“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.” – Plato
Congratulations to the organizers and innovators of The Rockefeller Foundation Storytelling Challenge. With two $50K prizes available, the RFSC was a closed-door challenge with the goal of inspiring non-profit grantees of The Rockefeller Foundation to generate story products about the efforts of their organizations and the people they've impacted. It launched in February and closed last Wednesday with a total of 200 entrants.
The RFSC was a full-service challenge for HeroX, which handled all innovator requests, the creation of promotional content and took a hands-on approach to seeing this challenge through to fruition. We were proud to have been involved in this effort to share inspirational stories of everyday heroism.
Consuming the stories produced by mainstream media makes it very easy to take on a negative or shallow view of the world. Having looked over all of the submissions to the RFSC, it is obvious to me that the world is not as mainstream media depicts it. There are heroes everywhere, each improving a little pocket of our planet, and inspiring others do the same.
The recipients of the two RFSC prizes will be announced on June 23, 2015, on the RFSC challenge page linked above.
To launch your own challenge, click the Launch button at the top of this page.
