Skoll Foundation provides Skoll Awards every year to to a select few social entrepreneurs whose proven innovations have demonstrated impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems. The Skoll Award recognizes organizations with the potential to not only be individually successful, but also to catalyze large-scale, system-level change.
Funding is provided to organizations in one or more of the following areas:
- Deforestation
- Education and Economic Opportunity
- Effective Development
- Healthcare Access and Treatment
- Smallholder Productivity and Food Security
- Peace and Human Security
- Sustainable Markets
- Water and Sanitation
Skoll provides a grant to the select organizations, along with connection to its portfolio of social entrepreneurs and its network of 900-plus other social innovators who attend the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford. This connection of social innovators extends year-round through the Skoll World Forum Online.
Applications to open from 15 January 2013.
Qualifying organizations will be evaluated against the following criteria:
- Impact potential: Organization’s innovation is positioned to directly affect policy, behavior and/or infrastructure/system(s) on a large scale and can show evidence of significant impact already achieved.
- Inflection: Organization has a proven approach that has already been implemented with success and is now ready to apply the approach on a much larger scale.
- Innovation: Organization has an approach that fundamentally disrupts the status quo to solve social and/or environmental problems.
- Issue: Organization works on an issue that is identified by the Skoll Foundation as one of world’s most pressing problems.
- Skoll leverage: Organization will benefit from engaging with Skoll Foundation beyond a purely funding relationship, such as collaboration with our network of entrepreneurs or access to media opportunities.
- Social entrepreneur: Organization is led by a visionary social entrepreneur
- Sustainability: Organization has a clear, compelling plan for expanding impact and achieving long-term financial and operational sustainability.
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