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2026 Grunin Prize for Law and Social Entrepreneurship
Phase 1 Application
To apply for the Grunin Prize or to nominate another party's project, please complete this submission form.
Section 1: Nominating Party
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Please provide your first and last names:
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Please provide your email address:
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Please indicate your involvement in the nominated project:
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Please indicate your professional or academic affiliation:
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Provide the names and professional affiliation of all the lawyers and/or legal teams responsible for the nominated project:
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Section 2: Summary of Project
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Summarize the project and describe what makes it worthy of the Grunin Prize. (500 character max)
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Project Clients and/or Partners:
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Jurisdiction(s) involved:
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Date of completion and implementation of the project, as appropriate:
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Types and number of beneficiaries reached (specify directly and indirectly):
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Section 3: Innovation
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Please summarize the innovative and groundbreaking features of the project and of the lawyers' contribution. (500 character max)
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Section 4: Impacts
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Please summarize the main environmental, social, and financial impacts and benefits that the project has provided since completion, as well as any potential impacts expected. (500 character max)
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Section 5: Replicability and/or Scalability
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Please summarize the project's catalytic effect and potential for local, regional, or international replication and/or scalability, citing any major barriers that have been or would need to be overcome. (500 character max)
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Section 6: Roles
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Please summarize the fundamental roles of the lawyers in launching and fostering the project. Please also indicate other key stakeholders in the project and their unique contributions to the project's structuring and conception. (500 character max)
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Section 7: Goals & Next Steps
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Goals: Where would you like your project to be in 5-10 years in terms of scale and impact and what steps do you believe are necessary to reach that level? (500 character max)
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Grunin Prize Leverage: Please indicate how the Grunin Prize will enable or contribute to the accomplishment of the above-mentioned goals. How will the lawyer(s)/legal team leverage the Grunin Prize and the Grunin Center network to advance and scale the project? (500 character max)
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Section 8: Confidentiality
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Please indicate whether you and your client are willing and able to publicly share the project details, project documents, and any learnings if selected as a finalist or winner. Please detail the extent of any privilege or confidentiality limitations.
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Thank you for submitting your Phase 1 Application for the 2026 Grunin Prize! By mid-February, select applicants will be invited to participate in Phase 2 which includes more detail on the project, as well as a schematic representation, and references.
In the meantime, please let us know if you have any comments or questions.
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