The Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation, established by Jeff Skoll in 1999 and based in Palo Alto, California, is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to addressing global challenges through social entrepreneurship. Under the leadership of CEO Sally Osberg, the foundation invests in and supports social entrepreneurs—individuals who develop innovative solutions to pressing societal issues. With a mission to drive large-scale change, the Skoll Foundation has awarded approximately $413 million to over 100 social entrepreneurs and organizations across five continents. It also plays a vital role in fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing through initiatives like the Skoll World Forum, which serves as a platform for dialogue among leaders in social change. Additionally, the foundation partners with prominent organizations such as Ashoka and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford to enhance the impact of social entrepreneurship. By focusing its resources strategically, the Skoll Foundation aims to empower change agents and elevate their efforts to improve the lives of underserved communities globally.
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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.
IllumiNative
Grant in 2024
IllumiNative is a Native women-led organization founded on basic Native values and community, and guided by research..It aims to empower Native people by elevating current Native perspectives, stories, and concerns that promote justice, equity, and self-determination.
Meedan
Grant in 2024
Meedan is a hybrid social technology enterprise that focuses on enhancing cross-language interaction on the web, particularly in the realms of social media verification and translation. The company offers a suite of tools designed to support journalism and improve digital literacy. One of its key products, Checkdesk, facilitates collaboration between newsrooms and citizen journalists, enabling them to fact-check and verify information surrounding breaking news events. Additionally, Meedan's Bridge platform provides social media translation services, helping to make information more accessible across language barriers. By developing open-source tools for content creation, annotation, verification, and archival, Meedan aims to promote equitable access to information both online and offline.
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.
Wazi
Grant in 2020
Wazi is a digital mental health service provider that facilitates access to counseling via mobile devices. Their platform offers confidential online therapy sessions for individuals, along with digital tools designed to assist counselors, groups, NGOs, and governments in managing and scaling mental health programs efficiently.
Jamii LIfe
Grant in 2020
Jamii LIfe provides changes including incontinence, fear of falling, rehab support, and the often neglected eating, including physical activity as part of your daily routine, maintaining a healthy weight, monitoring blood sugar, and taking medication psychological impact of stroke.
mPedigree Network
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 is a healthcare company focused on enhancing access to affordable medications in emerging markets. Founded in 2013 by Gregory Rockson, Daniel Shoukimas, and James Finucane, mPharma collaborates with drug manufacturers, insurance providers, financial institutions, and governments to streamline the delivery of prescription drugs to consumers. The company offers a pharmaceutical data analytics platform that assists pharmacies in managing their inventory, prescribing medications, and reporting adverse drug reactions. By ensuring that high-quality chronic disease medications are consistently available at sustainable prices, mPharma aims to improve health outcomes for patients, doctors, and pharmacists alike.
ConnectMed
Grant in 2016
ConnectedMed builds digital therapeutics platform that allows patients to manage their primary and chronic care needs.
Living Goods
Grant in 2016
Living Goods is a social enterprise that empowers micro-entrepreneurs to enhance the health and wealth of underserved communities. By creating networks of village-based health workers, Living Goods facilitates access to essential products and services, enabling these entrepreneurs to sell life-changing items directly to families. Their offerings include affordable treatments for common ailments such as malaria and diarrhea, as well as fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods believes that the impoverished are not merely victims but rather resilient entrepreneurs who require better opportunities to improve their lives. Through its innovative approach, the company aims to transform how marginalized populations access critical health care and essential goods, promoting significant advancements in their quality of life.
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.
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.
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.
Namati
Grant in 2016
Namati is a learning organisation. They advance social and environmental justice by building a movement of people who know, use, and shape the law. They strive to translate the lessons from our grassroots experience into positive, large-scale changes to laws and systems.
Nanosolar
Series D in 2008
Nanosolar, Inc. is a manufacturer of solar electricity cells and panels, specializing in cost-efficient solar solutions. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional manufacturing facilities in Berlin, Germany, Nanosolar develops innovative products such as the Utility Panel, designed for utility-scale power plants, and SolarPly, a lightweight solar-electric cell foil that can be customized in size. The company's proprietary technology involves printing solar cells using CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) and nanoparticle inks, along with an annealing process that reduces reliance on expensive vacuum deposition equipment. By leveraging industrial printing methods and roll-to-roll manufacturing, Nanosolar produces solar-electric foil at high speeds, effectively merging the principles of printing with solar photovoltaic semiconductor production, thereby enhancing economic efficiency in the solar industry.
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