D-Prize funds new entrepreneurs who increase access to proven poverty interventions.
The world has already invented ways to end poverty, yet the best interventions are not being distributed at mass-scale. Can you design a business or an NGO that solves one of the Distribution Challenges below?
If selected, D-Prize will award you up to $20,000 to launch a pilot in any region where extreme poverty exists.
D-Prize Challenges
- Agriculture
- Energy
- Global Health
- Education
- Governance and Infrastructure
- Custom
TIMELINE
Round 1
Submit your concept note and resume(s).
April 2 – Early deadline
April 23 – Regular deadline
May 14 – Extension deadline (sign up required)
Round 2
Top 5% of entrepreneurs are invited to submit a full 10-page proposal. You will have four weeks to submit.
Final round
Top entrepreneurs interview. Winners will receive up to $20,000 to launch. Final decisions expected by December.
Spend the next three months using your talent to start a venture and help millions of people.
ELIGIBILITY
- D-Prize challenges are open to anyone or any teams. The sole restriction is that individuals and their immediate family on the judging panel may not participate as a contestant.
- D-Prize is also open to any business model (for profit, non-profit, and everything in between).
- All winners will be awarded up to $20,000. The award is offered in the form of a convertible grant.
- Up to 25 of the most promising proposals will be selected for funding awards, regardless of which challenge track was selected.
Who Should Apply?
- You should have enormous ambition, and can imagine yourself as a successful entrepreneur.
- You are ready to launch your new venture, and if a pilot proves successful, you are excited to grow it into a world changing organization.
- If you are still a student or have existing commitments, you should have a clear idea how to transition into a full-time founder.
- D-Prize is exclusively interested in ventures that will scale distribution of an already proven poverty intervention in the developing world. We do not fund prototypes of promising new interventions.
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