Rules & Terms and Conditions

6.1 Your application must be in English.

6.2 You must complete registration to participate in the Open Call. Individuals representing an applicable organization must be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry to register and participate in the Open Call.

6.3 Your Entry should meet the application requirements stipulated on this website. You are required to register in advance of any deadlines for the submission of an Entry, and You must comply with all other deadlines posted on this website and incorporated herein by reference. Your Entry may not, in the sole discretion of Open Call Sponsor and/or Lever for Change, contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content. The Open Call Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Open Call in whole or in part without liability to You. The Open Call Sponsor and/or Lever for Change also reserve the right to disqualify You from participating because of violation of the Rules or Terms and Conditions or either determines such that disqualification is necessary and appropriate in light of the purposes of the Open Call.

6.4 By participating in the Open Call, You represent, warrant, and agree that:

a. You are the sole author, creator, and owner of the Entry;

b. the Entry is true and correct in all material respects;

c. the Entry does not and will not violate or infringe upon the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights of any third party, entity or individual;

d. the Entry does not and will not contain any harmful computer code (sometimes referred to as "malware," "viruses" or "worms"); and

e. the Entry, and Your use of the Entry, does not and will not violate any applicable laws or regulations, including, without limitation, applicable export control laws and regulations of the United States and other jurisdictions. If the Entry includes any third party works (such as third party content or open source code), You must provide the Open Call Sponsor with all appropriate licenses and releases for such third party works. In the event You cannot provide all such required licenses and releases, the Open Call Sponsor reserves the right, in the Open Call Sponsor’s sole discretion, to disqualify the applicable Entry.

6.5 You may participate by registering, but You may not register more than one true and uniform identity; multiple registrations for a participant using multiple identities are not allowed. Open Call Sponsor, Lever for Change, and/or Submittable reserve the right to disqualify any Entry made by a participant violating this limitation, regardless of whether all of the respective parties had knowledge of such violation. Each registrant may submit at most one Entry.

6.6 Upon submitting Your Entry, the Entry will be subjected to an Administrative Review, to ensure compliance with all requirements. Qualified Entries will then be distributed to other registrants during a Participatory assessment of those Entries. If Your Entry qualifies for Participatory Review, You will be required to assess at least five (5) other Entries. If You do not complete those assessments, using the tools and process described on this Website, Your participation may be terminated and Application disqualified. Based on the scores from each Participatory Review, calculated through the Scoring Process, a rank order of the Entries will be populated. Up to 1,000 of the top-scoring Entries will be eligible to advance to the next phase of review. The Open Call Sponsor will make a $500 contribution recommendation from a donor advised fund to each qualified Entry that satisfactorily completes the Participatory Review process.

6.7 Qualified Entries as determined by the Participatory Review will advance to an Evaluation Panel review. The Evaluation Panel consists of persons who are identified on this Website. Each of the qualified Entries will be assessed by five Evaluation Panel members, who will be assigned to score these Entries either randomly or after considering any potential conflicts of interest, using the scoring rubric that is described on this Website and which is incorporated by reference herein. In cases where a Reviewer indicates any potential conflict of interest, the Entry will be assigned to another Reviewer. Based on a set of Evaluation Panel review analysis, a rank order of the Entries will be populated.

6.8 Once a rank order of Entries has been populated from the Evaluation Panel review using the Scoring Process, the Open Call Sponsor will review and discuss the top Applicants and will determine any Awardees, using criteria that it will determine in its discretion and may incorporate considerations beyond the Evaluation Panel’s reviews. The Open Call Sponsor plans to make two hundred and fifty (250) gifts of US $1 million each with the precise number contingent on the quality of submissions.

If a top-ranked Applicant is unable to fully participate in the next phase of the Open Call, then it may forfeit their designation as an Awardee, and another top-ranked Applicant in the rank order of Entries may be named an Awardee in their place. Final recommendations of Awardees rests with the Open Call Sponsor in its sole discretion.

6.9 By submitting your Entry, you agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless the Open Call Sponsor, Lever for Change, Submittable, Evaluation Panel and their partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors and representatives from any Loss arising out of your participation in Open Call and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any Award(s). Neither the Open Call Sponsor, Lever for Change, nor Submittable assume responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Open Call entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. Neither the Open Call Sponsor, Lever for Change, nor Submittable are responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to applicants’ or any other persons’ computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to this Open Call. In the event of a dispute about the identity of any Applicant, an online registration will be declared as if made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry.

6.10 THIS OPEN CALL IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Applicants agree that this Open Call shall be subject to and governed by the laws of the United States of America and the forum of any dispute shall be in the courts of the United States of America.

6.11 The Open Call sponsor reserves the right in their sole discretion to disqualify any Applicant who is found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the YIELD GIVING OPEN CALL, to be acting in violation of these RULES or the TERMS, or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with the intent to disrupt or undermine the legitimate operation of the YIELD GIVING OPEN CALL, or to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person.

6.12 Entry into the YIELD GIVING OPEN CALL does not constitute entry into any other Lever for Change competition, Submittable competition, or promotion that may be offered by the Open Call Sponsor and/or its affiliates.

6.13 Open Call Sponsor and/or Submittable reserve the right to disqualify any participant who violates these RULES, the TERMS and any standards of behavior expressed or implied in them.

6.14 The names of Finalists and Awardees will be posted on this website for such period of time as the Open Call Sponsor deems reasonable.