The Nestle Creating Shared Value (CSV) Prize 2018

In order to be eligible for this competition, look at the following criteria:

• Entities can be from any nation so long as they help the underpriviledged parts of the community. 
• Applications must be in languages - English, French, Spanish or Portuguese. They will not be considered if in any other language.
• Entities can be social enterprises, commercial enterprises or non-governmental organisations.
• Applications seeking to use the Nestlé Prize money to provide financial assistance to third parties will not be considered eligible. Prize money must be used for the applicant organisation or programme only.
• Applications covering programmes that are already financed or supported by Nestlé S.A., affiliates, subsidiaries, joint ventures are not eligible.
• Applications covering programmes that have been awarded the CSV Prize in former nomination periods are not eligible for the CSV Prize again. 
• Applications from local, grassroots organisations will be preferred over applications from international, large-scale organisations.
• Teams of individuals, employees of Nestlé S.A., their parent companies, affiliates and subsidiaries, joint ventures, participating advertising and promotion agencies (and members of their immediate family, defined as parents, children, siblings and spouse, regardless of where they reside, and/or those living in the same household) are not eligible.
• The aforementioned employees (and members of their immediate family as defined in the paragraph before) will not be eligible neither if they participate through an organisation that they have founded or where they hold a major participation or management position.
• Enterprises making a social and/or environmental impact, by either improving access to nutrition, enhancing rural development, or having a significant impact on water management or access to clean water, are eligible.
• Those entities that have the initiative that has the potential to grow on a broad-scale, or replicate in a new community or context and has a viable business model or financial sustainability plan, are eligible.

Note- The applicant may be the founder, co-founder, CEO or hold an equivalent leadership position in the organisation.