SOCIAL
INNOVATION
AWARDS
Teach
For America
Social
Innovation Fund
Fast
Innovation
by Design
Teach For America's Social Innovation Award is an annual competition that brings budding alumni entrepreneurs together to compete for up to $100,000 in seed funding and to engage in professional coaching built for early stage entrepreneurs.
The Award is intended to spark bold, new innovations that expand opportunities for students in low-income communities and address the root causes of educational inequity.
The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) is a powerful approach to transforming lives and communities that positions the federal government to be a catalyst for impact—mobilizing public and private resources to find and grow community solutions with evidence of strong results.
We unite public and private resources to evaluate and grow innovative community-based solutions that have evidence of results in low-income communities in any of three priority areas: economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development.
The 2014 Innovation By Design Awards bestow honors on designers and businesses that have worked together to solve the problems of today and tomorrow, achieving outcomes that neither could do alone.
The competition, now in its third year, includes 10 categories which are judged by a cross-section of established designers and design-minded executives (scroll down for a complete list). Entries are judged on their functionality, originality, beauty, sustainability, depth of user insight, cultural impact, and business impact--the key ingredients for any innovation.
