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On Saturday, Barron's released its list of 'The 25 Best Givers' -- high impact philanthropists who are changing the world through their donations. Many of these consisted of grants to help further educational, health or human rights issues in developing countries. Some of them consisted of funding for social enterprises -- ventures that once lifted off the ground, would be self sustaining.
Here's a look at some notable social enterprises being funded by the men and women who made the list:
Skoll Foundation (Jeff Skoll)
APOPO -- trains rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis.
Kiva -- online platform for peer to peer microlending
Kickstart -- develops irrigation pumps suitable for steeply sloping land -- they push water uphill as well as pulling it from the source
IDEI- affordable irrigation products that provide water one drop at a time
