D-Prize Global Competition 2026 for Entrepreneurs ($20K grants) – YOA

Deadline: December 6, 2026

Applications are open for the D-Prize Global Competition 2026. The D-Prize awards 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 earnings nation the place excessive poverty nonetheless exists.

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

Challenges

• Childhood Diarrhea Treatment: Can you get free ORS and zinc into properties earlier than a child will get sick and stop one of many main killers of kids underneath 5?
• DMPA-SC: Reach Underserved Populations: Can you distribute DMPA-SC to underserved inhabitants?
• DMPA-SC: Improve Provider Training: Can you enhance necessary supplier coaching for DMPA-SC?
• DMPA-SC: Last Mile Inventory Management: Can you enhance final mile stock administration of DMPA-SC?
• DMPA-SC: Medical Waste Management: Can you improve protected disposal of DMPA-SC needles?
• Reading Glasses: Can you distribute non-prescription studying/ working glasses to these in want?
• Childcare: Can you assist low-earnings households entry high quality childcare providers?
• ConnectEd Phone-based Tutoring: Can you distribute a telephone-based mostly intervention to enhance studying?
• Teaching on the Right Level: Can you enhance foundational literacy and numeracy in useful resource-restricted school rooms?
• Road Safety: Can you cut back highway deaths by replicating a confirmed public transport security marketing campaign?
• Government Transparency: Can you monitor and report knowledge to cut back corruption and enhance public service?
• Poverty Graduation: Can you present teaching, capital, and social help to raise individuals out of extremely poverty?
• Agriculture: Propose Your Own: Propose distribution of an proof-based mostly agriculture intervention not on the record.
• Post-Harvest Support: Can you present put up-harvest loans and storage expertise confirmed to smallholders?
• Quality Inputs: Can you present smallholders high quality inputs and coaching to extend their harvests?
• Water Filters: Can you promote ceramic water filters to individuals in areas with out entry to scrub water?
• Kangaroo Care: Can you present entry to Kangaroo Care (KC), a confirmed however underused intervention for infants born too quickly or too small?
• Oxygen: Can you develop a group of technicians to service and restore current oxygen concentrators to enhance entry to medical oxygen?
• Patient Identification: Can you develop a strategy to determine sufferers needing remedy for both obstetric fistula, cervical most cancers, membership foot, or cataracts, then join them with current remedy providers in your space?
• Maternal Health: Can you prepare delivery attendants to manage misoprostol to forestall maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhaging?
• Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission: Can you counsel and inspire HIV-constructive pregnant girls to stick to their ART routine, and thus forestall mom-to-child HIV transmission?
• Child Immunization: Can you direct caregivers to convey youngsters to well being amenities for routine immunizations that might in any other case not happen?
• Sugar Daddy Awareness: Can you train Sugar Daddy Awareness to eighth grade lessons to cut back undesirable teen pregnancies and HIV infections?
• Propose your personal: Pitch distribution of an intervention backed by credible proof and never on the record.

Eligibility

New organizations solely. Most awardees are first-time entrepreneurs who haven’t but launched or raised outdoors funding.

• They particularly encourage candidates from low- and center-earnings international locations.
• Orgs with greater than 18 months of full-time operations or greater than $30,000 USD raised usually not supported.

Existing organizations thought-about solely in case your core focus is distributing an current, proof-based mostly poverty intervention.

Application

Select an intervention and be ready for the next deadlines:

• The Global Competition launches on 14 September 2026
• Early Submission Deadline: 25 October 2026 at midnight PT (Pacific Time)
• Regular Submission Deadline: 15 November 2026 at midnight PT (Pacific Time)
• Extension Deadline: 6 December 2026 at midnight PT (Pacific Time)

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