The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship provides funding and technical assistance to entrepreneurs who have “the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time: tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and environmental sustainability.“
Awards are given to “to help organizations expand their programs and capacity to deliver long-term, sustainable equilibrium change“, and usually look for projects that have been functioning for no less than three years. More eligibility criteria here.
Deadline for the next round of applications is February 17, 2010.
