Westly Prize: Celebrating a Decade of Empowering Young Social Innovators
2023 marks the 10th Westly Prize cohort. More than $1 million in Westly Prize awards have been made to date.
View ArticleRespond Crisis Translation Warns of Limitations for AI Machine Translation
2022 Westly Prize winner Respond Crisis Translation was featured in an interview with with Andrew Deck, author of “AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims”, and PBS News Hour journalist,...
View Article2014 Westly Prize Winner Innovating on Regenerative Practices for Ranchers
Grassroots Carbon Public Benefit promotes regenerative ranching by providing a way for ranchers to get paid for carbon stored in their soil and connects them to carbon buyers. They also provide tools...
View ArticleSirum and Good Pharmacy Embark on Multi-State Expansion
2012 Westly Prize winner Kiah WIlliams has expanded SIRUM to 7 of the top 10 long-term care pharmacy companies, including PharMerica, growing partnerships to 75 locations donating through SIRUM. Good...
View ArticleThe Palo Alto-based edtech nonprofit CareerVillage has for years helped...
Together with CareerVillage, the coalition behind Coach—a group that includes Year Up, known for its job training program, AVID, Mentor California, and the San Francisco Unified School District—is...
View ArticleWestly Prize Alumni Making Headlines
Aiden Reilly and James Kanoff (Westly Prize 2021), co-founders of The Farmlink Project, were among three 2023 Goalkeepers Global Goals Award Winners named last month by the Bill & Melinda Gates...
View Article2024 Westly Prize for Young Social Innovators
Westly Foundation has announced eight finalists for the 2024 Westly Prize for Young Social Innovators. Each will advance to compete for $145,000 in unrestricted funding — including three top awards of...
View ArticleYoung CA Innovators With Life-saving Technologies Take Top 2024 Westly Prize...
The Westly Foundation announced the winners of the 2024 Westly Prize for Young Social Innovators on January 21. Each winner received $40,000. Since 2012, the foundation has awarded over $1 million in...
View Article2024 Westly Prize Winners Announced
The Westly Foundation announced this year’s winners of the Westly Prize for young innovators, three grand prize winners were chosen out of hundreds of applicants. The foundation created the Westly...
View ArticleAftif Javed, co-founder of Tarjimly and a 2019 Westly Prize winner, shares...
Tarjimly, a nonprofit described as “Uber for translators,” aims to help asylum seekers clear that hurdle. Through a new artificial intelligence partnership, Tarjimly trains outside large language...
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