The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now inviting applications to Grand Challenges Explorations. Two-page proposals are being accepted online from September 4, 2014 until November 12, 2014 on the following topics: - Surveillance Tools, Diagnostics and an Artificial Diet to Support New Approaches to Vector Control. - New Approaches for Addressing Outdoor/Residual Malaria Transmission - New Ways to Reduce Pneumonia Fatalities through Timely, Effective Treatment of Children - Enable Universal Acceptance of Mobile Money Payments to Create an Economic Ecosystem that Will Help Lift the Poorest Out of Poverty - Explore New Ways to Measure Brain Development and Gestational Age - New Ways of Working Together: Integrating Community-Based Interventions Initial grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million. information