The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) has been awarded numerous awards from local and international institutions.
King Hussein Leadership Prize presented to Robert Freling of the Solar Electric Light Fund
Washington, DC - Her Majesty Queen Noor today presented the 2008 King Hussein
Leadership Prize to Robert A. Freling, executive director of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), at the
Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Awards in Aspen, Colo. Each year the prize is awarded to an
individual, institution or group who has demonstrated exceptional humanitarian leadership in promoting
sustainable development, human rights, equity, and peace.
SELF named A 2008 Tech Awards Laureate by the Tech Museum of Innovation
San Jose, CA and Washington, DC -The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), a non-profit dedicated to helping rural communities in developing countries power a brighter future through innovative uses of solar energy, was today named a 2008 Tech Awards Laureate, one of 25 global innovators recognized each year for applying technology to benefit humanity and spark global change.
Washington, DC - Competing with 2,525 proposals from 154 countries, SELF’s solar irrigation project in Benin emerged as a winner in the 2006 Global Development Marketplace competition, sponsored by the World Bank.
SELF receives 2005 Conservation Award from Chevron
On Oct. 28, 2005, SELF was honored as a recipient of Chevron's 2005 Conservation Award. Watch this clip of Chevron´s video presentation at the award ceremony.
SELF named a finalist for the 2002 Tech Museum of Innovation Awards
The Tech Museum Awards honor innovators and visionaries from around the world who are applying technology to profoundly improve the human condition in the categories of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development. Individuals, for-profit companies, and not-for-profit organizations are eligible.
Vietnam Women's Union wins prestigious Energy Globe Award
The Energy Globe Award honours outstanding initiatives in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources from all over the world. SELF is pleased to announce that our project partner, the Vietnam Women's Union, was awarded with the 2002 prize.
SELF wins Global Green Environmental Award, 1998
The Green Cross Millennium Awards, established in 1996, recognize and herald those who embody the mission of "fostering a global value shift toward a sustainable future."
The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) received a prestigious Millennium Award in recognition of its work to develop energy self-sufficiency in developing countries at conservation organization Global Green USA's Third Annual Millennium Awards gala event held Friday, October 9, 1998, Global Green USA is the American affiliate of Green Cross International, founded by President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Recipients of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion represent a brilliantly diverse spectrum of disciplines, personalities, and spiritual backgrounds, yet they all share at least one thing in common: Each showed outstanding humanitarianism in their pursuits.
Freeman J. Dyson, one of the world's pre-eminent physicists whose futurist views consistently challenge humankind to reconcile technology and social justice, has won the 2000 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
The announcement was made on March 22 at a news conference at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York. Dyson, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, has dedicated much of his life to advocating the development of "joyful and useful" technologies for the benefit of all humankind, regardless of economic or cultural situation. His insistence on using current emerging technologies as social equalizers -- in much the same way that vaccines, antibiotics, and electricity helped bridge economic and social gaps in the 20th century -- has put him at the forefront of scientists who call for eliminating the wedge that technology drives between the haves and have nots.
Created in 1972 by the pioneering global investor Sir John Templeton to remedy what he saw as an oversight by the Nobel Prizes, which do not honor the discipline of religion, the Templeton Prize is always set at an amount that exceeds the value of the Nobels.
