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This list highlights a select group of highly vetted, impactful organizations that have received funding from both MacKenzie Scott and either the Skoll Award for Social Innovation, The Audacious Project, or Co-Impact.

Each organization featured has voluntarily opted to be included and provided its own description. To learn more about any of these organizations directly, please use the links provided.

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Amazon Conservation Team

Issue Area:
Environment
Our Mission: The Amazon Conservation Team partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture. Our Vision: We see a future where healthy tropical forests and thriving local communities exist in harmonious relationship with each other, contributing to the well-being of the planet.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South America
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BRAC

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
Founded in Bangladesh in 1972 BRAC is has a community-led, holistic approach delivering long-term impact at scale across Asia and Africa. BRAC operates as a solutions ecosystem, including social development programmes, social enterprises, humanitarian response, a bank and a university. BRAC is a world leader implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia
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Blue Ventures

Issue Area:
Environment
Blue Ventures supports coastal fishers to rebuild fisheries and restore ocean life. We partner with fishers and community organisations to scale and strengthen fisheries management and conservation at the community level. We bring together networks to advocate for reform, and share tools and best practices to support fishing communities worldwide.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, South Asia, South America, Oceania
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CAMFED International

Issue Area:
Education
CAMFED serves girls and young women in the most disadvantaged communities in rural Africa, tackling the pressing and interlinked challenges of poverty and gender that limit their education and opportunity. We see girls' education as the foundation for social justice, women's leadership, economic development, and climate action.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Canopy Planet

Issue Area:
Environment
Canopy is an innovative environmental leader driving bold, systems-level change to safeguard the world's irreplaceable forests, species, and climate. By transforming take-make-waste supply chains, advancing Next Gen alternatives, and championing Indigenous rights, Canopy's disruptive, impact-driven approach sparks nature-positive economies at the scale our world urgently needs.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global
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Center for Policing Equity

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) partners with communities, law enforcement, and elected officials to make policing less racist and less deadly. Using data and science, CPE works to reduce racial disparities in public safety and the harms caused by unjust and burdensome policing practices.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Citizen Schools

Issue Area:
Education
Citizen Schools' mission is to help all students thrive in school and beyond through hands-on learning and career mentors. Through our unique program model, we activate individual, institutional, and community capacity that engages young people in authentic experiential learning while fostering the connections and conditions required for systemic change.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org)

Issue Area:
Democratic Process
One of the nation's leading social-impact organizations dedicated to making the most of our increasingly multigenerational society, CoGenerate brings younger and older people together to solve problems, bridge divides and co-create the future.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Crisis Text Line

Issue Area:
Health
From depression and anxiety to sexual abuse and suicidal ideation, Crisis Text Line is a first line of defense against lack of access to mental healthcare. Leveraging technology and a distributed network of over 100,000 trained volunteers, they have provided free and anonymous support for over 14 million crisis conversations.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Mackenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, Europe, USA, South America
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Dara Institute

Issue Area:
Health
Dara Institute works with a methodology to restructure and promote the dignity of vulnerable families. The transformation is only possible when several areas of human development are addressed. The Family Action Plan is designed according to the needs of each family working in 5 areas: health, education, housing, income, and human rights.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South America
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Educate Girls

Issue Area:
Education
Educate Girls protects and promotes the right of every girl to access a quality education. The non profit organisation works with the government, communities and village-based volunteers to ensure every girl in the remotest parts of India is enrolled in school and learns well.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
South Asia
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Food4Education

Issue Area:
Education
Food4Education mainstreams school feeding programs (SFPs) across Africa by designing a blueprint, operating it, then supporting replication. We serve hot, affordable, nutritious meals to 455,000 children in 10 Kenyan counties daily. By 2030, we'll feed 1M children in Kenya daily and launch advisory products to African governments and other SFPs.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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GirlTREK

Issue Area:
Health
GirlTREK's one-of-a-kind public health intervention is working for Black women. Inactive women who start walking with GirlTREK report walking at life-saving levels, 5 days a week, 30 minutes a day. Today GirlTREK has 1.3M members, representing 7% of the total population of African American women.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Girls Not Brides

