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The Audacious Project launches is 2024 grantee cohort.

The Audacious Project reveals its 2024 cohort

October 9, 2024

The Audacious Project launches is 2024 grantee cohort.

The Audacious Project reveals its 2024 cohort

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Theresa Fyffe speaks at TED2025 in Vancouver.

A new lifeline for the world's coral reefs

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Sierra Leone Is Battling an Mpox Outbreak. What Happens Next Affects Us All

Theresa Fyffe speaks at TED2025 in Vancouver.

Great Barrier Reef Foundation

A new lifeline for the world's coral reefs

Wawira Njiru, founder and CEO of Food4Education, at a "giga kitchen" in Nairobi, Kenya. (Edwin Ndeke)

Humanitarian aid for Africa is drying up. It’s hard but I see an opportunity to build something better

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Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life.

The New York TImes

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Are Whales Trying to Tell Us Something?

The Harvard Crimson

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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

When Climate Disaster Strikes, Slums Are Vulnerable. Better Maps Help

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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Maps say this place doesn’t exist. But that’s not true

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Scientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm whale language after years of effort

Sperm whales communicate via clicks, which they also use to locate prey in the dark. Illustration by Sophy Hollington

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Global Fishing Watch

A boat went dark. Finding it could help save the world’s fish.

Washington Post

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Introducing the 2023 Audacious Project cohort

Fashion giants vow to buy recycled fibers

Wall Street Journal

Did “Africa’s COP” meet expectations?

One Of the most critical environmental stories to have escaped the headlines

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Global Fishing Watch

‍How China targets the global fish supply

The New York Times

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What’s the best way to help extremely poor people? After 20 years, the evidence is in.

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COVID-19 vaccine with IPD nanoparticles wins full approval abroad

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Innovative Genomics Institute

Can genome editing of common crops fight climate change?

National Geographic

Empowering African youth through education

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Clean Slate Initiative

12 mind-blowing facts about the criminal justice system

The Independent

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How one clinic in Texas explains the threat to contraception

Woodwell Climate Research Center

Donors Pledge $41 Million to Monitor Thawing Arctic Permafrost

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Code For America

Code for America Is Making Public Benefits More Accessible

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Innovative Genomics Institute

Doudna and Banfield introduce microbiome community editing

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

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Glasswing International

Healing From Trauma

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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Approaching The Cliff: A Pivotal Week For Young People Aging Out Of Foster Care

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Drive Electric Campaign

What will it take for electric vehicles to create jobs?

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I Will Never Forget That I Could Have Lived With People Who Loved Me

Voters wait in socially distanced lines while they are checked in by a poll worker before casting their ballots at Edison High School in Minneapolis

Center For Tech and Civic Life

Funding election upgrades is national emergency

Minnesota Reformer

Scientists to decode whale language.

National Geographic

Climate Change, Machine Learning and Whale Songs

NPR: Invisibilia

Drive Electric Campaign

How cities are detoxing transport

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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Volunteer armies map 'invisible' communities hit by coronavirus

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Spurred By A Preventable Death, One Project Has Become A Major Tool To Combat COVID-19

Boise State Public Radio

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

The rise of collaborative mapping for the masses

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Global Fishing Watch

‍The deadly secret of an invisible armada

Alvaro Dominguez

Institute for Protein Design

9 eye-opening facts about antibiotic resistance — and 1 hopeful approach to overcoming it

BRAC Bangladesh

Looking beyond the lowest-common denominator? DFID/FCO merger

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Contact Tracing

Contact tracing programs have to work with local communities to be successful

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Bolstering Africa’s coronavirus detection efforts

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Op Ed: It’s time to invest in community infrastructure

Crisis Text Line

Text Message Crisis Help Line Speeds Up Expansion Amid Pandemic

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Pandemics know no borders: In Africa, regional collaboration is key to fighting COVID-19

World Bank Blog

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A reality check on how devastating it is to keep kids away from schools

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Harvard and MIT researchers are developing a face mask that lights up when it detects the coronavirus

Business Insider

Why Infectious Diseases Like COVID-19 Make Science Move So Fast

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Oklahoma Launches Telemedicine Platform for Rural COVID-19 Guidance

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Scientists wait months for coronavirus research grants. This economist if trying to fix that.

The Washington Post

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What It’s Like to Be a Text Crisis Counselor in the Middle of a Pandemic

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Remote technologies find a role in COVID-19 response

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This new charity offers scientists coronavirus grants in 48 hours

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Massachusetts Expands Contact Tracing For People With COVID-19

Washington Post

World Central Kitchen

José Andrés and his nonprofit aim to reopen hundreds of restaurants while feeding needy people

Washington Post

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World Central Kitchen

Feeding Essential Workers, and Putting Restaurants Back to Work

Lessons From The Frontlines: Preparing A Global Vaccine Workforce

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A group of tech billionaires is funding 'fast grants' of up to $500,000 for COVID-19 research

Business Insider

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Bay Area effort to help restaurants feed hospital workers partners with Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen

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An Unexpected Ally in the War With Bacteria

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Maps reveal where depression, anxiety, and suicide run highest across the US

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NYC non-profit aims to break the poverty pattern in Harlem

Engineering life - synthetic biology and the frontiers of technology

Harvard Magazine

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What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know.

Washington Post

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Researchers Find A Remarkable Ripple Effect When You Give Cash To Poor Families

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The Bail Project

The US is addicted to incarceration. Here's how to break the cycle

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A charity dropped a massive stimulus package on rural Kenya — and transformed the economy

After Hurricane Dorian, The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue

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UK Aid matching donations to Sightsavers

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SDPD to task think tank with assessment of police stop data that could reveal racial bias

The San Diego Union Tribune

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Re-imaging Public Safety

A five-step action plan to reform policing in America

Yale Law School

A Robot With Noodle-like Fingers Helps Handle Soft Jellyfish

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The ‘dawn’ of designer proteins: Biologists build a protein that turns cells on and off

Washington Post

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The computational protein designers

Gene Identified That Will Help Develop Plants To Fight Climate Change

BRAC Bangladesh

Brac to help 21m lift themselves from extreme poverty by 2026

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How data is focusing efforts to educate girls in India

London Business School

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What if you could play a video game that helps find a cure for cancer?

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New initiative to bring vaccination to over 8 million people

The Plan to Grab the World's Carbon With Supercharged Plants

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The Bail Project

How bail effects women

Big gift, big impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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Explore the ocean twilight zone

Oceanus Magazine

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Trachoma elimination moves closer, one year in

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The ocean’s twilight zone may be the key to protecting life on earth

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Register for the first course of the Community Health Academy

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Charity has end of blinding disease in its sights

Environmental Defense Fund MethaneSAT

Satellites become valuable new tool for governments, industry to cut emissions

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Meet GirlTrek, honorees at the 2019 Red Dress Awards

Could a superplant save the planet?

Financial Times

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What we learned from walking in the footsteps of Harriet Tubman

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Environmental nonprofit moves forward on launching its own satellite

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The Bail Project

With California's cash bail system in limbo, Compton pilot program serves as a 'petri dish'

Los Angeles Times

The women of GirlTrek lead a literal movement for Black women

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$105 million fund to eliminate trachoma launched

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TED Radio Hour hacking the law

The Bail Project

Hacking the Law

Robin Steinberg New Yorker

The Bail Project

America's other family separation crisis

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Why we should all consider taking a midlife gap year

Tiana Epps-Johnson TED Talk

Center For Tech and Civic Life

What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century

We are at risk of leaving many behind.

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The Bail Project

How Detroit's lone 'bail disruptor' is trying to reform criminal justice

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