| Notes |
Co-Impact was launched in 2017 by Olivia Leland, founding director of the Giving Pledge, with $500 million in initial funding from Giving Pledge co-founders Bill and Melinda Gates; Giving Pledge signatories Romesh and Kathy Wadhwani and Jeff Skoll; New Zealand-born investor Richard Chandler; and the Rockefeller Foundation. Giving Pledge signatories Nandan and Rohini Nilekani, whose EkStep Foundation has served as Co-Impact's technical partner, also recently joined the collaborative — which now includes more than twenty-five philanthropists, foundations, and funders representing more than a dozen countries — as core partners. |