Dreaming Bigger: Annual TED Prize Raised to One Million Dollars

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Dreaming Bigger: Annual TED Prize Raised to

One Million Dollars

PR Newswire

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 27, 2012

- In 2013, the TED Prize Will Go to One Visionary Leader with an Inspirational

Wish

- Nominations Open Today for Individuals Who Can Inspire Collaborative Action

EDINBURGH, Scotland

,

June 27, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- TED, the nonprofit

devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, today opened nominations for a TED Prize

that calls on remarkable people to dream bigger. The annual prize, formerly

$100,000

, is now upped to one million dollars – giving an exceptional individual

the chance to conceive and launch a high-impact project. The winner will have

the support of the TED and TEDx community in executing their wish.

"This is a chance for someone to dream up a wish that inspires and engages

people around the globe,"

said Chris Anderson, Curator of TED

. "We invite

extraordinary people, probably backed by an existing organization, to submit

imaginative ideas for large-scale collaboration. With

one million dollars

in seed

funding, and the TED community's support, the winner will have the capacity to

launch something truly breath-taking."

The TED Prize is a forward-looking prize awarded to individuals from any field

who are able to inspire collaborative action. Winners are likely to have already

demonstrated significant achievement upon which the prize wish can build.

Previous recipients have used the TED Prize, and support of the TED

community, to launch powerful projects. These include mass recruitment for a

global campaign to fight poverty (Bono), one of the largest global participatory

art projects (JR), inviting citizen scientists to help search for life on other planets

(Jill Tarter), creating a movement to help protect the world's oceans (Sylvia

Earle), and the sharing of citizen-driven projects to upgrade cities around the

globe (the City 2.0).

"Brilliant visionaries have a unique opportunity to dream of a world-changing

wish that at one point may have seemed unreachable, but now – with

one

million dollars

and the support of the TED community – can be done,"

said

Lara Stein, Director of TEDx

. "And with TEDx, we have a remarkable

community that is eager to help make the TED Prize recipient's wish a reality.

We are incredibly excited about this new phase of the TED Prize, and are ready

to dream bigger."

Individuals can self-nominate or nominate someone else; every self-nomination

should include a proposal for a world-changing and achievable wish. The

combination of a higher prize amount, with the ability to include a wish with the

nomination, is designed to encourage creative proposals from a wide range of

individuals and organizations.

"The intention is that that the

one million dollar

award will allow the basics of a

project to be funded and implemented quickly, making it easier to leverage

support from numerous other individuals and organizations,"

Anderson

added

.

The deadline for nominations is

August 31, 2012

. The winner will be selected in

the fall of 2012 by a jury drawn from leading members of the TED community,

and will reveal his or her wish, at TED2013 in

Long Beach, California

on

February 27, 2013

.

For details on how to nominate, visit www.tedprize.org.

Learn more about the TED Prize and its history at www.tedprize.org.

About the TED Prize

The first TED Prize was awarded in 2005, born out of the TED Conference and a

vision by the world's leading entrepreneurs, innovators, and entertainers to

change the world – one wish at a time.

The original prize:

$100,000

and the TED community's range of talent and

expertise. What began as an unparalleled experiment to leverage the

resources of the TED community has evolved into an ambitious effort to spur

global-scale change.

From Bono's the ONE Campaign ('05 recipient) to Jamie Oliver's Food

Revolution ('10 recipient) and JR's Inside Out Project ('11 recipient), the TED

Prize has helped to combat poverty, take on religious intolerance, improve

global health, tackle child obesity, advance education, and inspire art around

the world.

In 2012, Lara Stein, who oversees the global network of independent TEDx

events, assumed management of the TED Prize reflecting the fact that the

thousands of TEDx communities around the world are among the most active

parts of TED and are ideally positioned to add value to TED Prize wishes.

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