Audacious ideas are transforming the world

The 2021-22 cohort features nine audacious responses to some of the world’s biggest challenges.

Introducing The Audacious Project’s new cohort

Woodwell Climate Research Center

The six-year effort by climate scientists and policy experts aims to fill gaps in knowledge about planet-warming emissions and help affected communities in Alaska

Donors Pledge $41 Million to Monitor Thawing Arctic Permafrost

Code For America

The tech nonprofit reduced the online application time for Minnesotans.

Code for America Is Making Public Benefits More Accessible

Glasswing International

Glasswing International teaches Latin American communities to understand and recover from the impacts of trauma induced by chronic and acute violence.

Healing From Trauma

Drive Electric

Thanks to a coalition of climate activists, organizations and researchers — powered by philanthropy — a cleaner, healthier, more equitable transportation future is now within reach.

An ambitious initiative to accelerate EV adoption.

The Bail Project

TED-Ed explores the history of America's bail system

The problem with the U.S. bail system.

Drive Electric

When President Biden announced his multitrillion-dollar jobs plan in March, it included nearly $175 billion in spending to encourage Americans to buy electric vehicles. The money would help ensure “that these vehicles are affordable for all families and manufactured by workers with good jobs,” the White House wrote at the time.

What will it take for electric vehicles to create jobs?

Center For Tech and Civic Life

Funding election upgrades is national emergency

Project CETI

With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what these aliens of the deep are talking about.

Scientists to decode whale language.

Project CETI

The strange story of an unlikely crew of people who band together to take on one of our largest problems using nothing but whale sounds, machine learning, and a willingness to think outside the box. Even stranger, several of the world's most accomplished scientists seem to think they might have a good idea.

Climate Change, Machine Learning and Whale Songs