Latest News

• "Designing New Technologies for a Better Life: Heifer World Ark Online,"
  

• "Billionaire Branson Cites KickStart as an Effective Solution to Poverty"
  

• "Martin Fisher, Design News 2007 Engineer of the Year Finalist"
  

• "KickStart products at NYC Cooper Hewitt Museum Through September 23, 2007"
  

• "KickStart products are also on display the Tech Museum in San Jose, CA (ongoing)"
  

• Wall Street Jounal Online "How Innovative Devices Can Boost Poorest Farmers, Entrepreneurs"
  

• Deutche Welle World Special "Nick Moon: Development Entrepreneur in Kenya"
  

• KickStart showcased in Saga Magazine (UK)
  "Dream Harvest"
  
  
• KickStart's COO, Nick Moon, spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative September 21,2006. Click here to watch the video or to read the transcript of the session (subsession two).
  

• KickStart featured on ABC news"Local Invention Hopes To Kick Start Africa's Economy"
  

• KickStart featured in Time Magazine "Cool Tools for the Third World"
  
  
• Income is Development by Martin Fisher
  
  
• KickStart Helps Grow a New Crop, by John Kihia, KickStart Country Director, Kenya
  
  
• Base of the Pyramid: Sustainable Business from the Bottom Up
  
  
• Industrial Designers Article in Forbes December 2005
  
  
• Omidyar Network and KickStart launch Microcredit Feasibility Study
  
  
• KickStart opens new office in Mali
  
  
• Our New Name
  
  
• John Deere Foundation grants $3 million to KickStart
  
  

  Awards and Recogniton
  

• Fast Company Social Capitalist Awards 2007 "KickStart named as an International Development Award winner"

• Skoll Foundation
  
  
• Fast Company Social Capitalist Award
  
  
• The Gleitsman Foundation
  
  
• International Prize for Pioneering Development Projects
  
  
• Schwab Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs for 2003
  
  
• TIME Europe's European Hero award
  
  
• 2002 Tech Museum Accenture Economic Development Award
  
  
  

  KickStart in the Press
  

• How a $33 Investment Helped One Family Out of Poverty
  
  
• The New MoneyMaker Hip Pump: Success Story from Tanzania
  
  
• USAID visits KickStart in Tanzania
  
  
• KickStart/PRODEPAM partnership in Mali (in English)
  The Women of Zignasso: Grow More, Work Less
  
  Activités de développement par KickStart/PRODEPAM en Mali (en Français)
  Les Femmes de Zignasso : Produire plus en travaillant moins
  
  
• KickStart featured on KALW radio Click on Passport Edition 08/07/2005 and listen on Real Player (The piece about Kickstart starts about 12 minutes into the news broadcast.)

• KickStart featured in new PBS series, The New Heroes

• Islam Online - The Moneymaker Transforms the Lives of Kenyans 3/14/2005

• San Francisco Chronicle - “ Bold New Ways to Save the World 10/16/2003

• Washington Post - Linking Poor Farmers to a Global Economy 9/12/2003

• Newsweek International - Waterworks 6/30/2003

• Fast Company - What Did You Do During the 2000s? 6/2003

• Physics Today - Martin Fisher puts his mind to using technology to facilitate microentrepreneurs in East Africa 4/2003

• New York Times - With their sights set across the globe, they are heading out from Silicon Valley with unflinching optimism 3/2003

• San Francisco Chronicle - Martin Makes A Middle Class 12/2002

• Business Week - The New Face of Philanthropy 12/2002

• San Jose Mercury News - Awards honor innovation benefiting humanity

• The Irrigation Association - 11/2002

• Wired Magazine - The Rainmaker: How a low-cost, lightweight pump is changing the economy of a nation 4/2002

• MIT Sloab eBAs - KickStart was a finalist for the MIT EBusiness Awards in the Social Responsibility Category 4/2002

• Stanford Business School Reporter - Pumping up the Economy in East Africa 2001