Skoll Award for Social Innovation
A $2 million unrestricted award to fewer than ten organisations a year that are scaling proven social innovations. Candidates are sourced by the foundation over several years rather than through an open call.
- Indicative award
- $2M (total award)The page states each selected organisation receives $2 million in unrestricted funding.
- Timing
- By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Awards are made annually to fewer than ten organisations, but there is no published application deadline because sourcing is a multi-year internal process. A researcher's realistic route is as an evaluation or documentation partner to an awardee.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Must be a legally incorporated entity (nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid) working above the community level with national, regional, or global scope. Individuals, concept-stage ideas, and purely local organisations are excluded, as are groups promoting religious doctrine, discriminating on protected characteristics, or focused solely on lobbying. Self-nomination is not accepted; candidates come through direct engagement, referrals, and partner-network recommendations.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- social entrepreneurship · scaling proven models · unrestricted funding
- Apply at
- https://skoll.org/skoll-awards/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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