A Community Thrives
A Community Thrives is a new approach to social impact programs that was developed through a collaboration across the entire USA TODAY NETWORK. While most initiatives designate funds or give support to great charities, we turned the tables to fund and support great ideas. The entire campaign began with asking America to pitch their creative solutions to solving our communities’ most critical needs, followed by a voting process to select the top 9 ideas that would each receive a portion of a $600,000 prize pool. We received over 800 submissions and the votes are still pouring in by the tens of thousands.