Our milestones

The first direct application of 100-Day Challenges was in low and middle income countries with a focus on the social impact farmers could generate. A people-centered initiative, this was the first time a World Bank project directly put at the center of its objectives what the beneficiaries of their program needed and wanted to do.

Thanks to World Bank support, our 100-Day Challenges have become a strategy in supporting community-driven and results-focused development to achieve transformative results.

Harvard Business Review publishes an article outlining our 100-Day Challenge approach to social change. Read “Why Good Projects Fail Anyway.”

Rapid Results Institute (RRI) gets its independent 501(c)3 tax-exempt status from the IRS. In the 5 years that follow, the work of RRI quickly spreads to more than a dozen countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. 

The founder of RRI gets recognized by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 global thinkers for introducing 100-Day Challenges to help governments and communities around the world tackle social impact issues.

RRI starts working in the U.S. on Veteran and chronic homelessness in partnership with the 100,000 Homes Campaign. The work on homelessness continues to this day beyond the campaign, serving youth and young adults, seniors, families, and single adults. 

RRI launches the Ten-Squared program, in partnership with Social Accountability International and the Disney Corporation, introducing 100-Day Challenges to the field of workplace safety and health, initially in Brazil and then in Turkey and China.

RRI develops the People Powered Results program with Nesta, a UK Innovation Foundation. 100-Day Challenges become part of the strategy of the UK National Health Service to create new models of health service delivery. The PPR program continues to this day.

RRI introduces 100-Day Challenges, in partnership with MSI TetraTech and USAID, to support the Mexican Criminal Justice System to fulfill its historic reform's potential in 3 cities. Since then, 100-Day Challenges have been implemented in 24 Mexican cities across 13 states with 108 frontline teams in domestic violence, violent robbery, anti-corruption, and more.

RRI, in partnership with the Prime Minister’s Office of the United Arab Emirates, creates the first Government Accelerators Hub in Dubai. At the core of this are 100-Day Challenges. The Hub is continuing to grow, and it is being replicated in Kazakhstan and Jordan. 

The organization continues to expand on our purpose to support more equal, just, and safe communities across the world by catalyzing people-powered innovation to achieve tangible results and learning within complex social systems.