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WIN FUNDING TO SCALE YOUR TECHNOLOGY

The Open Data For Good Challenge is now live. Awarding more than $210,000 to
teams using The Opportunity Project process.

OPEN DATA

FOR GOOD

GRAND CHALLENGE

NOW LIVE


WHAT IS IT?

The Open Data for Good Grand Challenge is a set of cash and in-kind prizes for
teams who have created high-impact digital tools that solve problems for the
public.

Please visit the official challenge.gov posting for the full rules and
application requirements.

View the rules


WHAT CAN YOU WIN?

Prizes range from $10,000 to $50,000 with additional prizes expected to be
announced!
We’re looking for tools that fit into one of these categories:

 * Climate, Resilience, and the Natural Environment
 * Society, Economy, and the Built Environment
 * Health and COVID-19


WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?

 1. Create a product using the TOP Product Development Toolkit or in a TOP or
    TOPx Sprint between January 1st, 2020 and October 24th, 2021
 2. Attend an informational session (optional)
 3. Submit your application by the deadline via email and a short submission
    form

Submissions are open from September 13, 2021 – October 24, 2021


TIMELINE

 1. PRIZE OPENS ON CHALLENGE.GOV
    
    
    
    July 1st, 2021
    
    
    
    * General Information Session – August 23, 2:00-3:00 pm ET
    * Open Data + Information Session – September 9, 3:00-4:15 pm ET

 2. PRIZE SUBMISSION OPENS
    
    
    
    September 13th, 2021
    
    
    
    * Final Info and Q&A – Oct 6, 5:00-6:00 pm ET

 3. PRIZE SUBMISSION DEADLINE
    
    
    
    October 24th, 2021
    
    

 4. JUDGING PROCESS
    
    
    
    November
    
    

 5. WINNERS ANNOUNCED
    
    
    
    December - January
    
    

2019 Prize Challenge winner Kristen Lewis of Measure of America receives her
prize from Ron Jarmin, Acting Director of the U.S. Census Bureau and Suzette
Kent, Former Federal Chief Information Officer


PAST PRIZE CHALLENGE


HOW IT ALL STARTED

In 2019, we launched The Opportunity Project Prize Challenge. The Census
Bureau’s first ever prize competition, it awarded $100,000 in funding across 5
teams.

WHY THE 2019 PRIZE WAS LAUNCHED

After 4 years of TOP, we created the TOP prize challenge to help address the
challenges technologists face in deploying and sustaining civic tech products.
The prize challenge aimed to support technologists in getting their solutions
into the hands of communities around the country.


JUDGED BY EXPERTS

User Friendly

Civic Impact

Creativity


Products in our first competition were scored for their creativity,
user-friendliness, and potential for civic impact by panels of product, data,
and policy specialists from private industry and government.


PAST WINNERS


PRADOS



DESCRIPTION

Helps the municipalities and communities in Puerto Rico enhance their address
infrastructure to support the reconstruction process, improve emergency response
and foster a more resilient future

SPRINT

Geo-Cohort

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Helping Tribal, State, and Local Governments with Local Address Data Collection


Awarded $20K


DATA2GO.NYC



DESCRIPTION

Free mapping and data tool for visualizing data that can help with decennial
Census outreach in NYC communities by answering questions like 'What happens
with Census data?' and 'Why does the Census matter to me?'

SPRINT

Original Sprint (2016 Sprint 1)

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Engaging Communities in the Census


Awarded $20K


CITY BUILDER



DESCRIPTION

Brings transparency to the Opportunity Zone ecosystem for investors, fund
manager, wealth managers, and cities

SPRINT

Workforce

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Catalyzing Investment in Opportunity Zones


Awarded $20K


CURA PATIENT



DESCRIPTION

Uses US Department of Veterans Affairs API and CMS API to reduce physician
burnout and hospital readmission rates for veteran heart failure patients.

SPRINT

TOP Health

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Using AI to Help Patients Find Clinical Trials


Awarded $20K


INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT DASHBOARDS



DESCRIPTION

Assists regional workforce and economic development conveners develop strategies
and prioritize initiatives to achieve inclusive development in their regions and
to build an inclusive development network that includes leaders from the civic
sector, government, and industry

SPRINT

Workforce

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Catalyzing Investment in Opportunity Zones


Awarded $20K

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