We foster an environment where innovators can rapidly test, refine, and scale their market-based solutions—and solve real-world challenges.
Do you have a creative solution to the challenges of K-12 education in the United States? Ed-Prize offers grants of up to $75,000 to bring your project to life.
Applications open mid-March
Share your creative, market-based solutions to the challenges of poverty in communities nationwide. Prizes range from $20,000 to $75,000.
Applications close Feb. 3
Collaborate with other entrepreneurs to refine and improve your idea for making communities better during our one and two-day workshops for entrepreneurs.
Events throughout 2025
Elevate your ideas.
What We Do
We IDENTIFY innovative solutions.
We find exceptional entrepreneurs, reward new ideas, and advance promising projects through the Ed-Prize and Pathways to Prosperity grant programs.
We ACCELERATE them.
We invite select entrepreneurs to our Accelerator co-creation workshops, where Advisors—leaders in for-profit and nonprofit fields—help sharpen and refine the entrepreneur’s project proposals.
We ACTUALIZE them.
We connect entrepreneurs with policy professionals who test and turn their projects into on-the-ground realities; we also share case studies and field guides to help others implement these tested, replicable solutions in their own communities.
LaunchPad advances the work of social entrepreneurs through an unparalleled network of guidance, resources, and financial support. We identify promising individuals, accelerate their ideas with the guidance of our teams of expert advisors, and help actualize their innovative projects with the resources of State Policy Network’s unparalleled 50-state network.