Issue Area:
Human Rights
We are a global partnership of over 1400 civil society organisations in over 100 countries working to end Child Early and Forced Marriage and Unions.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global
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Glasswing International

Issue Area:
Health
Based in El Salvador, Glasswing works in 15 countries to create the conditions that allow children, youth, and families to overcome adversity and thrive. Our evidence-based, locally-led programs provide communities impacted by violence with mental health support, more effective schools, and increased access to economic opportunities.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
USA, South America, Mexico, Canada
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Global Health Corps

Issue Area:
Health
Our leadership development program cultivates undervalued but critical leadership traits for a changing world: systems and design thinking, collaboration, humility, empathy, storytelling, iteration, and adaptiveness. We train our leaders to become more effective while strengthening their ability to work together across borders of all kinds to drive systemic change.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa,USA
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Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
Harambee is a non-profit social enterprise that partners with business, government, civil society and youth to innovate solutions that can address South Africa's youth unemployment challenge, at scale.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Health Leads

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
Founded in 1996, Health Leads is centered on building a future-focused, resilient, community-led health ecosystem. We do this by bringing partners together to innovate, test and advance racial health equity policies and practices that enable people to access the resources they need to live healthy lives.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Mackenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Issue Area:
Environment
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is on a mission to ensure missing maps and data are not a cause for human suffering or loss of life. We work with communities around the world to add critical data to the map through accessible technology and a participatory approach.
Received Gifts:
The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa, Middle East, Europe, South Asia, South America, Oceania
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IDinsight

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
IDinsight is an advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders use data and evidence to maximize their social impact. We tailor a wide range of tools, including randomized evaluations and machine learning, to help decision-makers design effective programs and rigorously test what works to support communities.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia
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IllumiNative

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
IllumiNative is a Native led organization, grounded in core Native values and community, and guided by research to disrupt the invisibility of Native peoples. Founded in 2018, IllumiNative's mission is to build power for Native peoples by amplifying contemporary Native voices, stories, and issues to advance justice, equity, and self-determination.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)

Issue Area:
Human Rights
IRAP is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, Middle East, Europe, South Asia, USA, South America, Mexico, Canada
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Kiva

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
Kiva is a nonprofit with a mission to expand financial access to underserved communities. Since 2005, Kiva's lenders have funded $2 billion dollars in loans and reached over 5.3 million people around the globe.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, Middle East, Europe, South Asia, USA, North or Central Asia, South America, Mexico, Canada, Oceania
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Landesa

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
Landesa is an international NGO that fights rural poverty and provides opportunity and security for women and men by advancing inclusive, equitable, and gender-sensitive land rights reforms. These reforms have helped alleviate poverty, reduce hunger, and increase resilience to climate change for 720 million people in the past five years.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, South Asia
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Last Mile Health

Issue Area:
Health
Last Mile Health's vision is a health worker within reach of everyone, everywhere. We partner with governments to build strong community health systems that equip professionalized community health workers to provide essential, primary healthcare to the world’s most remote communities.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact,MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Living Goods

Issue Area:
Health
Living Goods supports and trains local community health workers, the majority of whom are women, to deliver lifesaving medicines, health education, diagnoses, and health products to millions of people who need them in Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Uganda.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Lwala Community Alliance

Issue Area:
Health
Founded by a group of committed Kenyans, Lwala Community Alliance unlocks the potential of communities to advance their own comprehensive well-being. Lwala believes that when communities lead, change is lasting. Lwala's community-led health model has led to reductions in child mortality and increases skilled delivery, contraceptive prevalence, and childhood immunization.
Received Gifts:
Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Medic Mobile Inc. (known as simply "Medic")

Issue Area:
Health
Medic strengthens community health systems to achieve universal health coverage in the digital age. We build world-class, open-source software to support professionalized community health workers as they deliver life-saving care. Medic serves as the technical lead of the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), a cost-effective technology developed to improve last-mile healthcare.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, South Asia
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NDN Collective

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, movement building, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, we are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms. As a movement infrastructure organization NDN changes the conditions in which Indigenous people organize to build movements that have global impact.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA, Mexico, Canada, Oceania
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NOSSAS

