The Skoll Foundation has announced the five winners of the 2023 Skoll Award for Social Innovation.

Each winner will receive $2.25 million in unrestricted funding to help advance transformational social change around the world. The total includes support for awardees 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 AMAN (Indonesia), an Indigenous-led movement that uplifts the voices of women and youth to stop deforestation by reclaiming land tenure and self-determination; Reach Digital Health (South Africa), which builds two-way, client-centered digital communication into a suite of healthcare services to improve government delivery of services to communities; Protect Democracy (United States), which uses a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary approach to address the root causes—both short- and long-term—that threaten the health of American democracy; Conexsus, which addresses the gaps that prevent the development of a forest-based economy in Brazil by connecting sustainable community enterprises to technical assistance and capital; and PolicyLink (U.S.), which drives policy change by elevating local innovations to deliver economic benefit for the 100 million Americans living at or near the poverty line.

“The 2023 Skoll Awardees are building and scaling solutions to complex and interconnected global problems including climate, democracy, health care, justice and equity, and inclusive economic growth,” said Skoll Foundation chief operating officer and president Marla Blow. “We look forward to using our full range of grantmaking, convening, and storytelling assets to help accelerate their extraordinary work.” 

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