Global Millennium Prize for Women

The Global Millennium Prize for Women is a world contest by Internet for all women over 18 years old. Its main goals are: 1. To foster women's financing and foresight education, to increase their self-esteem and economic empowerment. 2. To teach them the steps for their management leadership, through productive project profiles with future vision and immediate actions, national and replicable worldwide. 3. To stimulate their creativity, social responsibility and local, national and global solidarity. 4. To link the winners with banks, so they can get resources for the development of their projects. 5. To develop futurist women as leaders amongst their communities and countries to propagate current and long-term positive changes. The contest requires that participants: 1. Answer the following question: How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition? 2. To develop a project profile with productive investment, with future vision and immediate actions, replicable as a local, national and global opportunity between today and 2030. Participants have to choose one of the 15Global Challenges of the Millennium Project and insert its project into this Challenge: 1. Sustainable development. 2. Water. 3. Population and resources. 4. Democratization. 5. Global long term policymaking. 6. Globalization of Information Technology. 7. Rich-Poor Gap. 8. Health. 9. Decision-making Capacities. 10. Conflict Resolution. 11. Improving the Status of Women. 12. Transnational Organized Crime. 13. Energy. 14. Science and Technology. 15. Global Ethics. Through this Prize the participants also stimulate their sense of social responsibility and world solidarity. Its Website is very successful and has been consulted by millions of people from 110 countries in the world. This Prize was created and promoted worldwide by the Nodo Mexicano. El Proyecto del Milenio, A.C. and The Millennium Project. The contest is translated into several languages: Spanish, English, French, Russian and Azeri. The authors are Concepción Olavarrieta, President of the Nodo Mexicano. El Proyecto del Milenio and Jerome C. Glenn, Executive Director of the Millennium Project.