I used to work for an innovations awards trust many years ago, where social projects were rewarded with a cash injection if they had shown proven success measured against set criteria. The beauty of this reward was that the bulk of the money granted was to be used on disseminating information about their success in a bid to replicate it elsewhere. We rewarded community-based projects like feeding schemes, education and skills programmes, to massive civil infrastructure projects and interventions; one year, we even awarded a government hospital our platinum prize because the new manager had…
