We are thrilled to have designed the report for the most recent J.M.K. Innovation Prize!
“Community-based Change Agents Rise Up” features takeaways from this year’s thousand-plus proposals, as well as reflections of our past awardees on their journey as ascendant change agents.
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize supports social entrepreneurs across the United States who are spearheading game-changing solutions to our society’s most urgent challenges. Drawing on three generations of Fund support for early-stage innovations, the ten winning initiatives in 2017 address an array of needs across the Fund’s focus areas of social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation. Each will receive $150,000, paid out over three years, plus a $25,000 bank of funds for project expenses. Whether filling a federal funding gap for places battered by climate change, rebuilding America’s broken juvenile justice system, or aiding vulnerable asylum-seekers, these social innovators are using new technologies, cross-sector collaboration, and even for-profit tools to catalyze change across the country.
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