- TED has launched the $ 250 million Audacious Project, an annual initiative to back world-changing ideas.
- Funders include The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Dalio Foundation, the Skoll Foundation, and Virgin Unite.
- Dr. Raj Panjabi, CEO of Last Mile Health, is one of the first recipients.
Dr. Raj Panjabi is probably the last person to ever get the $ 1 million TED Prize — a sum of money given at the annual ideas conference to make someone’s big, world-changing wish a reality. It’s not that the prize given to Panjabi, a physician at Harvard Medical School and co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health, a nonprofit that works with community health workers to expand healthcare access in remote areas, was somehow unsuccessful.
If anything, it was too successful. Panjabi’s dreams were larger than a $ 1 million prize.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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