Need not be present to win...

There is no end to the prizes/competitions/contests currently underway in philanthropy. Here are a few:

• American Express Members Project
  
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Disruptive Innovations Competition (and their games for health competition)
  
• Social Venture Network Innovation Awards
• HopeLab's RuckusNation - an online competition to get kids moving
  
• X Prize
• Oikos Foundation Case Writing Competition
• Case Foundation Make It Your Own Competition
• Global Giving Film Fest
• PBS/NOW Project Enterprise Contest

My colleagues at Blueprint Research and Design have written about philanthropy and competitions - this work informed several foundation competitions that will roll out in 2007. Our papers are here.

Tags: philanthropy, prizes