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The Audacious Project supports big ideas to drive change around the world’s most pressing challenges. Today, this innovative funding initiative, housed at TED, announces its new slate of projects for 2024, which are as bold as ever – from an idea to repurposing generics a lot of to reach the 300 million people worldwide who lack viable treatments, to a new initiative that will evaluate AI systems for dangerous capabilities for edition.
The Audacious Project encourages the world’s biggest changemakers to dream bigger than they can imagine – then helps turn their ideas into achievable multi-year plans and launch them with some of the biggest names in philanthropy. Cumulatively, more than $725 million has been raised to support these projects, which now have the resources to begin work.
The 2024 cohort includes:
- Argentinian forensic anthropology team (EAAF), which will build sustainable forensic systems to help identify victims of human rights abuses, including missing migrants and victims of wars and authoritarian regimes.
- Any remedythat will use the power of AI to unlock new uses for generic and off-patent medicines, democratizing access to safe and effective treatments for the 300 million people who currently don’t have them.
- Food4Educationthat will help African schoolchildren learn, grow and thrive by providing cost-effective, locally sourced and nutritious meals every day to one million students in Kenya and another two million in two other African countries through technical advisory support – while creating jobs for the local population. communities.
- Global methane hubthat will coordinate stakeholders worldwide to reduce emissions of this dangerous greenhouse gas by 35% by targeting the three sectors responsible for 95% of man-made greenhouse gases. emissions worldwide: energy, agriculture and waste.
- Great Barrier Reef Foundationwhich will begin with large-scale coral restoration on vital reefs in Australia and the Pacific, using new seeding techniques to more efficiently deploy heat-tolerant corals in oceans and including traditional owners.
- Originthat will unlock the talent and potential of more than 300,000 forcibly displaced people by offering them financing, training and connections to the markets from which they are typically isolated – demonstrating that entrepreneurship can be a path out of poverty for millions of displaced people.
- MapBiomasthat will map and monitor 70% of the world’s tropical forests in 20 countries, helping to stop activities like slash-and-burn agriculture and illegal logging, which damage forests and release the carbon they store.
- Project Canarya collaboration between METR and RAND, which will develop and deploy rigorous security assessments for cross-border AI systems to address potential threats before they are released.
- Scale safetya joint venture between the Community Based Public Safety Collective (CBPSC) and the Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ), which will provide much-needed support to citizen-driven prevention programs that break cycles of violence, demonstrating that these programs are an essential part of public safety.
- Transcendthat will transform schools across the U.S. by supporting school communities to identify, develop and implement new approaches to school – ultimately leading to extraordinary and equitable outcomes for their students.
“This new cohort will present their ideas and visions on stage at upcoming TED conferences – including TED Next, TED2025 and TED Countdown – and their TED Talks will then appear online,” said Anna Verghese, executive director of The Audacious Project. “They join The Audacious Project’s existing portfolio of 49 projects, which has raised more than $5.9 billion dollars has been catalyzed to support the visions of these projects.”
“It’s so exciting to see these inspiring visions get funding at this scale,” said Chris Anderson, co-founder and head of TED at Audacious. “The brilliance and determination of these organizations, combined with the generosity, vision and collaboration of our donors, is why Audacious was founded. I can’t wait to see these projects come to life.”
