What Type of Climate Groups Does This Billionaires’ Collaborative Fund?

What Type of Climate Groups Does This Billionaires’ Collaborative Fund?

With its many billionaire donors, The Audacious Project can award game-changing gifts to environmental nonprofits. But can it widen the aperture beyond tech-friendly and market-based solutions?

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Inside The Audacious Project: How the Billionaires’ Funding Collaborative Picks its Winners

Inside The Audacious Project: How the Billionaires’ Funding Collaborative Picks its Winners

The Audacious Project has become one of the largest forces in philanthropy, thanks to its singular talent for appealing to the world’s billionaires. We take an in-depth look at who is backing it, how it works and where the money goes.

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An Audacious Effort to Transform the Foster Care System Gets a Big Funding Boost

An Audacious Effort to Transform the Foster Care System Gets a Big Funding Boost

Think of Us has a bold mission: to transform the foster care system from the ground up. The organization’s approach, which elevates those with lived experience, landed a major haul from The Audacious Project and others.

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Zuckerberg and Chan Closed the Door on Election Funding, But the Story Isn't Over

Zuckerberg and Chan Closed the Door on Election Funding, But the Story Isn't Over

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s unprecedented support for election infrastructure in 2020 has been among their most controversial giving. Though the Facebook royalty aren’t involved, that strand of philanthropy continues.

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How Philanthropy Could Embrace More High-Risk, High-Reward Projects

How Philanthropy Could Embrace More High-Risk, High-Reward Projects

Social change demands high-risk, high-reward work, but philanthropy is all too often risk-averse. Guest contributor Stuart Buck of Arnold Ventures offers a model that encourages funders to take bigger bets.

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Less Neglect, More Progress on Diseases That Affect Over 1 Billion People

Less Neglect, More Progress on Diseases That Affect Over 1 Billion People

Helped along by new donors like Richard Branson and some tech billionaires, the fight against neglected tropical diseases—such as trachoma, which causes blindness—is gaining momentum and scoring more gains.

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The Audacity of TED: New Platform is Moving Big Money, But Does it Get Social Change Right?

The Audacity of TED: New Platform is Moving Big Money, But Does it Get Social Change Right?

The first round of TED’s new philanthropic venture is channeling serious money to worthy causes. Can it get past its fixation on ideas and startup culture to support lasting progress? 

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