Six months ago, the Google Impact Challenge (GIC) asked Kenyan, Nigerian, and South African social innovators for big and bold ideas to drive community impact and more than 5,000 submissions were received across the continent.
From the pool of submissions, 36 local nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs across Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa stood onstage and pitched their ideas to grow economic opportunity in their countries and beyond to a panel of expert judges. 12 total finalists were selected as winners by our judges and three “People’s Choice” awardees were announced after more than 200,000 public votes were tallied, the highest in any Impact Challenge globally.
The Winners from each country are:
Winners will receive a $250,000 grant from Google.org, while finalists will receive a $125,000 grant – $6M in new grant funding across the continent.
