Vicki Purewal
Welcome to the Centre for Challenge prizes blog. Here you will find updates on the centre as well as comment on the general challenge prizes landscape.
Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation once said: "Solutions to many of the world's most difficult social problems don't need to be invented. They need only to be found, funded and scaled." She's right.
15.03.2013The recent Giving Challenge Finalists Residential was an opportunity to bring the Ageing Well and Waste Reduction Challenge prize Finalists together for the first time.
12.03.2013The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. So said Thomas Malthus at the end of the 18th century, and he can be forgiven for predicting global apocalypse, given that population growth looked to be accelerating very rapidly when compared with food production.
21.02.2013The rise in our ageing population is one of the most significant social challenges we face. By 2025, half the UK adult population will be aged 50 or over. This profound demographic shift will increase the numbers of people affected by social isolation and ill health.
20.02.2013Globally we waste two billion tonnes of food a year, according to Waste Not Want Not, a report out today from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
10.01.2013
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