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Visionary New Yorkers. Big ideas for NYC.
🗽 Oh, and a $200K no-strings-attached Prize.

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🗽 OUR OPEN CALL IS LIVE!🗽 We're giving five New Yorkers $200,000 for their big idea to make this city even better. Our application is open now until Monday, November 30 6pm ET.

Five New Yorkers just won $200K each to push the city forward. (Swipe to meet this year's winners!) Now we're looking for the next five.

Whether you're an artist, organizer, entrepreneur, educator, or just someone with a big idea we want to hear from you! Know a New Yorker with an audacious dream and a plan to make it real? Nominate them!

🔗 thedavidprize.org (Go ahead and click the link in our bio!) taken in New York City by @davidprizenyc

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12 days ago

COME HANG OUT WITH US IRL! 🗽

Have a question about the Prize or your submission? Looking for an opportunity to meet a previous winner? Come link us at one of these gatherings!

#nyc #nycfunding taken in New York City by @davidprizenyc

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8 days ago

Every year, we ask New Yorkers a simple but ambitious question: “What’s your big idea to make this city even better?” The David Prize gives five of them $200,000 of no-strings-attached funding to help turn their vision into a reality.

Nearly a year since opening our last Open Call, we’re thrilled to introduce five New Yorkers who belong on your radar. They’re building a better New York through housing, civics, sustainability, education and public health, and they were doing the work long before anyone handed them a check.

Here are your 2026 David Prize Winners! ➡️

📸: @evelynfreja

🗽 Aaliyah Duah is a Brooklyn-born finance guru teaching New York’s youngest how to make, save, and invest money. Through her company Financial Revolutionn, Aaliyah brings relatable financial education to public school students across the boroughs. Think: learning stocks through Roblox and investing through Jordan sneakers.

🗽Dave Ores is a Lower East Side doctor running a one-man practice on the premise that all New Yorkers deserve access to healthcare. Whether at his free medical booth at Tompkins Square Park or his ‘Pay What You Can Wednesdays’ program, Dr. Dave is bringing healthcare to every New Yorker at the lowest possible cost.

🗽 Isaac Adlerstein is a nonprofit leader helping turn more of NYC’s houses of worship into nightly shelters for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. He’s created a model at Broadway Community, a one-stop shelter located in the basement of the Broadway Presbyterian Church, where Isaac turns crisis into stability.

🗽 Oded Oren is a public-defender-turned-tech-founder holding New York’s courts and judges accountable to the New Yorkers they serve. Through his organization Scrutinize, New York now has its first and only judicial transparency organization that helps New Yorkers use data to understand a judge’s record, compare judges, and draw their own conclusions.

🗽Regina Carter is a NYCHA Tenant Association President rerouting excess furniture to NYC residents who need it most. Her organization Repurposed Life has distributed over half a million pounds of furniture headed to the landfills to low-income New Yorkers through free pop-ups and drop o taken in New York City by @davidprizenyc

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💸OCTOBER CASH GIVEAWAY💸 The David Prize is known for giving five New Yorkers $200,000 each year, but we know there are far more extraordinary New Yorkers doing work to impact the city! That’s why we have a monthly Instagram giveaway of $250 intended for a New Yorker who is pushing the city forward and could use an extra no-strings-attached boost! You might be a university student training for a career as a public defender, a community organizer running a mutual aid initiative, or a health worker pushing through burnout.

HERE’S HOW TO ENTER: (one entry per person!)
1️⃣ Like this post
2️⃣ Make sure you’re following the @davidprizenyc account
3️⃣ Drop a comment tagging the person you’re nominating (this can be yourself!) & most importantly share what you *or* the person you’re nominating is working on for NYC and why the work matters to the city

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: The giveaway runs through the last day of October at 11:59PM ET. This is open to New Yorkers that are 18+ and live within the 5 boroughs (winner may be required to verify NYC residency). The winner will be selected based on the level of creativity/ impact of what they’re working on for the city! The winner will be contacted via DM, asked to respond within 24 hours, and announced via Instagram Stories. We ask that the recipient provides their best mailing address, a W9 form and hops on a quick call with us after to tell us more about their story!

Note: This giveaway is not associated or endorsed by Meta. taken in New York City by @davidprizenyc

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2 days ago

A little look at our Astoria Unites Community Dinner in collaboration with @davidprizenyc and @31staveopenstreet 💜✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday to spend time with one another, connect with our community, and share meaningful conversations about safety, community, and our collective power. We loved bringing everyone together and hope you had just as much fun as we did hosting you💜

#communitydinner #malikah #community by @davidprizenyc

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5 days ago

THE MOST NEW YORK PARTY🗽 Our favorite night of the year! This time, we celebrated the future of our favorite city. 🛸

Thank you everyone who showed out to celebrate this year’s winners and every vendor that made the event possible! We’re still recovering from our Bolder Brighter Bash. There were fortunes told, dim sum consumed and collectible cards traded.

Until the next one! taken in Domino Sugar Factory by @davidprizenyc

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9 days ago

Just some of our must haves 👀🗽 Psssst… Stop by @w4newsstand to read our latest newspaper on this year’s winners! 🗞️ taken in New York City by @davidprizenyc

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16 days ago

New ‘Future of NY’ totes just dropped 👀👀 (Thank you @worksinprogressnyc!) So naturally our team has to show what we carry in them… Here’s WHAT’S IN MY BAG: PRIZE EDITION 🙂‍↕️🗽 by @davidprizenyc

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18 days ago

Domingo Morales is leading the largest human-powered compost site in America with @compostpower

He has organized 15,000 volunteers, doubled compost production to 200 tons per year and designed and built 10 compost sites in NYC while managing six community compost operations across the five boroughs. Congratulations to Domingo on being the first @davidprizenyc winner

#compost #nychumans #wilddesk by @davidprizenyc

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19 days ago

One of our most exciting pieces of coverage 🤩 Shout out to Hell Gate’s @jessynews4ny for chatting with all five our new winners before their big announcement! Celebrating at our intimate dinner and @w4newsstand was truly a night to remember 🗽 taken in West 4th Street Subway Station by @davidprizenyc

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20 days ago

🗽PRIZE PARTY VENDOR SPOTLIGHT 🥃 The future of New York is local. @faccia_brutto_spirits

For this year’s annual Prize party, we’re celebrating the people, places, and ideas shaping what’s next for our city. We’re thrilled to have a local Brooklyn favorite @faccia_brutto_spirits on the menu.

Rooted in NYC and inspired by the world, Faccia Brutto is exactly the kind of local talent that makes the future of this city so exciting.

Cheers! 🥂 #nyc #localbusiness #atlanticavenue #italianspirits taken in Faccia Brutto Spirits by @davidprizenyc

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23 days ago

One of our favorite parts of throwing our annual NYC-centric party is collaborating with the city’s incredible creators, vendors, and small businesses. It’s a party made for New Yorkers, by New Yorkers, in celebration of this year's winners. (We are already at capacity for it!)

This theme is The Future of NY and we’re bringing it to life with the people who make this city what it is. Meet some of the folks helping us imagine what’s next. 🗽🔮 taken in Domino Sugar Factory by @davidprizenyc

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