Mara Foundation Competitors

The Hult Prize inspires young people to solve the world’s biggest challenges through social entrepreneurship. Through our year-long competition, over 100,000 students from 120+ countries create high-impact startups that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Finalists pitch their businesses to a panel of expert judges, and the winning team receives $1 million USD in funding to make their idea a reality.

Kiva (www.kiva.org) expands financial access to help underserved communities thrive. An international non-profit, we serve the financially excluded, especially underbanked women, refugees and communities impacted by forced displacement, climate-vulnerable people and systemically marginalized communities in the United States. By connecting people through crowdfunded loans, Kiva puts the power of financial inclusion in all our hands. Since 2005, the Kiva community has raised over $2 billion in loans, reaching over 5 million people in 84 countries. Kiva’s team is made up of 100+ employees and 450+ volunteers across the world, with offices in San Francisco, Nairobi, Bangkok, and Bogotá.

African Leadership Academy (ALA) is a pre-eminent educational institution that seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting its future leaders. The Academy was founded on the philosophy that a new generation of ethical, committed leaders is the key to Africa’s development. ALA is the training ground for these future leaders. To achieve our mission of developing the next generation of African leaders, ALA has attracted a diverse “staffulty” (staff and faculty) of global change makers: world-class professionals who share our values and passion for Africa and her youth. Working at ALA means being part of a community of diverse cultures driven by a shared commitment to creating positive social change on the African continent. We seek talented dynamic professionals and passionate people to join our team, who will add to the current fabric of staff and faculty with an enthusiasm for Africa and its youthful leaders.