Call for Application: D-Prize Challenge 2024 (up to $20,000 Grant)

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Applications are now open for the D-Prize Challenge that support organizations in any low-or-middle income country where extreme poverty still exists.

D-Prize believe the world needs more social impact organizations, and they seed for-profit ventures, NGOs, and charities. They believe social impact organizations are uniquely positioned to distribute an existing product or service known to improve lives where need still exists.

D-Prize Challenge Categories

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?

Download the Oxygen Challenge

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?

Download the VMMC Challenge

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?

Download the PMTCT Challenge

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

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

READING GLASSES CHALLENGE: Can you distribute non-prescription reading/ working glasses to those in need?

Download the Reading Glasses Challenge

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

EDUCATION

TEACHING AT THE RIGHT LEVEL CHALLENGE: In many resource-limited countries, over 50% of Grade 2 students are unable to read a single word of a short text or perform two-digit subtraction. Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an education program that tailors instruction to the learning level of the child, rather than their age. The result is that basic literacy and numeracy are achieved by students before they finish primary school. Can you implement an effective TaRL program to teach students in a resource-limited classroom?

Download the Teaching at the Right Level 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.

Download the Custom Challenge

D-Prize Challenge Benefits

All winners will be awarded up to $20,000. The award is offered in the form of a convertible grant.

Eligibility Criteria

D-Prize challenges are open to anyone or any team. The sole restriction is that individuals and their immediate family on the judging panel may not participate as a contestants.
D-Prize is also open to any business model (for-profit, non-profit, and everything in between).
You are not competing against other applicants. They typically fund at least 15 proposals per competition, regardless of which challenge track was selected.
D-Prize is for new organizations. Most of our awardees are first-time entrepreneurs. Most have not yet launched their organization, nor have they raised other funding. We 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.