Homelessness can feel like an issue that’s too big and complicated to fix, and in many neighborhoods, something we've even learned to walk past. Jennifer Loving, who leads the nonprofit Destination: Home, has spent her entire life proving that mindset is wrong. She shows why we must stop waiting until someone is pushed outside before intervening — and introduces Right at Home USA, proven model helping communities across the US keep people from becoming homeless in the first place, stopping homelessness before it starts. Watch her full TED Conferences Talk: https://lnkd.in/esJi_ib9 #AudaciousProject #TED2026 #RightatHome #StopHomelessnessBeforeItStarts
The Audacious Project
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Collaborative philanthropy for bold ideas
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The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding initiative dedicated to supporting big ideas with the potential to change the world. Housed at TED and powered by the belief that ideas change everything, Audacious leverages a global network of visionary social entrepreneurs and a dedicated community of philanthropic funders to support bold solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges. Audacious encourages the world’s greatest change-agents to dream bigger and helps them shape bold ideas into viable multi-year plans and present those ideas in a compelling way to potential supporters. The goal is to make philanthropy more collaborative, more inspiring — and more effective. Audacious is issue-agnostic and supports grantees to balance audacity and achievability for lasting, systemic impact. Since 2018, Audacious has helped to catalyze more than $8 billion for 70 projects, demonstrating what’s possible when we dream bigger and act together.
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http://www.AudaciousProject.org
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During Climate Week, three Audacious Project grantees joined Devex to share bold solutions to urgent global challenges. Watch all three conversations below: Ipas CEO Dr. Anu Kumar on why reproductive health care is essential to climate resilience 🎥 https://lnkd.in/gtSApTuC Global Fishing Watch CEO Tony Long on using AI and satellite data to bring transparency to our oceans 🎥 https://lnkd.in/eiBMGAts Food4Education founder Wawira Njiru on what it takes to unlock capital for African enterprises 🎥 https://lnkd.in/emeb6Jvs And thank you to Jenni Cardamone for helping bring such great voices to the Devex stage! #ClimateWeekNYC #ClimateAction #GlobalDevelopment
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Join a special TED Talks Daily Book Club conversation on October 16th with Raj Panjabi, physician, TED Conferences speaker, and co-founder of Audacious Project grantee Last Mile Health. In his new book, “Safer: Turning Fear into Action and Crisis into Community” Raj draws on his journey from refugee to frontline health leader. In conversation with host Elise Hu, he'll share what a lifetime of responding to epidemics has taught him about building resilience, and how we can all strengthen our relationships in the face of adversity. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eigVbAfV #LastMileHealth #AudaciousProject #TEDBookClub #TED
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Congratulations to Audacious Project grantee Last Mile Health on accepting the 2026 Hilton Humanitarian Prize! We've long believed in Last Mile Health's vision of a world where no one is out of reach of quality care, and are thrilled to see Raj Panjabi, Lisha McCormick, James Nardella and the LMH team recognized for making it a reality.
Last Mile Health officially accepted the 2026 Hilton Humanitarian Prize, a recognition of the life-saving work of more than 20,000 community health workers bringing care closer to communities across Africa. Selected by the 2026 Prize Jury, Last Mile Health will receive $3 million in unrestricted funding to help expand access to care and improve health outcomes for millions. Last Mile Health CEO Lisha McCormick shared: "This is a Prize not just for Last Mile Health, but really for the community health workers and the frontline health workers that show up day in and day out to do the work and deliver life-saving care." Learn more about Last Mile Health's mission and impact: https://lnkd.in/ew3byzZd
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Every year, up to $11 billion in unopened, unexpired medicine is destroyed, while millions of Americans can't afford their prescriptions. SIRUM, led by Kiah Williams, is closing that gap. They’ve created a system to collect unused, unexpired medicine from pharmacies, manufacturers, nursing homes and individuals, and redistribute it to patients at a price they can afford. Since becoming an Audacious grantee, they've grown from 5 states across the U.S. to 11 and serve more than 850,000 patients, turning donated medicine into a steady, reliable supply for the people who need it most. #AudaciousProject #SIRUM
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Thrilled to see Audacious grantee Wawira Njiru named on the TIME100 Next list for her incredible work through Food4Education! 🎉
Honored to be included on this year’s TIME100 Next list by TIME Building isn’t easy, and being seen isn’t guaranteed. The world doesn’t always expect world-class businesses to be built in Africa. And it certainly doesn’t expect to find one in school feeding. I’m grateful and incredibly proud of everyone at Food4Education who makes recognition like this possible. Thank you, Trevor Noah, for the incredible note. Thank you for seeing us.
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As climate change displaces more people each year, Audacious grantee International Refugee Assistance Project is building the legal pathways they'll need. This week's launch of their Immigration Solutions Accelerator marks an important step toward a U.S. climate mobility agenda shaped by the communities most affected.
Yesterday, IRAP brought together advocates, experts, and partners during Climate Week NYC for “(Re)Setting a U.S. Climate Mobility Policy Agenda” The conversation explored what a forward-looking U.S. approach to climate mobility could look like and how we can build policies that create safer, more accessible pathways for people affected by climate change. Thank you to the organizations that joined us for this important conversation: National Partnership for New Americans Human Rights First HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE Refugees International Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Global Refuge Global Strategic Litigation Council Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) Climate Refugees And thank you to everyone who joined us in New York and online, and to our speakers and partners for sharing their expertise and perspectives. #ClimateWeekNYC
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We champion big ideas for the world's most urgent challenges. And thanks to our partners at Lever for Change, we are able to extend our mission further, connecting even more exceptional organizations to funders who can help them turn vision into impact. Read more below.
The best philanthropy doesn't happen in silos 🤝That's why Lever for Change and The Audacious Project work together to help exceptional organizations reach even more funders. Through our partnership, we regularly share high-potential organizations for consideration and exchange diligence insights, helping ensure that transformative ideas have multiple pathways to funding. By sharing knowledge instead of recreating the wheel, we can move resources more efficiently to the organizations tackling the world's biggest challenges. 🤝 Read the full story to learn how we’re building stronger connections across philanthropy: https://lnkd.in/ee_nyBNv
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This week, Audacious' Managing Director Lucien Chan joined the announcement of Global Partnership for Education's $400 million commitment to advancing global education alongside Audacious grantee Imagine Worldwide. We are proud to support this milestone moment to help ensure that every child has access to quality learning opportunities and the skills they need to thrive. Learn more below. #MultiplyPossibility #FundEducation #AudaciousProject #ImagineWorldwide
Just in: Foundation and private sector partners announce $400 million to advance global education through GPE. Through the GPE Multiplier, these contributions from private sector and foundation partners will go further – helping countries unlock additional financing and expand the resources available to deliver their education priorities. These pledges come at a pivotal moment, on September 23, the #MultiplyPossibility high-level financing event will bring together governments, philanthropic leaders, private sector executives and development partners to mobilize greater investment in education. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4h5yvD1 #FundEducation
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Climate strategist and lawyer Joojin Kim spent years convincing banks across South Korea to stop funding coal, and it worked. Now he’s aiming that same playbook at a new target: maritime shipping, a hidden engine of the global economy — and one of the world’s dirtiest industries. In his TED Conferences Talk, Joojin breaks down how the whole system converges in Asia where 90% of ships are built, and why redirecting finance could transform it into a driver of a clean economy worldwide. Through their Audacious project, his team at Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC) is working to replace fossil fuels with green fuels, accelerate green steel adoption and block new liquefied natural gas carrier orders. Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/eV-brbCS #AudaciousProject #SolutionsForOurClimate