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Truist Foundation Inspire Awards Year 2
What innovative tech-based solution is your nonprofit creating or leveraging to support small business owners in the United States?
The Horizon Prize: 2023
How can we decrease the environmental impact of the rare disease health care space and alleviate burdens for rare disease families?
Gender Equity in STEM Challenge
How can girls and women reach their full potential and thrive in STEM education and careers in the United States?
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Current Challenges: Evaluating Solutions
2023 LEAP Challenge
How can education solutions become more evidence-based?
Past Challenges
2022 LEAP Challenge: Fellows
Interested in applying to be a LEAP Fellow to accelerate education solutions?
2022 LEAP Challenge: Projects
Interested in applying to host a LEAP project that will accelerate your organization’s education solution?
The Horizon Prize: 2022
How can we improve the quality of life of people who have been diagnosed with a rare disease?
Novel Measurement for Performance Improvement Challenge
How might we use unconventional methods to measure the improvement of primary health care performance in low- and middle-income countries?
Truist Foundation Inspire Awards
What innovative solutions are nonprofits implementing to provide transformational support to women and BIPOC-owned businesses in the United States?
Accelerator | Unbundle Policing: Reimagine Public Safety Challenge
How can we decrease unnecessary and adverse law enforcement encounters in order to promote community health and well-being in the US?
Octava Social Innovation Challenge
How can edtech solutions improve learning outcomes for underserved learners in Southeast Asia while being affordable and accessible?
2021 TPrize Challenge
How can under-resourced populations across Latin America and the Caribbean develop the necessary skills to access good jobs, better opportunities, and overall well-being?
Future of Work in India & Indonesia Challenge
How can workers in India and Indonesia gain the skills they need to participate and prosper in the digital and technology-driven economy of the future?
2021 Digital Workforce Challenge
How can historically underserved communities prepare for, access, and prosper in the digital workforce?
Incubator | Unbundle Policing: Reimagine Public Safety Challenge
How can we decrease unnecessary and adverse law enforcement encounters in order to promote community health and well-being in the US?
2021 Jacobs Foundation Conference | April 21-23
Education solutions for a post-COVID world
The Horizon Prize: 2021
How can technology help people with rare diseases get the right care faster and more accurately?
2021 Elevate Prize
We are looking for leaders, innovators, activists, and risk-takers who are impacting their community every day. Does your work have the potential to elevate humanity and inspire others to act as engines for social good?
The Trinity Challenge
How can data and analytics be used to better identify, respond to, and recover from global health emergencies?
Global Surgical Training Challenge
How can we create novel, low-cost surgical training modules for surgeons and surgical trainees in resource-constrained settings?
2020 Mission Billion Challenge: WURI West Africa Prize
How can informal sector workers in West Africa more easily participate in social protection programs?
2020 Mission Billion Challenge: Global Prize
This Global Prize seeks solutions that address gender equality and inclusion of vulnerable populations by putting all people at the heart of identification systems.
Reimagining Pathways to Employment in the US Challenge
How can workers in the United States attain the knowledge and learn the skills needed to access sustainable jobs and livelihoods in the new economy?
2020 Elevate Prize
We are looking for leaders, innovators, activists, and risk-takers who are impacting their community every day! Does your work have the potential to elevate humanity and inspire others to act as engines for social good?
2020 TPrize Challenge
How can disadvantaged communities design and participate in skills-based and lifelong learning opportunities to create productive and prosperous livelihoods in the 21st century?
2020 Digital Workforce Challenge
How can traditionally underserved populations have access to opportunity and fully participate in the technology-enabled and digitally literate workforces of the future?
Rethink Plastics Challenge
How can consumers, businesses, and governments in Latin America and the Caribbean substantially reduce or eliminate single-use plastic and plastic waste?
2019 Mission Billion Challenge
How can digital identification systems in developing countries be better designed or adapted to protect people’s privacy and empower them with greater control over their personal data?
2023 Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge
Are you passionate about making a positive impact in your community and the world? If your answer is “yes!,” we want to hear about your solution.
2022 Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge
Are you 24 and under and passionate about making a positive impact in your community and the world? If your answer is “yes!,” we want to hear about your solution.
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