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The world has already invented products and services to end poverty. Yet we have found many proven interventions with large delivery gaps. Millions of people still don’t have access to basic poverty-fighting tools.
Can you design a new business or NGO that delivers a proven poverty intervention at scale? Submit your design for a new organization that solves one of our Distribution Challenges below. We will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000 USD to launch their new organization wherever extreme poverty exists.
D-Prize Challenges
Select a challenge below to learn more.
+ HEALTH
SELF-INJECTABLE CONTRACEPTIVE CHALLENGE:
Can you distribute a self-injectable contraceptive, Sayana® Press, 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 CHALLENGE:
Can you develop a way to identify patients needing treatment for either obstetric fistula, cervical cancer, club foot, or cataracts, then connect them with existing treatment services in your area?
Download the Patient Identification Challenge
MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE:
Can you train birth attendants to administer misoprostol to prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhaging?
Download the Maternal Health Challenge
VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION CHALLENGE:
Can you identify candidates for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) and connect those that opt in to existing health facilities to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition?
PREVENTION OF MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION CHALLENGE:
Can you counsel and motivate HIV-positive pregnant women to adhere to their ART regimen, and thus prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission?
CHILD IMMUNIZATION CHALLENGE:
Can you direct caregivers to bring their infants to health facilities for routine immunizations that would otherwise not occur?
Download the Immunizations Challenge
SUGAR DADDY AWARENESS CHALLENGE:
Can you teach “sugar daddy awareness” to 8th grade classes to reduce unwanted teen pregnancies 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 RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE
Can you teach basic reading and mathematics skills to primary school students in a resource-limited classroom?
Download the Teaching at the Right Level Challenge
+ AGRICULTURE
QUALITY INPUTS CHALLENGE:
Can you provide smallholder farmers high-quality inputs and training proven to increase their harvests?
Download the Quality Inputs Challenge
POST-HARVEST SUPPORT CHALLENGE:
Can you provide smallholder farmers post-harvest loans and storage technology proven to increase their incomes?
Download the Post-Harvest Support Challenge
PROPOSE YOUR OWN AGRICULTURE CHALLENGE:
D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven agriculture interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention that is backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Download the Custom Agriculture Challenge
PROPOSE YOUR OWN LIVESTOCK CHALLENGE:
D-Prize is interested in distributing proven livestock interventions to smallholder farmers. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Download the Custom Livestock Challenge
+ LIVELIHOODS
POVERTY GRADUATION CHALLENGE:
Can you provide business coaching, capital, and social support to lift people out of ultra poverty?
Download the Poverty Graduation Challenge
PROPOSE YOUR OWN FINANCIAL INCLUSION CHALLENGE:
D-Prize is specifically interested in distributing proven financial inclusion interventions to those in need. If you know of a highly-effective intervention backed by credible evidence, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Download the Custom Financial Inclusion Challenge
+ ENERGY
SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE:
Can you sell pico solar lamps to rural or slum-dwelling households without regular access to electricity?
Download the Solar Lamp Challenge
+ PUBLIC SERVICES
GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGE:
Can you monitor and report data to reduce corruption and improve public service?
Download the Government Transparency Challenge
ROAD SAFETY CHALLENGE:
Can you reduce road fatalities by mobilizing the public with a proven public transportation safety campaign?
Download the Road Safety 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, we want to hear what it is and see your plan to increase its distribution.
Application Process
TIMELINE
Select a challenge above and be prepared for the following deadlines:
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Early Submission Deadline: 14 May 2023 at 23:59 PT (Pacific Time, UTC -7)
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Regular Submission Deadline: 4 June 2023 at 23:59 PT
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Extension Deadline (limited to people who register): 24 June 2023 23:59 PT
Register for an extension: www.d-prize.org/extension
EVALUATION PROCESS
ROUND 1
Submit your concept note and resume(s). We receive 2000+ submissions per competition.
ROUND 2
Top 5% of entrepreneurs are invited to answer short written questions. You will have two weeks to draft and submit.
FINAL ROUND
Top entrepreneurs interview via phone and email. The top 1% will receive up to $20,000 to launch.
LAUNCH
You will spend the next three months using your talent to start a venture that can grow and help millions of people.
ELIGIBILITY
D-Prize is for aspiring entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world, of any age, and any background. The majority of our awardees have not launched nor raised any funding.
We will consider funding existing organizations only if you are distributing an existing intervention and you have a need for high-risk capital that cannot be supported by your current donors or revenue.
Existing organizations applying to D-Prize should have operated for no more than 18 months and raised no more than $30,000 in outside funding.
We apologize, but at this time we are only able to evaluate applications submitted in English. However, your English does not need to be perfect to apply, and grammar and vocabulary errors will not be penalized. We only want to understand your idea.
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