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
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- 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.
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Prizes
- D-Prize will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000Â USD 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.
Application Process
Take a look at the current D-Prize challenges, and then download an application.
- Early Submission Deadline:Â 23 June 2024Â at midnight PT (Pacific Time)
- Regular Submission Deadline:Â 14 July 2024Â at midnight PT (Pacific Time)
- Extension Deadline:Â 4 August 2024Â at midnight PT (Pacific Time)
