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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 Foundations for Literacy.
News Byte // September 20, 2022ACR GCD launches updated website with new resource hubs
Explore free, open source education technology solutions, toolkits and research
Ready2Read Challenge
EdTech solutions to support foundational language and literacy skills in children ages 4 to 6.
News Byte // May 11, 2022ACR GCD awardees to participate in 2023 GEM Report consultation
Awardees to provide feedback and evidence on the role of technology in addressing education challenges
Blog // April 14, 2022Innovations to Improve Reading: Recommendations and Reflections from USAID’s Grand Challenges Meta Evaluation
The report highlights ACR GCD's positive results in terms of impact, supporting innovators and catalyzing action to support children’s reading.
News Byte // April 13, 2022The Asia Foundation uses social media to increase access to early childhood education resources
Posts are part of a program in Nepal being funded by the Ready2Read Challenge
ACR GCD Alumni, Little Thinking Minds, featured in USAID Meta Evaluation of Grand Challenges Case Study
ACR GCD Alumni, Little Thinking Minds' grantee journey is one of four detailed Case Studies that demonstrates key learning about thematic priorities for the USAID Meta Evaluation of Grand Challenges
Blog // February 17, 2022ACR GCD-funded sign language storybook platform receives Zero Project award for improving accessibility
World Around You is a multilingual platform developed with funding from the Sign on For Literacy Prize in 2019 by three-time ACR GCD awardee RIT/NTID
Blog // November 5, 2021Celebrating USAID at 60 and a 10 year partnership in advancing EdTech innovation to improve reading outcomes
This week, USAID turns 60 and ACR GCD is taking the opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments and innovations achieved over our 10 year partnership.
Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Competition
Ready2Read Challenge
Amount Awarded
up to $300,000
Winner Status
Winner
ILC Africa
Introducing 400 Talking Books into 50 Early Childhood Development centers in rural Malawi to contribute to pre-literacy skills of children ages 4-6 years old.Competition
Ready2Read Challenge
Amount Awarded
up to $300,000
Winner Status
Winner
The Asia Foundation
Providing children and their family members in Nepal with an evidence- and UDL-based approach that sparks curiosity and increases oral language and pre-reading skillsCompetition
Ready2Read Challenge
Amount Awarded
up to $300,000
Winner Status
Winner
- Blog // September 7, 2021
Ready2Read Challenge awarded to three innovators building foundational language and literacy skills using EdTech
The Asia Foundation, ILC Africa, and Rochester Institute of Technology to address gaps in early learning among children in Nepal, Malawi, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines 
ACR GCD in the News // February 22, 2021Apply Now: $650,000 for EduTech Language and Literacy Skills Solutions
The Ready2Read Challenge seeks effective Edtech solutions that enable marginalized children ages 4 to 6 to build foundational language and literacy skills at home and at school.
Blog // February 9, 2021Ready2Read Challenge seeks EdTech solutions that help children in low-resource countries build foundational literacy skills
Up to $350,000 to be awarded for solutions that build and measure children's foundational language and literacy skills, with additional incentives for demonstrating skills growth.
Manos Unidas
An interactive corpus of sign language words, a smartphone app, and a literacy outreach program for deaf children and their familiesCompetition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Begin With Books Prize
The Begin With Books Prize challenges global innovators to assemble cost-effective packages of high quality, accessible titles in more than 30 underserved spoken and sign languages.
Begin With Books Info Sheet
Learn more about the Begin With Books prize, challenging global innovators to develop or adapt books in more than 30 underserved languages.
Digital games to educate refugee kids are winners
When Video Games Without Borders launched ‘Antura and The Letters’ in response to the EduApp4Syria call, the team did not imagine the success that would come their way.
Here are 25 of the most innovative new projects using tech to help refugees and NGOs
The Techfugees Global Challenges Competition showcases projects responding to the needs of displaced populations and building technological products or services for them.
Apps Factory
An innovative smartphone game that helps Syrian children learn foundational Arabic and improves psychosocial well-beingCompetition
EduApp4Syria Prize
Amount Awarded
$650,000 (innovative tender)
Winner Status
Winner
