Deadline: June 8, 2025
Applications are open for the D-Prize Global Competition 2025 for Entrepreneurs. They award startup grants of up to $20,000 to entrepreneurs launching new organizations. They believe the world needs more social impact organizations, and they seed for-profit ventures, NGOs, and charities. They support organizations in any low-or-middle income country where extreme poverty still exists.
They believe social impact organizations are uniquely positioned to distribute an existing product or service known to improve lives where need still exists.
Challenges
- Health Access
- Self-injectable Contraceptive Challenge
- Oxygen Challenge
- Patient Identification Challenge
- Maternal Health Challenge
- Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Challenge
- Child Immunization Challenge
- Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge
- Water
- Clean Access to Water 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
- Connected Phone-based Tutoring 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.
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
Take a look at the current D-Prize challenges and then download an application packet.
- Early Submission Deadline: 18 May 2025 at midnight PT (Pacific Time)
- Regular Submission Deadline: 8 June 2025 at midnight PT (Pacific Time)
- Extension Deadline: 29 June 2025 at midnight PT (Pacific Time)
For more information, visit D-Prize Global Competition.
