{"175241":{"#nid":"175241","#data":{"type":"news","title":"TOHL Wins Grant Money and Receives Nod from Al Gore","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA social entrepreneurial start-up whose members include graduates from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts won the COMMON Pitch Chile grant at a conference held in Santiago, Chile, from November 29, 2012 to December 1, 2012. Keynote speaker and former Vice President, Al Gore, gave special recognition to the company,\u0026nbsp;Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics (TOHL) in his remarks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the entrepreneurs that I learned about here is working on water distribution in communities and regions that have a great challenge in getting sufficient supplies of fresh water,\u0022 Gore said.\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe entrepreneurship side of social entrepreneurship means that you want to pursue a for-profit model, most of you, in order to make sure that the organizations that you\u2019re building are sustainable.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETOHL won $35,000 at the event as\u0026nbsp;one of two group winners. Company founders include \u003Cstrong\u003ETravis Horsley\u003C\/strong\u003E, a IAML\/Public Policy graduate and current masters student in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EMelissa McCoy\u003C\/strong\u003E, an alumna with a double major in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Economics\u003C\/strong\u003E and the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA social entrepreneurial start-up\u0026nbsp;whose members include graduates from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts won the COMMON Pitch Chile grant at a conference held in Santiago, Chile, from November 29, 2012 to December 1, 2012. Keynote speaker and former Vice President, Al Gore, gave special recognitioin to the company, TOHL, in his remarks.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2012-12-04 10:54:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:18","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"175751":{"id":"175751","type":"image","title":"TOHL at Common Pitch Chile","body":null,"created":"1449179022","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:42","changed":"1475894819","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:59","alt":"TOHL at Common Pitch Chile","file":{"fid":"195979","name":"commonpitchchile.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/commonpitchchile.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/commonpitchchile.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":248375,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/commonpitchchile.jpg?itok=iVJ-iABB"}}},"media_ids":["175751"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.commonpitchchile.cl\/","title":"Common Pitch Chile"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-and-events\/story?id=126131","title":"Horsley and McCoy Team Places in Ideas 2 Serve Competition"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"52141","name":"Al Gore"},{"id":"17341","name":"tohl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}