Winners Archives

2024 Winner: Simprints

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Simprints’ mission is to transform the way the world fights poverty. They build technology to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development…Read More

2024 Winner: Food for Education

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Food for Education (F4E) is on a mission to eradicate childhood hunger that affects about 90% of children in Africa who do not benefit from a minimum acceptable diet.…Read More

2024 Grand Prize Winner: Seacology

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Seacology works with island communities around the world to safeguard their local ecosystems and unique species, many of which are threatened with extinction. …Read More

2023 Winner: Healthy Learners

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Healthy Learners brings healthcare to where children already are – their schools – by training and equipping the people children already trust – their teachers.…Read More

ADES works to preserve Madagascar’s forests and alleviate poverty with solar and energy-saving cookers, reforestation projects, and education measures that protect nature and create perspectives.…Read More

2023 Grand Prize Winner: Build Up Nepal

A person is standing in a tunnel-like structure filled with stacks of eco-friendly bricks, carrying one brick and smiling.

Build up Nepal is on a mission to replace dirty fired bricks with low-carbon, affordable bricks made by local micro-enterprises. …Read More

2022 Grand Prize Winner: CDD Society

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Consortium for DEWATS™ Dissemination Society (CDD Society or CDD) exists to innovate, demonstrate, mainstream and advocate for inclusive, sustainable, and resilient nature-based solutions to tackle water and sanitation issues across various geographies.…Read More

2021 Grand Prize Winner: EarthEnable

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EarthEnable provides rural families in Rwanda and Uganda with affordable and environmentally sustainable solutions to unsanitary homes with dirt floors, which continually jeopardize their health.…Read More

2020 Grand Prize Winner: Sanku

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Sanku scales technology and business solutions that put critical nutrients into the food that hundreds of millions of malnourished people eat the most.…Read More

2019 Grand Prize Winner: World Bicycle Relief

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World Bicycle Relief builds and distributes specially designed, locally-assembled, rugged bicycles for people in need, improving access to education, healthcare, and economic opportunities in developing regions of the world where distance is a challenge.…Read More