SIFF Recipients
Use the filter below to browse recipients of the Social Impact Fellowship Fund.
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2013 PIC Grand Prize
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2014 PIC Grand Prize
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2015 PIC Grand Prize
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2015 PIC Runner Up
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2016 PIC Runner Up
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2017 PIC $75K Winner
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2019 AVF
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2019 PIC $25K Winner
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2019 SIFF
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2020 PIC $25K Winner
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2021 PIC $25K Winner
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2022 PIC $75K Winner
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2022 SIFF
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1Room
For schools in Kenya with one room and one generalist teacher, 1Room is digitizing and delivering school curriculum via tablets.
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Adaptilens
Developing the first and only intraocular lens that responds to the eye's natural signal to focus, thus eliminating the need for eyeglasses or contact lenses.
![Adaptilens founder]()
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Adaptive Reader
Transforming literature for grades 7–12 into multiple languages and reading levels.
![Adaptive Reader team lead]()
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Adolescent Health Champions
Using peer-to-peer education to train adolescents in India in critical health topics.
![founder headshot]()
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Adventus Robotics
Building autonomous wheelchairs to improve the lives of the severely disabled, and to minimize passenger-porter interaction for safer airports and hospitals.
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AgX
Building hardware-enabled software for sustainable livestock farming.
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Akademi.al
Providing equal access to an excellent education to Albanian-speaking students around the globe.
![Akademi founder]()
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Almond Fintech
Providing financial institutions with near-instant FX settlement across borders, consistently beating mid-market rates.
![Almond team]()
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Alokito Hridoy Foundation
Building a teacher development platform that aims to support, nurture and empower teachers in Bangladesh as compassionate leaders and lifelong learners
![Alokito founder]()
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ArtLifting
ArtLifting advances access to the art market by connecting artists impacted by disabilities and housing insecurity with socially conscious customers to create meaningful spaces and products.
![ArtLifting founder]()
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Asude Foundation
Aiming to provide a holistic education for every child in India.
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AugMend Health
Helping mental health professionals save time and increase coverage with self-guided VR intake and AI-tailored patient onboarding.
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Aurie
Building a reusable, intermittent catheter system to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people living with urinary retention.
![Aurie founder]()
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Barefoot Edu Foundation
Creating a movement of empowered educators in India who make education meaningful for children.
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Base Operations
Aggregating, visualizing, and interpreting threat data to help organizations anticipate disruptions around the world — keeping their people, assets, and operations safe.
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Beacon Bio
Improving hearing and healing by restoring eardrums with regenerative grafts.
![Beacon team]()
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Beaver Health, Inc.
Engaging older loved ones in stimulating, culturally responsive activities to boost cognition and quality of life.
![Emily Wang]()
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blip energy
An affordable, portable smart battery that offers backup power and bill savings, reduces emissions, and stabilizes the grid. Now regular consumers can charge when energy is cheap and discharge when energy is expensive.
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Body Empowerment Project
An evidence-based eating disorders intervention platform for adolescents.
![Body Empowerment Project founder]()
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Bounce Imaging
Bounce Imaging makes products that keep first-responders, warfighters, and civilians safer with best-in-class, low-cost, easy-to-use imaging and robotics systems.
![Francisco Aguilar of Bounce Imaging in the i-lab's Maker Studio]()
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Broadleaf HEA
Providing evidence-based health and education interventions for children in rural India that produce tangible improvements to participant’s wellbeing.
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Canopy Nepal
Providing equitable education access to underprivileged children of Nepal and promoting interactive learning used to make informed decisions.
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CashEx
Bringing global financial services closer to Africans.
![Cashex]()
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CassVita Inc.
Using proprietary technology to foster prosperity for smallholder farmers in Africa.
![Cassvita founder]()
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Chaku Foods
Creating wealth for smallholder farmers in Africa while minimizing climate risk.
![Chaku Foods founder]()
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Charli Charging, Inc.
Providing premium, turnkey EV charging solutions for the largest commercial and multifamily properties as well as single-family residences.
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Chirps Chips
Creating packaged foods made of edible insects as a healthier, more environmentally sustainable alternative to other sources of protein on the market.
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Circlez
Creating a social goal-setting app designed for young adults.
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Civic Roundtable
Building a dedicated ecosystem for public servants to ask questions, find experts, and access resources within government and across the civic sphere.
