impact on a relatively small budget of $1.1 million per year, with a $3 cost per beneficiary.

The achievements of Dr. Yacoobi demonstrate significant courage and persistence in the face of extensive obstacles to educating girls and women in Afghanistan. During the Taliban’s rule, for example, the education of girls was prohibited. Dr. Yacoobi and the staff of AIL risked great personal harm in operating 80 underground home schools for 3,000 girls during the 1990s.

2010 Recipient: Pratham

Pratham, the largest nonprofit working in education in India, has reached more than 34 million students since 2007. Pratham’s rapid growth and scale are largely attributable to its low cost and replicable model that heavily utilizes volunteers. Recognizing the importance of early interventions, the organization focuses on preschool education as well as primary/elementary education. With the mission statement, “Every child in school and learning well,” Pratham works to improve educational access as well as educational quality. Pratham’s programs fall into three categories: 1) direct delivery of education, primarily in urban slums (e.g., Pratham-run preschools and libraries), 2) catalytic programs which supplement existing school systems primarily in rural areas to improve the quality of learning (e.g., Read India, Pratham’s flagship catalytic program, mobilizes local unpaid volunteers to participate in short term campaigns to help improve children’s reading, writing and arithmetic abilities), and 3) programs for vulnerable children (e.g., programs that release child laborers and provide residential shelters/homes). Notably, Pratham is based on a triangular partnership with government, the corporate sector and the citizens. In addition to its programs, Pratham oversees the largest evaluation study of the education sector in India and publishes its results in the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), which is widely used by governments, education policymakers, academics, and other nonprofits.

2011 Recipient: Fundación Escuela Nueva

Vicky Colbert is the founder and director of Fundación Escuela Nueva, a nonprofit organization which aims to improve the quality of education in low-income schools. Since its inception in 1987,

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The internationally-recognized Escuela Nueva works to alleviate inequality and poverty through a collaborative learning program in Ms. Colbert’s native Colombia. The program provides effective teacher training, improves curriculum, and fosters classroom environments that are engaging and compelling to students. The Escuela Nueva model moves away from traditional “teacher-centered” environments, which often emphasize rote memorization directed by the teacher, and instead encourages “child-centered” environments that fully engage students and allow them to learn at their own pace.

Two recipients selected for the 2012 Kravis Prize: mothers2mothers and INJAZ Al-Arab

2012 Recipient: mothers2mothers: mothers2mothers (m2m) provides education and support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. A grassroots program with nearly three million client encounters in 2010, mothers2mothers is designed to partner with and enhance existing healthcare systems. The mothers2mothers’ model is innovative and scalable, with demonstrated impact addressing unmet needs. The organization’s goals are threefold: 1) to prevent babies from contracting HIV by preventing mother-to-child transmission 2) to keep mothers and babies living with HIV/AIDS alive and healthy by increasing their access to health-sustaining medical care, and 3) to empower mothers living with HIV/AIDS, enabling them to fight stigmas in their communities and to live positive and productive lives. The organization achieves these goals through mentorship. m2m identifies new HIV-positive mothers, puts them through a rigorous formal training program, and returns them to clinics and maternity wards as “Mentor Mothers.” As Mentor Mothers, they educate new mothers and support them daily as they confront decisions that mean the difference between illness and health.

2012 Recipient: INJAZ Al-Arab

INJAZ Al-Arab harnesses the mentorship of Arab business leaders to help inspire a culture of entrepreneurship and business innovation among Arab youth. INJAZ is based on the longstanding Junior Achievement model, adapted to the Arab context. Operating in 14 countries across the Middle East and North Africa, INJAZ Al-Arab has reached one million youth to date by providing experiential education and training in work readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship. One relatively unique element of the model is the extent to which INJAZ leverages corporate volunteers and works in conjunction with local Ministries of Education. Through the power of partnership and collaboration, INJAZ Al-Arab has developed a network of more than 20,000 corporate volunteers who teach classes integrated into the students’ regular educational curriculum. The organization addresses a significant unmet need in the Middle East, as evidenced by the youth demographic bulge in the Arab world, extremely high unemployment, and 72% of private sector CEOs in the region expressing a desire to improve the quality of education and the ability of students to transition from the classroom to the workplace.

5 2013 Recipient: Right To Play

Dr. Johann Olav Koss, a four-time Olympic gold medalist from Norway, left a successful career in speed skating after the 1994 Olympics to become involved in the philanthropic work he had participated in as an athlete. Founded as a nonprofit organization in 2000, Right To Play (formerly called Olympic Aid) uses sports and play to educate and empower children and youth to overcome the effects of poverty, conflict, and disease in disadvantaged communities. Right To Play (RTP) now reaches more than one million children weekly in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Utilizing more than 12,000 volunteer coaches, RTP uses games and sports to educate children about important health messages and to help them develop life skills, self-esteem, and conflict resolution skills. Right To Play’s programs focus on four areas: (1) basic education and child development, (2) health promotion and disease prevention, (3) conflict resolution and peace education, and (4) community development and participation. Koss and Right To Play have played an important role in the emergence of the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) field, as development experts and governments across the globe have come to recognize that sport is a simple and effective means of achieving development objectives.

2014 Recipient: Helen Keller International

Founded in 1915, Helen Keller International (HKI) prevents blindness and reduces malnutrition in 22 countries worldwide. Reaching nearly 200 million people per year in Africa, Asia-Pacific regions, and the United States, Helen Keller International addresses significant unmet needs with demonstrated impact at scale. HKI undertakes initiatives in vitamin A supplementation as vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of childhood blindness and a significant contributor to childhood mortality. They also conduct initiatives on cataract treatment, control of trachoma and onchocerciasis (river blindness), food fortification, homestead food production programs, and other integrated projects. In the United States Helen Keller International combats vision impairment by providing impoverished and at-risk children free vision screenings and prescription eyeglasses, in many cases mitigating poor academic performances. HKI’s development of cost-effective, large-scale, sustainable programs has made it an innovator in the field of eye health and nutrition for the last 100 years.

2015 Recipient: Endeavor

Founded in 1997, Endeavor fosters economic growth in countries worldwide by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating high-impact entrepreneurs. Endeavor’s entrepreneurs lead fast-growing businesses that generate jobs in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. Endeavor provides its entrepreneurs with a network of seasoned business leaders who provide key ingredients to entrepreneurial success: mentorship, networks, strategic advice, and inspiration. Over the past 17 years, Endeavor Entrepreneurs have created more than 400,000 high quality jobs, directly reaching more than two million people across the world. Endeavor has achieved tangible results, with individuals working for Endeavor companies doubling their income over baseline or previous jobs, and Endeavor companies growing revenue 2.4 times faster than comparable firms over three years.

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