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
NOSSAS is an activist organization committed to strengthening democracy and advocating for racial, climate, and gender justice in Brazil. For over 10 years, NOSSAS has supported activists, collectives, and organizations in their fight for rights by providing opportunities, training, and technologies for mobilization, resulting in hundreds of policy changes.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South America
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Namati

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
Namati advances social and environmental justice by building a movement of people who know, use, and shape the law. We train and deploy community paralegals: organizers with a sharp understanding of law. Drawing on our country work, Namati hosts the Grassroots Justice Network, the world’s largest community of justice organizations.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global
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New Teacher Center

Issue Area:
Education
New Teacher Center works to disrupt the predictability of educational inequities for systemically underserved students by accelerating educator effectiveness. For over two decades, we've supported educators with evidence-based coaching and mentoring. We aim to stop and reverse the challenges that hinder teacher success.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Noora Health

Issue Area:
Health
Noora Health is a nonprofit dedicated to improving health outcomes by equipping patients and caregivers with the necessary skills to manage health conditions effectively at home. Its focus is on critical health skills and behaviors to reduce preventable complications, readmissions, and deaths, delivered through engaging and culturally-appropriate training and content.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, South Asia
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One Acre Fund

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
One Acre Fund works with (today 1.6 million of Africa's hardest-working smallholder farmers directly, and 3.2 million through partnerships) to alleviate hunger, deliver resilience, and increase prosperity.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact,MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa
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Partners In Health

Issue Area:
Health
By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa, USA, South America, Mexico, Canada
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PeerForward

Issue Area:
Education
PeerForward's mission is to harness the power of positive peer influence to guide low-income students to and through college. By training and empowering Peer Leaders in high schools and colleges, PeerForward inspires students to take charge of their futures and ensure success to/through higher education for underserved communities.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact,MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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People's Courage International

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
PCI promotes initiatives that work deeply and at scale on the ground on safe migration, safetynet for workers, climate resilience and prevention of violence gender-based violence and also leverage this to change systems. We support grassroots leaders and organizations by bringing resources, technical capacity, research, technology, and other supports
Received Gifts:
Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, South Asia
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Piramal Swasthya

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
Piramal Swasthya empowers India's 104 million marginalized tribal peoples whose health indicators are 2-7 times worse than non tribal populations. We do this through 1. Empowering tribal healers and certifying tribal medicines. 2. Expanding access to forest resources for improving nutrition. 3. Supporting local tribal women and tribal youth initiatives.
Received Gifts:
Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South Asia
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PolicyLink

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute building a future where all people in the United States can participate in a flourishing multiracial democracy, prosper in an equitable economy, and live in thriving communities. PolicyLink delivers transformative results for the 100M people in America living in or near poverty.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact,MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Room to Read

Issue Area:
Education
Founded in 2000, Room to Read is dedicated to ending illiteracy and gender inequality by helping children in low-income communities develop essential literacy and life skills. Through partnerships and scalable programs, we've benefited over 45 million children across 24 countries, extending learning far beyond the classroom.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global
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Root Capital

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
Root Capital invests in the growth and resilience of agricultural businesses so they can transform rural communities. These businesses are engines of impact for rural communities, building s a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, nature-positive future for many millions of farming families.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South America, Mexico, Canada
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SELCO Foundation

Issue Area:
Environment
SELCO Foundation is dedicated to a community first approach, fostering sustainable energy access through a comprehensive, ecosystem-building model. The Foundation focuses on driving innovations in technical, financial, and social domains to create renewable energy driven scalable solutions across key sectors, including health and livelihoods.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South Asia
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SEWA Bharat

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
SEWA Bharat a federation of women-led institutions, is part of the national movement of women workers and was established in 1984 and emerged out of the need to address the challenges with geographical expansion and coordination. It aims to further informal women workers holistic development towards economic empowerment in India.
Received Gifts:
Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South Asia
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Sightsavers

Issue Area:
Health
Sightsavers works in more than 30 countries globally to eliminate avoidable blindness and empower people with disabilities to participate equally in society. We enable access to quality health and education, lead the elimination of debilitating diseases, and fight for disability rights.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia
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The END Fund

