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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

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The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select few social entrepreneurs who are solving the world’s most pressing problems. The Skoll Award includes a core support grant to the organisation, to be paid over three years, and a noncash award to the social entrepreneur presented at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.

Application Info

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Qualifying organisations will be evaluated against the following criteria:

  • Impact potential: Organisation’s innovation is positioned to directly affect policy, behavior and/or infrastructure/system(s) on a large scale and can show evidence of significant impact already achieved.
  • Inflection: Organisation has a proven approach that has already been implemented with success and is now ready to apply the approach on a much larger scale.
  • Innovation: Organisation has an approach that fundamentally disrupts the status quo to solve social and/or environmental problems.
  • Issue: Organisation works on an issue that is identified by the Skoll Foundation as one of world’s most pressing problems.
  • Skoll leverage: Organisation will benefit from engaging with Skoll Foundation beyond a purely funding relationship, such as collaboration with our network of entrepreneurs or access to media opportunities.
  • Social entrepreneur: Organisation is led by a visionary social entrepreneur
  • Sustainability: Organisation has a clear, compelling plan for expanding impact and achieving long-term financial and operational sustainability.

The Skoll Foundation’s focus on the following issue areas stems from a belief that many of the world’s most pressing problems are exacerbated by inequality between the rich and the poor. Social entrepreneurs provide solutions that address this inequity at a systemic level.

The following list serves as a guide and is not meant to be comprehensive:

  • Economic and Social Equity
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Health
  • Institutional Responsibility
  • Peace and Security
  • Tolerance, Justice, and Human Rights
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Email from Skoll Foundation to The Communication Initiative on January 4 2012.