Targeted disenfranchisement, economic inequity, health disparities, violence, and genocide are rooted in centuries of systemic racism, sexism, colonialism, and slavery.
The Skoll Foundation supports social innovations that address inter-generational oppression, remove systemic barriers that limit opportunity, and elevate oppressed voices and narratives to shift attitudes and behavior.
Narrative Creation
Color of Change designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that hold Black people back, and champions solutions that move all of society forward.
AAPI Civic Engagement Fund fosters a culture of civic participation within Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to achieve transformational policy change.
Catalyzing Proximate Funders
While Indigenous Peoples are on the frontlines of climate change, they face significant barriers to philanthropic support.
Native Americans in Philanthropy and NDN Collective have pooled their respective energies for the Clean Energy Equity Fund to support Native-led climate and economic justice initiatives.
Influencing the Sector
In its first year, Grantmakers for Girls of Color deployed $4 million to organizations focused on girls of color via three funds—Love is Healing COVID-19 Response Fund; Black Girl Freedom Fund; and the New Songs Rising Initiative focused on Indigenous communities.
Hispanics in Philanthropy created an Essential Fund, which has disbursed $2.5 million in grants to 101 organizations across 34 states to support Latinx essential workers disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
Five social innovators from around the globe drive justice, equity, and stronger democracies, healthcare, climate action, and inclusive economic growth PALO ALTO, Calif., April 4, 2023—The Skoll Foundation has announced…
USC Shoah Foundation
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