Pathways to Prosperity Prize Application 2025

Organizational Information

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Organization Mission:  Please tell us about the social problem(s) the organization intends to address and why it matters. Describe what makes the social problem(s) persistent and challenging, such as any specific obstacles. Describe the organization’s mission, who the organization serves, and what makes the organization’s approaches or interventions unique. (75 word limit)

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To give us a sense of the people and talent resources that you are working with, please share numbers of paid full-time, paid part-time, contract workers, and unpaid volunteers.  If the organization works closely with other organizational partners to carry out program interventions, describe that as well. (250 Character Limit)

What is your organization's tax status?

If you are a 501(c)(3) please upload your determination letter.

Your organization's total operating budget on an annual basis.

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Pathways to Prosperity Prize Application

Please provide a short, concise, and descriptive title the grant committee may use to refer to your project.

Project Summary: Please provide a brief overview of the project you are submitting and explain why you think it is a fit for the Pathways to Prosperity Prize, based on what you’ve read about the prize, State Policy Network and our work. Please also clarify your project’s stage (i.e. is the project in pilot, is this program intervention, adding key personnel, or building a new capability such as marketing)(400 word limit).

If your project advances to the second round, you will be required to include detailed information about how you will measure success and demonstrate impact. Here, we’d like you to give a brief overview of the impact and change in the country you hope to see, described in a specific, measurable way. These might be changes in behavior, attitudes, learning outcomes, or specific measurable improvements in quality of life.  In other words, what evidence helps your team answer the question, how do we know if what we are doing is working? It can be qualitative or quantitative. (250 word limit)

My project impacts

Please share them here

How would others who are facing similar challenges benefit from the work you are doing? Could someone else learn from your project and attempt to replicate your success elsewhere? (250 word limit)

Our vision for Pathways to Prosperity is rooted in the following guiding principles:

Local Solutions from Local Leaders: We believe local problems are best solved by local leaders who know and understand the challenges their communities face. Poverty and its impact are best understood by those living in the communities that are affected. 

Market-Based Solutions: We believe free enterprise is the most moral and proven system for giving as many people as possible opportunities to build businesses and livelihoods that serve their communities, create good jobs, and establish economic security for themselves and their families. Free enterprise has lifted billions of people worldwide out of poverty. Giving people the personal freedom to be entrepreneurial in all walks of life generates lasting social change that improves everyone’s quality of life. 

Impact, Measurement and Evaluation: We believe that progress must be measurable, and we believe those working on the ground in local communities are best positioned to identify the relevant metrics to measure poverty, the causes of poverty, and the consequences of poverty. Priority consideration is given to applications that show their thinking on the “how” of impact (clear outcome goals, clear step-change or strategies to achieve the intended impact, approach to experiments, evaluation, and learning, transparency about obstacles and risks, and thinking about ecosystems and partners.)

The Role of Government: We affirm that government at all levels plays a role in addressing poverty and its effects, particularly through safety-net programs. Long-term and primary dependency on government assistance, however, obstructs the kind of individual and community flourishing that SPN envisions.

The Pathways to Prosperity Prize rewards projects that reduce dependency and build and support individual and community empowerment.  Please select which guiding principles your project supports and provide a brief explanation of how your project aligns with these guiding principles. (450 words per guiding principle)

Guiding Principles

Local Solutions from Local LeadersMarket-Based SolutionsImpact, Measurement and EvaluationThe Role of Government

Local Solutions from Local Leaders

Impact, Measurement and Evaluation

The Role of Government

Market-Based Solutions

Other Information

Which opportunities, in addition to Pathways to Prosperity Prize, interest you? (Please check all that apply.)

LaunchPad Accelerator Workshop Being connected to SPN’s Network Staying in touch to learn more about other opportunities

How did your organization hear about Pathways to Prosperity Prize?

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