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.

Gips, Donald H.

CEO

Jeffrey Skoll

Founder

15 past transactions

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 focused on enhancing cross-language interaction on the web, particularly through social media verification and translation tools. The company offers Checkdesk, a product designed for newsrooms to facilitate collaboration with citizen journalists for fact-checking and verifying media during breaking events. Additionally, Meedan provides Bridge, a platform that specializes in social media translation. By developing open-source tools for content creation and sharing, Meedan aims to improve journalism, digital literacy, and the accessibility of information both online and offline, ultimately making information access more equitable.

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 provider of digital mental health services that connects individuals with therapy through a mobile platform. The company offers anonymous digital counseling for patients and provides essential digital tools for counselors, counseling groups, non-governmental organizations, and government entities. Wazi's technology platform supports the effective and efficient scaling of mental health programs, allowing healthcare professionals to enhance their services and reach a broader audience.

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 company focused on improving access to affordable medications for patients in emerging markets. Established in 2013 by Gregory Rockson, Daniel Shoukimas, and James Finucane, mPharma collaborates with pharmaceutical manufacturers, health insurance providers, financial institutions, and governments to facilitate the direct delivery of prescription drugs to consumers. The company offers a pharmaceutical data analytics platform that assists pharmacies in managing their inventory effectively, ensuring that essential chronic disease medications are available at sustainable prices. By enabling doctors, patients, and pharmacists to connect with a network of high-quality medicines, mPharma aims to enhance the overall accessibility and affordability of healthcare for underserved populations.

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
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.

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.
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, focusing on cost-efficient solar energy solutions. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional manufacturing facilities in Berlin, Germany, the company produces products such as the Utility Panel, designed for utility-scale power plants, and SolarPly, a lightweight solar-electric cell foil that can be customized to various sizes. Nanosolar employs a proprietary printing technique for CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) solar cells, utilizing nanoparticle inks and an annealing process. This innovative approach reduces reliance on expensive high vacuum deposition equipment, allowing the company to leverage industrial printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing technologies to produce solar-electric foil efficiently and at high speeds.
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