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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.
Group calls for youths to form national movement
Opportunity Youth United builds the leadership capabilities of youth and mobilizes young people to work to increase opportunity and decrease poverty in America. Find other
Haiti and the failed promise of US aid
Since Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake in 2010, the US has spent $2.3 billion in aid money that has failed to alleviate poverty or help the impoverished
Healing From Trauma
Glasswing International trains schools, hospitals, police departments and other organizations to understand the impacts of violence-induced trauma, and therefore are able to take better care
Health Care and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
In a mountainous region of Lesotho, a man named Tsepo Kotelo visits 20 villages every week on his new motorcycle to provide health care to
Helping Brazil’s Poor Heal at Home
Physical illnesses trigger and exacerbate poverty because costs are too high to treat them. The Associação Saúde Criança (now known as Instituto Dara) in Rio
Helping women to run for office
Vote Run Lead provides support and training for women to run for political office in the United States and win. Read the interview with Erin
Here comes a tool, approved by WhatsApp, to automate the distribution of fact-checks
Meedan develops open-source software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of fact checked information online. Read more articles about social innovations
Here’s What Equis Labs Has Learned About Mobilizing Latino Voters
The Equis Institute provides grants and other support that invests in new and innovative ways to increase the civic participation among the Latinx community in
How a hip-hop nonprofit uses music to teach kids about public health
Hip Hop Public Health creates research-based educational resources by harnessing the power of music and culture. The resources empower and educate young people to develop
How Babban Gona Keeps Nigerian Youth Off The Streets
Babban Gona disrupts cycles of poverty and violence by creating opportunities for young people to engage in agriculture and form smallholder farmers in Nigeria. The
How Barefoot College Trained 700 Rural Grandmothers to Be Solar Engineers & Electrified 20000 Homes
The Barefoot College Tilonia is a community-based grassroots organization that pairs the skills and intelligence of rural people and ‘experts’ in fields like water, education,
How Co-Impact Collaborates for Change
Co-Impact is a donor collaborative, backed by several individuals and foundations that are pooling resources to fund nonprofits. Co-Impact’s specific aim is to fund organizations
How Do We Talk About The Climate? – Jill Tidman, The Redford Center
The Redford Center produces and distributes environmental impact films, investing in filmmaking as a narrative tool that strengthens and broadens the reach of the grassroots
How Do You Expose An Anonymous Company?
Global Witness investigates, holds governments and businesses accountabile for, and campaigns to prevent natural resource-related conflict, corruption, and related environmental and human rights abuses. Read