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* THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS  *                announces a $30,000 Literary Grant to be awarded November 20, 2008.

First Semi-Finalist Deadline:  August 31, 2007

 

$2,000 Semi-Finalist Grant Winner to be announced September 2007

Semi-Finalist Grant Winners will be entered into the $30,000 Final Competition

Submissions are to include global solutions for each of the following 15 categories:

World Hunger & Nutrition, Air, Water, Soil, Preventative Healthcare, Housing, Child Welfare, Social Justice, Politics, Ecology, Economy, Energy, Education, Animal Cruelty, Criminal Rehabilitation, and World Peace.

Each category submission may be no longer than one page, but may contain brief summaries with weblinks to published articles or books.

Submission fee: $10,000* 

*$1,000 for entries by, or through, an international non-profit non-partisan social service organization. 

*$100 submission fee if submitting single category only.

Candidates for the Literary Grant are encouraged to seek sponsorships from local businesses, community leaders, friends, and family to help offset the entrance fee.  This will help to secure a worldwide investment in the necessary solutions.

Judging Criteria:  the most thorough paradigm shift in science, economics, energy production, environmental studies, education, housing, social justice, politics, psychology, and MindBody health to bring about world peace.

Additional Prizes awarded for Selected Single Category Finalist Winners

 

Why?      Because the best of all possible worlds is possible.

How?      When one woman agreed to put her house up for collateral to ensure the funds for the prize, we saw that change was truly possible.

 

Entries to be submitted online.   Entry details announced April 2007.