Brightidea Generator
Each year the Brightidea Generator, which is part of the Brightidea Charitable Campaign Foundation, selects a non-profit organization to support via funding and business services. In addition to donating 1% of the annual revenue, Brightidea further assists the organization through business development, web tools, products, consulting, and other needs the two deem relevant.
As part of the Brightidea commitment to helping make the world a better place - one great idea at a time - many of the organizations selected have been medical, scientific and environmental groups aimed at improving world health, the planet and every individual's overall quality of life.
Most recently, Brightidea partnered with one of the largest independent cancer research organizations in the world, Cancer Research UK, to help fight this dreaded disease.
Campaign highlights of the joint partnership included:
- More than 500 participants
- Four separate and distinct ‘Challenge Areas’
- Community fund-raising initiatives
- National and International events
- Legacy Programs
- Development of online income opportunities
Grand Challenges for Engineering
This year, in addition to the regular Brightidea Generator, the Foundation is pleased to support the National Academy of Engineering “Grand Challenges for Engineering” program. According to the Academy's website:
“Through the engineering accomplishments of the past, the world has become smaller, more inclusive, and more connected. The challenges facing engineering today are not those of isolated locales, but of the planet as a whole and all the planet's people. Meeting all those challenges must make the world not only a more technologically advanced and connected place, but also a more sustainable, safe, healthy, and joyous - in other words, better - place.”
Because Brightidea believes in supporting initiatives aimed at improving society through innovation and scientific advancement, the Foundation has established a program offering discounted or free products and services to help further enable those participating in the NAE Challenge. By utilizing Brightidea tools and technology, participants are better equipped to reach goals, achieve success and thus improve the world - one great idea at a time.
Challenge areas include:
- Make solar energy economical
- Provide energy from fusion
- Develop carbon sequestration methods
- Manage the nitrogen cycle
- Provide access to clean water
- Restore and improve urban infrastructure
- Advance health informatics
- Engineer better medicines
- Reverse-engineer the brain
- Prevent nuclear terror
- Secure cyberspace
- Enhance virtual reality
- Advance personalized learning
- Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
For additional information regarding the NAE and its Grand Challenges for Engineering Program, please visit the NAE website.
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