Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2026 ($250,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: December 17, 2025

Applications are open for the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2026. The Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award honors a person aged 18-30 who has contributed meaningfully in direction of the aim of ending excessive poverty.

The Award was established by Cisco and Global Citizen to acknowledge and raise up a youngster positively impacting the world, exhibit the affect that younger persons are having on attaining the United Nation’s Global Goals, and speed up world downside fixing. Cisco and Global Citizen are united within the perception that younger folks round the world are main the best way to create and implement options to attain the Global Goals, and to speed up world downside fixing. That is why they created the Cisco Youth Leadership Award.

Awards

• The award features a $250,000 prize paid to the group to which the person contributes. The winner will likely be introduced at Global Citizen NOW in May 2026 in New York City.

Eligibility

• Open to people aged 18 years to 30 years;
• Applicants ought to function or work for an present group;
• Applicants could also be from anyplace on the earth.

Criteria

• Impact: Demonstrated monitor-report of measurable affect at scale over the past 3-5 years advancing a number of of the Global Goals.
• Vision: Compelling imaginative and prescient and concrete plans for the best way to lengthen this work within the subsequent 3-5 years, together with how the prize will advance efforts.
• Catalyst: Inspires different younger folks to have an effect on attaining a number of of the Global Goals.
• Global Citizenship: Demonstrates the values and embodies the spirit of a Global Citizen and a Global Problem Solver.
• Technology Innovation: Innovates with expertise or Internet-based communications to enhance effectivity, attain, and enlarge affect.

Application

Applications open for submission on November 5, 2025 10:00am PT and shut on December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM PT.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award.