2009
University of Washington Newsletter – A&S Perspectives, December 2009
Ensuring That Health Care Reaches “The Last Mile” – Craig Nakagawa (‘89), armed with an MBA and experience at Lehman Brothers and Teledesic, co-founded VillageReach, an NGO aimed at improving health care distribution systems in the most distant reaches of developing countries, beginning with Mozambique.
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University of Washington – Columns, November 2, 2009
Working Globally – As a cofounder of Seattle-based VillageReach, Craig Nakagawa values the UW as a resource for partnering on research and reaching talented students.
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Business Week, October 7, 2009
A Smart Path for Social Investing – The global financial meltdown has put a damper on hopes that private capital would soon become a major factor in financing micro-credit and other economic development programs. But the idea of putting capital to work on behalf of social progress still has more than a faint heartbeat. The most recent example is a deal put together by VillageReach, a Seattle-based non-profit that improves the performance of public health systems in developing countries, and Oasis Fund, a Luxembourg-based private equity firm that invests in social enterprises.
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Scientific American, September 4, 2009
Going the ‘last mile’ to deliver better health to villages in the developing world – A small Seattle-based non-profit called VillageReach is proving it is possible to help transport medical supplies across those final distances to villages in Mozambique and Malawi that had initially lacked adequate transportation, refrigeration, manpower and other infrastructure to do the job on their own. A combination of technological innovation and entrepreneurial creativity has been key to the effort.
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Seattle Times, September 2, 2009
Fremont nonprofit delivers vaccines and energy to world’s remote areas – VillageReach, a tiny nonprofit in Fremont, blends technology and entrepreneurship to deliver vaccines and energy to some of the least-developed areas in the world.
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 1, 2009
Social Business Wins Big Investment – VillageReach, a nonprofit organization in Seattle, took a novel approach to trying to improve the health of people living in remote areas of Northern Mozambique. It started a propane-distribution company.
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Seattle Times, September 1, 2009
VillageReach fuels change in global health delivery – VillageReach has figured how to get health care into the heart of remote communities that others haven’t managed to reach — the so-called “last mile” — and pay for it with a for-profit energy business.
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2007
Chicago Booth Magazine, September 28, 2007
2007 Distinguished Alumni Awards: Craig Nakagawa, ‘97 – Craig Nakagawa, ’97, left Wall Street to travel coach to Africa to get money from Bill Gates to bring vaccines to Mozambique.
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2005
Newsweek, July 25, 2005
Blaise Judja-Sato- A Wharton M.B.A. Brings Basic Health Care to the Poor of Rural Mozambique.
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2004
Forbes, September 6, 2004
The Last Mile – Blaise Judja-Sato had a nice job selling telecom services–until he saw what the lack of vaccines was doing to the poor in Mozambique.
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Pacific Northwest Magazine, July 2, 2004
How Far We’ve Come: Finding freedom and good fortune in an adopted land – Blaise Judja-Sato: From struggling African student to humanitarian leader.
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The Seattle Post Intelligencer, April 13, 2004
Propane powers vaccine program – Former telecom executive hits upon unlikely business pairing to improve African children’s health care.
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2003
Seattle Post Intelligencer, June 9, 2003
Ex-rebel in new war on diseases – Gates grant enables African freedom fighter to help vaccinate children.
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2001
Seattle Post Intelligencer, April 6, 2001
Dispensing Hope: First shots in global attack on disease – Gates kicks off vaccine initiative today at clinic in Mozambique.
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