Application Deadline:
19 September 2025
About Organisation
The Children’s Prize Foundation is dedicated to transforming child health and survival through innovative and data-driven approaches. Established with a maverick spirit, the organization aims to challenge conventional philanthropic methods by focusing on measurable outcomes and real-world impact. Its goal is to ensure that funds are used effectively to solve critical health problems affecting children around the globe. The foundation recognizes that uncertainty often surrounds how money is allocated within philanthropy, leading to growing public concern. By emphasizing transparency, evidence-based solutions, and rigorous evaluation, the Children’s Prize seeks to rebuild trust in global child health initiatives. It operates as a modern philanthropic platform that invites solutions addressing fundamental health challenges while promoting accountability. The foundation’s problem-driven approach begins by identifying core issues affecting child well-being and seeking interventions that address these challenges at their root. Through its open competitions and grant-making programs, the foundation encourages innovative projects that can sustainably improve infrastructure, healthcare access, and community resilience, ensuring that long-term improvements in child survival are achieved in a structured and impactful manner.
About the Grant
The 2025 Children’s Prize, themed Infrastructure for Life, invites global submissions for projects that enhance child health and survival through resilient and long-lasting infrastructure. Over 13,000 children under the age of five die each day due to preventable causes, and this grant seeks to address this challenge by supporting projects that build or improve physical systems critical for health and wellbeing. The focus is on hard infrastructure, which refers to tangible and durable structures and systems such as buildings, healthcare facilities, energy networks, water and sanitation systems, transportation, communication networks, environmental protection mechanisms, and flood control systems. Projects should aim to create resources that serve communities for years, ensuring better health outcomes for children and families alike. The prize encourages interventions that are not only innovative but also practical and sustainable, bridging the gap between technical solutions and community resilience. The winner will receive a grant of $165,000 to support the scaling or implementation of their project. Through this competition, the foundation aims to foster solutions that create lasting, measurable impacts on child survival while encouraging data-driven, accountable philanthropic efforts.
Who can Apply?
This grant is open to organizations, institutions, and networks working toward improving child health and survival through infrastructure-related projects. Applicants must demonstrate that their proposed initiative focuses on resilient, hard infrastructure solutions that directly benefit children and communities in need. Eligible projects should target core systems such as healthcare facilities, water and sanitation infrastructure, energy access, transportation, communication networks, environmental safeguards, and flood control mechanisms. Applications from both emerging and established organizations are welcome, provided that the project is designed to create long-term benefits and sustainable improvements in child health. The foundation encourages proposals that combine technical rigor with community engagement and data-driven planning. Interventions must be clearly aligned with measurable health outcomes and designed to serve children’s wellbeing in underserved regions. Multidisciplinary teams, collaborations with governments, NGOs, private sector actors, and academic institutions are encouraged, as they strengthen the capacity to deliver impactful solutions. While applicants are not required to have prior experience in infrastructure projects, proposals must provide evidence of feasibility, scalability, and the ability to implement solutions effectively. The foundation prioritizes projects that focus on underserved populations, particularly in regions where infrastructure gaps significantly contribute to child mortality and poor health outcomes.
How to Apply?
Interested applicants must prepare a detailed project proposal demonstrating how their infrastructure solution supports child health. The application should outline the scope, goals, impact measures, and sustainability plans. Projects will be evaluated based on their alignment with the prize’s mission. All submissions must be completed by the specified deadline. Applicants can submit their proposals through the foundation’s official platform after reviewing the guidelines and eligibility requirements.
Application Deadline
Applications for the 2025 Children’s Prize must be submitted by 19 September 2025. Only proposals submitted before the deadline will be reviewed for consideration in the grant selection process.
Last Date To Apply
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