Brighter Planet

The following is an excerpt about the Financial Times Social Innovation Award.  To read more, click here: Brighter Planet and here Earth Times

The Project Fund, our community-powered monthly grant program for grassroots climate projects, has gone viral. The idea is simple: anybody can submit a grant proposal, and anybody can vote to decide which project will win the grant. Our goal in launching it six months ago was to help communities that lack access to seed money turn their good ideas into real-world solutions to climate change.