Notes
1 Kate Torgovnick May, “Announcing Our 2016 TED Prize Winner: Satellite Archaeologist Sarah Parcak,” TED, November 9, 2015.
2 Awards, Honors & Prizes, 36th edition, Gale Research Inc., 2015.
3 GivingUSA Foundation, “Giving USA 2010: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2009,” Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, 2010.
4 “And the Winner Is: Capturing the Promise of Philanthropic Prizes,” McKinsey & Company, 2009. p. 16.
5 Ibid., p. 18.
6 Ibid., p. 77.
7 Lynn Taliento, “Crowdsourcing Social Impact,” Huffington Post, October 4, 2012 (updated December 4, 2012).
8 Home page of Ansari X Prize website, http://ansari.xprize.org
9 “Energy Department Announces Finalists Vying for $2.25 Million Wave Energy Prize,” US Department of Energy, March 1, 2016.
10 “What Is the Asteroid Grand Challenge?” NASA, March 15, 2015.
11 “And the Winner Is,” p. 17.
12 Transcribed by the author from a video produced internally by the Children’s Prize.
13 Mayur Patel, “Why Open Contests Work,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, September 3, 2013.
14 “Deloitte & XPRIZE,” X Prize website, http://www.xprize.org/about/foundationpartners- sponsors/Deloitte
15 “Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity,” World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, 2015.
16 “Mojave Aerospace Ventures Wins the Competition That Started It All,” Ansari X Prize website, http://ansari.xprize.org/teams
17 Kevin Starr, “Dump the Prizes,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, August 22, 2013.
18 Rich Cohen, “Contest Philanthropy at the Council on Foundations: A Troubling Dynamic.” Nonprofit Quarterly, March 23, 2015.
19 Robert Lee Hotz, “The Science Prize: Innovation or Stealth Advertising?” The Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2009.
20 Maria Mottola, Gail Nayowith, and Jon Pratt, “Nobody Needs a ‘Shark Tank’ in Philanthropy,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 2, 2015.
Renya Reed Wasson is a consultant to several nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia area, and recently she served as global philanthropy impact specialist at the
Children’s Prize Foundation. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree at the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. Wasson is an economist who has held faculty positions at Villanova University and Bryn Mawr College.
