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Skoll Foundation

Skoll Foundation, established in 1999 by Jeff Skoll, is a leading non-profit organization focused on driving large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and innovators who tackle the world's most pressing issues. Led by CEO Sally Osberg, the foundation has awarded approximately $413 million to 108 social entrepreneurs and 87 organizations worldwide. They also fund a $25 million portfolio of program-related investments and support initiatives like the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford. Through programs like the Skoll World Forum, they provide a platform for executive audiences to engage with key social change leaders and learn about innovative solutions to critical global challenges. Skoll Foundation aims to create a sustainable world of peace and prosperity by empowering social entrepreneurs to extend their impact and improve society.

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Liz Diebold

Principal

Donald H. Gips

CEO

James Nardella

Principal, Portfolio and Investments

Jude O'Reilley

VP, Portfolio and Investments

Sally Osberg

President and CEO

Ben Pyne

Associate Principal

Debbie Santos

Senior Director of Finance

15 past transactions

Videre

Grant in 2016
Effective documentation and exposure are vital factors in the fight against human rights violations. Videre, an international charity founded in 2008, gives local activists the equipment, training and support needed to safely capture compelling video evidence of human rights violations. This captured footage is verified, analysed and then distributed to those who can create change.

Breakthrough

Grant in 2016
Breakthrough is an innovative, human rights organization using the power of popular culture, media, leadership development and community education to transform public attitudes and advance equality, justice, and dignity. Through various initiatives in six states of India (Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar and Jharkhand), Breakthrough addresses critical issues around domestic violence, early marriage, gender biased sex selection and sexual harassment in public spaces.

Living Goods

Grant in 2016
Empowering micro-entrepreneurs to deliver life-changing products to the doorsteps of the poor. Living Goods believes that the poor are not helpless victims; they are resilient entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers. They need better opportunities to grow their incomes and better access to products that improve their lives. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling life-changing products like simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in health and wealth for families throughout the developing world.

MPedigree

Grant in 2019
mPedigree Network uses mobile phones and other web technologies to secure products against faking and counterfeiting. It offers systems to protect medicine, agro-chemicals, cosmetics, medical devices, electric devices, and similar consumables, which are critical to the health and well-being of people as well as to ensure that such critical products reach them in the right condition, protected from counterfeiting, diversion, tampering, and other supply chain abuses. The company is headquartered in Bangalore, India with offices in Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya.

Nanosolar

Series D in 2008
Nanosolar prints solar cells and assembles panels to enable the most cost-efficient solar electricity. Nanosolars proprietary approach to printing CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) and nanoparticle inks using an annealing process minimizes the use of expensive, high vacuum deposition manufacturing equipment. This allows the Company to utilize equipment from the industrial printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing industries to produce solar-electric foil at high speeds, bringing the economics of printing to the world of solar PV semiconductor manufacturing.

ConnectMed

Grant in 2016
ConnectedMed builds digital therapeutics platform that allows patients to manage their primary and chronic care needs.

Equal Justice Initiative

Grant in 2016
The Equal Justice Initiative is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. EJI also prepares reports, newsletters, and manuals to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of reforming the administration of criminal justice.

mPharma

Grant in 2019
mPharma is a prescription drug manager for providers and payers in Africa. We purchase prescription medicines for providers on our network and design drug benefits plan for Payers. mPharma is present in Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia. We also have an R&D office in Israel. Our vision is to become the largest dispenser of medications in Africa and a key stakeholder in the worldwide supply chain of chronic drugs.

Namati

Grant in 2016
A World Bank study found that Timap’s paralegals managed to squeeze justice out of a broken system: stopping a school master from beating children; negotiating child support payments from a derelict father; persuading the water authority to repair a well. In exceptional cases, such as when a mining company damaged six villages’ land and abandoned the region without paying compensation, a tiny corps of lawyers can resort to litigation and higher-level advocacy to obtain a remedy. Timap for Justice has been recognized by International Crisis Group, Transparency International, President Jimmy Carter, the World Bank, and others as an innovative model for delivering justice services

SaveLIFE Foundation

Grant in 2024
SaveLIFE Foundation (SLF) is an innovative non-profit, non-governmental organization established to tackle one of India's most serious epidemics: the dramatic escalation of road accident deaths in India with 15 fatalities recorded every hour on average. With the help of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Global Road Safety Partnership, WHO and several other partners, SLF is creating high-impact solutions that help to save countless lives.

Food for Education

Grant in 2024
Food for Education provides subsidized quality lunch meals to schoolchildren in order to improve nutrition and educational outcomes. The company was founded in 2012 by Wawira Njiru.

Meedan

Grant in 2024
Meedan is a hybrid for profit and non-profit social technology enterprise which aims to increase cross-language interaction on the web, with particular emphasis social media verification and social media translation tools. Checkdesk is a product for newsrooms that helps them collaborate with citizen journalists to fact-check and verify media around breaking events. Bridge is a platform for social media translation.