World news2013 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to select a few organisations who are solving the world's most pressing problems. The Skoll Award includes a core support grant to the organisation to be paid over three years, and a non-cash award to the social entrepreneur presented at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship each spring.

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The application process for the 2013 Skoll Awards is open upto March 1st 2012.

To be considered, organisations must have a tested and proven social innovation that addresses an issue of critical importance and is positioned for large-scale impact. Qualifying organisations will be evaluated against the following criteria:

Impact potential: the innovation os positioned to directly affect policy, behaviour and/or infrastructure/systems on a large scale and can show evidence of significant impact.
Inflection: the organisation has a proven approach that has already been implemented with success.
Innovation: the approach fundamentally disrupts the status quo to solve social and/or environmental problems.
Issue: the organisation is working on an issue that is identified by the Skoll Foundation as one of the worlds most pressing problems.
• Skoll leverage: the organisation will benefit from engaging with Skoll Foundation beyond a purely funding relationship.
Social entrepreneur: the organisation is led by a visionary social entrepreneur.
Sustainability: the organisation has a clear, compelling plan for expanding impact and achieving long-term financial and operational sustainability.

Organisations will be notified of their application status in July 2012. Finalist due diligence on select organisations will be undertaken between July and October 2012. Skoll Award recipients will be announced in November 2012.

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