Source: Skoll Foundation | United Nations Foundation
The Skoll Foundation and the United Nations Foundation announced the winners of a unique set of grants—totaling US$1 Million—that will enable partnerships between social entrepreneurs and United Nations agencies, funds, and programs designed to drive impactful social innovations.
This first-time grants application process encouraged Skoll Awardees to partner with UN agencies. This pairing combines the expertise of the world's most successful social entrepreneurs with the multinational scale of UN agencies' work.
Health Care Without Harm, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the secretariat of the UN Interagency Task Team on Sustainable Procurement in the Health Sector, will collaborate to drive the procurement of sustainable health care products across the UN system, representing US$3.4 billion in annual health care purchasing. The grant will be used to develop tools to guide procurement of safer alternatives to hazardous chemical products in order to protect health care workers, patients, communities, and the environment.
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