The Audacious Project

Congratulations to the entire @TheAudaciousPrj 2024 cohort! Special honors to Skoll Foundation Awardees & Grantees: @Food4Education, @Gmethanehub, and @mapbiomas! Onward and upward towards a brighter future for all! ☝🏼 💫 🥳

Congratulations to TED speaker and @TheAudaciousPrj grantee David Baker, who recently won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on protein design. Watch his 2019 TED Talk here: ted.com/talks/david_ba…

🚨INTRODUCING THE 2024 COHORT🚨 We are thrilled to be a part of the new cohort for Ted's @TheAudaciousPrj. Congratulations to all in the cohort! #AudaciousProject

Introducing @mapbiomas 🌳 Each year, an area of tropical forest the size of Texas is lost. By 2030, MapBiomas plans to map and monitor 70% of the world’s tropical forests across 20 countries using this approach. MapBiomas will achieve their ambitious plan by building a network of local organizations — including NGOs, universities, public institutions and tech startups — that can create the most up-to-date, locally relevant maps using satellite imaging tools like NASA’s Landsat and Google Earth Engine. 🔗 …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/mapbi… #AudaciousProject

Introducing Scaling Safety - @CBPS_Collective @SafeandJustUSA 🏘️ Despite billions spent on US public safety, residents in low-income communities of color are 15 times more likely to be victimized by crime and 3 times less likely to get help than residents in wealthier areas. True public safety begins with community empowerment. Scaling Safety has an Audacious idea to put the "public" back in “public safety,” by accelerating the growth and development of resident-powered prevention programs. Over the next five years, Scaling Safety will provide technical support, flexible resources, and advocacy for resident-powered programs in five major US cities: Austin, Texas; Cleveland, Ohio; Jackson, Mississippi; Miami, Florida; and Tucson, Arizona. The goal is to scale up these programs to double access to help for the most vulnerable residents, reduce violence by up to 50%, integrate these programs within cities' safety ecosystems, and improve life for the over 2.5 million people who live in these areas overall. 🔗 …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/scali… #AudaciousProject

Introducing Project Canary @METR_Evals @RANDCorporation 💻 AI is advancing rapidly, with experts predicting various forms of AI-enabled prosperity and catastrophe. Project Canary is advancing the empirical science of testing for specific risks, to ensure the benefits of AI can be realized. Like a canary in a coal mine, Project Canary will develop methods to alert society to potential AI dangers in time for effective action. This will let society make informed decisions about the direction of this transformative technology. 🔗 …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/proje… #AudaciousProject

Introducing @Inkomoko 💼 Today, there are over 122 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide. With the Audacious Project, Inkomoko will unlock the talent and potential of refugee entrepreneurs through financial backing, business training and economic integration into the local community. By 2030, Inkomoko will reach 335,000 displaced people and local entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan, improving their lives and their communities. 🔗 …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/inkom… #AudaciousProject

Introducing @Gmethanehub 🌏 Global Methane Hub is pulling the emergency brake on global warming through methane mitigation. As part of the Audacious Project, Global Methane Hub is co-ordinating stakeholders worldwide to lower emissions. By targeting three specific sectors — energy, agriculture and waste — they’ll tackle 95% of emissions globally. 🔗 …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/globa… #AudaciousProject

Introducing @TranscendBuilds ✏️ Despite increased investments, average math and reading scores are the same as they were 50 years ago. Transcend tackles this problem by taking schools on “design journeys” — a community-driven process which helps them rethink every aspect of learning, from curriculum and culture to scheduling, facilities and assessments. 🔗 …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/trans… #AudaciousProject

Introducing @EveryCure 💊 Every Cure will use the power of AI to unlock new uses for generic and off-patent drugs, democratizing access to safe and effective treatments for populations that currently lack them. The Audacious idea is to unlock repurposed treatments for 15-25 diseases and alleviate suffering for millions of people worldwide by 2030. 🔗…-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/every… #AudaciousProject

Introducing EAAF 👣 Every day, across the globe, hundreds of people are killed or disappear as a result of government repression, war and internal conflicts, mass migration and climate change – and their families struggle to recover their remains, access truth and justice and reparation. EAAF's Audacious idea is to build lasting forensic systems to identify missing people across two of the world’s most unsafe and unregulated migration routes in Latin America and Nort West-Africa. Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (EAAF) has the technology, tools and expertise to not just conduct forensic investigations in a family-centered way and identify missing people’s remains — but to help build lasting forensic systems in many countries that currently lack them. 🔗Learn more: …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/equip…

Introducing Food4Education @Food4Education 📚   Of the 400 million children on the African continent, 90% lack a minimally appropriate diet, and over half don’t eat at recommended frequencies.     Food4Education transforms children’s lives by providing cost-effective, locally sourced and nutritious meals, allowing school-aged children in Africa to learn, grow and thrive.   🔗Learn more: …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/food4… #AudaciousProject

Introducing Great Barrier Reef Foundation 🌊 Without action, 90% of the world’s coral reefs will die by 2050. The Great Barrier Reef Foundation is pioneering large-scale coral restoration using advanced technology, to protect and restore these vital ecosystems. By 2031, they will restore 50 vital reefs across Australia and the Pacific, planting 1.2 million heat-tolerant corals each year — 30 times the current rate. …-audacious-project-staging.webflow.io/grantees/great… #AudaciousProject

Let’s get to know the 10 Audacious Project 2024 ideas - and the big plans to reach them 👣 @everycure @eaafoficial @food4education @gmethanehub @inkomoko @mapbiomas @RANDcorporation @METR_Evals @cbps_collective @SafeandJustUSA @TranscendBuilds 🔗 blog.ted.com/the-audacious-… #AudaciousProject

🚨INTRODUCING THE 2024 COHORT🚨 We are thrilled to unveil a new cohort for @TEDTalks' The Audacious Project! @everycure @eaafoficial @food4education @gmethanehub @inkomoko @mapbiomas @RANDcorporation @METR_Evals @cbps_collective @SafeandJustUSA @TranscendBuilds #AudaciousProject t.ly/_FlrO

We’re honored to be part of collaborative funding initiative @TheAudaciousPrj’s 2024 cohort. $17M in new funding will support and expand our work empirically assessing the risks of frontier AI systems. More here: metr.org/blog/2024-10-0…

Introducing our BIG idea at Scaling Safety, a joint venture of @CBPS_Collective+ASJ. As part of TED’s @TheAudaciousPrj, we have a bold idea to change the way we change the 🌎. We want to transform US #publicsafety through resident-powered crime prevention. bit.ly/4eNk2I4 #AudaciousProject