The Skoll Foundation has announced the six winners of the 2022 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.

The winners will each receive $1.5 million in unrestricted funding to help advance transformational social change around the world. In addition, each organization will receive $750,000 to make subgrants to key partners and extend their capacity in areas such as monitoring, evaluation, and communications.

Previously known as the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship, the awards reflect the foundation’s strategic evolution to include movement builders, system orchestrators, and coalitions driving change in innovative ways.

The latest cohort includes Common Future (U.S.), which connects community wealth-building institutions with capital to foster an inclusive economy; Financing Alliance for Health (Kenya), which addresses systemic financing challenges for community health programs across sub-Saharan Africa; MapBiomas (Brazil), which combines mapping technology with local knowledge to fight deforestation and environmental degradation; NDN Collective (U.S.), which works to develop indigenous power through investment, political engagement, and elevating indigenous leadership; Noora Health (India and Bangladesh), which improves patient outcomes and strengthens health systems by equipping caregivers with life-saving skills; and NOSSAS (Brazil), which builds digital mobilization tools to amplify civic engagement.

“In the face of growing global challenges, these social innovators have never had a bigger role to play and have never needed more support,” said Skoll Foundation CEO Don Gips. “Instead of scaling back, they have built bigger and bolder solutions to drive climate action, democracy and civic engagement, innovative healthcare models, and the shifting of capital to communities of color.”

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