Through July 18, enter an open source competition to identify "Disruptive Innovations in Health and Health Care: Solutions People Want," a competition funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio and run in collaboration with Changemakers, an initiative of Ashoka that promotes enterprising solutions to social problems.
The Changemakers unique, open source competition platform provides a more dynamic and participatory means for the Pioneer Portfolio to engage innovators. Through July 18, entrants post their ideas on the Changemakers site, where a global network of social and private sector entrepreneurs gather and provide feedback and comments that the whole community can review.
A panel of judgesincluding Margaret Laws, director of the California HealthCare Foundation's Innovations for the Underserved program; Jason Hwang, Harvard Business School Fellow at Innosight; Sonal Shah, Global Economic Development, Google.org; and Nancy Barrand, RWJF senior program officerwill narrow the entry pool to 12 finalists. The Changemakers network will then vote on three winners, each of whom will receive $5,000 awards from Changemakers.
In addition, RWJF's Pioneer Portfolio will review competition entries and has up to $5 million available to support ideas that show potential for far-reaching impact.
We hope you will take part in this exciting opportunity either by submitting your entry for disruptive transformation, sharing your thoughts on the competition topic, and/or reviewing and responding to already-posted ideas. Entry guidelines, conversation threads and additional details are available at http://changemakers.net/en-us/competition/disruptive.
More information from the RWJF blog entry at: http://rwjfblogs.typepad.com/pioneer/2007/04/back_in_january.html
An open source competition to identify disruptive innovations in healthcare
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Posted: Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 - 12:41 pm EDT
The disruptive innovations contest at Changemakers.net is nearing its end. I encourage anyone who is interested in the process of disruptive innovations to go to the webpage and vote for their 3 favorite innovations.
Personally, I work at UCLA and am part of the group sponsoring the Family Coaching Clinics proposal and would love to win some extra votes. To be honest, however, this competition unto itself is a fantastic example of a disruptive innovation in the grant writing and winning process in health care and I encourage everyone to participate regardless of whether you vote for our proposal or not.
For more information on the UCLA proposal go to www.gccf.ucla.edu.
Thanks,
Eric Rice, PhD
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