We invite you to participate as part of the Changemakers global online "open source" community that is competing to surface the best solutions to pressing social problems. As solutions are submitted to this website, we invite you to collaborate with other community members to review and refine them, to vote for the best entries, and to eventually help implement a solution if you wish.
Each competition on Changemakers includes the following elements: a mosaic of solutions, a framework for understanding the problem and its solutions, an innovation awards competition that surfaces and identifies the best innovation solutions, and opportunities for online discussion and collaboration.
The "Health for All" Mosaic—A Useful Tool
The mosaic of solutions is good place to start in this edition because it provides an overarching framework for understanding the issue of developing innovative strategies for ensuring health for all. It includes three of the key factors that prevent health solutions from reaching all citizens; four fundamental innovative principles that have emerged from the work of social entrepreneurs; and 21 examples of solutions that have the potential to become a new generation of best practices. They are placed on each of the squares of the mosaic according to the principle they use and the factor they are addressing.
The mosaic is a tool that demonstrates how the collective impact of these innovative solutions is greater than the sum of their individual parts. As a member of the Changemakers community, you can now refine and expand the mosaic by submitting solutions to the innovation awards competition and through online discussion. Together, we can use the mosaic to make connections, create synergies, identify emerging trends and patterns, and find and fill gaps in the field.
Changemakers Innovation Award Competition
This Changemakers Innovation Award Competition provides an opportunity for organizations to submit their innovative strategies for ensuring health for all. Members of the Changemakers online community (which includes representatives of funding organizations) review the competition entries, making suggestions and asking questions through the online review discussions. The winners of the awards competition will be selected through online voting from a slate of finalists chosen by a panel of judges. Three winners will be elected.
Online Discussion and Collaboration
You can participate in an online discussion that helps organizations refine their proposed solutions and advance thinking about how to create market-based strategies that address low-income consumers.
Investor Advisory
Changemakers offers an Investor Advisory that is a product of the entire competition process and is based on the best insights contributed by discussion participants regarding how investment in the sector can be most effectively targeted.
Kris Herbst, Web Editor
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