2015 Global Prize
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Link: https://reason.kzoo.edu/csjl/prize/

Countries: Global

Deadline: April 17, 2015

Grant size: $25,000 USD

Transformative Social Justice Leadership
Description
The Kalamazoo College Global Prize awards $25,000 to an innovative and collaborative social justice leadership project from around the globe. The competition honors and uplifts grassroots work that challenges structural inequality and centers the voices of those most impacted by an injustice.
Up to 10 finalists receive all-expense paid trip to Kalamazoo College to present their projects on campus, and a panel of community-wide and national jurors determines the semi-finalists and winner, respectively. The Global Prize ceremony is a dynamic weekend where the finalists share best practices with each other and the entire K community, who learn about these cutting-edge projects, interact personally with the finalists, and ultimately find inspiration for their own social justice-related pursuits.

Submissions Instructions
Entries must be in the form of 8 to 10 minute videos and must describe the social injustice that will be addressed, show how the project will take a fresh approach in addressing it, and demonstrate transformational thinking and commitments in its leadership structure.

Entries must

• Utilize the strengths of communities involved, maintains the trust of those most impacted, and inspires personal growth in everyone connected (TRANSFORMATIVE)
• Are driven by the voices, needs or leadership of the people most impacted by the issues addressed (GRASSROOTED)
• Aim to create systemic or structural change (SYSTEMIC)
• Attack root causes and have relevance beyond their own community (IMPACTFUL)
• Contribute to building movements for justice by making connections across gender, race, age, sexuality, ability, issue, nation, organization, religion, and identity (INTERSECTIONAL)
• Lead us into new territory and create new possibilities (INNOVATIVE)
• Support a leadership structure that includes people from various generations, including those under 30 (INTERGENERATIONAL)
• Risk personal, professional, or organizational safety or status, if necessary, to ensure justice (RISK-TAKING)
• Commit to shared decision-making, credit-sharing and/or consensus with multiple communities (COLLABORATIVE)
• Demonstrate need for attention and support to spark public consciousness and take work to next level (NEEDS VISIBILITY)

Eligibility

• Activists and scholars working collaboratively to address a local, regional, national or transnational injustice
• Multi-faith, multiracial, or multi-gender projects addressing a critical issue of the day
• Intergenerational projects that foreground youth leadership
• Global or domestic North/South projects that foreground leadership from the South
• Faculty/student projects wherein students serve as key architects and intellectual leaders
• Local or global sustainability projects that connect racial, economic and gender justice to that work
• Projects that break traditional frames or borders on social justice discourse or activism; i.e. work on interpersonal violence that excavates territories of/connectivity to state and transnational violence
• Other innovative leadership models or creative social justice processes that signal a breakthrough partnership or approach in addressing the injustice at hand.

For more information, please contact acsjl@kzoo.edu or 269-337-7398