End Poverty
Innovation Challenge

EPIC is a competition and pipeline for outstanding social ventures that provide sustainable grass roots solutions to local poverty reduction challenges.   EPIC awards winning social ventures with mentorship and financial support to help them conduct commercial proofs of concepts. 

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​EPIC is a “Bottom-up paradigm” that facilitates sustainable market creation at the Base of the Pyramid.  This is a departure from the “top down” paradigm that has fundamentally been employed by International Development agencies to fund national governments and “the haves” of a nation with unrealized “trickle down” expectations to the “have nots”.