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Step 1
Create Your Challenge
Hosts create a challenge in minutes.
Keep it private or make it available on the NextPitch public search. During setup, choose how participants engage through comments, judge ratings, tokens, and fundraising options.
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You create a challenge.
Innovators pitch ideas.
Communities engage.
Easily create a challenge that showcases participant ideas and connects them with meaningful feedback, support, and opportunities.
Participants submit entries while judges, partners, and community members provide feedback, encouragement, ratings, and support. Extend engagement beyond the classroom, meeting room, conference, or event by allowing participants and supporters to connect online. Public challenges can also increase awareness, engagement, and support through tokens and financial contributions from the broader community.
Step 2
Invite Participants
Participants submit pitches.
Share your challenge link with participants of any age from Pre-K to high school, university or adult programs. Each entry includes a video and a written component, with requirements you set.
A valid email is required - young participants (under 13) may need to team up with a supporter to submit a pitch.
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Step 3
Invite Community & Professionals
Share your challenge link with community members and industry professionals. They’ll choose judge (score with a rubric) or partner (leave encouragement/comments) and request access.
What’s the difference between a judge and partner? Learn more.
Step 4
Approve Connections
Hosts approve access first—then judges and partners can engage on participant entries.
Hosts approve every judge and partner request. Judges and partners only see the ability to leave ratings or comments under pitch submissions once you grant access.
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Step 5
Engage & Celebrate
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Supporters: give tokens and funding (if enabled)
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Judges: add ratings + feedback
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Partners: leave encouragement/comments
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Hosts: review comments before they go public + see all ratings
Professional Groups
For teams / departments: combine entries across multiple hosts.
With Group access, teams can create challenges that display entries from multiple hosts. Each host still manages their own participant engagement, while the Group challenge provides a combined showcase and overall rankings.
Organization Level Partners
For organizations tracking impact: view engagement across all judges/partners tied to your Organization ID.
Companies, nonprofits, or agencies can create Organization Partner accounts to track company-wide engagement. These accounts let leaders see all partners and judges who reference their Organization ID—perfect for recording service hours and celebrating collective impact.
