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Skoll Foundation has announced five new recipients of its 2010 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Each award comes with a $765,000, three-year grant.

Three of the winning organizations — Forest Trends, Imazon and Telapak —are addressing climate change and working to preserve tropical forests around the world.

One Acre Fund works with farmers in Kenya and Rwanda to help them build capacity and access markets.

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Author: Sarah Duxbury