D-Prize Global Competition 2024 for Entrepreneurs ($20K grants) Deadline: 4 August , 2024

Applications for the D-Prize Global Competition 2024 are now open. They seed new organizations distributing proven poverty solutions, all aiming to scale. D-Prize is looking for entrepreneurs who can design a new nonprofit or social venture that distributes an existing poverty solution to thousands, maybe even millions of people.

They have identified over a dozen products and services known to alleviate poverty. They now challenge entrepreneurs to design ways to distribute to people in need.

Challenges

• Health Access
  • Self-injectable Contraceptive Challenge
  • Oxygen Challenge
  • Patient Identification Challenge
  • Maternal Health Challenge
  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Challenge
  • Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Challenge
  • Child Immunization Challenge
  • Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge
• Water
  • Clean Access to Water challenge
• Education
  • Teaching at the Right Level challenge
• Agriculture
  • Quality Inputs challenge
  • Post-harvest Support challenge
  • Propose your own Agriculture challenge
  • Propose your own Livestock challenge
• Livelihoods
  • Reading Glasses Challenge
  • Poverty Graduation challenge
  • Propose your own financial inclusion challenge
• Energy
  • Solar lamp challenge
• Public Services
  • Government transparency challenge
  • Road safety challenge
• Education
  • Teaching at the right level challenge
• Custom
  • Propose Your Own Challenge: D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven poverty interventions to those in need. If you know of a highly-effective intervention that is backed by credible evidence, they want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.

Prize

• D-Prize will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000USD to launch their new organization wherever extreme poverty exists.

Eligibility

• D-Prize is for new organizations. Most of their awardees are first-time entrepreneurs. Most have not yet launched their organization, nor have they raised other funding.
• They especially encourage those from low-and-middle income countries to apply.
• They will consider applications from existing organizations only if your core focus is distributing an existing and evidence-based poverty intervention.
• They typically will not support organizations with more than 18 months of full-time operations or that have raised more than $30,000 USD in outside funding.

Deadline: 4 August , 2024

Application

Take a look at the current D-Prize challenges, and then download an application. 

• Early Submission Deadline: 23 June 2024 at midnight PT (Pacific Time) 
• Regular Submission Deadline: 14 July 2024 at midnight PT (Pacific Time) 
• Extension Deadline: 4 August 2024 at midnight PT (Pacific Time) 

For more information, visit D-Prize.