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

Deadline: December 14, 2025

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

They consider social influence organizations are uniquely positioned to distribute an current services or products recognized to enhance lives the place want nonetheless exists.

Challenges

• Health Access
  • Kangaroo Care Challenge
  • 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 stage problem
  • Connected Phone-based Tutoring Challenge
• Custom
  • Propose Your Own Challenge: D-Prize is particularly involved in distributing confirmed poverty interventions to these in want. If you realize of a extremely-efficient intervention that’s backed by credible proof, they need 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 contemplate functions from current organizations provided that your core focus is distributing an current 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. 

Select a problem above and be ready for the next deadlines:

• The Global Competition launches on 13 October 2025
• Early Submission Deadline: 23 November 2025 at midnight PT (pacific time) 
• Regular Submission Deadline: 14 December 2025 at midnight PT (pacific time) 
• Extension Deadline: 4 January 2026 at midnight PT (pacific time)

For extra data, go to D-Prize.