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Google will contribute roughly £3.2m to 10 British charities that participate in the company’s Impact Challenge. The money will be given to UK nonprofits to develop and implement ideas meant change lives for the better throughout the world, ITPRO reports.
The ten charities chosen will each be given £200,000 in the Impact Challenge, an initiative from Google Giving developed to to inspire and facilitate innovation within the world of nonprofits as a way to do more good, faster. Of the ten chosen, one will be shortlisted by the public, while another three will be listed by a panel of expert judges. Each of these organizations will see their prize fund increased to £500,000.
In addition to funding, Google will provide mentoring for all 10 organizations in tandem with Nesta, an innovation charity. The charities run the gauntlet of charitable aims, from technological innovations, to curing social ills, and even biology research. Google and Nesta are looking to mentor charities that are looking to tackle an array of social issues but all look to, “To make a better world, faster.”
“We hope in the future to continue developing and supporting the charity and community sector to embrace digital technology and use it to create far more social impact at even greater scale,” Nesta said.
The organizations represented at the Impact Challenge cover a range of causes. Among those firms that have been shortlisted is Kew Gardens, a group looking to eliminate the threat of malaria around the world through the use of wearable acoustic sensors that detect mosquitoes. The Royal National Institute of Blind People develops smart glasses to help those with the sight impaired take advantage of what little sight the do possess. WeFarm helps geographically isolated farmers from all over the world the chance to connect with others and access crowdsourced data.
“Google’s Impact Challenge shows that innovation is crucial to success,”said panel judge Peter Jones, “You can’t stand still…These are non-profits doing great things that have a real impact on society.”
The Royal National Institute of Blind People is developing smart glasses to help those with limited vision make use of the little sight they have, the St Giles Trust has created an app that will allow for ex-offenders to be rehabilitated and WeFarm’s initiative is to help farmers in remote locations across the world connect with others via crowdsourced information.
Judge Peter Jones said: “After an inspiring process, we’ve unearthed ten exceptional projects from ten exceptional charities.
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