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
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 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
Viamo
VOTO powers an interactive, personalized and measurable platform to engage students on basic mobile phones through interactive voice response (IVR)Competition
Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
Amount Awarded
$5,000
Winner Status
Health Crisis - 1st place,Winner
Perkins International
Introducing modern teaching methods along with assistive technology for children who are blind/low visionCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Olinga Foundation for Human Development
Utilizing a phonic and syllabic approach to reading in their mother tongue, Enlightening the Hearts Literacy Campaign accelerates students’ ability to develop a second languageCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Open Learning Exchange-Ghana
Using the School Basic e-Learning Libraries (BeLLs), Ghana Reads introduces educational content for students and teachers to address the lack of high quality reading materialsCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
Worldreader
Improving literacy skills by providing e-readers filled with culture-specific digital books in both the Ghanaian language and EnglishCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
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