News
Media coverage of Alex Soros and the Alexander Soros Foundation has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Reuters, The Guardian, NPR, Forbes, New York 1 and elsewhere.
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Financial Times: US companies review Papua New Guinea timber imports
National Geographic: Your Floor May Be Made of Illegal Tropical Wood
ABC Australia: Papua New Guinea ‘illegal logging exports continue’, despite Peter O’Neill’s promise to stop it (Audio)
AFP: US firms buying timber from illegal PNG logging: NGO
Radio New Zealand: US retail one end of supply chain for illegal PNG logs
Mongabay: Recognizing environmentalists under threat
Thomson Reuters Foundation: From salesman to forest defender, Papua New Guinea activist wins U.S. award
ABC Australia – Pacific Beat: PNG anti-logging campaigner wins prestigious international environmental award
Australian Associated Press: PNG environmental crusader feted in NY
Pacific Guardians: PNG’s Paul Pavol wins international award for fighting against land grabbers
ActNow PNG: SABL warrior wins international human rights award in New York
La Mula: Alexander Soros: “Nobody realizes that environmental advocates, indigenous, are great heroes.”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Alex Soros: “Fracking should be banned.”
NPR: Congolese Activists Honored For Fighting Oil Exploration In Virunga National Park
Bloomberg News: Congo Activists Urge U.S. Support to Investigate Soco Oil Search
The New York Times: Peru Prepares to Host Climate Talks as its Indigenous Forest Defenders Die
The Guardian: Cambodia: Chut Wutty’s legacy creates an opportunity for land justice
Voice of America Cambodia: Obama Honors Two Cambodian Rights Workers
The Cambodia Daily: Prey Lang Network Wins Environmental Award
The Phnom Penh Post: Posthumous award for slain environmentalist
Front Page Africa: Working for Environment: Liberia’s Silas Siakor Wins Human Rights Award
Politics
The Hill: Soros-linked Jewish PAC will intervene in Senate races for first time
Jewish Journal: Scooter Braun & Alex Soros to host Hillary Clinton
Politico: Soros’ son builds a PAC for Jewish voters
The Forward: Bend the Arc Founds Jewish Social Justice PAC
Grant Making
Daily Detroit: The Ideas Box brings tech and education access to underserved neighborhoods
The Detroit News: Nonprofit opens Ideas Box for Detroit recreation center
The Wall Street Journal: A Box of Tools to Stir Minds in the Bronx
New York 1: Taking a Leaf Out of the International Development Book, The Bronx Gets Pop Up Library (VIDEO)
Bronx 12 News: Pop-up library opens up for South Bronx kids
DNA Info: Books, iPads and Chess Arrive in Bronx Park for Summer
AFK Insider: Q&A: How A Former Model Built A Dream School In Ethiopia
The Wall Street Journal: Thinking Inside the Ideas Box
The New York Times: A Study of Home Help Finds Low Worker Pay
The Forward: George Soros Next Generation Steps Up
Forbes: Meet Philanthropy’s Next Generation
The Wall Street Journal: Alexander Soros Is Unmasked for Charity
The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Soros Philanthropy: The Next Generation
The Wall Street Journal: Younger Soros Tries to Learn From Father’s Giving
Multimedia
The Impact of Drug Policy on the Environment
Blood, Sweat and Trees: The Story of Saweto, Directed by Robert Curran
If Not Us, Then Who?, Directed by Handcrafted Films