Winners will bring inspiring public art to the Valley Meet the Winners
In 2014, the Arizona Community Foundation, in partnership with The Arizona Republic and Morrison Institute for Public Policy initiated The New Arizona Prize, a philanthropic prize competition.
Learn MoreThe New Arizona Prize aims to create the Arizona of tomorrow, a place where innovation thrives, where ingenuity is supported, and where the best thinking is harnessed to create long-term solutions to persistent needs.
The Arizona Community Foundation has committed to hosting philanthropic prize competitions designed to attract new thinking and innovation. Through these open, fair and transparent competitions, the Foundation can deploy a portion of its philanthropic resources to generate innovative solutions to our state’s challenges.
The New Arizona Prize will continue to launch challenge competitions in order to invite innovators from around the world to focus on the needs of Arizona. As those programs become available to the public, you are welcome to navigate to each dedicated website which provides opportunities to participate and/or to learn about our prior successes. Welcome to the New Arizona Prize.
The first challenge offered was the Water Consciousness Challenge, awarding $100,000 to Beyond the Mirage. The second challenge was the Water Innovation Challenge, awarding $250,000 to Arizona Pure Brew Water Challenge. The third challenge was the Water Public Art Challenge, awarding $50,000 to five collaborative teams to build temporary public art projects.
An initiative of the Arizona Community Foundation, The Arizona Republic, and Morrison Institute for Public Policy to create the Arizona of tomorrow.
