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Racial Equity 2030 was born in a unique moment of urgency. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation sought to honor its 90th anniversary while building on its longstanding commitment to racial justice. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with uprisings for racial justice that began in the United States and spread across the globe, laid bare the inequities of health, wealth, and opportunity around the world. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recognized that meeting the demands of the moment, while also transforming the status quo, would require big, bold, and new ideas – and opening up to organizations that may previously have fallen outside the bounds of traditional American grantmaking.
We designed a challenge that was among our largest – ultimately exceeding 100&Change in its participation. The application was open to organizations of all types and all sizes, from anywhere in the world, led by teams guided by lived experience and led by communities closest to the issue. This required thinking carefully about how to communicate the goals of the challenge, given that racial equity has specific connotations within the United States, but may have different implications in other parts of the world. In its global context, Racial Equity 2030 ultimately sought to advance equity within hierarchies, structures, policies, systems and practices of dehumanization that perpetuate disparities for racial and ethnic groups. Depending on local conditions, barriers to that vision could be rooted in perceived racial difference and/or in oppression tied to ethnicity, caste or economic injustice.
Emphasizing that this challenge was an opportunity to take risks and innovate, we also invited communities to put forward early-to-mid stage ideas. Formal studies showing success were not required - applicants could instead share observations and other indicators of change as defined by their community that gave them confidence their ideas would work.
With racial equity attracting such broad interest from around the globe – more than 1,400 eligible applications were submitted from more than 70 countries – the Peer Review process offered a particularly exciting opportunity for exchange and learning. However, managing such a large field of participants was not without its challenges. We scheduled additional informational and training webinars throughout the process and allocated considerable time to supporting participants with email and phone reminders, as well as technical assistance.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation and finding innovative solutions to increasing clean energy efficiency are what's needed to meet New York State's CLCPA goals. I congratulate the winners of the New York Clean Transportation Prizes program for their creative ideas and their commitment to New York State to help ensure a cleaner environment for our State's future.
We are proud to have partnered with state agencies, innovators, and utilities to support solutions that are at the forefront of overcoming transportation barriers in underserved communities. These replicable solutions represent the best in innovative transportation and highlight how we as policy implementers, innovators, and community partners can work together to help increase clean transportation options across the Empire State.
Through the Clean Transportation Prizes program, grand prize awardees created forward-thinking projects that reflect critical community input to address transportation gaps, help foster local clean energy jobs, and reduce pollution in the areas that need it most.
The Contractor management has been exceptional and extremely responsive to the needs of the dynamic and changing challenge environment. Management has been very proactive interacting with our management, contracting team, customer owners, and challenge leads through regularly scheduled telecoms and discussion. All the interaction was done in a timely, respectful, and conscientious manner that facilitated an excellent working relationship.
Across the globe, oceans, marine ecosystems and global fishing economies are severely impacted by overfishing and illegal fishing. National Geographic is pleased to launch this competition to identify and elevate solutions that help ensure healthy fisheries and, more broadly, a planet in balance.
We have worked hand-in-hand with our trusted partner Carrot on all of our competitions, from $10 million to $100 million, covering topics from racial and gender equity to economic development and climate change. Our teams have worked together to create a large-scale award process that provides seamless experiences for clients and applicants alike.
The platform that Carrot designed and built for us supported over 2,000 registrations with more than 22,000 individuals from 174 countries. We couldn’t be happier with the support and service we’ve received.
Carrot helped us design, develop, and manage a global competition to engage front-line healthcare workers. Together, we built an online community that proposed creative new models of intervention around the world. From start to finish, the Carrot team guided us through the process.
Carrot's team is professional, friendly, and always available to provide necessary guidance. They created an exciting competition that sparked new and innovative projects for economic development in our City.
We have worked hand-in-hand with our trusted partner Carrot on all of our competitions, from $10 million to $100 million, covering topics from racial and gender equity to economic development and climate change. Our teams have worked together to create a large-scale award process that provides seamless experiences for clients and applicants alike.
Game-changing ideas with unique approaches and solutions.
Solutions that made it through multiple rounds of evaluation.
Subject matter experts that review and give feedback to all valid applications.
Participating countries represented through the solutions submitted.
Submitting valid applications that quite literally change the world.
Finding the best solutions that fit the competition's requirements.
$1M to strengthen infrastructure and hazard mitigation solutions and build a safer, more equitable Southeast Louisiana for the next 100 years.
Awarding $1 million to disrupt the criminal justice system and build a world beyond mass incarceration.
Seeking solutions to assist cities experiencing chronic economic distress with leveraging innovative ideas to create economic development proposals and plans.
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