Filipina wins ‘Nobel Prize of Business’ along with CEOs of cloud computing giant, African bank

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MANILA - A Filipina social entrepreneur based in Mindanao has won what is dubbed as the “Nobel Prize of business” alongside the CEO of cloud computing giant Salesforce, and the CEO of an African banki

ng group.

Past winners include Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group and Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever. Pantoja said she first came up with the idea for Coffee for Peace after watching government troops and Moro rebels sit down and hold dialogues over coffee sometime in 2006.She said Coffee for Peace is now providing sustainable livelihood to indigenous and migrant groups in Mindanao, enabling over 880 farmers to escape poverty and build their coffee production capacity.

Benioff was recognized for setting up Salesforce’s ‘1-1-1 model’ of corporate philanthropy, whereby a company contributes 1 percent of technology, equity, and employee hours back to the communities it serves, Business for Peace said.

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