Three Gunieas Fund 2003 Grant Awards

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October , 2004

3GF grant partner Upwardly Global and its Founder and Executive Director, Jane Leu, have been selected to receive the 2004 Manhattan Institute Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Upwardly Global was nominated for this prestigious award by Three Guineas Fund, and was chosen from among 150 nominees for its innovation in helping unemployed and underemployed immigrant professionals find growth positions in leading U.S. companies.

"The award committee and I were impressed with the fact that Upwardly Global has, with limited resources, actually done a better job than government-funded programs to assist refugees and immigrants," says Howard Husock, Director of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. "Jane Leu, who has experience with publicly-funded refugee resettlement programs, is an inspirational social entrepreneur who saw that well-qualified, highly educated immigrants were being consigned to low-skill jobs by programs that were supposed to help them. Thanks to Jane, dozens of immigrant professionals are being placed in jobs in their fields of expertise. Both they and their employers are better off as a result. Upwardly Global's model accomplishes this for about $1000 less per placement than government-funded programs."

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a New York-based think tank, gives its annual Social Entrepreneurship Award to leaders who have developed a new, sustainable action that successfully addresses a public problem and helps to improve the lives of individuals and American society. With the award, Upwardly Global will receive a $10,000 prize from the Manhattan Institute. Upwardly Global has also been recognized for its social entrepreneurship by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and by the Draper Richards Foundation, the largest grant to social entrepreneurs in the United States.

For more information about Upwardly Global, please visit:
http://www.upwardlyglobal.org/