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Rural Innovations Network Grant
Organization - Rural Innovations Network
Grant Amount - $100,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - to sponsor its use of the services provided by InnoCentive, Inc. to seek solutions related to its efforts to ensure that poor farmers, artisans, pastoralists and others in rural India benefit from grassroots innovations
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