The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems.
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We identify people and organizations with innovations creating scalable positive impact. We invest at their inflection point towards scale, our bet that these social entrepreneurs have charted a path to fundamentally transform unjust systems.
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Social Entrepreneurship is a team sport. We believe that change agents thrive in a well cultivated community of their peers. Scalable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems require innovative partnerships.
Celebrate
We believe a story well told can change the world. Through our Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, we have supported 122 social entrepreneurs and 100 organizations on five continents. Their stories show the world what is possible.
"We’re tantalizingly close to a world where nobody dies of things like hunger and malaria," says @shepleygreen of @socprogress. "We need to look further into the data and find opportunities to progress faster." #SDGs
Without a safe place to store their earnings, poor smallholder farmers resort to spending as they earn, which means they can't afford high-quality seeds and fertilizer. In his latest blog post, @billgates writes about @MyAgro's clever solution.
As one of one of the first young women to receive support from @Camfed to go to secondary school, Angeline Murimirwa understands the enormous hurdles girls face in securing their right to education.
She spoke about her journey at #SkollWF: https://t.co/v6Myd2eMia
In Cambodian schools, an archaic code of conduct called Chbab Srey teaches girls to speak, laugh, walk quietly and serve their future husbands. Now a generation of women are rebelling. 💪🏽💪🏽
.@WISE_Tweets' CEO Stavros Yiannouka believes that #AI could crack the code for personalized, life-long learning. "We should make AI for education available to everyone." https://t.co/gyNWKL1BkE
"Millions of vulnerable people still lack access to vaccinations. Due to a game-changing partnership between @Gavi, @lastmilehealth & @Living_Goods, we now have the opportunity to change that for 8 million people."
-@rajpanjabi, CEO of @LastMileHealth
Human rights activist & People's Champion recipient Bryan Stevenson gave a moving speech at The E! People's Choice Awards this year. Watch the full speech here: #PCAs
Why does @barefootcollege train grandmothers as solar engineers?🌞 Because "women are an under-utilized and under-valued resource," according to CEO Meagan Fallone (@barefootmfc) who says that the grandmothers generate electricity for a million people.
By building a network of socially driven business leaders, @RoomtoRead is accelerating an end to illiteracy and gender inequality. @johnwoodRTR on @CNBC: https://t.co/H6IIWbCIP5
After years of receiving hate mail and personal abuse, former Danish parliament member @cekicozlem decided to something radical: Invite her haters out to coffee. Watch her astounding talk on reaching across divides from #WeTheFuture.
Whenever I travel for the foundation, the farmers I meet talk about one thing that holds them back: they can’t save their money. @myAgroFarms is one of the companies working on creative solutions to this problem.
Social Entrepreneurs
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Change
Social Entrepreneurs
Driving Large Scale
Change
The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and the innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Invest
We identify people and organizations with innovations creating scalable positive impact. We invest at their inflection point towards scale, our bet that these social entrepreneurs have charted a path to fundamentally transform unjust systems.
Connect
Social Entrepreneurship is a team sport. We believe that change agents thrive in a well cultivated community of their peers. Scalable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems require innovative partnerships.
Celebrate
We believe a story well told can change the world. Through our Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, we have supported 122 social entrepreneurs and 100 organizations on five continents. Their stories show the world what is possible.
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"We’re tantalizingly close to a world where nobody dies of things like hunger and malaria," says @shepleygreen of @socprogress. "We need to look further into the data and find opportunities to progress faster." #SDGs
The global goals we've made progress on -- and the ones we haven't
"We are living in a world that is tantalizingly close to ensuring that no one need die of hunger or malaria or diarrhea," says economist Michael Green...
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From Thailand to India to Mexico, @TEDx teams from across the world gave back to their local communities on #TEDxGlobalDay.
TEDxGlobalDay Brought Solutions to the Streets - Skoll.org
Across the globe, energized TEDx volunteers bonded, brainstormed, tackled big issues and made plans to continue this work for months to come.
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We are honored to be featured in Gates Notes, @BillGates's blog! Check out the video that explains myAgro's work in Mali, Senegal and Tanzania!
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“Whenever I travel for the foundation, the farmers I meet talk about one thing that holds them back: they can’t save their money. @myAgroF...
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Without a safe place to store their earnings, poor smallholder farmers resort to spending as they earn, which means they can't afford high-quality seeds and fertilizer. In his latest blog post, @billgates writes about @MyAgro's clever solution.
How mobile phones are helping farmers grow bigger harvests
One company is helping poor farmers save money for the first time using their phones.
ow.ly
As one of one of the first young women to receive support from @Camfed to go to secondary school, Angeline Murimirwa understands the enormous hurdles girls face in securing their right to education.
She spoke about her journey at #SkollWF: https://t.co/v6Myd2eMia
In Cambodian schools, an archaic code of conduct called Chbab Srey teaches girls to speak, laugh, walk quietly and serve their future husbands. Now a generation of women are rebelling. 💪🏽💪🏽
Cambodian women who flouted archaic rules are now role models promoting gender equality
Generations of rural Cambodian girls were taught traditional rules for how to be a ‘proper woman’, dutiful wife and home maker. Some rebel...
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.@WISE_Tweets' CEO Stavros Yiannouka believes that #AI could crack the code for personalized, life-long learning. "We should make AI for education available to everyone." https://t.co/gyNWKL1BkE
"Millions of vulnerable people still lack access to vaccinations. Due to a game-changing partnership between @Gavi, @lastmilehealth & @Living_Goods, we now have the opportunity to change that for 8 million people."
-@rajpanjabi, CEO of @LastMileHealth
#GotVaccines #GotLife
Human rights activist & People's Champion recipient Bryan Stevenson gave a moving speech at The E! People's Choice Awards this year. Watch the full speech here: #PCAs
Why does @barefootcollege train grandmothers as solar engineers?🌞 Because "women are an under-utilized and under-valued resource," according to CEO Meagan Fallone (@barefootmfc) who says that the grandmothers generate electricity for a million people.
Barefoot and empowered: NZ's link to solar grandmas
New Zealand-born Meagan Fallone is bringing solar electricity to the poorest people in the world.
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By building a network of socially driven business leaders, @RoomtoRead is accelerating an end to illiteracy and gender inequality. @johnwoodRTR on @CNBC: https://t.co/H6IIWbCIP5
Meet Agatha. She saw her mother struggle year after year as a small scale farmer.
With education & training Agatha now owns a thriving agri-business. A small loan through @Kiva allowed her to triple her profits this year!
https://t.co/D94sJHYpfD
After years of receiving hate mail and personal abuse, former Danish parliament member @cekicozlem decided to something radical: Invite her haters out to coffee. Watch her astounding talk on reaching across divides from #WeTheFuture.
Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail
Özlem Cekic's email inbox has been full of hate mail since 2007, when she won a seat in the Danish Parliament -- becoming the first female Muslim to ...
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The latest #ScalingSolutions report: a must-read guide on how funders can foster systems change in the philanthropy sector through collaboration.
Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems: How Funders Can Do Better - Skoll.org
The initiative revisited the funder community’s role in responding to daunting and complex social problems—“pathologies of systems."
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Whenever I travel for the foundation, the farmers I meet talk about one thing that holds them back: they can’t save their money. @myAgroFarms is one of the companies working on creative solutions to this problem.
How mobile phones are helping farmers grow bigger harvests
One company is helping poor farmers save money for the first time using their phones.
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