Offer: Out of the Box Prize 2010
by Carri Pence | August 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM | Opportunities
The Community Tool Box will honor innovative approaches to promoting community health and development worldwide with the 2010 Out of the Box Prize. We invite you to enter and encourage you to share contest information with others doing innovative work to improve life in their communities anywhere in the world. (Click on the website to download a flyer that can be shared with others.)
Your group’s work may involve efforts to improve community health, education, urban or rural development, poverty, the environment, social justice, or other related issues of importance to communities. Applicants must be willing to share the group’s innovative and promising approach with others.
Grand Prize:
$5,000 cash award (USD) + free customized WorkStation for your group (value $2,100)
Second Prize:
$2,000 cash award (USD) + free customized WorkStation for your group
Award Finalists: All Award Finalists stories will be featured on the Community Tool Box as an
outstanding example of “Taking Action in Your Community.”
Finalists will be selected by an international panel of judges. Site visitors will vote on their favorite "Out of the Box" project to be awarded the top two prizes. Please click on the link for the application.
Important Contest Dates:
8/1/2010: Opening date for applications
10/31/2010: Deadline for submission of applications
11/1 - 11/21/2010: International panel reviews the applications to select Finalists
12/1/2010: Award Finalists posted on the homepage of the Community Tool Box; public voting begins
1/31/2011: Public voting on Award Finalists closes
2/15/2011: Grand Prize and Second Prize announced
