Carrot, the competition-platform specialist, congratulates the MacArthur Foundation and the Sentinel project for their landmark $100 million award to prevent pandemics. This moment marks a powerful validation of the competition model — one that Carrot has championed for years — as a vehicle for driving large-scale, real-world change.
By selecting Sentinel through the 100&Change competition, the MacArthur Foundation signals its confidence that bold, ambitious ideas — backed by rigorous processes and transparent competition — can deliver durable impact. The award will empower Sentinel to build an outbreak-surveillance framework led by local communities and scaled globally, reinforcing the importance of innovation, equity and trust in the public-health system. MacArthur Foundation
Jaison Morgan, CEO of Carrot, said:
“We congratulate the MacArthur Foundation and Sentinel for this extraordinary milestone. This award proves what our clients see every day: that when you bring together competition, rigorous evaluation and community-led execution, you unlock solutions that matter. At Carrot, we’re proud to support the ecosystem of innovation that makes this possible.”
Carrot has powered a broad range of open-innovation and prize competitions — spanning government, foundations and industry — helping design them to be fair, transparent and outcome-driven. From health-tech challenges to procurement redesigns, Carrot’s platform helps clients engage global talent, collect high-quality submissions, execute peer-review and select winners with confidence.
The Sentinel award reinforces a key insight: complex global challenges demand not just ideas, but processes that surface, assess and elevate them in ways that deliver measurable impact. Carrot looks forward to continuing to partner with funders and organizations seeking to deploy competition as a strategic tool for change.
For more information about Carrot, its platform and how to design a challenge that drives results, visit carrot.net
