Just Launched: $500,000+ Sustainability Prize for initiatives ‘Creating Shared Value’

Nestlé and Ashoka have launched the Creating Shared Value Prize for 2018, with a prize package worth CHF 500,000, a pitch opportunity at the World Water Forum in Brazil in 2018, and a prestigious Ashoka Fellowship

The Creating Shared Value Prize, launched in 2010, is a global search for leading innovations focused on creating shared value, high impact, and lasting change in communities. The Prize, relaunched in 2018 in partnership with Ashoka, aims to to source, support and scale up leading innovation in the fields of water, nutrition and rural development.

“This union will foster powerful co-creation with social entrepreneurs, and deepen the social impact on the communities and beneficiaries they serve”, says Olivier Fruchaud, Director of Ashoka Switzerland

Innovative businesses and social enterprises are invited to apply by 31st October 2017 via www.changemakers.com/creatingsharedvalue or nominate top innovators by emailing csvprize@ashoka.org. The best 5 initiatives will be invited to attend the CSV Forum 2018, in Brazil, where the winner will be announced.

Do you know any innovators working in water, nutrition or rural development?

• Nominate them by emailing their info to csvprize@ashoka.org
• Share this opportunity with your network — use the tweets, tools and assets in this info kit > http://po.st/csvinfokit
• Enter the CSV Prize today, just head to http://po.st/CSVPrize

Ashoka and the Creating Shared Value Prize

Through the Creating Shared Value Prize, Ashoka will have the opportunity to build and strengthen our community of sustainability innovators, and to leverage the huge size and scale in potential social impact through Nestle’s market position within a deeply interconnected value chain. The Prize is a launchpad for future collaborations and co-creations in the industry.

In the long term, Ashoka believe that there is an opportunity to co-create successful hybrid collaborations between business units and Ashoka Fellows, creating both economic and social value. Nestlé’s recent focus on opening partnerships with new stakeholders is a promising opportunity to showcase the ability to create efficient frameworks of collaboration with a global leader in its field.