SIFF Recipients
Use the filter below to browse recipients of the Social Impact Fellowship Fund.
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2012 PIC Grand Prize
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2012 PIC Runner Up
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2013 PIC Grand Prize
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2013 PIC Runner Up
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2014 PIC Grand Prize
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2014 PIC Runner Up
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2015 PIC Grand Prize
2
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2015 PIC Runner Up
2
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2016 PIC Grand Prize
1
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2016 PIC Runner Up
2
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2017 PIC $25K Winner
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2017 PIC $75K Winner
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2017 PIC Crowd Favorite
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2018 PIC $25K Winner
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2018 PIC $75K Winner
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2018 PIC Crowd Favorite
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2019 AVF
4
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2019 PIC $25K Winner
3
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2019 PIC $75K Winner
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2019 SIFF
2
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2020 AVF
9
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2020 PIC $25K Winner
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2020 PIC $75K Winner
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2020 SIFF
12
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2021 AVF
8
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2021 PIC $25K Winner
4
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2021 PIC $75K Winner
4
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2021 SIFF
8
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2022 AVF
9
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2022 PIC $25K Winner
4
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2022 PIC $75K Winner
5
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2022 SIFF
13
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2023 AVF
5
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2023 PIC $25K Winner
5
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2023 PIC $75K Winner
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2023 SIFF
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2024 AVF
4
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2024 Ingenuity Award Winner
5
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2024 PIC $25K Winner
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2024 PIC $75K Winner
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2024 SIFF
9
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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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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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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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Aperture Bio
Realizing orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed and sensitivity, Aperture rapidly analyzes proteins in whole cells to map immune interactions.
![Aperture Bio team]()
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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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Barefoot Edu Foundation
Creating a movement of empowered educators in India who make education meaningful for children.
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Body Empowerment Project
An evidence-based eating disorders intervention platform for adolescents.
![Body Empowerment Project founder]()
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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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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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Concerto Biosciences
Discovering microbial ensembles for health via a patented screening platform.
![Concerto Biosciences team]()
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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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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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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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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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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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humanID
An anonymous, bot-resistant authentication for safer online communities.
![Human ID team]()
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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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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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Mai Soli Foundation
Empowering young girls to break the cycle of child marriage with education and entrepreneurship.
![Mai Soli team]()
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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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Odessa Health
Pioneering a transformative approach to promote youth's social-emotional health and wellness, focusing on underserved 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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Peripeach
Designing a medical device that protects the pelvic floor during childbirth.
![Peri Peach founder]()
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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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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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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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Seeing Hope
Partnering with indigenous communities to build educational technologies and community initiatives for language and culture revitalization.
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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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Society of Women Coders
A nonprofit fighting gender-based digital inequality in low- and middle-income countries.
![Kavya Krishna]()
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Stochastic
An enterprise platform for businesses to build, customize, and control their own AI.
![Stochastic team]()
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Stratagen Bio
Transforming MRI scans into a tool for objective clinical decision-making and quantitative biomarker assessment.
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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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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.
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The Ameliorating Health in Africa Initiative (A.H.A Initiative)
Transforming unused spaces in existing community institutions into free primary healthcare centers for extremely low-income residents.
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The Apprentice Project
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide personalized learning experiences and support to students across India.
![Apprentice Project team]()
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The MV3 Foundation
Providing mentorship, networking, and financial support to future Black leaders in health sciences who will advance health equity
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THRIVE!
Building a software platform that helps state and local government agencies—including school systems—create budgets that mitigate disparities experienced by low-income residents and people of color.
![Thrive founder]()
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Tree-Plenish
Empowering students to create a more sustainable and equitable future through community tree planting.
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UCNLEARN
Empowering teachers to deliver reading intervention effectively using a tablet for students learning one-on-one, in groups, and independently.
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Ukraine Global Scholars Foundation
Providing mentorship, education, and career guidance to a new generation of Ukrainian leaders capable of accelerating the development of post-war Ukraine.
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UMA
Helping female artisans break free from the poverty trap by enhancing leadership skills and providing access to markets.
![UMA Team]()
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Umbulizer
Developing a reliable, low-cost, and portable device that can provide continuous ventilation to patients.
![Umbulizer team]()
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Veri Nano
A bionanotechnology company developing antimicrobial materials and nanoparticle delivery systems for human and animal health.
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Veritel Energy
Providing a comprehensive system for property owners to generate clean, renewable, on-site electricity for tenants in multi-metered apartments.
![Tony posing in front of a solar panel]()
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Vocal Justice
Partnering with educators to transform their classrooms into healing-centered communities where youth imagine and advocate for a more just world.
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Wave Learning Festival
Enriching learning for students in grades 6-12 with free, accessible programs taught by a community of talented volunteers.
