Developing solutions
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development is a sandbox for innovation, funding innovators to develop and implement EdTech solutions to increase reading outcomes for marginalized children in low resource contexts. Below, learn about several of our current awardees and explore more current and past innovators by focus area or locations where they implemented their solutions!
Featured Innovators
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
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- Afghanistan
- Africa
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- Armenia
- Bangladesh
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- East Timor
- Ethiopia
- Fiji Islands
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Global
- Haiti
- India
- Indonesia
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Macedonia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mexico
- Morocco
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- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papau New Guinea
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Zambia
American Institutes for Research
Contributing to empirical evidence on when a child is 'ready' to transition from learning one language to anotherCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Education Development Center, Inc.
Improving instruction and reading outcomes by enabling teachers to submit student reading test data immediately using mobile phonesCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Human Network International
Building DataWinners, a cloud-based communication service that collects and shares educational data through mobile phonesCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Initiative Africa
Improving student reading and classroom instruction by collecting data from early grade reading assessmentsCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Pragya
Building a system to monitor and generate education data for marginalized schools in the Himalayan region of IndiaCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Step by Step Benevolent Foundation
Influencing the Armenian education system by developing and testing a set of informal literacy assessments to better inform future literacy instructionCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
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