D-Prize Global Competition 2025 for Entrepreneurs ($20K grants) – YOA

Deadline: June 8, 2025

Applications are open for the D-Prize Global Competition 2025 for Entrepreneurs. They award startup grants of as much as $20,000 to entrepreneurs launching new organizations. They imagine the world wants extra social influence organizations, and so they seed for-profit ventures, NGOs, and charities. They help organizations in any low-or-center revenue nation the place excessive poverty nonetheless exists.

They imagine social influence organizations are uniquely positioned to distribute an present services or products recognized to enhance lives the place want nonetheless 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 problem
• Agriculture
  • Quality Inputs problem
  • Post-harvest Support problem
  • Propose your individual Agriculture problem
  • Propose your individual Livestock problem
• Livelihoods
  • Reading Glasses Challenge
  • Poverty Graduation problem
  • Propose your individual monetary inclusion problem
• Energy
• Public Services
  • Government transparency problem
  • Road security problem
• Education
  • Teaching on the proper degree problem
  • Connected Phone-based Tutoring Challenge
• Custom
  • Propose Your Own Challenge: D-Prize is particularly eager about distributing confirmed poverty interventions to these in want. If you already know of a extremely-efficient intervention that’s backed by credible proof, they wish to hear what it’s and see your plan to extend its distribution.

Eligibility

• D-Prize is for new organizations. Most of their awardees are first-time entrepreneurs. Most haven’t but launched their group, nor have they raised different funding.
• They particularly encourage these from low-and-center revenue international locations to apply.
• They will take into account purposes from present organizations provided that your core focus is distributing an present and proof-primarily based poverty intervention.
• They sometimes won’t help organizations with greater than 18 months of full-time operations or which have raised greater than $30,000 USD in outdoors funding.

Application

Take a take a look at the present D-Prize challenges after which 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) 

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to D-Prize Global Competition.