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
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Bangladesh
- Cambodia
- East Timor
- Ethiopia
- Fiji Islands
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Global
- Haiti
- India
- Indonesia
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Macedonia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papau New Guinea
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Zambia
Friends of Matènwa
Creating and distributing children-authored books in Creole to address the shortage of Creole reading materials and to foster a love of reading in childrenCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Georgia State University
Increasing the reading achievement levels of young learners through implementation of research-based, context-relevant literacy curricula and materialsCompetition
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
Lubuto Library Partners
Creating high-quality, mother-tongue materials through LubutoLiteracy, a low-cost digital platform that used local teachers to build lessons in seven languagesCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy
Using easy, computer-based instruction for literacy learning in primary schools, Bridges to the Future - South Africa, to help students hear, identify and manipulate phonemesCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
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