F.M. Kirby Impact Prize Winners

No Means No Worldwide collaborates with local partners across 10 African countries to bring an evidence-based sexual violence prevention intervention to youth living in communities with a high burden of sexual violence.

Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) has worked in Haiti over the past 14 years to address sanitation rights for the country’s most vulnerable urban communities.

The Somo Project provides a holistic system of support to low-income entrepreneurs in East Africa.

Urban Alchemy is a U.S.-based employment social enterprise that recognizes the unique assets that formerly incarcerated individuals can bring to drive positive change in communities grappling with poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction.

Kidogo is helping to solve the global childcare crisis, and more specifically to address the dearth of quality, affordable childcare for low income women (particularly those living in informal settlements) in East Africa. Read our finalist profile.

Connecticut Veterans Legal Center operates in medical-legal partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Connecticut to support veterans recovering from homelessness and mental illness to overcome legal barriers to housing, healthcare, and income. Read our finalist profile.

Hello World connects remote, hard-to-reach communities to the Internet, education, and skills building. Using a community-led model, they work in partnership to build “Hello Hubs” which provide durable tablets (loaded with educational software), power to charge devices, and free wifi. Read our finalist profile.

Benetech has over 20 years of experience providing accessible materials to people living with print disabilities through Bookshare, the world’s largest online service for accessible eBooks. Read our finalist spotlight.

EarthEnable designs affordable, durable, and green housing solutions for rural families, and distributes them through a network of trained and certified micro-franchisees. Read our finalist spotlight.

Lwala‘s approach to community-led healthcare has paved the way for major improvements in health outcomes in the rural county of Migori in Kenya. Read our finalist spotlight.

Recity works toward a circular economy by designing solutions that align with every stakeholder – including waste generators, brand owners (waste producers), waste workers, recyclers, and urban local bodies – to create a lasting impact in plastic waste management. Read our finalist spotlight.

Access Afya is a primary healthcare social enterprise delivering affordable, effective healthcare in emerging economies in Kenya by providing quality-assured, low-cost micro-clinics.

Build Up Nepal empowers rural entrepreneurs and communities to build safe, affordable homes and resilient incomes by providing climate-friendly interlocking bricks and training local entrepreneurs in brick masonry. 

Essmart bridges the gap between essential technology manufacturers and rural Indian households in need of these services by creating a logistics chain and marketplace for these products in rural retail shops.

Hydrologistics Africa is working to increase access to clean and safe water in sub-Saharan Africa by offering technology solutions to re-imagine how water is accessed, monitored, and distributed.

Lwala‘s approach to community-led healthcare has paved the way for major improvements in health outcomes in the rural county of Migori in Kenya.

One Heart Worldwide’s mission is to end all preventable deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth by equipping local governments and communities in underserved rural districts in Nepal with the skills and capabilities to provide an effective continuum of care for pregnant women and their newborns.

Pratham Books is a nonprofit publisher based in India addressing the global inequity of too few books for children in their mother tongue languages by providing open and free access to a digital platform of quality storybooks in multiple languages to foster the love of reading in children.

SaCoDe’s mission is to ensure that all women and girls can manage their menstrual cycles normally and with dignity.  They do this by manufacturing and distributing free, reusable, and washable menstrual pads to disadvantaged school girls in Burundi and providing sexual and reproductive health community education. 

Minnesota MathCorps’ (ServeMinnesota) mission is to empower and inspire children from under-served communities.  They do this through teaching mathematics and fostering self-worth, strong values, and a sense of family- to build better lives for themselves and a more just society for all.

SevaMob addresses the inequity of access to quality healthcare providers and diagnostic services in underserved and rural areas by providing artificial intelligence-enabled healthcare platforms to organizations in India and the United States.

Street Business School’s mission is to end multi-generational poverty by offering a one-time intervention that creates multi-generational change.  They accomplish this by equipping women living in poverty with skills and resources to help them open and sustain micro-businesses and then share these skills with future generations.

Sustainable Development for Kenya‘s Solar for Community Empowerment project works to prove that clean energy has the power to bring about social, economic and environmental stability to rural communities.  They accomplish this by creating community resource centers equipped with tools and materials to assemble lanterns that are then distributed, free of charge, to women and youth who participate in their self-help programs.

We Care Solar promotes safe motherhood and reduces maternal mortality in developing regions by providing health workers with reliable lighting, mobile communication, and medical devices using solar electricity.