World Pulse's Digital Action Campaigns bring together powerful
grassroots women leaders who are generating vital changes on the ground.
By providing key resources and tools to our community, we can support
the empowerment of exceptional women creating positive change. For the
WWW: Women Weave the Web Campaign, World Pulse will be giving away some
incredible prizes, including the $20,000 Lynn Syms Prize.
World Pulse is honored to partner with sculptor and philanthropist Lynn Syms to announce the inaugural Lynn Syms Prize. In 2014, the prize will be awarded to an outstanding grassroots woman and visionary voice using digital tools to effect change and advance her community work.
The prize will include the 2014 Lynn Syms Prize title, a $20,000
monetary prize to be paid out over two years to support her community
based work, a feature profile on WorldPulse.com, and an all-expense paid
trip to speak her message in New York City.
Criteria
The Lynn Syms prize will recognize a relatively unknown woman
activist with an exceptional track record of early accomplishment in
community based work to systemically address a pervasive problem faced
by women around the world. The prize is targeted for a grassroots woman
leader based and working primarily in a developing country and having a
demonstrated ability to elevate community concerns and serve as an
inspiration to community leaders elsewhere. She must have an
established organization, program or project, though in the early stage
of development. Characteristics this woman leader should embody
include: courage, commitment, integrity and the ability to communicate
effectively for her cause.
Importantly, for the 2014 prize, candidates must
also be successfully using digital tools to advance her work and she
must participate in World Pulse’s Women Weave the Web Campaign.
Contest Eligibility. The World Pulse Lynn Syms Prize Program contest
("Contest") is open to all persons worldwide who are at least eighteen
(18) years of age and have reached the age of majority in their
state/country/province of residence as of the date of entry, except for
persons residing in jurisdictions where the Contest is prohibited
(collectively, "Ineligible Jurisdictions"). Persons located in an
Ineligible Jurisdiction and/or entries originating from an Ineligible
Jurisdiction are not eligible for and may not participate in the
Contest.
