Recent News

The J.M. Kaplan Fund reports on innovation trends from 1.300+ submitted ideas and opens funder access to trove of proposals. Read the full press release here.

The New Yorker featured the case of Suny Rodriguez, an asylum seeker from Honduras who, with the help of ASAP, successfully sued the government for the abuses faced by her and her son while being held in family detention. Read about Suny's harrowing story - and the start of Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project - here.

CNN featured Coral Vita's efforts to not only help restore coral reefs - but to make the coral itself more resilient to climate change by exposing coral fragments to higher temperatures in the world's first commercial land-based coral farm. Read the full article here.

Victoria Herrmann, 2017 Innovation Prize awardee and founder of Rising Tides, writes about how climate change poses a threat to cultural heritage in Scientific American.

David Muhammad, a 2017 Innovation Prize awardee and the Executive Director of the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, was interviewed by The Annie E Casey Foundation's Lisa Hamilton. He spoke with Hamilton about how probation works, the impact that our current juvenile justice system has on young people, and what a better system looks like. Listen to the interview on the Casey Foundation's website.

Coral Vita, 2017 Innovation Prize awardees, officially opened the world's first commercial land-based coral farm on Friday, May 31st. They have teamed up with leading coral scientists from Plant a Million Corals Foundation and the Gate Coral Lab, integrating their methods to grow coral up to 50x faster while strengthening their resiliency to climate change. You can learn more about them on their website.

Musings Magazine interviewed Coral Vita about their innovative vision for large-scale restoration of coral reefs. Read the article here.

Dr. Victoria Herrmann was named to Apolitical's list of 100 most influential people in climate policy. Read more about her, and the other leaders listed, click here.

Inside Philanthropy featured The J.M.K. Innovation Prize for its efforts to seek out nascent projects across the United States, not just in the small handful of metropolitan areas that have seen an increased concentration of philanthropic wealth.

Coral Vita was part of the team that won XPRIZE Visioneering, a competition that convenes a select group of leaders and experts to evaluate, prioritize and fund competition designs. As a result of their efforts, there will be a "Coral Survival" XPRIZE that calls for innovations that can scale coral survival 1,000 fold to help replenish our coral reefs. Read more at XPRIZE's website.