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2016 John P. McNulty Prize Winner - Dr. Amy Crockett 84

We are pleased to announce this year's winner of the $100,000 John P. McNulty Prize , Dr. Amy Crockett of the Liberty Fellowship .     Amy is being honored for her transformative work that is drastically improving birth outcomes in South Carolina, and influencing the way healthcare is delivered across the nation. Every year in the United States, more ...

Added by Shaquila Williams Blog AGLN Blog 10/26/2016
Weaving A Future Of Hope For Women 83

Meet  Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellow  and 2016 McNulty Prize Laureate Mukti Datta, a rural development advocate who has pioneered a self-sustaining, replicable model of weaving cooperatives that is poised to scale across India's Himalayan region and transform the lives of thousands of women. by Mukti Datta India is blessed with a philosophy and way of ...

Added by Phil Javellana Blog AGLN Blog 10/24/2016
Teaching Gangs A New Way To Hustle 82

Instead of beefing up law enforcement in Panama city's old quarter, real estate developer CALI Fellow and McNulty Laureate KC Hardin chose to work with entire gang hierarchies to demobilize and bring all of their members into the formal economy.

Added by Phil Javellana Blog AGLN Blog 10/17/2016
Changing The Conservation Paradigm 81

Learn more about the work of Africa Leadership Inititiative - South Africa Fellow and McNulty Prize Laureate Andrew Zaloumis, a lifelong conservationist and anti-apartheid activist, who founded the Rural Enterprise Accelerator Program (REAP) to transform an aid-dependent economy.  

Added by Phil Javellana Blog AGLN Blog 10/07/2016
Eliminating Racial Disparities In Health 80

The rates of preterm birth in South Carolina were worse than those in Sudan. Centering Pregnancy, an evidence-based, innovative group prenatal care program brought to the state by obstetrician, medical director, and Liberty Fellow  Dr. Amy Crockett , is decreasing rates of preterm birth and eliminating racial disparities in health outcomes. ...

Added by Phil Javellana Blog AGLN Blog 10/05/2016
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