THE LEMELSON FOUNDATION

Evergreen innovation platform - to (1) select, pilot, and validate innovations designed to meet the needs of smallholder farmers in india and enable climate action; (2) demonstrate a self-sustaining model for commercializing innovations for smallholder farmers, and (3) engage and influence additional key stakeholders in strengthening a market and system for supporting innovations for smallholder farmers, all with the overarching objective of improving the lives of small-holder farmers living in poverty in india while also mitigating against climate change.

Inspiring youth to invent - to (1) reexamine the foundation's previous work with support from context partners to understand the impacts of covid on education and revise the foundation's approach based on feedback from teachers, school administrators, potential funders and additional experts and (2) identify a new approach to inspire youth to invent with purpose.

Invented organization support - invented is focused on developing and implementing sustainable systems and operations plans; moving from a community of practice to a united coalition; increasing awareness of invented and invention education and identifying areas for collaboration and advance field-level priorities. To achieve these goals, a contractor was added to lead the invented network plus expenses; as well as a strategy contractor to assist community leaders in developing a 5-year strategic plan. Support for working groups and (research, teaching and learning, etc.) and engaging the community in a commitments process to drive towards community-based problem solving and leverage these to push for increased attention to invented. An organization systems (databases, email, etc.) and learning series (webinars and workshops) were held throughout the year.