The Audacious Project
Offers The Audacious Project invitation-only multi-issue funding for social-impact ideas with broad partner backing.
The Audacious Project is a collaborative philanthropic funding initiative housed at TED, operating as an annual cohort model in which approximately ten organisations per year receive large multi-year funding commitments from a consortium of more than 60 donors. Consortium members include the Gates Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Skoll Foundation, MacKenzie Scott, and other major philanthropists.…
Climate, health, education, social justice, breakthrough science, technology for change.
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