The Rockefeller Foundation Announces 8 Winners of the 2012 Innovation Challenges from Innovation Forum 2011

The Rockefeller Foundation Announces 8 Winners of the 2012 Innovation Challenges from Innovation Forum 2011 PR Newswire NEW YORK, June 26, 2012 - Individuals from Around the World to be Eligible for Grants of $100,000 each NEW YORK, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller Foundation, celebrating 100 years of global innovation, today unveiled the names of the individuals that have been chosen as the winners of the Foundation's 2012 Innovation Challenges. The winning ideas were developed based on the results of the Foundation's Innovation Forum in 2011, which gathered a number of leading global thinkers and innovators in New York to generate innovative ideas for how to address water insecurity, food insecurity, as well as key challenges posed by urbanization. The challenge winners, who hail from Africa, Asia, North America and South America, were selected from a group of almost 2,000 entrants from around the world. The winners will be applying for grants of $100,000 each to develop their ideas further. The Rockefeller Foundation asked innovative people and organizations around the world to submit ideas on three specific topics – how to use data to create change that improves the quality of life of poor or vulnerable communities, how to improve or scale agricultural water use efficiency, and how to encourage and support young people to enter and stay in farming.