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- Begin With Books
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
- Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
- EduApp4Syria Prize
- Enabling Writers Prize
- Grant Competition 2011
- Grant Competition 2014
- Leaders for Literacy
- No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
- Ready2Read Challenge
- Sign On For Literacy Prize
- Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
- Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
- UnrestrICTed Challenge
… results in Family and Community Engagement.
Announcing the 2016 Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day Finalists!
The Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Contest offers students an opportunity to turn their ideas into action. This year saw the largest number of applications in the contest’s history.
Blog // February 12, 2016Listen up! Radio and mobile phones used to improve children’s literacy in Zambia
Mother tongue stories authored by community members disseminated by SMS to parents’ phones so children can practice reading at home.
OpenEMIS Logistics
Community Systems Foundation provides a brief overview of its OpenEMIS solution to track the delivery of textbooks and other materials to schools.
Dost: A Mobile Platform to Promote Parent Engagement and Early Childhood Education
Dost Education shares its ACR GCD-funded innovation that empowers functionally illiterate moms to participate in their child's education using low-cost mobile technology.
Dost Education
A mobile platform helping low-income moms in developing countries engage in their child’s education.
Student Entrepreneur Spotlight: Sneha Sheth & Dost
Berkeley’s 2015 Hult Prize winner Sneha Sheth discussed her work with Dost, a mobile phone platform delivering early education content and activities to Moms.
Blog // September 8, 2015ACR GCD, Intel gather experts to ideate way to use tech, youth to advance child reading outcomes
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) and The Intel® Learn Program gathered global education experts on International Literacy Day 2015 for a workshop designed to.
Hugh Jackman supports the All Children Reading Grand Challenge
On International Literacy Day, actor and World Vision spokesman Hugh Jackman voiced his support for efforts to improve literacy for children in developing countries through ACR GCD.
Mundo de Libros
Learn more about "Mundo de Libros," which sought to engage parents in children's reading and complement it with a web-based platform for children's books at a community library.
Samarth’s Story
Sesame Workshop India shares the joy of 7-year old Samarth as he discovers that he too can read with the support of technology and a few friendly muppets.
MobiLiteracy: Developing a Literacy Rich Home Environment in Kampala, Uganda Utilizing Mobile
Learn more about Planet Read's MobiLiteracy, a series of reading lessons available on basic phones for parents to use with young children in Uganda.
Youth Volunteers Can Contribute To Significant Reading Gains: Evidence From The HYVALL Project In Senegal
ACR GCD-funded Education Development Center shares results of the "Harnessing Youth Volunteers as Literacy Leaders" project in Senegal on children's reading fluency and comprehension.
The Potential of Technology to Level the Playing Field in Global Education
ACR GCD presents at the Association for Childhood Education International's "Breakthroughs in Education: Innovations in Equity, Access and Quality" virtual conference.
Four students carry ‘Big Idea’ to Haiti
Sora Edwards-Thro has a history of performing volunteer work in Haiti. This summer, she and a trio of fellow William & Mary students are taking advantage of previously unavailable opportunities to...
Big idea boosts children’s reading
A new technology aimed at addressing the reading needs of children in marginalised areas, has landed Monash second place in the Big Ideas@Berkeley contest.
Getting millions to learn: The impact of Sesame Street around the world
Sesame Workshop’s projects occupy the unique intersection of early childhood education and media. What had started as an educational television program more than 40 years ago...
Becoming Mrs. Van Allen
Christie Vilsack, senior advisor for international education at USAID, takes the TEDxFoggyBottom stage to explain how we can all help make a difference to improve education around the world.
SMS Brings Local Tales To Zambian School Children
A mobile reading project that will bring reading to Zambian children who often have no access to books at home is one of 14 winners of a literacy innovation competition.
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Announces Winners of Literacy Innovations Competition
Fourteen winning innovations represent the most promising, creative and impactful solutions in literacy and were chosen from a competitive process that elicited 213 proposals from 50 countries.
Alpha Test Report
Overview of alpha field testing of software applications funded by ACR GCD's Tracking and Tracing Books prize competition to support the delivery of textbooks to schools in rural Malawi.
