Changemakers Innovation Award: Ending Human Trafficking
Criteria for Submitting and Voting on Competition Entries

Voting for three winners ended at midnight on June 13. Competition entrants were asked to address the criteria below. Contest deadlines, procedures, and rules are described below.

The winners of the Changemakers Innovation Award for ending human trafficking are those entries that best addressed the following criteria. (For entries submitted by an individual, please substitute "individual" for "organization" in the language below.)

Systemic Impact

• The organization has the potential to create systemic change at a national or regional level that fundamentally alters the manner in which trafficking in persons is combated. The systemic change can include policy or institutional reforms in the public sector or significant grassroots mobilization or movement-building in the private sector.

• The innovative model of the organization's strategy or operations shows promise of creating notable change within the anti-trafficking field.

Tipping Point

• The organization is pushing society close to a tipping point beyond which the dynamics of human trafficking will be fundamentally changed for the better within a country or region. The organization must clearly and concretely define and describe both the tipping point and the gap in its capacity that is preventing it from reaching this tipping point. The gap could be either in internal resources or the lack of a key external partner. A compelling case must be made that meeting this gap in organizational capacity will be sufficient to achieve the tipping point.

Replication

• The model or key components of the model are being replicated, either by the organization or through other agencies, or a compelling case has been made for future replication.

• The model is compelling and the "how-tos" can be conveyed clearly to other organizations so the model will spread on its own merits.

• The organization believes in sharing the model openly and when possible assists others in understanding and implementing it.

Sustainability

• The organization and its model can achieve a significant degree of self-sustainability and are likely to be perpetuated over the long-term.

• A diversity of resources are used to sustain the model (e.g., in-kind support of volunteers or members; earned revenue; governmental partnerships; individual donors), and these resources strategically compliment the model, increasing its impact, efficiency, and replicability.

Innovation

• The organization uses an innovative strategic or operational model or applies established approaches in a nontraditional manner.

Contest Deadlines, Procedures, and Rules

The deadline for contest entries was May 22, 2005 U.S. Eastern Time, and voting ended at midnight on June 13, 2005 U.S. Eastern Time.

Financial Statement: To be eligible to win, ALL project teams/organizations (with the exception of local governments and universities) were required to enclose a current income statement and balance sheet. These financial statements need not be audited. Individuals partnering with an organization to implement their work were required to submit a copy of the partnering organization's income financial statement. Individuals without an organizational partner were exempt from the filing requirement. Purpose: These statements were viewed only by members of a Changemakers screening panel for the sole purpose of establishing that the organization that submits a contest entry is a legitimate entity. They were held in strictest confidence.

Entrants were encouraged to send photos that illustrate their idea to endtrafficking@changemakers.net.

Prior to June 1, visitors to the Web site rated—from one to five stars—the contest entries. These ratings were not used to determine the finalists or competition winners.

A panel of judges selected the competition finalists. Online voting for the three winners from among the finalists begans ended at midnight on June 13. The three Changemakers Innovation Award winners were announced on June 15. Organizations from any country could submit anti-trafficking initiatives. Entries had to be in English to enter the competition.

For more information, contact endtrafficking@changemakers.net.

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