{"id":"5ca68a08-4500-40a8-afc3-d2e5efb4aff6","short_name":"hgc","human_readable_name":"Grand Challenges Canada","dataset_count":1,"created_date":"2025-12-01T11:39:00+00:00","data_portal_url":"","default_licence_id":"other-open","description":"Grand Challenges Canada’s vision is: A world in which innovation accelerates the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. Our mission is: To catalyze innovation that saves and improves the lives of the most vulnerable in Canada and low- and middle-income countries.\n \nGrand Challenges Canada is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. We are funded by a variety of governments and organizations (“Funding Partners”) and we primarily fund innovators in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and Canada. The bold ideas Grand Challenges Canada supports integrate science and technology, social and business innovation – known as Integrated Innovation®.\n \nOne of the largest impact-first investors in Canada, and with a feminist investment approach, Grand Challenges Canada has supported a pipeline of over 1,000 innovations in 95 countries. Grand Challenges Canada estimates that these innovations have the potential to save up to 1.6 million lives and improve up to 35 million lives by 2030.\n","exclusions_policy_url":"","first_publication_date":"2020-12-03T21:04:00+00:00","hq_country":"CA","organisation_identifier":"CA-CRA_ACR-811793611","organisation_type":"22","region":"","reporting_source_type":"primary_source","website":"https://www.grandchallenges.ca/"}