Skoll Foundation - Award Winners

Award Winners

Through mid-2009, the Skoll Foundation had named 59 social entrepreneur organizations from around the world as recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. These are:

  • Afghan Institute of Learning
  • Aflatoun (formerly Child Savings International)
  • Amazon Conservation Team
  • American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
  • APOPO
  • Arzu Inc.
  • Barefoot College
  • Benetech
  • BioRegional Development Group
  • Camfed International
  • Ceres
  • CIDA City Schools
  • Citizen Schools
  • Ciudad Saludable
  • College Summit
  • Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI)
  • Digital Divide Data
  • EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East
  • Encore.org
  • Escuela Nueva Foundation
  • Free the Children
  • Friends International
  • Friends of the Mothers
  • Fundacion Gaia Amazonas
  • Fundación Paraguaya
  • Free the Children
  • Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation, Inc.
  • Global Footprint Network
  • Gram Vikas
  • Half the Sky Foundation
  • Health Care Without Harm
  • INJAZ al-Arab
  • IDE-India
  • Inst. For Development Studies and Practices (IDSP Pakistan)
  • Institute for One World Health
  • International Bridges to Justice
  • International Center for Transitional Justice
  • Kashf Foundation
  • KickStart
  • Kiva
  • Manchester Bidwell Corporation
  • Marine Stewardship Council
  • Partners in Health
  • Peaceworks Foundation
  • Population and Community Development Association (PDA)
  • Renascer Child Health
  • Riders for Health
  • Room to Read
  • Root Capital (formerly Ecologic)
  • Roots of Peace
  • Rugmark
  • Search for Common Ground
  • Sonidos de la Terra
  • Teach for All
  • TransFair
  • Verite
  • VillageReach
  • VisionSpring
  • Visayan Forum Foundation
  • WaterPartners International
  • Witness
  • YouthBuild

In addition, Skoll has made ecosystem grants to The Acumen Fund, Ashoka, The Carter Center, Duke University's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, the Santa Clara College's Global Social Business Incubator, and several other organizations supporting social entrepreneurship.

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