Deadline: 7-Jul-25
The EMEA Impact Through Innovation Awards program aims to seed-fund innovative solutions that address health, mental wellbeing or educational outcomes for children and young people.
The Awards help scale pioneering projects, connect ideas with capital and build capacity for charitable organizations.
Funding Information and Benefits
- Each award winner receives £100,000 in seed funding.
- Up to ten winners will receive grants to scale their innovative projects. In addition, they will receive training from industry experts, build powerful connections and raise their profile.
Eligible Projects
- They are looking for new or piloted projects from charities that will provide innovative solutions to positively improve outcomes for children and young people.
- Projects must tackle specific issues and address unmet needs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charities with registered charitable status based in the EMEA regions where Morgan Stanley is present, with an annual total revenue under £5 million. Applicants with an annual total revenue over £5 million must demonstrate why existing funds cannot be used to support the proposed initiative.
- Applications are reviewed by an expert panel of judges and are evaluated based on the equally weighted criteria below:
- Innovation: Applications must present an inventive solution for addressing unmet needs to improve children’s and young people’s health, mental wellbeing or educational outcomes, especially among disadvantaged and vulnerable populations.
- Expertise: Applications should outline executable services informed and/or delivered by professionals, highlighting any related expertise and evidence-based models.
- Impact: Applications should offer measurable deliverables aimed at improving outcomes for children and young people, with a clear evaluation model and measurable outcomes.
- Potential: Applications will also be judged on the feasibility of replicating or scaling the proposed service to benefit children and young people in broader communities.
- A proposed project can be national, regional or local in scope. They are especially interested in projects that can potentially replicate or scale the service to benefit children and young people in broader communities
- Only organisations who are based and delivering in the EMEA regions where Morgan Stanley is present are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Morgan Stanley.