Funding Sources for Public Sector Projects

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*What makes for a good public sector simulation/game/e-Learning topic?

*What are good sources of funding for those projects?

*How do you assemble a team to make a learning simulation for the public sector?

*How do you convince funders that e-Learning and interactive game-based simulations are worthy of funding?

 

These are all questions that the serious games initiative will answer in the next few years. Why not a wiki page to start collecting information about it?

 

Projects with public sector applicability

• Games for Health
• Games for Change

 

Sources of funding

 

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  - Gave grant money to the Games For Health project.
• HopeLab
  - Founded by Ebay founder Pam Omidyar and created the game Re-Mission
• The Gates Foundation
  - Have yet to fund a public sector simulation project, to the best of my knowledge