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
All Innovators
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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
Benetech
Adding Marathi human-narrated audio capabilities to create accessible, grade-level storybooks that can be listened to on low cost audio devices by children who are blind/low visionCompetition
Grant Competition 2014
Winner Status
Winner
Sesame Workshop India Trust
Providing families with a smartphone based mobile app, based on the Marathi dubbed version of Sesame Street, (Galli Galli Sim Sim), to promote mother-tongue literacy skillsCompetition
Grant Competition 2014
Winner Status
Winner
Dost Education
A mobile service that empowers mothers to be an integral part of their child's development—including learning to readCompetition
Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
Amount Awarded
$10,000
Winner Status
Winner
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
PlanetRead
Distributing audio-visual content with Same Language Subtitling (SLS) to reinforce reading skills learned at school.Competition
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
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