organization industry health care founded 2008 headquarters san francisco california united states key people jane chen co founder linus liang co founder rahul panicker co founder naganand murty co founder razmig hovaghimian co founder website www.embraceglobal.org embrace is a non profit organization providing low cost incubators to prevent neonatal deaths in rural areas in developing countries . 1 the organization was developed in 2008 during the multidisciplinary entrepreneurial design for extreme affordability course at stanford university by group members jane chen linus liang rahul panicker razmig hovaghimian and naganand murty . 2 3 in 2015 embrace became part of thrive networks also called east meets west which is a non governmental organization founded in 1988 by le ly hayslip . 4 thrive networks focuses on areas such as health water sanitation and education in various countries throughout the world . incubator edit the embrace infant warmer is a low cost solution that maintains premature and low birth weight babies body temperature . the infant warmer is portable safe reusable and requires only intermittent access to electricity . 5 each baby warmer is priced at approximately 25 . 6 7 the embrace development team won the fellowship at the echoing green competition in 2008 for this concept . 8 9 embrace also won the 2007 2008 business association of stanford entrepreneurial students social e challenge competition grand prize . citation needed at a ceremony at bafta in london on december 3rd 2013 jane chen linus liang naganand murty and rahul panicker won an innovation award from the economist . 10 embrace also partners with universalgiving to raise fund for its project which is to provide the embrace infant warmers in kabul afghanistan . references edit entrepreneurial design for extreme affordability . stanford institute of design . retrieved 2008 09 14 . big ideas little packages . national geographic . lee ellen 2010 11 12 . embrace may keep babies warm and alive . sfgate . retrieved 19 july 2012 . history thrive networks . thrive networks . retrieved 2016 07 13 . sibley lisa 2008 04 18 . stanford startup s 25 sleeping bag could save newborns . retrieved 2008 09 14 . kannani rahim 2010 05 26 . investing in women and girls a focus on health advocacy and innovation . huffington post . retrieved 19 july 2012 . moore thomas . low tech body warmer is a baby life saver . sky news . retrieved 19 july 2012 . thinkchange india extreme affordability . 2008 09 04 . retrieved 2008 09 14 . jane chen and rahul panicker . retrieved 2008 09 14 . technology quarterly q4 2013 and the winners are . the economist . 2013 11 30 . retrieved 2013 12 02 . external links edit embraceglobal.org . retrieved 2008 09 14 . abc feature video on embrace abc s new global health series 20 20 be the change save a life november issue this international development related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title embrace non profit & oldid 732647628 categories appropriate technologysocial enterprisespediatricsnon profit organizations based in the san francisco bay areainternational development stubshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2012all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 august 2016 at 09 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view