![Civic Roundtable co-founder]()
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Clean Slate Clinic
Building a clinical protocol for at-home clinician-led care for intensive medicated treatments for addiction.
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Coding it Forward
Empowering the next generation of mission-driven technologists by creating new pathways into public interest technology.
![Coding it forward founders]()
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Coolant
Carbon MRV for forests.
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Critical Healthcare Information Integration Network, Inc.
A free-for-use SMS messaging system providing validated medical reference information to community health workers in rural settings.
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Day Zero Diagnostics
Developing technologies to help control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), where antibiotic resistant organisms can be especially dangerous.
![Day Zero team]()
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Debate Spaces
Connecting and empowering middle schoolers worldwide, teaching debate to foster critical thinking, cultural empathy, and civic engagement.
![Debate spaces team]()
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Delfina
Building an integrated pregnancy platform delivering personalized care based on deep insights into each member's needs.
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DetoXyFi
Developing science-backed, all-natural water filters inspired by nature — removing disease-causing agents from drinking water to provide World Health Organization-quality water.
![Detoxyfi team]()
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EarthBond
Affordable energy for African small businesses. Reliable solar energy that saves business owners money on fuel for their generators.
![EarthBond founder]()
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Edufun Technik STEM HUB
Empowering rural and semi-urban Nigerian K-12 schools with essential STEM education and advanced digital skills training for youth.
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Eki Agrivoltaics
Enabling the coexistence of agriculture and solar energy by scaling an innovative photovoltaic technology and sharing the revenue generated from the solar energy with farmers.
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Elio
A climate research data platform to optimize our climate response and drive innovation.
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EuMotus
Developing an AI-empowered movement analysis system that helps physical therapists and athletic trainers better treat physical health.
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First Gen Empower (FGE)
Supporting first-generation, low-income, and undocumented students, as well as their schools and families, with college and career-readiness programming.
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Focal
Using smart sensing and directional heat to warm people, rather than entire spaces.
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FoodNiche-ED
Leveraging technology to empower teachers to introduce nutrition education in the classroom.
![FoodNiche team leads]()
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Freedom Cups
Making reusable menstrual products to women, and implementing a buy-one, give-one model to increase access to menstrual cups in underserved communities.
![Freedom cups team]()
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GenUnity
Activating everyday adults to create a community by everyone for everyone.
![GenUnity team]()
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GramHeet
For Indian smallholder farmers facing post-harvest challenges, GramHeet provides integrated solutions that increase earnings, foster self-reliance, and mitigate environmental effects.
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Green AI
Providing AI-driven software that optimizes energy use in data centers and reduces carbon emissions.
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humanID
An anonymous, bot-resistant authentication for safer online communities.
![Human ID team]()
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IAMBIC
AI-tailored, made-to-fit footwear—making shoes size-inclusive.
![IAMBIC Cofounders]()
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Immigrants Help
Preparing immigration documents for free for people who can't afford a lawyer.
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Inqui-Lab Foundation
Nurturing problem-solving capacity among first-generation learners.
![Smit Malkan]()
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Institute for Earth Observations
An institute dedicated to developing and innovating STEM education.
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Institute for Multipartisan Education, Inc
The Institute for Multipartisan Education is dedicated to sustainably increasing and improving capacity for curious approaches to difference and disagreement in educational settings.
![Shira Hoffer speaks at a podium]()
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INVERSA
Regenerating native biodiversity by creating a market for leathers from invasive animals.
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Kaüna
Building the ultimate population health management platform for chronic kidney disease.
![Kauna team lead]()
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Kiwi Biosciences
Creating the first enzyme solution addressing FODMAPs, a family of hard-to-digest carbohydrates and notorious symptom triggers for those with sensitive guts.
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LABHYA FOUNDATION
Making well-being programs accessible to vulnerable children in India, at scale.
![Labhya]()
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Loo Works Limited
Building the first manufacturing facility in West Africa to use waste materials to create toilet housings and digesters
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Lotus
Fostering connection and conversation among adolescent women+ with reproductive health conditions and/or concerns.
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Lumos
The world's smartest bike helmets and lights.
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Mai Soli Foundation
Empowering young girls to break the cycle of child marriage with education and entrepreneurship.
![Mai Soli team]()
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Mark43
Empowering communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all.
