The Audacious Project
These unprecedented times require innovative solutions that can deliver relief to communities in need today. In record time, we’ve identified and channeled funding to an additional cohort of COVID-19 related ideas. From scaling up contact tracing to empowering healthcare workers and providing food aid, these solutions are much-needed contributions to the global recovery and response effort.
The Audacious Project is proud to support Crisis Text Line, Collins Lab and ACEGID, three new grantees from the 2020 cohort, delivering innovative solutions to tackle COVID-19. These projects are both timely and urgently needed and deliver a much-needed response to some of the world's biggest challenges right now.
You have the power to save our oceans, get rural communities out of poverty through farming, or educate 1.6m girls! Join us and be a champion for change in the world, donate to one of the 2019 Audacious Projects!
The Audacious Project is a collaborative approach to researching the biggest ideas in the nonprofit world and then seeking to get them funded, with the potential to create change at a thrilling global scale.
Launched in 2018, The Audacious Project has already proved what humanity can accomplish when bold ideas meet real resources. Housed at TED and supported by The Bridgespan Group, this is a unique partnership between some of the most respected organizations in philanthropy and the public. TED’s curatorial research team scours the world to unearth daring new ideas that could make a measurable difference to our global quality of life, and they investigate potential award recipients whose innovative ideas, with the right support, can produce seismic impact. Every year we research and select the boldest, brightest ideas and work with change-makers to make their initiatives even more audacious. We then present those ideas to the public and an inspiring group of donors who come together to get them launched!
Our goal with the Audacious Project is to make progressive research and philanthropy more collaborative, more inspiring — and more effective.
From the design of the first satellite to combat oil and gas emissions from the Environmental Defense Fund, to the millions in Sub-Saharan Africa enjoying better healthcare because of Living Goods and Last Mile Health's innovative community healthcare expansions, The Audacious Project is empowering researchers, social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders to take on the world’s biggest and most urgent challenges.
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