Voices for Economic Opportunity

Overview

<p>The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through its Grand Challenges program, has issued a call for ideas designed to support individuals and organizations interested in contributing to the long-term work of correcting mistaken assumptions and improving understanding of poverty through the actual stories of those that experience poverty.</p> <p>The goal of the challenge is to elevate diverse voices that can help broaden the conversation about the issues inhibiting economic mobility and generate deeper awareness and actionable understanding. To that end, grants of $100,000 will be awarded in support of creative, scalable ideas that generate awareness of the structural and historic barriers to economic mobility; communicate that poverty is not just something that happens to other people; and change the predominant misconceptions about poverty in a way that creates the conditions for effective programs and policies to be adopted by the public and private sectors.</p>