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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.
UNESCO laureate Room to Read Cambodia helps girls stay in school
Room to Read works to remove the obstacles that prevent girls from staying in school and to build their ability to make decisions and solve
Upward Mobility for the World’s Destitute
Though poverty rates are dropping worldwide, the ‘ultrapoor’ tend to stay where they are. BRAC works to break the poverty cycle and continue upward mobility
Vera Cordeiro: Addressing diseases of poverty
The Dara Institute works to create a community-level strategy that addresses the intersecting challenges of poverty and health. The organization provides an array of services
WATCH: Wendy Kopp discusses Teach For All’s approach to building a pipeline of future education leaders around the world
Teach For All is a global network of independent partner organizations in over 50 countries that are working to address the opportunity gap children face.
Water for People: Pioneering access to clean water and sustainable sanitation
Water for People partners with local leaders and communities to construct and/or rehabilitate the most contextually appropriate water systems that can be sustained by the
What a Little Land Can Do
In many parts of the world, not owning one’s own land is more directly correlated to poverty than other factors such as illiteracy, but land