2024 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.
Young CA Innovators With Life-saving Technologies Take Top 2024 Westly Prize Awards
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 prizes to young innovators with innovative solutions to community and global issues. Read more
2024 Westly Prize for Young Social Innovators
The Westly Foundation is proud to announce eight finalists for the 2024 Westly Prize for Young Social Innovators — early-stage changemakers dedicated to tackling critical challenges ranging from education and health to connectivity and social equity.
Westly 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 Foundation for Farmlink’s achievements combatting food insecurity and transforming the globe’s high-emission food system.
The Palo Alto-based edtech nonprofit CareerVillage has for years helped provide career guidance to students and people early in their careers.
Coach is slated for closed beta testing this summer, with CareerVillage and its partner nonprofits planning to review feedback from users, educators, parents, and others and begin work on a public version of the AI bot this fall.
Sirum 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 Pill, the frontline home delivery pharmacy powered by SIRUM, is now officially a multi-state operation! Good Pill launched in Illinois earlier this month, expanding services…
2014 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 to help make regenerative ranching easier.
Respond 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”
Westly Prize: Celebrating a Decade of Empowering Young Social Innovators
With more than $1 million dedicated to supporting California change leaders, the foundation has uplifted young innovators over the past 10 years. As it enters a new decade, the foundation continues to empower the next generation of change-makers.
Frontida Records’ offline EHR is announced a United Nations Digital X Solution
2022 Westly Prize Winner Frontida Records is announced as a United Nations Digital X Solution, and continues to redefine healthcare for remote communities with their partner Floating Doctors.