Issue Area:
Health
Collaborative philanthropic fund dedicated to ending neglected tropical diseases.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Think of Us

Issue Area:
Equity and Justice
Think of Us is breaking the cycle of incremental child welfare reform by surfacing the perspectives of the people most impacted. They are scaling programs to ensure youth and families have supports to stay together, expand placements with extended family, and help young people "aging out" of the system.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Thorn

Issue Area:
Human Rights
Thorn transforms how children are protected from sexual abuse and exploitation in the digital age with cutting-edge technology, innovative research, and collaborative partnerships. We build scaled software solutions to help law enforcement find child victims faster and to help create safer online environments so children can thrive.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global
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Tostan

Issue Area:
Human Rights
Tostan's mission is to empower communities to develop and achieve their vision for the future and inspire large-scale movements leading to dignity for all.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa
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VillageReach

Issue Area:
Health
VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products and services to the most under-reached. We have reduced inequities in access to primary health care for 79 million people and aim to improve access for 350 million people by 2030.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, USA
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VisionSpring

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
VisionSpring is the social enterprise accelerating the use of eyeglasses in emerging and frontier markets. Our mission is to increase lifelong earning, learning, safety, and well-being through eyeglasses for people vulnerable to poverty.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia
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Water For People

Issue Area:
Health
Our Vision: A world where every person has access to reliable and safe water and sanitation services. Our Mission: Water For People exists to promote the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia, USA, South America
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YouthBuild Global

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
YouthBuild Global unifies and partners with an expansive network of more than 320 YouthBuild programs around the world. From training, technical assistance, capacity building and innovative program enhancements to leadership development, sustainability and advocacy, YouthBuild Global serves as a convener, collaborator and catalyst for the entire YouthBuild movement.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, USA, South America, Mexico, Canada
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mothers2mothers

Issue Area:
Health
mothers2mothers (m2m) is an African not-for-profit that employs local women living with HIV as community health workers. Founded in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, we have evolved our model and today we deliver integrated primary health care to entire families, using a peer-led approach.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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myAgro Farms

Issue Area:
Economic Security and Opportunity
myAgro is a nonprofit empowering smallholder farmers in West Africa to move out of poverty through a mobile layaway platform that helps them save for essential farm inputs. With climate-smart training and technical support, myAgro boosts yields, income, and resilience, aiming to reach one million farmers by 2027.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Democratic Process

CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org)

One of the nation's leading social-impact organizations dedicated to making the most of our increasingly multigenerational society, CoGenerate brings younger and older people together to solve problems, bridge divides and co-create the future.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
Visit Site

Economic Security And Opportunity

BRAC

Founded in Bangladesh in 1972 BRAC is has a community-led, holistic approach delivering long-term impact at scale across Asia and Africa. BRAC operates as a solutions ecosystem, including social development programmes, social enterprises, humanitarian response, a bank and a university. BRAC is a world leader implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia
Visit Site

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator

Harambee is a non-profit social enterprise that partners with business, government, civil society and youth to innovate solutions that can address South Africa's youth unemployment challenge, at scale.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa
Visit Site

IDinsight

IDinsight is an advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders use data and evidence to maximize their social impact. We tailor a wide range of tools, including randomized evaluations and machine learning, to help decision-makers design effective programs and rigorously test what works to support communities.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia
Visit Site

Kiva

Kiva is a nonprofit with a mission to expand financial access to underserved communities. Since 2005, Kiva's lenders have funded $2 billion dollars in loans and reached over 5.3 million people around the globe.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, Middle East, Europe, South Asia, USA, North or Central Asia, South America, Mexico, Canada, Oceania
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Landesa

Landesa is an international NGO that fights rural poverty and provides opportunity and security for women and men by advancing inclusive, equitable, and gender-sensitive land rights reforms. These reforms have helped alleviate poverty, reduce hunger, and increase resilience to climate change for 720 million people in the past five years.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, South Asia
Visit Site

myAgro Farms

myAgro is a nonprofit empowering smallholder farmers in West Africa to move out of poverty through a mobile layaway platform that helps them save for essential farm inputs. With climate-smart training and technical support, myAgro boosts yields, income, and resilience, aiming to reach one million farmers by 2027.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
Visit Site

