Skoll Foundation’s Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship are for those social entrepreneurs, or in simple terms, people who are leading or working in NGOs, “tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and environmental sustainability,” which are considered as the critical challenges of our times. These initiatives should have the potential of creating large-scale influence and should be based on innovation and replication. Such initiatives will be awarded by providing funding support that can be used by the NGOs to expand and create sustainability.

Social entrepreneurship awards are announced throughout the year by Skoll Foundation. The current announcement has fixed the next deadline for receiving the applications is 9 August 2009. Organizations both from developed as well as developing countries can apply for the awards. For more information, visit this link.