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Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
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$1M – $3M (Skoll Award); smaller grants through programs
The Skoll Foundation supports social entrepreneurs and other social innovators whose work is at an inflection point toward scale. It provides investment, typically $1M–$3M through the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, as well as smaller grants through other programs. The opportunity is open to people and organizations creating scalable positive impact, especially those with lived or learned experience in the challenges they address, across areas including global health, Indigenous land rights and deforestation, smallholder agriculture and economic opportunity, and girls’ education.
Investment
The Skoll Foundation invests in social entrepreneurs and other social innovators at their inflection point towards scale.
Connection to community and partnerships
The foundation connects change agents with a cultivated community of peers and supports innovative partnerships.
Visibility and recognition
Through the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the foundation champions and celebrates social entrepreneurs and their stories.
Global health
Supporting partners who are strengthening global health through community health workers.
Deforestation and Indigenous land rights
Supporting efforts to curb deforestation by securing Indigenous land rights.
Economic opportunity and smallholder agriculture
Supporting smallholder agriculture and expanding economic opportunity.
Girls' education
Advancing girls’ education.
Jeff Skoll (eBay co-founder) foundation. $650M+ awarded. Skoll Award: $1-3M unrestricted funding to proven social entrepreneurs. Annual Skoll World Forum in Oxford brings global social entrepreneurs together. African awardees include multiple health, education, and agriculture social enterprises.
Unrestricted funding, Skoll World Forum network, global social enterprise community
Very competitive. Nomination-based. For established social enterprises only.
Show that your model has already reached an inflection point toward scale and can deliver scalable positive impact. Strong applications should clearly connect the work to one of Skoll Foundation’s focus areas and highlight the leadership team’s lived or learned experience with the problem.
1999
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Deploying
Multiple African social enterprises across health, education, agriculture, environment