SEVEN would like to thank the authors who participated in the Morality of Profit essay competition, and our recent mini-competition to post excerpts on MoralityofProfit.com. We appreciate your important contribution to the discussion, and are delighted with the number of essay excerpts that we received. In total, over 175 authors posted their excerpts to the site, and those posts cumulatively received thousands of Facebook posts, comments, and hundreds of Twitter mentions.

We are pleased to announce that Ms. Carol Gutierrez Esguerra’s submission “The Good Story” received an unprecedented number of hits, including 882 Facebook shares and 24 Retweets.  Congratulations to all the participants for generating so much feedback and discussion around the topic of Morality of Profit.

Our main Morality of Profit essay competition is coming to an exciting conclusion. We’re currently finalizing outreach to the winners, which is sometimes a challenge across time zones and continents.  We will make the public announcement of our first, second, and third place winners by Monday, August 16^th at 5:00pm EST.   We will distribute our final press release via email to everyone that participated, and it will be available online at www.sevenfund.org and www.moralityofprofit.com.

Thank you again to everyone who contributed, and we look forward to announcing the winners as well as moving to the next stages of finalizing the manuscript and conference.

Best regards,

Elizabeth Hooper
Executive Director
SEVEN Fund