Thank you for your interest in Justice Innovation Prize (the “Competition”). The Competition is sponsored by Dream.Org with platform support provided by Carrot. Please know that by participating in this Competition and in accordance with these RULES you are eligible to receive various forms of recognition and a possible Award from Dream.Org of up to $250,000 as a Winner and up to $50,000 as a Finalist. The RULES governing this Competition ("RULES") are stated here as an extension of the Terms & Conditions ("TERMS") for use of this website. The full TERMS are available for your review by accessing them on this Website. The RULES constitute "Competition Terms and Conditions" under Clause 2.3 of the TERMS. Capitalized words used but not defined in the RULES have meanings given to them in the TERMS. Further, any language contained on this website, including but not limited to these RULES, are also an extension of the TERMS, and therefore You are required to read and understand the entirety of the Website content before proceeding.
Please read these RULES and the TERMS carefully, as they describe the conditions under which you are allowed to participate. As you participate, you may periodically be asked to recognize your acceptance of these RULES and the TERMS by clicking "accept" at various pages on this website, but by continuing any use of this website you expressly consent to all of these RULES and the TERMS.
SUBMISSION OF AN ENTRY INTO THIS COMPETITION CONSTITUTES FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL AGREEMENT TO AND ACCEPTANCE OF THESE RULES AND THE TERMS.
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR TO WIN.
Dream.Org welcomes applications from individuals over the age of 18 years, who are representing a Lead Organization as an Applicant. Individuals who are not yet affiliated with an organization may submit an application, but must have an established organizational entity (Lead Organization) by the time the Prize is awarded to be eligible to receive funds.
Each Applicant must identify a Lead Organization as the recognized agency in the execution of any proposed Project contained in an Entry. Individuals may list themselves as the Lead Organization for the purpose of registering for the Competition but will not be eligible to receive an Award until an eligible organization is established. The Lead Organization will assume responsibility for the receipt and management of any Award funds from the Competition Sponsor and will maintain those fiduciary duties in close coordination with any partner organization(s). The purpose of including a Lead Organization is to ensure that there is sufficient administrative support and management for the use of any Award Funds and not to disintermediate the role of any partner(s) who are essential to the implementation of any proposed project contained in any Entry.
Eligibility related to any Lead Organization by type are as follows:
Eligible organizations are welcome to collaborate with individuals, schools, government agencies, and other entities in order to implement the proposed solution. Projects must be implemented within the United States.
A Lead Organization or individual can serve as the Lead Organization on only one application. An organization can serve as a partner on a team for multiple applications provided that each application proposes a separate, distinct solution. An individual submitting an application may not serve as a partner on another application.
Regional or location-specific branches of larger organizations, as well as departments, schools, and nonprofits within or based in a college/university, can each register and submit separately as the Lead Organization on one application as long as the proposed solutions are different and separate. There should be no overlap in team members. The intent of this policy is to ensure that any team is concentrating their best effort into a single application. We encourage teams to select a single project that best represents your organization's ability to deliver a solution that meets the scoring criteria.
Government agencies are not eligible to participate as the Lead Organization for any Applicant. Current or former grantees of Dream.Org may apply with projects that represent significantly different concepts from those already funded.
Government agencies may serve as partners on an Entry submitted by an eligible entity.
Employees of Dream.Org, Carrot, and any of their subsidiaries and affiliates, and immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, are not eligible to participate.
Proposed solutions must be used consistent with the Competition Sponsor’s charitable purposes and may not result in impermissible private benefit, as defined under IRC Section 501(c)(3), to other people, organizations, or entities, other than incidental private benefit that is a necessary byproduct of the accomplishment of the charitable purpose. Applicants are encouraged to consult with qualified legal counsel. The Competition Sponsor will evaluate this on a case-by-case basis.
All Applicants must demonstrate the financial capacity of the Lead Organization to carry out the project and to appropriately manage any Award.
Award funds must be used for the Project for which they are intended, and may not be used:
Advocacy activities not otherwise prohibited above are permissible.
Funds may be dispersed from a Lead Organization to other partners to implement the proposed solution, and not for general funds used for broader purposes.
Each Application should reflect the anticipated ownership, use, and licensing of any intellectual property; the use and licensing of intellectual property of the winning Entry will be subject to the terms of an agreement with the Competition Sponsor. You represent and warrant that your Entry is an original work created solely by You, that You own all Intellectual Property in and to the Entry, and that no other party has any right, title, claim or interest in the Entry, except as expressly identified by You to us in writing in Your application. You retain all right, title and interest in any inventions, software or work of authorship You invent or create and the ownership and use of intellectual property arising from this Competition remains with You, subject as may be set forth in the agreement with the Competition Sponsor.
