Deadline: 25-May-22
SDSN Youth’s first-ever Global Innovation and Impact Awards are now live! These Awards aim to recognize and mobilize leading solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals.
The awards are designed to identify, uplift, and award outstanding innovation, initiative, creativity, and enterprise that can serve as a building block to begin a global movement to scale the Sustainable Development Goal impact.
Goal: Their goal is to award ideas and commitments rigorously designed to test, learn, and scale solutions and build a worldwide community of learning, practice, and action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Awards
In order to uplift such solutions for a greater impact, thereby accelerating the achievement of the SDGs, SDSN Youth has launched the Global Youth Innovation Awards and the Global SDG Impact Awards. The Awards are launched in partnership with NOVA Impact, which provides Next-Gens, philanthropists and institutional families with resources, community support, mentorship and strategic development to accelerate collaborative action for more impact.
- Global Youth Innovation Awards: The Global Youth Innovation Awards are a call for applications targeting SDSN Youth’s network of more than 3,000 young changemakers worldwide building solutions for the SDGs.
- Global SDG Impact Awards: The Global SDG Impact Award are a global call for nominations to identify and recognize emerging private sector and academia initiatives and commitments towards implementing the SDGs, at local and national levels.
Funding Information
- The total amount of funding available for the awards is $10,000.
- There will be a total of 4 financial awards. These awards will be allocated to the Youth Innovation Awardees, along with the other awards benefits.
Benefits
They will work collaboratively with the awardees to provide seed funding, mentorship and access to exclusive opportunities and benefits to help you pave the way forward toward realizing the SDGs by 2030.
- Seed Funding: Awardees receive up to $2,500 to test, launch and scale their initiatives. Please note that funding is only available for the Global Youth Innovation Award.
- Exclusive Access to SDG Pioneers: The opportunity to collaborate and learn from SDG experts in various fields of sustainable development.
- Mentorship: A community of mentors and experts who will help refine your ideas and solutions, overcome challenges, attract investors, and achieve your objectives.
- Impact Drive Community of Practice: A community of practice alongside philanthropists, community leaders, and impact investors with the ability to engage in grant-making and impact projects.
- Global Recognition: Increased visibility in the SDG and sustainability space and the ability to showcase your solutions and commitments at premier SDG events and networks.
- Impact Education: A comprehensive suite of educational resources to learn and engage more deeply with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Eligibility Criteria
- These awards are a global call for applications and nominations for their more than 3,000 Youth network Members worldwide and initiatives in the private sector and academia that are building real solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals.
- $2.5 Trillion– The Annual Financing Gap standing in the way of the SDGs
- 43 Years– Behind schedule towards achieving the SDGs
- 0 Countries– Are on track to meet all of the goals
For more information, visit https://www.sdsnyouth.org/blog-posts/sdsn-youth-launches-its-first-ever-global-innovation-and-impact-awards