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
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- Fiji Islands
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- Sri Lanka
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- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Zambia
Save the Children Malawi
Accelerating children’s reading by training teachers and non-literate parents on activities to do at home to improve their children’s language skillsCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Save the Children Sri Lanka
Improving reading skills of children with special needs using by providing teaching and learning materials and assessment tools to teachers and resources and training for familiesCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Urban Planet Mobile
Delivering daily SMS reading lessons to adult caregivers through mobile devices to help develop their child’s literacyCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
World Education, Inc.
Developing reading benchmarks for new reading curriculum and a rapid reading response system (including the first literacy app in Khmer), to address reading difficulties for children in CambodiaCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
YMCA Senegal
Generating a passion to read, through Read Right Now!, an after-school weekly reading session to improve students reading skillsCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
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