The Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize 2025, a collaboration between Verizon and MIT Solve, is now accepting applications from innovators aiming to enhance disaster resilience across the United States.
Donor Name: Verizon
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 06/13/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize has a particular interest in solutions that:
- Enhance early warning systems and disaster preparedness
- Improve emergency response and resource coordination
- Strengthen infrastructure and protect vulnerable communities
- Support long-term recovery and community resilience after weather-related disasters.
Funding Information
$1,000,000 in prize funding will be distributed evenly among four solutions working in the United States.
What types of solutions are eligible?
- Solutions can be for-profit, nonprofit and hybrid companies. The following institutions are not eligible to apply:
- Government entities
- Employees, officers and directors of Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (“Verizon” or “Sponsor”) and its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, dealers, agents, advertising and promotion agencies, and vendors (who are related to the administration of the Prize)
- Employees, faculty, administrators, and other staff members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Solutions must be enabled by technology. This Prize is especially interested in cutting edge technologies that enable connectivity, including systems driven by Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning, or The Internet of Things, Smart Infrastructure, 5G communication networks, and hardware solutions such as drones and robotics.
- Organizations must be registered in the contiguous United States, either with current deployment operations in the US or near-term plans to deploy solutions in the US. This Prize will not consider organizations that are solely operating in Alaska, Hawaii, or US Territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands).
- Solutions must have at least four full time employees (FTEs).
- Applications must be written in English.
- Some benefits of being selected for the 2025 Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize include:
- Sharing in a $1,000,000 prize pool, divided evenly among four Prize winners
- Participating in an on stage winner announcement in mid-late September
- The potential to integrate into Verizon’s existing infrastructure and programs.
For more information, visit Verizon.
