Skoll Foundation Announces Winners of the 2025 Skoll Award for Social Innovation
Driving inspiring solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, five social innovators are designing a better future PALO ALTO, Calif., March 24, 2025—The Skoll Foundation is pleased to announce the…
Skoll World Forum Interviews: Spotlight on Delta40 and African Women's Development Fund
Women in Africa are on the frontlines of climate change. They battle oppression from multiple angles on a daily basis. They have the least access to resources. Yet across the…
Skoll World Forum Interviews: Spotlight On Indigenous People’s Day
Today, as we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day, we are thrilled to highlight two Native leaders from our Skoll Fellows class who are tackling issues like health care and homelessness with…
Skoll World Forum Interviews: Spotlight on Swasti + Catalyst Group
What does it mean to be healthy? The team at Swasti, a nonprofit based in India that focuses on advancing the many determinants of health, understands that physical and mental…
Skoll World Forum Interviews: Spotlight on Climate and Indigenous Leaders
As UN Climate Week and the UN General Assembly (UNGA) gets underway, we are sharing four compelling leaders to watch— each with an inspiring vision for the next era in…
Skoll World Forum Interviews: Spotlight On Brazilian Social Innovators
Brazil’s democracy was tested in the lead-up to the 2022 presidential election. Since then, Brazilian organizations on the ground have continued working to strengthen democracy by empowering everyday people to…
Skoll World Forum Interviews: Spotlight On Africa Health Innovators
Advancements in medicine around the world over the last century have helped save millions of lives; supporting healthier, more resilient communities. Despite these improvements in care, issues concerning infrastructure, access…
Skoll World Forum Interviews: Spotlight on youth and women's participation in U.S. democracy
Leadership from a range of backgrounds sparks creativity and innovations that better serve all people. A government that reflects its citizens tends to operate more effectively and equitably to form…
Registering to Vote is Unnecessarily Complicated; Here’s One Simple Solution
See how automatic voter registration addresses current system flaws and improves accuracy. We created this video in partnership with Freethink for Rethinking Possible, a collection of real stories developed by…
Indigenous Storytelling in Defense of People and Planet
How do we create and embody resistance when livelihoods are threatened? From media activism to the strengthening act of a Hoop Dance, global Indigenous leaders are using storytelling to defend…
2019 Skoll World Forum: Facebook Live Conversations
At the 2019 Skoll World Forum, we hosted a series of live conversations—led by award-winning journalist Emily Kasriel—with social entrepreneurs, innovators, and thought leaders on Facebook Live, off the main stage.…
Highlights from Skoll World Forum 2017
The annual Skoll World Forum was, as always, an inspiring, energizing, and at times dizzying week of conversations and celebrations in the hallowed halls and cobblestoned streets of Oxford. Stephan Chambers…
A 360° VR Experience: 2017 Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship
These four short films situate you right in the center of the landscape where each of our 2017 Skoll Awardees make lasting impact on the world’s most pressing problems: Nepal…
Introducing Our 2017 Skoll World Forum Emerging Leaders
In 2014, Isaac Jonas had left his small village in Zimbabwe to study for a master’s degree in food and resource economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. The…
Our Odyssey: What Winning the Skoll Award Has Meant for Blue Ventures
In 2015 Blue Ventures won the highest award in our sector, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. A year later, has anything changed? Can winning a major award really be…
Wellbeing Project Reveals Changemakers' Need for Personal Support
In 2008 I was talking to social entrepreneur Vera Cordeiro of Saúde Criança—a Skoll Awardee and, like me, an Ashoka Fellow. I was in the midst of a sabbatical, and…
Announcing the 2016 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
OXFORD, April 11, 2016—Kicking off this week’s 13th Annual Skoll World Forum, we are pleased to announce the six recipients of the 2016 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The Skoll…
The Giving Tower Holiday Challenge, designed by CrowdRise, starts Nov. 24
Twenty-one recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship will be participating in the Challenge and will have the opportunity to win $250,000 in prizes from the Skoll Foundation, in…
We Honor the Memory of Soraya Salti
The Skoll Foundation mourns the loss of Soraya Salti, founder of INJAZ al-Arab. Last week, Soraya and her sister, Jumana, both died tragically and unexpectedly. Soraya was an outstanding leader and…
Addressing Root Causes: Root Capital’s Quest to Combat Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Environmental Destruction
Small farmers don’t cut down forests or dispose of toxic byproducts in rivers and streams out of ignorance or indifference to the health of their environment. Neither do they voluntarily…
Building and Growing a Model: One Acre Fund
While studying for an MBA, Andrew Youn spent time with African farmers, listening to their life stories. Most relied on ancient techniques, barely growing enough to feed their families. Additional…
From Rural Poverty to Thriving Communities: Connecting the Pieces of the Solution Puzzle
The problem Three-quarters of the world’s poorest people live in rural areas. Most rely on agriculture for income and food. Some 500 million smallholder farmers cultivate less than two hectares.…
Skoll Awardee Visit: Cecilia Flores-Oebanda
Every so often, we have the pleasure of a visit from a Skoll Awardee. One of our most recent was Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, founding president and executive director of the Visayan…
David Rothschild’s Trip to Brazil: Seeing Deforestation Solutions Firsthand
I just returned from Brazil, where I visited partners in the Amazon states of Para and Mato Grosso. Before I get into the nitty-gritty, let me reflect on the big…
Staff field report on visit to World Health Partners, new winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Our team bounced along the dirt road in Samistipur district in rural Bihar, India, who knows how far from the nearest paved road, until we finally arrived at the beautiful and peaceful…
Powerwashing: Kristin Gilliss’ Trip to Ghana with Camfed
I spent last week in Ghana with Camfed, learning more about the return on investment to girls’ education and young women’s economic empowerment. On a hot afternoon near Tamale, as…
What is Empowerment? Our Principal’s Visit to Fair Trade USA in Colombia
We often hear the term empowerment, but wonder what it really actually means. When I recently visited Skoll Awardee Fair Trade USA in northern Colombia, I saw it firsthand. Landless…