Deadline:15th August, 2023
Generative AI Skills Challenge is a global grant for organizations to help train and upskill teams on generative AI to drive social impact. With a particular focus on fair and community-led integration in low- and middle-income countries and contexts (LMICs), the Challenge aims to accelerate digital inclusion, socioeconomic mobility, and skills advancement and acquisition for workers from historically marginalized populations around the world.
Benefits
- In-kind support for Awardees may include, but is not limited to, data science talent, staff training, technical support and consulting, media production, marketing and promotional outreach, and software and infrastructure licenses.
- The Challenge will award up to five final winners with a combination of grant funding and in-kind support with a combined total value of $250,000 USD.
- Each final Award will be issued pursuant to the terms of a grant agreement between New Venture Fund and the relevant Awardee.
Eligibility
- Eligible applicants include nonprofits, social enterprises, and academic/research institutions from across the globe.
- Social enterprises are eligible to apply, provided they are located outside of Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Jordan, Russia, Syria, Yemen, North Korea, and Ukraine (Russian-occupied territories), and that their proposed project meets the foregoing requirements for charitability.
Additional Requirements
- Your Entry must be submitted in English.
- All applicants must register for the Challenge here prior to applying.
- All Entries must comply with these Rules and be submitted in accordance with any deadlines listed on this Website.
- Your Entry may not contain obscene, defamatory, or illegal content. The Challenge Partners reserve the right to disqualify any Entries that they determine, in their sole discretion, violate this provision.
- All Entries must have a charitable purpose, as defined in Section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of the United States of America. In order for a project to be charitable under U.S. law, it must (i) have a broad social purpose and benefit and (ii) not result in financial gain to any individual or any non-charitable entity that is more than “incidental and tenuous” to the related social impact. You can read more about the second requirement here.
- All Entries should reflect the anticipated ownership, use, and/or licensing of any intellectual property resulting from the Challenge or any Challenge Award. To meet the second requirement for charitability above, grant agreements between data.org and any Challenge Awardees that are not 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations may include stipulations relating to such intellectual property. The nature of any such stipulations will be flexible and will consider your project’s unique structure and goals.
- Challenge Awards may not be used for projects that attempt to: (a) influence the outcome of any domestic or foreign election for public office; (b) support lobbying or other attempts to influence local, state, federal or foreign legislation; (c) conduct any “lobbying activity” as that term is defined under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; or (e) otherwise violate any legal restriction applicable to nonprofit organizations exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), including any federal, state, local or foreign rule or regulation pertaining to advocacy, lobbying, political activity or government ethics.
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