One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund works with (today 1.6 million of Africa's hardest-working smallholder farmers directly, and 3.2 million through partnerships) to alleviate hunger, deliver resilience, and increase prosperity.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact,MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa
Visit Site

People's Courage International

PCI promotes initiatives that work deeply and at scale on the ground on safe migration, safetynet for workers, climate resilience and prevention of violence gender-based violence and also leverage this to change systems. We support grassroots leaders and organizations by bringing resources, technical capacity, research, technology, and other supports
Received Gifts:
Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, South Asia
Visit Site

Root Capital

Root Capital invests in the growth and resilience of agricultural businesses so they can transform rural communities. These businesses are engines of impact for rural communities, building s a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, nature-positive future for many millions of farming families.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South America, Mexico, Canada
Visit Site

SEWA Bharat

SEWA Bharat a federation of women-led institutions, is part of the national movement of women workers and was established in 1984 and emerged out of the need to address the challenges with geographical expansion and coordination. It aims to further informal women workers holistic development towards economic empowerment in India.
Received Gifts:
Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South Asia
Visit Site

VisionSpring

VisionSpring is the social enterprise accelerating the use of eyeglasses in emerging and frontier markets. Our mission is to increase lifelong earning, learning, safety, and well-being through eyeglasses for people vulnerable to poverty.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia
Visit Site

YouthBuild Global

YouthBuild Global unifies and partners with an expansive network of more than 320 YouthBuild programs around the world. From training, technical assistance, capacity building and innovative program enhancements to leadership development, sustainability and advocacy, YouthBuild Global serves as a convener, collaborator and catalyst for the entire YouthBuild movement.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, USA, South America, Mexico, Canada
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Education

CAMFED International

CAMFED serves girls and young women in the most disadvantaged communities in rural Africa, tackling the pressing and interlinked challenges of poverty and gender that limit their education and opportunity. We see girls' education as the foundation for social justice, women's leadership, economic development, and climate action.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Citizen Schools

Citizen Schools' mission is to help all students thrive in school and beyond through hands-on learning and career mentors. Through our unique program model, we activate individual, institutional, and community capacity that engages young people in authentic experiential learning while fostering the connections and conditions required for systemic change.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Educate Girls

Educate Girls protects and promotes the right of every girl to access a quality education. The non profit organisation works with the government, communities and village-based volunteers to ensure every girl in the remotest parts of India is enrolled in school and learns well.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
South Asia
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Food4Education

Food4Education mainstreams school feeding programs (SFPs) across Africa by designing a blueprint, operating it, then supporting replication. We serve hot, affordable, nutritious meals to 455,000 children in 10 Kenyan counties daily. By 2030, we'll feed 1M children in Kenya daily and launch advisory products to African governments and other SFPs.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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New Teacher Center

New Teacher Center works to disrupt the predictability of educational inequities for systemically underserved students by accelerating educator effectiveness. For over two decades, we've supported educators with evidence-based coaching and mentoring. We aim to stop and reverse the challenges that hinder teacher success.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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PeerForward

PeerForward's mission is to harness the power of positive peer influence to guide low-income students to and through college. By training and empowering Peer Leaders in high schools and colleges, PeerForward inspires students to take charge of their futures and ensure success to/through higher education for underserved communities.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact,MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Room to Read

Founded in 2000, Room to Read is dedicated to ending illiteracy and gender inequality by helping children in low-income communities develop essential literacy and life skills. Through partnerships and scalable programs, we've benefited over 45 million children across 24 countries, extending learning far beyond the classroom.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global
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Environment

Amazon Conservation Team

Our Mission: The Amazon Conservation Team partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture. Our Vision: We see a future where healthy tropical forests and thriving local communities exist in harmonious relationship with each other, contributing to the well-being of the planet.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South America
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Blue Ventures

