D-Prize seeds new ventures that distribute proven poverty interventions.
Products and services to end poverty have already been created. Yet we discovered a number of effective interventions with significant delivery gaps. Still, millions of people lack access to fundamental tools for overcoming poverty.
Can you create a brand-new company or non-profit organization that effectively combats poverty? Below, submit your concept for a brand-new business that addresses one of our distribution challenges. The most promising teams will receive up to $20,000 USD to start their own nonprofit anywhere there is extreme poverty.
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D-Prize Challenges
To learn more, click on one of the challenges listed below.
+ Health Access
Can you make a self-injectable contraceptive, Sayana® Press, available to underserved women through a private health network?Download the Self-Injectable Contraceptive Challenge
Oxygen Challenge
Can you develop a team of technicians to service and repair existing oxygen concentrators to improve access to medical oxygen?
Patient Identification Difficulties:
Can you create a method to identify patients in need of treatment for obstetric fistula, cervical cancer, club foot, or cataracts, then connect them to existing treatment services in your area?
Download the Patient Identification Challenge
Maternal Health Obstacle:
Can you teach birth attendants how to use misoprostol to prevent maternal deaths caused by postpartum hemorrhage?
Download the Maternal Health Challenge
Challenge for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision:
Can you identify candidates for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) and connect those who opt in to existing health facilities in order to reduce the risk of HIV infection?
Download the VMMC Challenge
The Mother-to-Child Transmission Prevention Challenge:
Can you counsel and motivate HIV-positive pregnant women to stick to their ART regimen, thereby preventing HIV transmission from mother to child?
Download the PMTCT Challenge
The Immunization Challenge for Children:
Can you advise caregivers to bring their infants to health facilities for routine immunizations that would otherwise be missed?
Download the Immunizations Challenge
Sugar Daddy Awareness Project:
Can you teach 8th grade classes about “sugar daddy awareness” in order to reduce teen pregnancy and HIV infections?
Download the Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge
+ Water
Clean Access to water Challenge
Can you sell ceramic water filters to people in areas without access to clean water?
Download the Clean Access to Water Challenge
+ EDUCATION
Teaching at the Appropriate Level
Can you teach basic reading and math skills to primary school students in a classroom with limited resources?
Download the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge
+ AGRICULTURE
Quality Inputs Problem:
Can you provide high-quality inputs and training to smallholder farmers in order to increase their harvests?
Download the Quality Inputs Challenge
Post-Harvest Assistance Challenge:
Can you offer smallholder farmers post-harvest loans and storage technology that has been shown to increase their earnings?
Download the Post-Harvest Support Challenge
Make Your Own Agricultural Challenge:
D-Prize is particularly interested in providing proven agricultural interventions to smallholder farmers. If you are aware of a highly effective intervention that is supported by credible evidence, we would like to hear about it and see your plan for expanding its distribution.
Download the Custom Agriculture Challenge
Make Your Own Livestock Competition:
D-Prize is interested in providing smallholder farmers with proven livestock interventions. If you are aware of a highly effective intervention that is supported by credible evidence, we want to know about it and see your plan for expanding its distribution.
Download the Custom Livestock Challenge
+ Livelihoods
Challenge for Poverty Graduation:
Can you help people get out of extreme poverty by providing business coaching, capital, and social support?
Download the Poverty Graduation Challenge
Create Your Own Financial Inclusion Task:
D-Prize is particularly interested in distributing tried-and-true financial inclusion interventions to those in need. If you are aware of a highly effective intervention that is supported by credible evidence, we want to know about it and see your plan for expanding its distribution.
Download the Custom Financial Inclusion Challenge
+ ENERGY
Solar Lamp Competition:
Can you sell pico solar lamps to households in rural or slum areas that do not have regular access to electricity?
Download the Solar Lamp Challenge
+ Public Services
The Challenge of Government Transparency:
Can you keep track of and report on data in order to reduce corruption and improve public service?
Download the Government Transparency Challenge
Challenge for Road Safety:
Can a proven public transportation safety campaign mobilize the public and reduce road fatalities?
Download the Road Safety Challenge
+ Custom
Make your own challenge:
D-Prize is particularly interested in providing proven poverty interventions to those in need. If you are aware of a highly effective intervention that is supported by credible evidence, we would like to hear about it and see your plan for expanding its distribution.
Download the Custom Challenge
Application Process
TIMELINE
Choose a challenge from the list above and be aware of the following deadlines:
On April 4, 2022, the Global Competition will begin.
Submission in Advance The deadline is May 15, 2022 at 12:00 a.m. PT (pacific time)
Submission Schedule The deadline is June 5, 2022, at 12:00 a.m. PT (pacific time)
Extension The deadline is June 26, 2022 at 12:00 a.m. PT (pacific time). Apply for an extension.
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EVALUATION PROCESS
Round 1 of the EVALUATION PROCESS
Please submit your concept note as well as your resume (s). Each competition typically receives 1700 submissions.
Round 2
The top 5% of entrepreneurs are invited to respond to brief written questions. You will have two weeks to write and submit your proposal.
Round of 16
Top entrepreneurs conduct interviews over the phone and via email. The top 1% will receive up to $20,000 in startup funding.
Launch
You will spend the next three months putting your skills to use to launch a venture that has the potential to grow and benefit millions of people.
ELIGIBILITY
The D-Prize is open to aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world, of any age or background. The vast majority of our awardees have not launched their projects or raised any funding.
We will consider funding existing organizations only if you are distributing an existing intervention and have a high-risk capital requirement that cannot be met by your current donors or revenue.
Existing organizations applying for the D-Prize must have been in operation for no more than 18 months and have raised no more than $30,000 in outside funding.
We apologize, but we can only evaluate applications submitted in English at this time. However, you do not need to be fluent in English to apply, and grammar and vocabulary errors will not be penalized. We simply want to comprehend your concept.
Visit D-official Prize’s website for more information on how they seed new ventures that distribute proven poverty interventions.
