Pathways to Prosperity Prize Application 2026

Organizational Information

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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?

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Sponsoring Organization Name

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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 select... My Community Nationally 1 or more States

Please share them here

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"Innovation” is a broad term that can be used by many different people to describe many different things. Here’s what “innovation” means to us:

- A new idea or approach that others have not considered or tried
- Combining existing ideas or resources in a way that leads to a new idea or approach that others have not considered or tried
- A significant improvement on an existing idea or process.

Please describe how your organization’s work and/or this project is innovative. How does your work differ from or improve upon similar approaches by other organizations, and what elements of your project demonstrate its potential for replication and scale?

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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