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The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding initiative between TED and non-profits that convenes funders and social entrepreneurs in order to scale solutions to the world's most urgent challenges.cite-ref-1[1] In 2018, The TED Prize was recast as The Audacious Project.

• Details

• Winners

• References

The TED Prize was a prize commissioned by the American media organization TED Conferences. It ran from 2005 to 2017, culminating in a prize amount of $1 million.cite-ref-0-2-0[2] In 2018, The TED Prize was recast as The Audacious Project.

TED described the change as:

a new model to launch big, inspiring ideas with the potential to affect millions of lives. Housed at TED, the Audacious Project brings together a powerful coalition of nonprofit organizations and individual donors with members of the public, allowing them to pool resources and work together in service of change-making ideas. An ambitious scale-up of the TED Prize's mission, The Audacious Project will increase impact by many orders of magnitude.cite-ref-0-2-1[2]

The Audacious Project is supported by The Bridgespan Group, but lists many more organizations as its partners, including Virgin Unite and the Gates Foundation. According to TED, the project has helped participants raise $280m USD in funding.cite-ref-3[3]

Unlike the original TED Prize, The Audacious Project awards a number of different winners each year. The nomenclature has also changed from 'winners' to 'Big Ideas'.

| Year | Big Ideas | Organization |

|---|---|---|

| 2018 | What if we hit the brakes on climate ch… | Environmental Defense Fund |

| | What if a million Black women launched… | GirlTrek |

| | What if we digitally empowered communit… | Living Goods + Last Mile Health |

| | What if we supported millions of Africa… | One Acre Fund |

| | What if we eliminated a disease that ha… | Sightsavers |

| | What if we ended the injustice of autom… | The Bail Project |

| | What if we explored the ocean’s vast tw… | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |

| 2019 | What if science could eliminate racial… | Center for Policing Equity |

| | What if we could empower more than one… | Educate Girls |

| | What if we could harness the power of p… | Institute for Design Protein |

| | What if plants can help slow climate ch… | Salk Institute for Biological Studies |

| | What if we could massively reduce disea… | The End Fund |

| | What if island nations’ debt could be r… | The Nature Conservancy |

| | What if we could eliminate child sexual… | Thorn |

| | What if every child came to school on d… | Upstart Project |

| 2020 | What if we could harness AI to tackle t… | The Collins Lab and MIT Jameel Clinic |

| | Decoding the communication of whales wi… | Project CETI |

| | A global surveillance network to stop t… | ACEGID + Broad Institute |

| | Lifting the world’s poorest people out… | BRAC |

| | Delivering mental health support to any… | Crisis Text Line |

| | Supporting humanitarian response by map… | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team |

| | Supporting millions of African farmers… | One Acre Fund |

| | Leveraging medicine donation to make li… | SIRUM |

cite-note-11. ↑ citerefeabw-editor2020EABW Editor (2020-01-31). "END Fund announces project to Deworm Rwandan children". East African Business Week. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved 2020-02-20.

cite-note-0-22. ↑ "TED Prize". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2020-02-13.

cite-note-33. ↑ "TED raises $280M to help nonprofits battle climate change, online sex abuse and more". TechCrunch. 17 April 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-20.

cite-note-41. "The Audacious Project". The Audacious Project. Retrieved 2020-02-13.

cite-note-52. "Jim Collins receives funding to harness AI for drug discovery". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-11-13.