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The Pitch 2024

Don’t miss this exhilarating live competition where 5 social innovators compete for game-changing prize funding.

  • Thursday, May 2 at 6 p.m.
  • The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory Irving, TX

Get your tickets now and save on early bird tickets through April 8!

The funds from your ticket purchase will support The Pitch, our social innovation programs and our Aspire United 2030 goals.

When innovative ideas compete at The Pitch,
North Texas wins.

You won’t want to miss this year’s most exciting live competition, where no matter who wins, our community comes out ahead! Our five finalists are passionate and driven social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for improving access to education, income and health. On May 2, they’ll take the stage and make their pitch LIVE to a panel of judges and our audience of change-seekers—people just like you.

Join us for this unforgettable night, and find out who will walk away with hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize funding and the title Social Innovator of the Year.

Who is your pick for The Pitch?

Meet our finalists and get ready to pick your favorite for Audience Choice Award.

Cessilye Smith

Abide Women’s Health Services
A Black-led nonprofit that offers culturally informed prenatal and postnatal care. Abide offers low-cost access to healthcare with the goal of reducing infant and maternal mortality among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) folk.

Courtney Hamilton

Tech Savvy DFW
Creates access to STEM education in lower-income communities in North Texas, with a goal of ensuring that students in minority communities have a chance to future proof their own lives.

Prinscilla Moore

Delighted to Doula
A nonprofit offering anti-bias-based, judgment-free education and postpartum support to mothers in communities that traditionally receive the lowest quality of care. Delighted to Doula seeks to reduce maternal mortality rates and increase the number of mothers who have access to healthcare.

Robin Head

Entryway DFW
A national nonprofit that transitions individuals and families out of homelessness to economic self-sufficiency. Entryway DFW provides full-time employment, housing and career training opportunities in partnership with the real estate industry.

Roy Scott

Healthy Hip Hop
A platform that seamlessly integrates hip-hop culture, literacy and social-emotional learning to elevate student learning environments. Healthy Hip Hop creates classroom-friendly hip hop music that schools use to engage students in new and exciting ways.

Courtney Hamilton

Tech Savvy DFW
Creates access to STEM education in lower-income communities in North Texas, with a goal of ensuring that students in minority communities have a chance to future proof their own lives.

Robin Head

Entryway
A national nonprofit that transitions individuals and families out of homelessness to economic self-sufficiency. EntryWay provides full-time employment, housing and career training opportunities in partnership with the real estate industry.

Prinscilla Moore

Delighted to Doula
A nonprofit offering anti-bias-based, judgment-free education and postpartum support to mothers in communities that traditionally receive the lowest quality of care. Delighted to Doula seeks to reduce maternal mortality rates and increase the number of mothers who have access to healthcare.

Roy Scott

Healthy Hip Hop
A platform that seamlessly integrates hip-hop culture, literacy and social-emotional learning to elevate student learning environments. Healthy Hip Hop creates classroom-friendly hip hop music that schools use to engage students in new and exciting ways.

Cessilye Smith

Abide Women’s Health Services
A Black-led nonprofit that offers culturally informed prenatal and postnatal care. Abide offers low-cost access to healthcare with the goal of reducing infant and maternal mortality among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) folk.

The Pitch 2024 Prizes

60000
Social Innovator of the Year

Sponsored by Amazon
The top overall pitch score as determined by our panel of judges

30 K
Audience Choice Award

Sponsored by Sara and Gary Ahr
The finalist with the highest percentage of votes from our audience members

25 K
Accelerator Prizes

Sponsored by March Tocqueville Fellows
Awarded to each Pitch finalist to accelerate their organization’s impact

20 K
Entrepreneurial Spirit Award

The organization with the greatest potential to grow and succeed over time as determined by our judges

20 K
Impact Award

The organization with the greatest potential impact as determined by our judges

20 K
Innovation Award

The finalist with the most innovative venture as determined by our judges

Social innovation:
Fuel for our community wide goals

What is Social Innovation?

Social innovation is the practice of finding new and innovative solutions for long-standing community problems that are more effective, efficient, sustainable or just than current solutions.

Who competes in The Pitch?

Through programs like our Social Innovation Accelerator, we amplify the work of local social entrepreneurs and implement creative, strategic solutions to longstanding community challenges. Every spring, we celebrate the power of social innovation at The Pitch, where finalists from the latest Accelerator class share their innovative solutions for improving access to education, income and health in our community.

Why social innovation?

Social innovation is one technique driving us toward our Aspire United 2030 community goals, which include:

  • Increase by 50% the number of local students reading on grade level by third grade
  • Increase by 20% the number of young adults earning a living wage, adding nearly $800M in wages per year to the North Texas economy
  • Increase to 96% the percentage of our neighbors with access to affordable health care insurance

Thank you to our sponsors