Riders for Health’s vision is of a world in which the poor do not suffer and die for lack of access to health care and other vital services simply because they are isolated by distance or terrain.
Riders for Health manages and maintains the vehicles used in the delivery of health care and other vital services to rural communities in Africa . We manage them on a planned, preventive basis so that the vehicles do not break down however difficult the conditions. In this way our partners can deliv more...
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Grant Amount: $1,215,000 over three years
Award Year: 2006. SASE Awards/Skoll Foundation. On a trek to Nepal, John Wood visited a school whose crumbling library was almost devoid of books. Remembering how much his hometown library has affected his life, he returned a short time later on a yak carrying more than 3,000 books. He founded Room to Read in 2000 to provide educational resources for children who might otherwise face lifelong illiteracy. The organization has constructed 942 schools, est more...
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Room to Read was founded on the belief that 'World Change Starts with Educated Children' - and that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty. We strive to provide children access to education, one child at a time, one school at a time, and one village at a time. Through partnerships with local communities we work to create educational opportunities and establish educational infrastructure. Our efforts are currently focused in Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South more...
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Grant Amount: $465,000 over three years to expand its operations in Latin America and East Africa to foster environment conservation and grassroots economic development
Award Year: 2005. SASE Awards/Skoll Foundation. William Foote was an investment banker during the Latin American growth years of the early 1990s. After the peso was devalued in 1994, he spent two years in rural Mexico studying and writing about the financial crisis and its effects on rural people and the environment. He founded more...
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Small grassroots businesses, such as coffee farmer cooperatives and artisan associations are engines for sustainable development and poverty alleviation in rural communities in the developing world. Considered too small and risky for mainstream banks and too large for microfinance, these grassroots businesses are caught in the “missing middle”; they cannot access the capital they need to grow and sustain their operations.
Root Capital addresses this market failure through an innovative lend more...
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Grant Amount: $765,000 over three years
Award Year: 2006. SASE Awards/Skoll Foundation. A cancer diagnosis and successful treatment prompted Heidi Kühn to want to give back to the less fortunate and to live close to and nurture the land. Inspired by the international campaign to ban land mines, she founded Roots of Peace in 1997 at her family’s home in the California wine country. The organization takes practical steps toward sustainable development and enduring peace by converting minefield more...
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Since 1999, Roots of Peace has been turning Mines to Vines in the war-torn regions of Croatia. Roots of Peace has supported projects in Dragalić, Bebinge, Čista Mala, Čista Velika, Ilok, and Karlovac. We have funded clearance of nearly 500,000 square meters of land, removing over 50 landmines and unexploded ordinance in collaboration with the International Trust Fund of Slovenia, U.S. State Department. Ilok is a grape growing region along the Danube River that witnessed the most intense fight more...
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