Crib Notes on the New Skoll Foundation Award Winners

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-03-13 10:50:00 UTC
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Last year's Skoll Award banquet brochure

The Skoll Foundation has just announced its newest group of Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneuership winners, who will each receive a three-year, unrestricted $765,000 grant to support and scale their work. Skoll is not a seed funder, but instead supports established social entrepreneurs to help expand and improve their impact.

The seven new award winners include:

BioRegional Development Group - Sue Riddlestone and Pooran Desai: The BioRegional Development Group develops environmentally sustainable products and services that help meet the every day needs of people around the world, and incubates the businesses that can help deliver them.

EcoPeace-Friends of the Earth Middle East - Gidon Bromberg, Nader Khateeb, Munqeth Mehyar: EcoPeace brings together Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists to build cooperative programs which promote sustainability as well as build an infrastructure of understanding for a more peaceful future.

Fundacion Gaia Amazonas - Martin von Hildebrand: Fundacion Gaia Amazonas helps indigenous communities in Columbia develop their rights and manage and support their custodial Amazonian lands for a more sustainable future.

INJAZ al-Arab - Soraya Salti: INJAZ al-Arab harnesses the mentorship of Arab business leaders to help inspire a culture of entrepreneurialism and creativity among Arab youth.

International Center for Transitional Justice - Juan Mendez and Paul van Zyl: The ICTJ helps countries pursuing justice for past atrocities by helping design and support locally-relevant programs for prosecuting perpetrators, organizing nonjudicial justic processes like truth commisions, helping reform abused institutions, and more.

VisionSpring - Jordan Kassalow: VisionSpring opens access to affordable eyeglasses by empowering global entrepreneurs to sell glasses through VisionSprig's franchise-style micro "Business-in-a-Bag" tool kits, which include the glasses to sell, branding materials, and a mentorship and support structure.

WaterPartners International - Gary White: WaterPartners International partners with communities around the world to design and support locally-appropriate technologies and solutions to deliver clean water to all who need it.

Congrats to all the new winners!

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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