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Explore promising responses to the world’s most pressing problems by issue area, problem-solving strategy, and more. This website includes two types of stories: reported stories on Skoll Awardees and grantees that have been found in the Solutions Journalism Network’s Solutions Story Tracker®, and structured interviews conducted with representatives from organizations that have received support from the Skoll Foundation over the past 20 years.
The interviews represent a starting point to draw out practical insights from a wide range of individuals and organizations that have been working to address a myriad of social challenges.
The Cost Conundrum
Studies show that spending more money on healthcare, past a certain level of care, worsens patient outcomes. Mayo Clinic has one of the highest-quality for
The Healing Force of Family
Through the use of video storytelling classes, two graduate students developed a pilot project that is helping to “teach medical caregiving skills to families of
The Importance of Mentoring for Black Girls
Grantmakers for Girls of Color is a philanthropic organization that cultivates and mobilizes resources to support transformative organizing work that dismantles systems of oppression in
The Mentor: One Year, Two Teachers and a Quest in the Bronx to Empower Educators and Students to Think for Themselves
Founded in the 1990s, the New Teacher Center offers an education innovation in the form of a promising mentor model for new teachers. In an
The Ms. Q&A: CARE CEO Michelle Nunn on Women, Girls and COVID
CARE is an international humanitarian agency that delivers emergency relief and develops and implements long-term international development projects, broadly focused on fighting global poverty. Read
The Multiplier Effect: Driving Haiti’s recovery by spending aid dollars locally
Building Markets, an NGO, has connected Haitian businesses with foreign NGOs who can funnel humanitarian aid through the local suppliers and manufacturers in the aftermath
The only scheme proven to end poverty – but too bespoke to scale?
An intensive, long-term approach to end poverty, piloted by an NGO in Bangladesh, has shown serious promise since its start in 2002. However, as the
The Power of Student Peer Leaders
PeerForward, a youth leadership development organization, taps into the power of peer networks to increase the number of students in low-income schools applying to college
The Protectors in Blue Shirts
ChildSafe has trained hundreds of volunteer agents to identify at-risk children who may be in dangerous situations and intervene to protect them when necessary. Many
The Real Future of Clean Water
Water: Charity assumed that money and celebrity exposure would be able to solve the world’s access to clean water crisis. But this approach often led