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Housed at TED, The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding platform that encourages the world’s greatest changemakers to dream bigger. We invite visionary leaders to imagine their boldest ideas to solve the world’s most urgent challenges, shape their ideas into viable multi-year plans, and in partnership with a community of philanthropists, unlock the funding to make their ideas real.

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The world's first high-utility virtual cell, an AI-model accelerating medical breakthroughs

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An initiative to close the college-to-career gap for low-income and first-generation college students in the United States

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Imagine Worldwide

A rugged learning solution that empowers children across Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve their full potential

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An initiative to prevent unsafe abortion by removing systemic, legal and social barriers to care

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Plastic Solutions Fund

An ambitious plan to reduce plastic production and foster a reuse-based, circular economy

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A plan to combat lead poisoning at global scale and protect 500 million children

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“Right at Home,” an initiative of Destination: Home

A proven prevention model redefining how the United States confronts homelessness, by acting before it happens

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Solutions for Our Climate’s “Navigate to Clean”

An initiative to transform maritime trade from stern to bow, breaking dependency on fossil fuels

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The Ocean Cleanup

Intercepting 1/3 of river plastic before it reaches oceans

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Stigma-free care empowering adolescent girls in Sub-Saharan Africa against unintended pregnancy, HIV and sexual violence

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Every year we select, nurture and launch a group of big, bold solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges.

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From healthcare and climate change to social justice and education, Audacious is empowering changemakers to dream bigger.

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