Grand Challenges: Background, Impact, and Implications
On every side, wicked problems demand a response–but what? How? Grand Challenges hold an answer. Do you hear it?
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Seth Kahan on Big Change
The First Annual Stop Stigma Together Summit is Coming to Salt Lake City This Summer
Stop Stigma Together is a crucial Touchstone Event to end the stigma against mental illness and substance use disorder.
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The First National Summit to End Stigma: You’re Invited!
Learn how this Grand Challenge is scaling exponentially for maximum national impact to reduce mental health stigma together.
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Creating a Social Movement? Implement the Plan
Implementing the Plan is incredibly exciting because it’s where the rubber meets the road. It creates the impact of a Grand Challenge.
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A Grand Challenge Design Summit Unites Participants, Catalyzes Thrust
A Design Summit has insularity. The intent is to create a time away from day-to-day life where a new movement can be launched.
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Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation Challenge Five Years In
America’s 4 million registered nurses are suffering. Their health is worse than the average American in every dimension except smoking.
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Want to Drive Change? Recognize Interdependencies
Wicked problems are complex system problems that demand interventions and the Grand Challenge methodology is a means of developing them.
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Enmeshed in Systems? Change the Gears
The world is burning and churning; problems are everywhere. They are formidable because the gears mesh on many levels, keeping multiple systems entrained.
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Shatterproof Leads the Charge in Eradicating Addiction Stigma Across America
Gary Mendell started Shatterproof to change the way addiction is viewed in America. This is a real-world, real-time state and community-based example of the Collective Impact model.
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Ganesha
The four-armed, elephant-headed god of the Hindu pantheon is the remover of obstacles and the bearer of good fortune. The wooden sculpture pictured accompanied Laura and me on our first trip to India 12 1/2 years ago when we went to meet and retrieve our newly adopted daughter, Ruchi. In the interim, he has lived
