Ashoka Grant

Organization - Ashoka
Grant Amount - $2,500,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - in support of bringing to scale its Changemakers Initiative, which uses an open source model - "collaborative competitions" - to find solutions to social problems around the world


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