Funding-Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation - Grand Challenges Explorations; November 12, 2014
Description
The Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting applications
for Round 14 of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, an accelerated
grant program that encourages bold approaches aimed at improving the lives of
the world’s poorest people. Anyone — students,
scientists, entrepreneurs — with a transformative idea is invited
to apply.
Initial
grants of $100,000 are awarded twice a year. Successful projects have the
opportunity to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million. Topics for Round
14 of the initiative are 1) enabling universal acceptance of mobile money
payments; 2) reducing childhood deaths from pneumonia; 3) reducing malaria
transmission by mosquitoes; 4) supporting new mosquito-control approaches; 5)
measuring brain development and gestational age; and 6) integrating
community-based interventions.
Since
its launch in 2008, the program has funded more than nine hundred and ninety
grants in over fifty countries. The program welcomes proposals from a broad
spectrum of contributors and encourages cross-disciplinary approaches. The
Gates Foundation and an independent group of reviewers will select the most
innovative proposals, with grants to be awarded within approximately four
months of the proposal submission deadline.
Closing
Date: November 12, 2014
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