Professor Muhammad Yunus
The Tech Awards, an annual humanitarian awards program organized by The Tech Museum of Innovation, will be honoring 25 Laureates from all around the world for their achievements in education, equality, environment, economic development and health. Their philanthropic contributions will be recognized at the annual Tech Awards Gala on Thursday, November 12th, in San Jose, CA.
Winning projects to be featured at The Tech Awards include the Portable Light Project, which creates new ways to provide energy, and Build Change, a program that trains builders and homeowners to build earthquake-resistant houses in developing countries. Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, will receive this year’s James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award for his thought leadership in the micro-lending space.
For more information on The Tech Awards, please visit www.techawards.org.
