Imagination Foundation
The Imagination Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on "creativity and entrepreneurship in children". History Nirvan Mullick and Harley Cross founded the Imagination Foundation in 2012, inspired by the response to Mullick's short film Caine's Arcade. Imagination Foundation received initial seed funding of $250,000 from the Goldhirsh Foundation. The foundation's first program was the Global Cardboard Challenge. It initially started as a school pilot program, with over 200 schools in 9 countries taking part during the first 2 months. The program launched world-wide a second short film by Mullick called Caine's Arcade 2: From a Movie to a Movement, which was posted online in September 2012, and ended by advertising Global Cardboard Challenge. Three weeks after Caine's Arcade 2 was posted online, volunteers organized over 270 Cardboard Challenge events in 40 countries, with over 11,000 kids participating. Following this, the Global Cardboard Challenge became an annual event. Imagination Foundation has also launched Imagination Chapters to provide "creative play" for kids every week, and has also partnered with Disney, Google, AT&T, and Time Warner. Mullick received the 2012 Big Ideas Fest Innovation in Action Award and the Dan Eldon Creative Activist Award from the Creative Visions Foundation. In 2012, Mullick