Global Citizen Waislitz Awards 2025 ($300,000 total prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Global Citizen Waislitz Awards 2025. Celebrating its eleventh yr, The Global Citizen Waislitz Awards are annual money prizes totaling $300,000 that acknowledge the excellence of people of their work to finish excessive poverty. The grand prize and two further prizes are $100,000 every, for a total of three prizes. The awards are offered by the Waislitz Foundation and Global Citizen.

Global Citizen is a motion that conjures up and empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals world wide to be taught and take motion in help of essentially the most crucial points dealing with humanity. They work with international artists, influencers, and sports activities figures, to make use of their voice to create change and obtain their mission of ending excessive poverty. This leads company, authorities, and philanthropic leaders to make commitments in help of attaining the Global Goals. Global Citizen is a robust social advocacy platform that has impressed actual change impacting the lives of greater than 1 billion folks.

Prize

The 2025 Global Citizen Waislitz Awards function three awards totaling $300,000 USD. They will likely be profiled in editorial items that will likely be featured on the Global Citizen platform and social media.

• Global Citizen Waislitz Prize: $100,000 winner based mostly on all 5 standards beneath
• Disruptor Award: $100,000 winner who excels within the “Disruption” standards
• Global Citizens’ Choice Award: $100,000 winner chosen with enter from on-line voting from the Global Citizen neighborhood

Eligibility

• Entrants have to be aged eighteen (18) years of age or older
• Be from anyplace on the earth. 

Evaluation Criteria

• Global Citizenship: How does the applicant embody and exemplify the values and practices of a Global Citizen?
• Proof of Concept: Does the applicant have a powerful proof of idea with not less than 1-2 years of influence in the direction of ending excessive poverty?
• Disruption: Has the applicant created measurable influence in an modern method that disrupts the methods that permit for excessive poverty to exist?
• Scalability: How would this award allow/help the applicant to scale or enhance their work?
• Adaptability: Can the applicant display examples of their potential to adapt and evolve to altering situations?

Application

The application will shut at 5:00pm PST on Sunday, June 1, 2025. You will likely be notified of your application standing on or round July 16, 2025. 

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Global Citizen Waislitz Awards.