The Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 by Jeff Skoll, based in Palo Alto, California. Its primary mission is to drive large-scale change by investing in and supporting social entrepreneurs who address the world's most pressing social issues. The foundation focuses on empowering change agents and innovators to extend their reach and deepen their impact, particularly in areas such as healthcare, education, and economic opportunity. Over the years, it has awarded approximately $413 million to 108 social entrepreneurs and 87 organizations across five continents. The Skoll Foundation also operates the Skoll World Forum, a platform that fosters collaboration and discussion among leaders in the social entrepreneurship field. Additionally, it has established partnerships with prominent organizations, including the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and Ashoka, to advance social entrepreneurship and increase public awareness of its potential to create meaningful societal change.

Donald H. Gips

CEO and Board Member

11 past transactions

Wazi

Grant in 2020
Provider of digital mental health services intended to connect individuals with therapy services through their mobile phones. The company's platform offers anonymous digital counseling to patients and digital tools for counselors, counseling groups, non-governmental-organization, and the government, enabling healthcare professionals to flexibly scale their programs effectively and efficiently.

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.

mPharma

Grant in 2019
mPharma Data, Inc. is a technology-driven company based in Accra, Ghana, with an additional location in Lexington, Massachusetts. Founded in 2013, it focuses on improving access to high-quality medications in emerging markets by connecting physicians, pharmacies, and patients through its application. The company aggregates real-time market data on prescription trends, drug consumption, and adverse reactions, providing valuable insights to pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and governments. mPharma offers a pharmacy network application that centralizes inventories from multiple pharmacies, enabling easier drug searches for physicians and patients. Additionally, the company provides subscription-based data analytics for actionable insights on drug consumption and diagnosis, along with prescription management tools to assist healthcare providers in locating various medicines. By partnering with drug manufacturers, insurance companies, and governments, mPharma aims to facilitate affordable access to essential medications for patients.

ConnectMed

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

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

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.
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.

Living Goods

Grant in 2016
Living Goods is an organization that empowers micro-entrepreneurs to provide essential health and wellness products directly to underserved communities. By establishing networks of village-based health workers, Living Goods enables these entrepreneurs to deliver life-saving items such as treatments for malaria and diarrhea, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. The organization believes that individuals in poverty are resilient and capable, requiring better opportunities to enhance their incomes and access critical goods and services. Through their innovative approach, Living Goods aims to fundamentally transform how disadvantaged populations obtain vital products, ultimately contributing to improved health and economic conditions for families in developing regions.

Nanosolar

Series D in 2008
Nanosolar, Inc. is a manufacturer of solar electricity cells and panels, specializing in cost-efficient solar energy solutions. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company also has manufacturing facilities in Berlin, Germany. Nanosolar utilizes a proprietary printing process to produce CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) solar cells and lightweight solar-electric cell foils, known as SolarPly, which can be customized to various sizes. This innovative approach minimizes reliance on expensive vacuum deposition equipment, allowing the company to leverage industrial printing techniques for high-speed production. Nanosolar's product line includes utility panels designed for large-scale power plants, making it a significant player in the solar energy sector.
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