One Acre Fund is honored to announce that we are the recipients of a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. This three-year, $765,000 award will allow us to quadruple our program size and serve roughly 100,000 farm families.

“The Skoll Foundation recognizes the best, early-stage organizations in the world. Our team is delighted to be recognized this way. One Acre Fund has the ambition to become the largest and most effective organization serving subsistence farmers in the world, and this is an important milestone on that path,” said founder Andrew Youn.

“Andrew is a tremendous addition to the community of Skoll entrepreneurs and someone who has demonstrated those key characteristics of a successful social entrepreneur: inspiration, creativity, direct action, courage and fortitude,” said Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation. “Like all the organizations in our portfolio, One Acre Fund is tackling a complex social problem with a sustainable, scalable solution. We believe their work has the potential for transformational benefit to the area of subsistence farmers, and we’re honored to support their commitment to driving change on this difficult challenge.”

Andrew Youn will accept the award at a special ceremony on April 15 at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University. One Acre Fund will participate in the three-day World Forum along with over 800 attendees from the social entrepreneurship community.