The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award 2011 worth $100,000 in prize money is aimed at supporting the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.
Buckminster Fuller Challenge: Program Goals
The Program’s guiding objective is to catalyze wide-spread change in the understanding and approach to solving complex global problems.
To achieve this, the program seeks to:
• Create a rigorous, transformational process for entry in which applicants grapple deeply with a unique set of criteria.
• Promote and disseminate an integrated, comprehensive, systems-based approach to the design of solutions.
• Highlight and reward exemplary strategies which embody this approach.
• Accelerate the implementation of these solutions.
• Promote and disseminate an integrated, comprehensive, systems-based approach to the design of solutions.
• Highlight and reward exemplary strategies which embody this approach.
• Accelerate the implementation of these solutions.
