This award was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project rewards quality journalism and advances a new and distinctive agenda for development coverage on health topics through the award of funding to a selection of state-of-the-art reporting projects of great impact and high visibility.

The One Young World Fellowship convenes the brightest young talent from every country and sector, working to accelerate social impact. Delegates from 190+ countries are counselled by influential political, business and humanitarian leaders such as Justin Trudeau, Paul Polman and Meghan Markle, amongst many other global figure. 

Kettering Foundation research is done primarily through collaborative studies carried on in learning exchanges. In these meetings, Kettering “trades” what it is learning for what others are learning through their work. The operating principle in the learning exchanges is self-responsibility (which is also the operating principle in democracy). Everyone can and should learn with others, but no one can learn for someone else. Democracy is learned through the experience of doing democracy, and the greatest lesson is the discovery that people and communities themselves have the power to act. Too often that potential goes unrecognized, which is why Kettering conducts its exchanges in ways it hopes promotes this self-discovery.

The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, begun in 2014, is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) that empowers young people through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking. In 2018, the Fellowship provided 700 outstanding young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa with the opportunity to hone their skills at a U.S. college or university with support for professional development after they return home. Willice Onyango completeted Civic Leadership Institute at Kansas State University as part of the Fellowship.