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A crowd-sourced social impact competition awarding prizes for innovative solutions to society’s biggest challenges based on votes of the public.

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INAUGURAL PEOPLE'S PRIZES

Dec. 1 - 13, 2020

Solutions

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Funding

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Anonymous Donors

Amplification

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Mentorship

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Incubation

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Platform

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THE PEOPLE'S PRIZE FOR MIT SOLVE

MIT Solve is a marketplace for social impact innovation with a mission to solve world challenges.

 

MIT Solve 2020 Health Security & Pandemics Challenge:
How can communities around the world prepare for, detect,
and respond to emerging pandemics and health security threats?

People's Prize selected three MIT Solver teams from the 15 finalists in this challenge.
MIT Solve's experts short-listed finalists from over 700 applicants from 95 countries. 

All three teams will receive strategy and promotional support

from prize partners in anticipation of the voting competition.

SUMMIT IMPACT PEOPLE'S PRIZE

Thanks to a combination of generous donors and matching grants, the Summit Impact People’s Prize

will fund Summit Impact Labs, a new platform for collaboration toward social good.

Funds from the prize will go toward building the Impact Labs platform. Based on voting by the

Summit Impact community during the Young World Leaders Summit Dec 11-13, a portion of these

funds will be split 50%, 30%, 20% as special funding for Summit Impact's first three labs in 2021.

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Criminal Justice Policy

After a year of writing progressive policy papers with Lab Director, DA George Gascon, Summit Impact is renewing our Criminal Justice Policy Lab for the next two years. Summit Impact will be collaborating with progressive DAs across the country to enact policy reform, sharing new creative media, and supporting innovators who are leading the shift from incarceration to community corrections.

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Conservation Leadership

This is a critical time to devote resources, ingenuity, and the power of networks toward conserving and regenerating our planet. Through Summit Impact's Conservation Leadership lab, we’ll be partnering with Conservation International to support the next generation of conservation leaders in 33 countries worldwide, and working with indigenous youth conservation leaders to support interconnected initiatives.

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Future of Work for Underestimated Youth

1 in 7 young people (more than 4 million) are disconnected from the US economy. Disconnected youth face outcomes that extend for their lifetimes - higher unemployment, lower wages, and higher likelihood of contact with the criminal justice system. In Summit Impact's Future of Work lab, we'll be supporting leading social entrepreneurs who are working to uplift underestimated youth in context of COVID-19 and the impending unemployment crisis.

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November 30

December 1-13

December 11-13

December 13

Date TBD 2021

January 10

People's Prize selects three Solver teams from MIT Solve's Health Securities & Pandemics Challenge.

Summit Impact selects the three Pilot Impact Labs launching in March 2021.

MIT Solve People's Prize global online voting competition.

Participants at Young World Leaders Summit vote on how prize funding will be distributed between the three labs. 

Summit finalists celebrated in the closing keynote talk at Young World Leaders Summit.

People's Prize for MIT Solve finalists celebrated in a virtual awards ceremony.

Cohort and program development begin for each lab.

PROCESS

To discover and accelerate critical breakthroughs we partner with foundations, family offices, brands, educational institutions, non-profits, content producers, media organizations, and creative influencers.

CREATE

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Partner with sponsors to identify a challenge and raise a Prize Pool. Partner with experts to crowdsource and credibly vet proposed solutions.

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CEREMONY

CHOOSE

Finalists' celebration event with People's Prize partners, sponsors, and industry leaders.

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People’s Prize, sponsors, and partners select solutions to compete for prizes.

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COMPETITION

Online influencer-led campaign promotes participation. Votes unlock sponsor’s funding and determine prize distribution.

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COUNTDOWN

People’s Prize and partners support entrants with strategy and content.

PROCESS
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AHSA Platform

Xetova * Africa Health Security Alliance 

Nairobi, Kenya

AI tech that triggers and recommends actions to efficiently plan and distribute supplies in response to future health crises.

We plan to operate in several African countries w/in next year, improving the health security of up to 450 million.

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Jute

Jute cellulose-based biodegradable PPE 
Dhaka, Bangladesh

Jute-polymer-based recyclable, biodegradable anti-microbial (oligo-chitosan-coated) personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.

We're currently piloting a prototype in Bangladesh.

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PODD

Participatory One Heath Disease Detection  Bangkok, Thailand

PODD: A pre-spillover participatory community disease detection surveillance platform.

Spillovers occur when a pathogen jumps from another species to humans. SARS,MERS, Swine Flu, Ebola, HIV, and COVID-19 are all instances of spillover.

We plan to operate in several SE Asian countries w/in next year.

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WOMEN RISING '19

For Phase 1 of the Campaign we raised $125,000 in crowd funds to more than match a $100,000 pledge, for a total of $225,000 to allow the Free Yezidi Foundation to help hundreds of Isis Sex-Slave victims with legal advocacy, psycho-social support and vocational training; and unlock a subsequent USAID grant of $300,000.

PHASE ONE

PHASE TWO

For Phase 2, we announced our second challenge grant at the Decade of Women Summit in Iceland with charity:water, ultimately doubling our $300,000 challenge grant to expand a proven public private partnership model called Everyone Forever implemented by Water for People to two additional districts in Rwanda.  Solving for clean water for an entire district means thousands of people can now increase their chances to pursue education and other productive purposes and not fall ill to unsanitary water.  

WOMEN RISING

TEAM

RICHARD FOOS

Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board

Richard Foos has been in the entertainment business for over forty years, starting with a small record store named Rhino Records, and eventually growing it into the well-known audio label which was sold to Time Warner in 1998.  Since then, Foos and his partners started another company, Shout! Factory, with Richard as Chairman.  Now in its 16th year, Shout! is one of the leading independent companies in entertainment, giving its fans definitive home media releases of classic and cult-favorite films and TV shows, as well as theatrical releases and original productions.  Foos strongly believes in merging one’s social values with business and has installed a strong sense of purpose and giving back in all his business concerns.  He serves as Chairman Emeritus for Little Kids Rock and on the boards of LAANE, Type Media Center, Pico Union Project, College Match, Brave New Films and other such non-profits that make a strong commitment to social progress.

BOBBY KIA

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Bobby Kia is an impact investing advisor to the International Finance Corporation as well as family offices. Bobby is also Advisor to Capital for Climate – an institutional investor scale climate intelligence system and fund of funds. 

TERRENCE McNALLY

Co-Founder & Chief Strategist

After a career in entertainment (writer and producer of cult hit film, Earth Girls Are Easy), Terrence McNally has helped many non-profits, foundations, and progressive businesses to tell more compelling stories. His podcast Free Forum envisions “a world that just might work” through in-depth interviews - Michael Lewis to Van Jones, Doris Kearns Goodwin to Arianna  Huffington. Disruptive, the podcast he hosts and produces for Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, was honored by the Webbies as one of the top Science podcasts of 2017.

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