F. M. Kirby Prize for Scaling Impact 2025 (up to $150,000)

Deadline: December 4, 2024

Applications are open for the F. M. Kirby Prize for Scaling Impact 2025. The F. M. Kirby Prize for Scaling Impact is an annual world prize of USD $150,000 in unrestricted funds that amplifies and accelerates the work of an enterprise working to scale its influence on social or environmental issues all over the world.

The Kirby Prize acknowledges enterprises pursuing strategic pathways to influence at scale, who’re shut to the challenges at hand, who heart the voice and expertise of the populations they serve, who’ve demonstrated traction, and who embody brave and collaborative management. This prize is open to any authorized type, geographic location, and any social or environmental influence space.

Benefits

• The prize, consisting of $150,000 in unrestricted funds, is designed to assist amplify and speed up an enterprise’s influence on social or environmental issues all over the world.

Eligibility

Open to all influence enterprises (nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid), working anyplace on the earth, that meet the next standards:

• Strong proof of influence over a minimum of 3 years and a considerate plan for how to use the prize to scale that influence within the subsequent 3-5 years.
• Minimum operation price range of a minimum of $250,000 USD. The strongest functions traditionally have an annual working price range between $1-3 million USD.
• Robust, formal non-discrimination coverage that protects towards discrimination on the premise of marginalized identities. Marginalized identities could embrace, however aren’t restricted to race, ethnicity, faith, caste, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender id, age, and incapacity.
• For tax causes, worldwide enterprise candidates will need to have a longtime presence within the US, whereby they’re a US taxpayer and maintain a federal taxpayer identification quantity. This might embrace these acknowledged as a corporation exempt from federal influence tax below IRC part 501(c)3 standing, a US-based fiscal sponsorship settlement, or different.
• Exemplary management that aligns with the core values of Fred Morgan Kirby, together with integrity, resourcefulness, resilience, significant collaboration, and variety.

Evaluation Criteria

The Kirby Prize Selection Committee, composed of CASE workers and chosen MBA college students, will consider all functions primarily based on three major dimensions: Impact, Readiness to Scale, and Leadership.

• Impact: The resolution could be very efficient in addressing the primary problem recognized, and there may be demonstrated want and demand for the answer amongst these impacted. While they don’t weigh the achievement of broad versus deep influence in another way, they do take into account the order of magnitude for the variety of individuals or environmental parts impacted relative to the depth of influence skilled. 
• Readiness to Scale: The enterprise is obvious on the important thing parts of their program, product, or ideas which can be vital to the influence they search as they scale and have begun testing probably pathways to scale.
• Leadership & Team: The enterprise and its management reveal the core traits of early social entrepreneur Fred Morgan Kirby, together with integrity, resourcefulness, and resilience. The enterprise and management additionally prioritize significant collaboration, range, fairness, inclusion, and proximity to the issue as a way to discover the most effective options.

Application

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For extra data, go to F. M. Kirby Prize.