SIFF Recipients
Use the filter below to browse recipients of the Social Impact Fellowship Fund.
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344
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Agriculture
8
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Aid and Relief
4
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Architecture, Construction, and Engineering
5
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Arts and Culture
6
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Aviation and Aerospace
2
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Bioinformatics
1
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Biotech and Life Sciences
32
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Childhood Development
2
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Climate and Sustainability
13
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Consumer Products and Packaged Goods
10
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Defense, Military, and Space
2
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Digital Health
23
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
3
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Ecommerce
2
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Education and Learning
36
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Education Technology
19
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Electronics and Hardware
6
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Employment, Recruiting, and Workforce Development
1
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Energy, Oil, Renewables, and Environment
16
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Entertainment
1
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Fashion, Beauty, Apparel, and Retail
4
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Finance
10
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Fitness and Sports
4
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Food and Beverages
6
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Gaming
1
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Governance & Civic Engagement
2
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Government and Civic Engagement
8
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Healthcare
18
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International Development
3
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Legal
4
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Marketing
1
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Media and Publishing
2
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Medical Devices and Hardware
14
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Mental Health
4
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Mentorship and youth development
6
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Music
1
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Personal Health and Wellness
6
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Public Health and Global Health
2
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Real Estate and Housing
2
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Services
3
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Software/App
19
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Therapeutics
1
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Transportation and Logistics
3
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Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality
1
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Web3, Crypto, and NFTs
2
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1Climate
For clean energy developers who struggle with the time and costs of managing the regulatory sides of their projects, 1Climate offers an AI-powered, end-to-end platform that automates clean energy permitting and incentive processes.
![1Climate team]()
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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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Aclaria Partners
Financing decarbonization of real estate at scale with a team that has best-in-class subject matter expertise; demonstrated leadership across multiple economic cycles; and proven track records in global finance, business, and policy.
![Gautam Barua]()
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Current Electric
Developing fast charger infrastructure focused on rapidly enabling the mass adoption of electric transportation.
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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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FlatPeak
Building an energy data platform that provides a complete energy optimization solution for any product or service.
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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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Gridbrid
Helping companies simplify the process, maximize the profits, and reduce the risks of developing renewable energy power plants.
![GridBid team leads]()
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humanID
An anonymous, bot-resistant authentication for safer online communities.
![Human ID team]()
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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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Lightmatter
Developing photonic computing products that simultaneously reduce the power consumption and increase the performance of silicon running the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.
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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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Metalmark Innovations, Inc.
Building a self-renewing air cleaner that performs better and delivers with 10x the filter life of a typical HEPA system.
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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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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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SES
Powering a new era of electric transportation with the world’s most advanced Li-Metal battery.
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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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STRIX
Developing an integrated system for early wildfire detection and intelligent fire response based on real-time forest data.
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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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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.
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Zor
Delivering affordable energy for irrigation and mobility to rural India through a battery-sharing platform.
