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This year’s edition of the D-Prize Challenge is now open to applications from social entrepreneurs. It’s targeted at founders who are launching new organisations to solve problems related to poverty. These may be for-profit ventures, NGOS, or charities that can improve lives in lower-middle-income and lower-income areas.
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The grant awarded through the D-Prize Challenge for Social Entrepreneurs is meant to support the launch of organisations that can alleviate the effects of poverty on underserved communities. The team at D-Prize hopes that the organisations they support will eventually become large-scale, so that they can expand and deepen their impact in poor districts and regions.

Challenge Areas

The challenges within the broader D-Prize program cater to concerns in the following domains:
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Health
  • Livelihoods
  • Public services
  • Water
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Benefits

Applicants who emerge as top candidates at the end of the final round will receive up to $20,000 in grants to launch and scale their social impact organisations. They will also get support to develop their ideas into successful organisations that transform lives for the better.
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Eligibility    

This program is open to persons who meet these criteria:
  • Their organisation must not be more than 18 months old, and will not have received more than $30,000 in external funding
  • Awardees will typically be first-time entrepreneurs, sometimes still in the pre-launch stage
  • Existing organisations can apply if they are distributing existing and proven poverty intervention solutions
Applications will remain open until 29 June 2025. You can apply for this opportunity HERE.
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This article was first published on 4th May 2025
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Ikenna Nwachukwu holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He loves to look at the world through multiple lenses- economic, political, religious and philosophical- and to write about what he observes in a witty, yet reflective style.

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