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In alphabetical order our five finalists are:

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HIGH RESOLVES INITIATIVE
Sydney, Australia

Mehrdad Baghai
Henry Crown Fellowship

An entrepreneur, author and adviser, Mehrdad co-founded High Resolves with his wife Roya in order to create a highly participatory leadership experience that transforms the way high school students see their place in the world. Students are engaged through a three-year curriculum consisting of innovative simulations that imprint learning that is far more visceral and lasting than that generated by scholarly discussion. The program gives students the skills and confidence they need to design and lead projects to improve their schools and to serve their communities. To date, High Resolves has engaged over 10,000 students in high schools across Australia and is expanding rapidly.

Website: www.highresolves.org

  Video:Click here to view High Resolves Inititiave's video submission.

ASPIRE HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Gurgaon Haryana, India

Amit Bhatia
India Leadership Initiative

Amit left a successful career as CEO of NYSE-listed WNS Knowledge Services, to focus full time on India’s severe job-talent disparity. India is the youngest nation on the planet, with 500 million new job seekers entering the job market in the next 15 years and only a small percentage of them actually considered “skilled“ enough to be employed. Aspire provides training to college-aged students and the unemployed, partnering with corporations to ensure that students learn skills needed now in the workplace. Aspire is scaling quickly across India's semi-urban, and rural areas, with over 12,000 students currently enrolled across 8 Indian states, and as many as 50,000 expected next year.

Website: www.aspireindia.org

  Video:Click here to view Aspire's video submission.

ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION
San Jose, CA

John Danner
Henry Crown Fellowship

With Rocketship, Danner is pioneering a “hybrid” education model, working with elementary schoolers in at-risk communities to innovatively combine online learning with classroom instruction. This approach allows for a more creative and effective use of resources, individual instruction, and better addresses each student’s unique learning needs. It also results in a significant reduction in staffing and facilities costs. Danner used his experience teaching in Nashville public schools and as the CEO of NetGravity to create a fast growing network of high-achieving schools. Rocketship anticipates expanding to 30 schools serving over 15,000 students in San Jose by 2020.

Website: www.rsed.org

  Video: Click here to view Rocketship's video submission.

ACUMEN FUND FELLOWS
New York, NY

Jacqueline Novogratz
Henry Crown Fellowship

In 2005, Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund - the successful nonprofit venture capital fund that invests patient capital in businesses providing critical goods and services to the poor - saw an opportunity to seed the next generation of leadership for the social sector by training young people with a combination of business and nonprofit skills. To date the Fellows Program has trained 24 individuals of 16 different nationalities; all of them furthering the vision of patient capital. The Fellows Program will launch its first regional fellows program in Kenya in 2011 with the aim of developing thousands of leaders around the world in years to come.

Website: www.acumenfund.org

  Video:Click here to view Acumen's video submission.

GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL
San Salvador, El Salvador

Diego de Sola
Central America Leadership Initiative

De Sola believes that individuals should be involved, take action, and give back to their communities. A real estate development CEO, de Sola began Glasswing, an innovative volunteering initiative designed to leverage individuals’, communities’, and companies’ financial and material resources together for the betterment of society. Serving as a convening agent and catalyst, Glasswing has mobilized over 12,000 volunteers from various sectors and more than $2,000,000 to strengthen health, education and other causes in El Salvador. The independent non-profit sees itself as a "zipper" for society, breaking paradigms and leaving a sense of common purpose in its wake.

Website: www.glasswinginternational.org

  Video:Click here to view Glasswing's video submission.