Blue Ventures supports coastal fishers to rebuild fisheries and restore ocean life. We partner with fishers and community organisations to scale and strengthen fisheries management and conservation at the community level. We bring together networks to advocate for reform, and share tools and best practices to support fishing communities worldwide.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, South Asia, South America, Oceania
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Canopy Planet

Canopy is an innovative environmental leader driving bold, systems-level change to safeguard the world's irreplaceable forests, species, and climate. By transforming take-make-waste supply chains, advancing Next Gen alternatives, and championing Indigenous rights, Canopy's disruptive, impact-driven approach sparks nature-positive economies at the scale our world urgently needs.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is on a mission to ensure missing maps and data are not a cause for human suffering or loss of life. We work with communities around the world to add critical data to the map through accessible technology and a participatory approach.
Received Gifts:
The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa, Middle East, Europe, South Asia, South America, Oceania
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SELCO Foundation

SELCO Foundation is dedicated to a community first approach, fostering sustainable energy access through a comprehensive, ecosystem-building model. The Foundation focuses on driving innovations in technical, financial, and social domains to create renewable energy driven scalable solutions across key sectors, including health and livelihoods.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South Asia
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Equity And Justice

Center for Policing Equity

The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) partners with communities, law enforcement, and elected officials to make policing less racist and less deadly. Using data and science, CPE works to reduce racial disparities in public safety and the harms caused by unjust and burdensome policing practices.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Health Leads

Founded in 1996, Health Leads is centered on building a future-focused, resilient, community-led health ecosystem. We do this by bringing partners together to innovate, test and advance racial health equity policies and practices that enable people to access the resources they need to live healthy lives.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Mackenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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IllumiNative

IllumiNative is a Native led organization, grounded in core Native values and community, and guided by research to disrupt the invisibility of Native peoples. Founded in 2018, IllumiNative's mission is to build power for Native peoples by amplifying contemporary Native voices, stories, and issues to advance justice, equity, and self-determination.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Namati

Namati advances social and environmental justice by building a movement of people who know, use, and shape the law. We train and deploy community paralegals: organizers with a sharp understanding of law. Drawing on our country work, Namati hosts the Grassroots Justice Network, the world’s largest community of justice organizations.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global
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NDN Collective

NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, movement building, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, we are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms. As a movement infrastructure organization NDN changes the conditions in which Indigenous people organize to build movements that have global impact.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA, Mexico, Canada, Oceania
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NOSSAS

NOSSAS is an activist organization committed to strengthening democracy and advocating for racial, climate, and gender justice in Brazil. For over 10 years, NOSSAS has supported activists, collectives, and organizations in their fight for rights by providing opportunities, training, and technologies for mobilization, resulting in hundreds of policy changes.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South America
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Piramal Swasthya

Piramal Swasthya empowers India's 104 million marginalized tribal peoples whose health indicators are 2-7 times worse than non tribal populations. We do this through 1. Empowering tribal healers and certifying tribal medicines. 2. Expanding access to forest resources for improving nutrition. 3. Supporting local tribal women and tribal youth initiatives.
Received Gifts:
Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South Asia
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PolicyLink

PolicyLink is a national research and action institute building a future where all people in the United States can participate in a flourishing multiracial democracy, prosper in an equitable economy, and live in thriving communities. PolicyLink delivers transformative results for the 100M people in America living in or near poverty.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact,MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Think of Us

Think of Us is breaking the cycle of incremental child welfare reform by surfacing the perspectives of the people most impacted. They are scaling programs to ensure youth and families have supports to stay together, expand placements with extended family, and help young people "aging out" of the system.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Health

Crisis Text Line

From depression and anxiety to sexual abuse and suicidal ideation, Crisis Text Line is a first line of defense against lack of access to mental healthcare. Leveraging technology and a distributed network of over 100,000 trained volunteers, they have provided free and anonymous support for over 14 million crisis conversations.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Mackenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, Europe, USA, South America
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Dara Institute

Dara Institute works with a methodology to restructure and promote the dignity of vulnerable families. The transformation is only possible when several areas of human development are addressed. The Family Action Plan is designed according to the needs of each family working in 5 areas: health, education, housing, income, and human rights.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
South America
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GirlTREK

