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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Resources for the Blind, Inc.
Providing training and technology to create and upload accessible supplementary reading materials for students who are blind/low vision.Competition
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
SIL International
Software solutions that allow authors to easily create and export texts in mother tongue languages (including sign languages)Competition
Enabling Writers Prize
Amount Awarded
$100,000
Winner Status
Winner
Ustad Mobile
Readability for eXeLearning helps writers make decodable and levelled readers for print, mobile, and feature phone distribution.Competition
Enabling Writers Prize
Amount Awarded
$12,000
Winner Status
Finalist
Unleash Kids
iLoominate allows a user to write books for beginning readers and publish them to a local digital library.Competition
Enabling Writers Prize
Amount Awarded
$12,000
Winner Status
Finalist
John Snow, Inc
System enabling education officials to track book delivery throughout the system and enables parents, teachers, and local officials to receive an up-to-date information status of books.Competition
Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
Amount Awarded
$100,000
Winner Status
Winner

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