2024 D-Prize Challenge for Social Entrepreneurs ($20,000 USD)
Deadline: June 24, 2023.
The world has already invented products and services to end poverty. Yet they have found many proven interventions with large delivery gaps. Millions of people still don’t have access to basic poverty-fighting tools.
Can you design a new business or NGO that delivers a proven poverty intervention at scale? Submit your design for a new organization that solves one of their Distribution Challenges below. They will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000 USD to launch their new organization wherever extreme poverty exists.
CHALLENGES
- Health
- Water
- Education
- Agriculture
- Livelihoods
- Energy
- Public service
- custom
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- D-Prize is for aspiring entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world, of any age, and any background. The majority of our awardees have not launched nor raised any funding.
- They will consider funding existing organizations only if you are distributing an existing intervention and you have a need for high-risk capital that cannot be supported by your current donors or revenue.
- Existing organizations applying to D-Prize should have operated for no more than 18 months and raised no more than $30,000 in outside funding.
- They apologize, but at this time they are only able to evaluate applications submitted in English. However, your English does not need to be perfect to apply, and grammar and vocabulary errors will not be penalized. They only want to understand your idea.
BENEFITS
They will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000 USD to launch their new organization wherever extreme poverty exists.
TIMELINE
Select a challenge above and be prepared for the following deadlines:
- Early Submission Deadline: 14 May 2023 at 23:59 PT (Pacific Time, UTC -7)
- Regular Submission Deadline: 4 June 2023 at 23:59 PT
- Extension Deadline (limited to people who register): 24 June 2023 23:59 PT
Register for an extension: www.d-prize.org/extension