Any Winner shall enter into a direct and separate award agreement with the Competition Sponsor, containing key terms and conditions which are separate from these RULES and TERMS posted on this website for this Competition.
1. Your application must be in English.
2. You must complete registration to participate in the Competition. You cannot reside in nor be governed by countries that are prohibited by law, regulation (including United States or other applicable export laws and regulations), treaty or administrative act from entering into trade relations (including export of technology) with the United States of America or its citizens.
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. Your Entry may not, in the sole and unfettered discretion of Dream.Org and/or Carrot, contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content. Dream.Org reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend Competition in whole or in part without liability to You. Dream.Org and/or Carrot also reserves the right to disqualify You from participating.
4. By participating in the Justice Innovation Prize, You represent, warrant, and agree that:
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. Dream.Org and/or Carrot 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. You may only submit one Entry.
6. The application requirements for your Entry are clearly described on this website. Your Entry will be assessed initially by five Judges (both peers and experts), who will be assigned to score your Entry either randomly or after considering any potential conflicts of interest, using the scoring rubric and any other judging criteria that are also described on this website. In cases where a Judge indicates any potential conflict of interest, the Entry will be assigned to another Judge. Judges will be responsible for scoring your Entry.
7. Once a rank order of Entries has been calculated, the top-scoring Entries will be reviewed by the Selection Committee with consideration given to diversity of solutions, geography, feasibility, and other criteria that may incorporate considerations beyond the Judges’ reviews. The Selection Committee Judges are permitted to communicate with Competitors solely for the purposes of carrying out due diligence for evaluating Your Entry and assigning a score during the review process, but those Judges are not required to contact any individual. By participating in the Justice Innovation Prize, You acknowledge and agree to be bound by the final decision of the Competition Sponsor.
8. While Carrot is providing an online platform for your participation, Carrot is not responsible for the payment of any Award(s). Payment of any Award(s) is the sole responsibility of Dream.Org and its designees, and under the Terms each participant has agreed to look solely to Dream.Org, as the Competition Sponsor, for the payment of any Award.
9. By submitting your Entry, you agree to release, discharge and hold harmless Dream.Org and Carrot and their partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors and representatives from any Loss arising out of your participation in Competition and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any Award(s). Neither Dream.Org nor Carrot 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 Competition entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. Neither Dream.Org nor Carrot 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 competitors’ or any other persons’ computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to this Competition. In the event of a dispute about the identity of any Competitor, an online registration will be declared as if made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry.
10. THIS COMPETITION IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Competitors agree that this Competition 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.
11. If for any reason Competition is not capable of running as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, Trojan horses, denial of service, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of Carrot that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Competition, Carrot reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual(s) who tamper with the process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Competition. If Dream.Org and/or Carrot terminates the Competition, it will not retain any rights in the submitted Entries.
12. The Competition Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any Competitor who is found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Justice Innovation Prize, to be acting in violation of these RULES, or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with the intent to disrupt or undermine the legitimate operation of the Justice Innovation Prize, or to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person.
13. Entry into the Justice Innovation Prize does not constitute entry into any other Dream.Org competition or program, Carrot competition or program, or promotion that may be offered by the Competition Sponsor and/or its affiliates.
14. Dream.Org and/or Carrot reserves the right to disqualify any participant who violates these RULES, the TERMS and any standards of behavior expressed or implied in them.
15. The names of the Winners will be posted on this website for such period of time as the Competition Sponsor deems reasonable.
16. By submitting your Entry, you agree to granting in perpetuity to Dream.Org, its legal representatives or assigns, affiliates and those acting under its permission and upon its authority, or those for whom Dream.Org is acting, the absolute right and permission to:
(a) copyright, use, re-use, publish, and republish, and to license the right to use, re-use, publish and republish, photographic portraits or pictures or videos of me or in which I may be included intact or in part, composite or distorted in character or form, in any medium or form of distribution without restriction as to changes or transformations in conjunction with my own or a fictitious name, or reproduction hereof in color or otherwise, made through any and all media now or hereafter known for any purposes whatsoever, including, without limitation, illustration, art, promotion, advertising or trade.
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