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 135 social entrepreneurs and 111 organizations on five continents. Their stories show the world what is possible.
Skoll Perspectives
Awardee Stories
We must strengthen our health care systems to avoid the worst effects of future crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the new health care policy report by the global leadership group The Elders Foundation (@TheElders) and listen to their podcast: https://t.co/7OIxmi05Ud
As the world approaches the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, we're recommitting our efforts to find sustainable climate solutions. Action cannot wait. Our coalition of philanthropies is investing in clean energy solutions for the future.

Philanthropies Commit to Sustained Collective Action in Response to the Climate Emergency - Skoll.org
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, philanthropies including the Skoll Foundation have underlined and enhanced their ...
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Applications for World Justice Challenge 2021 (@wjp) are now due Dec. 16. Cash awards of $20,000 will go to six projects working to protect justice, anti-corruption efforts and other crucial areas of law affected by COVID-19. Apply here: https://t.co/COTiROycVv #WJChallenge
The Call to Action from @TheCOVIDCollab addresses testing, contact tracing, public health and social measures, vaccines and treatments, and common indicators of success. We support Governors in adopting recommendations to defeat #COVID19.
We have an opportunity to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis a safer, more equitable world. Join us on #HumanRightsDay as we promote sustainable sustainable development with the @UN. #standup4humanrights https://t.co/kTevt0Kb7p
"We have to be more bold and equitable in the seeds we sow today to reap the fruits of a more climate just tomorrow."
Countries least responsible for causing #ClimateChange are suffering most from its effects. Graça Machel calls for #ClimateJustice. #WorldWeWant #ParisAgreement
For the first time since the COVID crisis began, a bipartisan assembly of Governors came together to support a common, comprehensive approach to defeating the pandemic.
We are proud to support the Call to Action from @TheCOVIDCollab. Learn more:

Bipartisan Assembly of Governors Support Call to Action to Defeat COVID-19 - Skoll.org
Governors represent 1 in 3 Americans Recommendations call for common, comprehensive action across states COVID Collaborative also released review o...
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We're so proud to be featured among @SkollFoundation Awardees in this amazing short video, showing glimpses of innovation, resilience and empathy across geographies and sectors — and a vision of opportunity through crisis. #GoodNews

How Skoll Awardees Faced the Pandemic with Innovation and Resilience - Skoll.org
While COVID-19 has laid bare the deepest fissures in our society and threatened those with the least resources, Skoll Awardees have seized this moment...
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On this International Anti-Corruption Day, become an Accomplice in our fight for truth and justice.
By donating any amount, you support our mission to expose crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account. #IACD2020
#COVID19 has interrupted essential services for immunizations, infectious & chronic diseases, maternal health and more, putting millions at risk.
Better investments in resilient health systems will ensure a crisis doesn’t derail progress ever again. #HealthForAll #UHCDay
Every child has the RIGHT TO EDUCATION #HumanRightsDay . We must fulfill this oath and see it a reality- only then can we remake the world to one of equality, peace and prosperity for ALL.
"Healing collective trauma at the community and planetary health is now becoming part of the DNA of the healthcare system, and that gives me an enormous amount of hope," writes Gary Cohen of Health Care Without Harm (@HCWHGlobal).

The Power of Collective Healing to Support Healthy People on a Thriving Planet - Skoll.org
Healing collective trauma at the community level, and planetary health are now becoming part of the DNA of the healthcare system. That gives me an eno...
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#IACD2020 reminds us that corruption can thrive during a crisis. That's why @OCCRP recently started #AskOCCRP, a quarterly Q&A series answering burning questions about their hard-hitting and often complex investigations. #UnitedAgainstCorruption

Ask OCCRP: Our team answers questions from OCCRP Accomplices - OCCRP
Every quarter, OCCRP journalists will answer questions from members of our Accomplice program about what they’ve been working on. Donate today t...
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As we reflect on the challenges of 2020, we're also inspired by the incredible resilience of our community. Skoll Awardees have pivoted and seized this crisis with innovation and empathy. Thank you for your work. For a dose of #GoodNews, watch: https://t.co/hV2HyKdsBr
MSI Reproductive Choices (@MSIchoices) and @ideo used a human-centered approach to make reproductive health care more accessible for Zambian teens. The future of design-led social innovation depends on collaborations like these and others.

The Next Chapter in Design for Social Innovation (SSIR)
To address more complex social challenges, design thinking must become radically more collaborative and oriented toward systems change.
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