Nominations are now open for Cisco Youth Leadership Award, which invites young individuals aged 18-30 who have contributed meaningfully towards the goal of ending extreme poverty.
The Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award was established by Cisco and Global Citizen to recognize and lift up a young person who positively impacts the world, demonstrate the impact that young people are having on achieving the United Nation’s Global Goals, and accelerate global problem-solving.
Eligibility
- This award is looking for a young person who is making extraordinary progress toward one or more of the Global Goals;
- This award is looking for organizations that use an IT-based solution to improve efficiency, reach, and magnify impact. A qualifying IT-based solution is one that produces greater impact, at a lower cost, higher quality, with stronger outcomes – and also enables specific metrics for social outcome to be gathered and reported;
- This award is looking for a transformative leader who is having an impact;
- They accept applications from all over the world, with the exception of countries and entities subject to financial or other sanctions by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) or other government entity of the United States of America that may restrict the transfer of the Prize money;
- They accept applications from any individual who is doing impactful work and who has a registered legal entity such as a non-profit, for-profit, B-corp, social enterprise, etc.
- The Prize will be awarded to an individual, but the money will be allocated to the nominated organization that the individual works for.
Grant size: US$250,000
Deadline: January 20, 2023