GirlTREK's one-of-a-kind public health intervention is working for Black women. Inactive women who start walking with GirlTREK report walking at life-saving levels, 5 days a week, 30 minutes a day. Today GirlTREK has 1.3M members, representing 7% of the total population of African American women.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
USA
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Glasswing International

Based in El Salvador, Glasswing works in 15 countries to create the conditions that allow children, youth, and families to overcome adversity and thrive. Our evidence-based, locally-led programs provide communities impacted by violence with mental health support, more effective schools, and increased access to economic opportunities.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
USA, South America, Mexico, Canada
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Global Health Corps

Our leadership development program cultivates undervalued but critical leadership traits for a changing world: systems and design thinking, collaboration, humility, empathy, storytelling, iteration, and adaptiveness. We train our leaders to become more effective while strengthening their ability to work together across borders of all kinds to drive systemic change.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa,USA
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Last Mile Health

Last Mile Health's vision is a health worker within reach of everyone, everywhere. We partner with governments to build strong community health systems that equip professionalized community health workers to provide essential, primary healthcare to the world’s most remote communities.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, Co-Impact,MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Living Goods

Living Goods supports and trains local community health workers, the majority of whom are women, to deliver lifesaving medicines, health education, diagnoses, and health products to millions of people who need them in Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Uganda.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Lwala Community Alliance

Founded by a group of committed Kenyans, Lwala Community Alliance unlocks the potential of communities to advance their own comprehensive well-being. Lwala believes that when communities lead, change is lasting. Lwala's community-led health model has led to reductions in child mortality and increases skilled delivery, contraceptive prevalence, and childhood immunization.
Received Gifts:
Co-Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Medic Mobile Inc. (known as simply "Medic")

Medic strengthens community health systems to achieve universal health coverage in the digital age. We build world-class, open-source software to support professionalized community health workers as they deliver life-saving care. Medic serves as the technical lead of the Community Health Toolkit (CHT), a cost-effective technology developed to improve last-mile healthcare.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, South Asia
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mothers2mothers

mothers2mothers (m2m) is an African not-for-profit that employs local women living with HIV as community health workers. Founded in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, we have evolved our model and today we deliver integrated primary health care to entire families, using a peer-led approach.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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Noora Health

Noora Health is a nonprofit dedicated to improving health outcomes by equipping patients and caregivers with the necessary skills to manage health conditions effectively at home. Its focus is on critical health skills and behaviors to reduce preventable complications, readmissions, and deaths, delivered through engaging and culturally-appropriate training and content.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, South Asia
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Partners In Health

By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa, USA, South America, Mexico, Canada
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Sightsavers

Sightsavers works in more than 30 countries globally to eliminate avoidable blindness and empower people with disabilities to participate equally in society. We enable access to quality health and education, lead the elimination of debilitating diseases, and fight for disability rights.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia
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The END Fund

Collaborative philanthropic fund dedicated to ending neglected tropical diseases.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Africa
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VillageReach

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products and services to the most under-reached. We have reduced inequities in access to primary health care for 79 million people and aim to improve access for 350 million people by 2030.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, USA
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Water For People

Our Vision: A world where every person has access to reliable and safe water and sanitation services. Our Mission: Water For People exists to promote the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Africa, South Asia, USA, South America
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Human Rights

Girls Not Brides

We are a global partnership of over 1400 civil society organisations in over 100 countries working to end Child Early and Forced Marriage and Unions.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global
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International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)

IRAP is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge.
Received Gifts:
MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa, Middle East, Europe, South Asia, USA, South America, Mexico, Canada
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Thorn

Thorn transforms how children are protected from sexual abuse and exploitation in the digital age with cutting-edge technology, innovative research, and collaborative partnerships. We build scaled software solutions to help law enforcement find child victims faster and to help create safer online environments so children can thrive.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving, The Audacious Project
Primary Region(s):
Global
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Tostan

Tostan's mission is to empower communities to develop and achieve their vision for the future and inspire large-scale movements leading to dignity for all.
Received Gifts:
The Skoll Award for Social Impact, MacKenzie Scott/Yield Giving
Primary Region(s):
Global, Africa
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