2024 Application Open For D-Prize Global Competition For Entrepreneurs (Up To $20K Grants)

About D-Prize global Competition

D-Prize Global Competition 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 seed new organizations distributing proven poverty solutions, all aiming to scale.

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.

D-Prize Global Competition Challenges

Here are the various challenges in D-Prize Global Competition;

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 global Competition 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.

Prizes

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

Eligibility Criteria

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.