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Funding Challenges

Here Comes the

Fun Challenge

Reimagining play as a pathway to wellbeing.

About This Challenge

In partnership with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and Niantic Spatial, the Here Comes the Fun Challenge uplifts and scales innovative solutions that design, build and facilitate play experiences meeting pre-teens and teens where they are: online, offline and in between.

These solutions use play as a powerful tool to enhance wellbeing, connection and self-discovery across digital experiences.

This challenge is closed at this time.

Year Launched
Spring 2025
Number of Applicants
78
Winners Announced
8
Total Funding
$800,000

This challenge is made possible by:

With additional support from our ecosystem partner:

We’re creating an

ecosystem of solutions

Through our Funding Challenges we provide resources to youth-focused nonprofits pushing bold new ideas that ease digital pressures and strengthen youth wellbeing.

Here Comes the Fun

Reimagining play as a pathway to wellbeing.
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Lonely Hearts Club

Beglonging in a hyperconnected world.
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Call Me Maybe

Reimagining phone use in schools by putting students at the center.
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Oops!...AI Did It Again

Empowering teens to navigate a world reshaped by artificial intelligence.
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Under Pressure

Alleviating the pressures pre-teens and teens face in today's tech-driven world.
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