The 11 initial grantees selected 138 promising community-based, service-providing nonprofit organizations through their own open subgrant competitions that involved more than 500 candidates.
Meeting in Jomtien, just over twenty years after the 1990 World Conference on Education for All, has been a symbolic act renewing the initial spirit and commitment of the global community towards education.
For one, a startup company that is successful is more likely to remain in its home community and care for its home community if it receives support through the difficult initial years.