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
eKitabu
Studio KSL helps the deaf community and local content creators in Kenya integrate sign language videos into literacy content.Competition
Sign On For Literacy Prize
Amount Awarded
Up to $250,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Xavier Project
ENEZA, a mobile SMS study tool, supports primary school children in accessing education materials for every subject on the syllabusCompetition
Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
Amount Awarded
$5,000
Winner Status
Conflict Zone - 1st place (tied),Winner
Hifadhi Africa
Using low-cost and low-power computers to support and accelerate adoption of education in pastoral areas of Kenya.Competition
Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
Amount Awarded
$1,500
Winner Status
Natural Disaster - Honorable Mention
University of Nairobi ComTech
Using an early grade reading instruction curriculum (EGRIC), in print and electronic format, to provide teachers with high quality reading instruction materials and resources in English and KiswahiliCompetition
Grant Competition 2011
Winner Status
Winner
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