The Skoll Foundation’s Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship provides a core support grant given over a period of three years and a noncash award to the social entrepreneur presented at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.
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 an 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.
Skoll Award recipients typically exhibit many of the following characteristics:
- Led by a visionary, effective social entrepreneur serving as a spokesperson for their issue
- Strong leadership team and board
- Clear mission and implementation model
- Unwavering focus on mission
- Well-established, strong partnerships
- Commitment to systems, including those for measurement and learning
- Diversified and mission-aligned funding sources
Focus Issue Areas:
- Economic and Social Equity including: Access to Capital and Markets, Economic Opportunity/Job Creation, Education, Women and Girls, Youth Development
- Environmental Sustainability including: Climate Change, Deforestation, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Capital Markets, Water Scarcity,
- Health Including: Clean Water and Sanitation, Healthcare Access
- Institutional Responsibility
- Peace and Security
- Tolerance, Justice and Human Rights
The deadline to submit applications is 27 April 2011. For more information, visit this link.
