OD Impact Challenge 2026 for Young Changemakers (Win cash prizes & more) – YOA

Deadline: December 10, 2026

We are happy to announce that the OPPORTUNITY Desk Impact Challenge (ODIC) 2026 is formally open. This 12 months, we’re inviting younger changemakers from around the globe to showcase how they’re driving optimistic social influence of their communities. After profitable editions in earlier years, the competitors returns to highlight inspiring tales of youth-led transformation and to have a good time the ability of native options creating world change.

Every day, throughout totally different communities, younger individuals are daring to unravel issues others have given up on. They are constructing faculties in underserved neighborhoods, mentoring women in tech, scaling local weather options, and creating jobs the place none existed. If this sounds such as you, then this second is for you.

About the Challenge

The OD Impact Challenge is a worldwide competitors that seeks to acknowledge and help efforts of younger changemakers working to carry optimistic change to their communities, whereas projecting and highlighting the influence Opportunity Desk is making within the lives of individuals worldwide.

The problem is easy, relatable, and deliberately accessible: contributors submit a 60-second video answering three key questions—What downside are you fixing? How is Opportunity Desk making a difference in your journey? And how would profitable help your influence? By centering lived experiences, ODIC amplifies younger leaders who’re instructing, constructing, advocating, inventing, organizing, designing, and redefining what change appears like in actual time.

Since 2012, Opportunity Desk has served as a number one platform connecting younger individuals to scholarships, fellowships, conferences, grants, and profession sources, reaching greater than 11 million views from over 180 nations. ODIC strengthens that mission by recognizing those that aren’t solely in search of alternatives, however who’re utilizing them to uplift others. This 12 months’s OD Impact Challenge version is delivered in partnership with Savvy, Global Changemakers and Millenium Campus Network (MCN), strengthening our shared dedication to elevating youth-led social influence and amplifying group-rooted options the world over.

How It Works

The competitors is easy; it challenges contributors to reply three essential questions in 60 seconds:

1. What are you doing to carry optimistic change to your group? Tell us the issue you’re fixing and the way it’s making a difference.
2. How is OD making an influence in your life?
3. How will the prizes assist you should you win?

About Opportunity Desk

OD is a web-based platform that bridges the chance hole for individuals the world over, by creating open entry to data and educative sources. These alternatives assist to facilitate younger individuals’s efforts in exchanging concepts and making ready themselves for the long run. They embody: scholarships, conferences, fellowships, awards, jobs, internships, and grants focused in the direction of people and organizations worldwide.

Since inception in 2012, Opportunity Desk has reached 11 million views from over 180 nations around the globe. Our web site presently attracts greater than 500,000 views month-to-month with over 300,000 individuals linked and engaged with us on social media.

Prizes and Benefits

Top 3 winners will obtain:

• A share a cash prize of $1,000
• Certificate of recognition
• Ten scholarship entry to Global Changemakers’ Project Management course (valued at $150) with the chance to compete for Seed Grants (Final scholarship preparations are topic to affirmation.)
• Automatic admission into the Savvy Fellowship Program.
• Exclusive article spotlights and profile options for all 12 finalists on the Savvy platform.
• Three (3) 1-hour one-on-one mentorship periods (for every finalist) with the Founder of Savvy, Chidi Nwaogu between January and March 2027.
• Global talking alternatives for chosen ODIC finalists to share their social influence journeys by way of a webinar or panel with the Millennium Fellowship group.
• Exclusive publication options showcasing chosen ODIC changemakers and their group tasks throughout Millennium Campus Network (MCN) world community of younger leaders.

Top 12 Finalists will obtain:

• Certificate of recognition
• Ten scholarship entry to Global Changemakers’ Project Management course (valued at $150) with the chance to compete for Seed Grants (Final scholarship preparations are topic to affirmation.)
• Exclusive article spotlights and profile options for all 12 finalists on the Savvy platform.
• An article highlight (for every finalist) on the Savvy platform.
• Exclusive media characteristic as OD Young Person of the Month
• Global talking alternatives for chosen ODIC finalists to share their social influence journeys by way of a webinar or panel with the Millennium Fellowship group.
• Exclusive publication options showcasing chosen ODIC changemakers and their group tasks throughout Millennium Campus Network (MCN) world community of younger leaders.

In addition to the above, the prime 3 winners will obtain extra prizes.

Top 30 Under 30

• Exclusive Listing as OD Impact Challenge 30 beneath 30 Changemakers
• Automatic acceptance into the Savvy Fellowship Program.
• Certificate of recognition

**More details about prizes will likely be shared.

Eligibility

This world competitors is open to changemakers around the globe who’re actively fixing an issue and enhancing the lives of others of their group.

• Participants between 18 and 30 years from any nationality are welcomed to apply.
• Participants must be lively Opportunity Desk customers: You are a fan or follower on our social media pages: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and Telegram and also you have to be subscribed to our Newsletter.
• You are actively engaged in your group and you’ve got a minimum of 1 12 months monitor file of influence both as a person, worker or entrepreneur.

Whether you’re operating a undertaking, initiative, social enterprise, or advocacy marketing campaign, ODIC gives visibility, validation, and a platform to amplify your work. Finalists obtain group recognition and are highlighted throughout OD networks, together with the OD Impact Challenge 30 Under 30 Changemakers listing.

Terms and Conditions

• There is not any entry payment
• Video submissions have to be unique, unpublished work by the contestant and can’t infringe upon any copyright legal guidelines. The contestant have to be the only real writer of all entries and maintain full rights to them. Videos which have gained awards in different competitions aren’t eligible to enter;
• By getting into the competition, video submitters are deemed to have agreed to the usage of their movies in OD promotional materials;
• The organizers reserve the best to take away and disqualify submitted movies which can trigger offence or could also be deemed unsuitable or inappropriate for this contest;
• The contestant should have acquired permission from the topic(s) used within the video. Videos that violate the rights of these depicted or put individuals in danger won’t be thought of by the judges;
• Opportunity Desk can take no accountability for entries which are incorrectly or incompletely submitted.
• AI-generated or AI-edited movies aren’t eligible. Participants should have consent from anybody featured of their video.

Judging Criteria

The jury, made up of social change leaders and influence drivers will fastidiously choose finalists and winners primarily based on the next standards:

• Innovation
• Project Impact
• Sustainability

How to Enter the Competition

Participants full 4 steps:

1. Create a 60-second video responding to the problem questions: What downside are you fixing? How is Opportunity Desk making a difference in your journey? And how would profitable help your influence?
2. Post it on social media with the hashtags #ODImpactChallenge #ODIC2026.
3. Complete the web application here.
4. Prepare for public voting if chosen as a prime 12 finalist.

Make certain to observe OD on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Telegram.

Opportunity Desk believes that one alternative can change a life and one thought can change a group. ODIC 2026 is a celebration of that perception. If you’re constructing options that make life higher for others, this problem is for you.

For extra data, go to OD Impact Challenge.