![Mark43 founder]()
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MDandMe
Leveraging generative AI to help patients decide where and when to seek care and help doctors pre-populate their medical notes.
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Metric
Data analytics software to help private market investors measure their portfolio’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.
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MiKashBoks
Making saving and lending with friends easy and safe.
![MiKashBoks founder]()
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Myspeech
Enabling access to high-quality speech therapy through a technology platform.
![Nathan mallipeddi]()
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Net3allem
Providing access to universal high-quality early childhood education for children in need, in Egypt.
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Neumind Ltd
Digitizing neurorehabilitation for enhanced patient access, seamless caregiver involvement, and improved clinician overview.
![Claudia Hill]()
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New Voters Org
Inspiring civic action through mobilizing 80,000+ high school students to vote across the United States.
![new voters co-founder]()
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Nunchi Health
Building inclusive mental health programs for culturally diverse communities.
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Paint it Red Foundation
Striving to impart body literacy to eliminate intergenerational misinformation that prohibits menstruators from living a life of dignity.
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PathCision Medicine, Inc.
Transforming tissue pathology insights into targeted therapies for complex diseases.
![Pathcision Medicine team leads]()
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Peripeach
Designing a medical device that protects the pelvic floor during childbirth.
![Peri Peach founder]()
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Philo
Working to reinvent the television experience for the modern age and create a service you'll love as much as the shows you watch.
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PIVOTtheWorld
A mobile app revealing what places looked like in the past — showing authenticated histories of locations (from everyday places to popular tourist attractions), through images, videos, and text-audio.
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ProtectED Solutions LLC
Designing furniture that protects against domestic terrorism and active shooter violence in schools, government buildings, and offices.
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RapidSOS
Securely linking life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
![Rapid SOS co-founder]()
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RescaleMed - Tibb Mental Health chatbot
Creating an AI-driven mental health chatbot for cognitive behavioral health therapy.
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Rhymes with Reason
An e-learning app that helps students learn important English words by showcasing their existence in widely known music lyrics.
![Rhymes With Reason team]()
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Rumi Spice
Bringing flavorful, ethically-sourced, and socially-responsible spices from Afghanistan to customers.
![Rumi Spice team]()
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Saturday Art Class
Unleashing the creative potential of one of the world's largest marginalized child populations by developing social-emotional skills through visual arts education.
![Manasi Mehan and Chhavi Khandelwal]()
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School-Based Wellness (a subsidiary of Butterfly Dreamz, Inc.)
Providing mental health services to under-resourced schools.
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Scientific Financial Systems, Inc.
Developing AI-enabled tools to help investment management teams identify opportunities faster.
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Seeing Hope
Partnering with indigenous communities to build educational technologies and community initiatives for language and culture revitalization.
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Shamiri Institute
Enabling thriving youths by making mental healthcare accessible in underserved regions of the world, starting with Kenya and Africa.
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Shamsina
Designing, manufacturing, and delivering affordable, locally-made solar water heaters for all Egyptians, from energy poor communities to energy-conscious consumers.
![Shamsina co-founder]()
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Skew The Script
Providing free, socially-relevant math curriculum to teachers.
![skew the script founder]()
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Slam Out Loud
Using the visual and performing arts to enable children in India from disadvantaged backgrounds to find their voice.
![Slam Out Loud Team Leads]()
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smoodi
Making people happier and healthier with a self-cleaning machine for fresh, customized smoothies.
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Society of Women Coders
A nonprofit fighting gender-based digital inequality in low- and middle-income countries.
![Kavya Krishna]()
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SoWork
Creating a smart virtual office that gives remote teams efficiency, presence, spontaneity, and connection.
![SoWork team]()
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SPOUTS OF WATER
Providing clean drinking water, clean air and clean energy to African households.
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Stochastic
An enterprise platform for businesses to build, customize, and control their own AI.
![Stochastic team]()
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SXD
Turning fabrics — including leftover and wasted ones — into beautifully-designed apparel products with ~55% lower costs and zero waste.
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Talaria
Providing free scientific research opportunities for high school students of marginalized genders.
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Tana
Connecting tech teams to remote global talent.
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TANGapp
An international, peer-to-peer transaction app with a social mission of financial inclusion for emerging markets.
![TANGapp co-founder]()
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Taste of Kenya
Disrupting the supply chain with direct trade linking Kenyan coffee farmers with coffee buyers bypassing five levels of middlemen.
