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When Paul O'Hara andNiamh McKenna first met 10 years ago, they were working on " scaling globally smart social enterprises like Coder Dojo, a coding club for kids, and Men's Sheds, a community space for men," as Business Insider puts it.
A decade later, ChangeX had more than 1 million people interacting with the 25,189 projects started from the platform to date.
To fund these projects, ChangeX has launched 141 funds which over the years went from being raised by individuals to being backed by big companies which needed a platform capable of making a difference in multiple countries.
ChangeX offered Microsoft the ability to invest in the local communities where they operated at the scale required by the world's second most valuable public company.
The total number of innovations on offer to people is 182 proven ideas.
"We have found that multinational companies get the most value from what we do because we can scale easily and make a difference in any community where they are," O'Hara says.
ChangeX has supported 294 playgrounds not just in Brazil but in other countries including Mexico, Colombia, Ireland, and Scotland.
"Relatively little money can create new learning opportunities for children to play," O'Hara says.
"It was really satisfying to see children
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