Sponsoring Agency: REDI Challenge
Type of Fund: Challenges, Competitions or Prizes
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/01/2021
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
Apply for REDI Challenge: an equity scorecard for the South Florida tech, innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem, powered by Verizon, Knight Foundation.
This multi-week survey will generate community derived data to help the community and participating organizations better understand the experiences, expectations, access gaps and opportunities. Specifically, it will benchmark sentiment, diversity, equity, and inclusion key progress indicators (KPIs) across four (4) primary domains:
• People
o Talent Pipeline + Mentors
o Champions + Ecosystem Builders
• Networks
o Capital + Funding
o Policy + Supports
• Programs
o Onramps + Pathways
o Intersections + Conversations
• Narratives
o Metrics + Learning
o Identity + Storytelling
Benefits
• Official Partner Benefits:
o As an Official Partner, your organization’s name and logo will be listed on the REDI Challenge scorecard website.
o After the scorecard survey closes, your organization will receive a custom data set of responses from your audience which we hope will provide helpful and specific insights regarding their needs and experiences.
o Organization also have a chance to win a community impact grant.
• Individual Benefits
o Individual participants will have the option to receive a scorecard with their personal results and enter a drawing for a special incentive prize.
Special Incentives
• Through the generosity of the REDI Challenge sponsors, we have the following special incentives available:
• Incentives for Individuals:
o Individual participants will be eligible for random and weekly draws for gift cards of up to $500
• Incentives for Partner Organizations:
o Eligible partner organizations will be included in random draws for impact grants of up to $1500
Criteria
• Anyone and everyone who is playing a role in South Florida’s innovation ecosystem, especially those who feel underestimated due to their identity.
• Innovation is not exclusive to tech startup founders and established business, the REDI Challenge is designed to include social impact, the creative industries, corporate, startup employees, service providers and entrepreneurial support organisations, including non profits.
• Afer all, innovation is for everyone.
More information at: https://www.redichallenge.org/
