Innovators

Innovators

Explore ACR GCD’s community of more than 80 innovators to learn more about their creative solutions to get all children reading.

Featured Innovators

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
Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf
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 skills
Competition
Ready2Read Challenge
Amount Awarded
up to $300,000
Winner Status
Winner

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Manos Unidas
An interactive corpus of sign language words, a smartphone app, and a literacy outreach program for deaf children and their families
Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Enuma
The Sign On For Literacy prize sought technology-based innovations that increase literacy outcomes for deaf children in low resource settings by providing greater access to sign languages, early grade
Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
$25,000
Winner Status
Semi-Finalist
Gallaudet University Motion Light Lab, Visual Language and Visual Learning
SignShare, an open-source digital platform that enables users to create and share signed stories and resources.
Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
$25,000
Winner Status
Semi-Finalist
Asafeer Education Technologies
100 inspiring STEM storybook templates and illustrations for Arabic speaking children and for global translation and use.
Competition
No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
Amount Awarded
$100,000
Winner Status
Winner
SIL LEAD, Inc.
Enhancing Bloom software with accessibility features to allow users to create “born accessible” reading materials in underserved languages.
Competition
Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
Amount Awarded
$162,000
Winner Status
Winner
eKitabu
Catalyzing the born accessible book chain to create a library of open source, accessible digital titles and providing an open standards based toolkit for local content developers.
Competition
Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
Amount Awarded
$162,000
Winner Status
Winner

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