The Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1999 by Jeff Skoll, based in Palo Alto, California. Its primary mission is to drive large-scale change by investing in and supporting social entrepreneurs who address the world's most pressing social issues. The foundation focuses on empowering change agents and innovators to extend their reach and deepen their impact, particularly in areas such as healthcare, education, and economic opportunity. Over the years, it has awarded approximately $413 million to 108 social entrepreneurs and 87 organizations across five continents. The Skoll Foundation also operates the Skoll World Forum, a platform that fosters collaboration and discussion among leaders in the social entrepreneurship field. Additionally, it has established partnerships with prominent organizations, including the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and Ashoka, to advance social entrepreneurship and increase public awareness of its potential to create meaningful societal change.
Effective documentation and exposure are vital factors in the fight against human rights violations. Videre, an international charity founded in 2008, gives local activists the equipment, training and support needed to safely capture compelling video evidence of human rights violations. This captured footage is verified, analysed and then distributed to those who can create change.
The Equal Justice Initiative is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. EJI also prepares reports, newsletters, and manuals to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of reforming the administration of criminal justice.
A World Bank study found that Timap’s paralegals managed to squeeze justice out of a broken system: stopping a school master from beating children; negotiating child support payments from a derelict father; persuading the water authority to repair a well. In exceptional cases, such as when a mining company damaged six villages’ land and abandoned the region without paying compensation, a tiny corps of lawyers can resort to litigation and higher-level advocacy to obtain a remedy. Timap for Justice has been recognized by International Crisis Group, Transparency International, President Jimmy Carter, the World Bank, and others as an innovative model for delivering justice services
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