掀起变革
Creators are changemakers, and Unity is their platform for making an impact. People around the globe are using Unity to tell stories or build tools that will have a positive and meaningful impact on society, their communities, and the planet. We founded Unity for Humanity to celebrate and support their journey to change lives and improve our world.
Unity for Humanity Grant
Unity for Humanity partners with impact-driven, real-time 3D projects to expand their capacity and inspire meaningful change. Through the grant program, creators can be awarded funding, mentorship, technical support, and marketing resources.
We’re collaborating with the United Nations Environment Program and Project Drawdown on a grant for environment and sustainability-focused RT3D projects. Apply between April 22–June 3.
Rare Impact 挑战赛
Unity Social Impact 与 Rare Impact 建立了合作伙伴关系，以突显技术在影响和传达心理健康挑战与治疗方面的潜力。我们设立了 Unity for Humanity Rare Impact 挑战赛，专门支持创作者解决心理健康和福祉方面的问题，重点关注服务存在欠缺的社区。挑战赛于 2021 年 1 月 15 日结束。获奖者名单将于 2021 年 5 月公布。
指导思想
Unity for Humanity 计划有三个目标：
促进同理心、尊重和机会：我们认可并支持具有不同背景、经验和观点的创作者。
扩大影响力：我们为创作者提供机会，协力共创一个更具可持续性和包容性的世界。
社区：建立和培育一个富有包容性、可持续性和社会影响力的创作者社区。
了解创作者如何使用 Unity 推动富有意义的变革。
观看变革者展示，了解更多在 Unity 中构建的具有社会影响力的项目。
Ahi Ka Rangers
2020 Grant Recipient
Designed using frameworks from the Māori community, this ecological mobile game and data collection platform raises awareness about environmental sustainability while encouraging citizen science participation to transform a generation into cheerleaders and activists for the planet.
《DOT’S HOME》
2020 Grant Recipient
Follow a young Black woman living in her grandmother’s Detroit home amid redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification to ask “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they really have in that journey?”
《Future Aleppo》
2020 Grant Recipient
Future Aleppo is based on the inspirational work of Mohammed Kteish, who constructed a paper model of his city before fleeing to a refugee camp. Now in VR, this work serves as a model for other refugee children, inviting them to create their own buildings to aid in trauma processing.
《Our America》
2020 Grant Recipient
Our America is a branching narrative VR experience designed to educate the audience about being Black in America and preventing racial injustice as bystanders through the real-life story of a Black father and his son on the way to school.
《Samudra》
2020 Grant Recipient
Samudra is a hand-illustrated 2D puzzle game that follows a child’s adventure across a polluted sea to inspire positive environmental action. Players encounter underwater creatures to uncover truths about “surface-dweller” actions causing the polluted deep-sea world.
Clean A\R
2019 Grant Recipient
The Clean A\R app uses modelled air quality data from Kings College in the U.K. to help visualize the pollution in a user’s current location. The app is being integrated into a robust social media campaign that aims to raise awareness and change policy to improve air quality.
《Terminal 3》
2018 Grant Recipient
This interactive AR documentary explores Muslim identity in the U.S. at an airport border. Using a Hololens, players interrogate a hologram passenger in a strikingly personal encounter until a participant decides whether to let the hologram into the country – or not.
Unity for Humanity Summit
The Unity for Humanity Summit is a free online event. The 2020 Summit showcased how creators around the globe are harnessing real-time 3D technology to power real-world change. Discussions and presentations helped social impact-driven creators to learn, connect, and celebrate their work, inspiring and empowering more people to create for change. 2021 details coming soon.
Unity for Humanity 项目提交常见问题解答
Project(s) eligible for submission must be a prototype or a project in any stage of production. The Unity for Humanity grant accepts any project genre (game, XR, film, solution) created with any RT3D platform.
All projects must be impact-driven, meaning that they have measurable impact goals and/or calls to action and/or encompass themes of social, healthcare, education, humanitarian and environmental issues. Our April 2021 grant is for environment and sustainability-themed projects, stories and solutions. Projects must also align with at least one of the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Please note that the Grant cannot be awarded to individuals. Please submit your application via a legal entity (e.g., a production company, studio, etc.).
The Unity for Humanity program supports real-time 3D content that is social impact-driven. We will not accept projects or content that include or promote hate, violence, bullying, harassment, threats against individuals or groups of people, or illegal content. Our aim is to foster an inclusive, sustainable social impact creator ecosystem.
We encourage projects to apply that are charitable in nature and/or affiliated with a non-profit organization. If your project is not charitable in nature, we still encourage you to apply, and ask you to indicate this on your application in the field provided.
The countries and individuals the United States has introduced sanctions against are prohibited from applying. At present, this includes: the CRIMEA REGION OF UKRAINE, CUBA, IRAN, NORTH KOREA, SUDAN, and SYRIA.
We select and collaborate on projects based on the following criteria:
- Inclusion (30%): Does your project reflect a diverse range of experiences and actively consider underrepresented experiences?
- Impact (30%): Does your project have measurable impact goals and calls to action? Are these aligned with the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals?
- Viability (20%): Does the team have a realistic plan of execution for the production and distribution of the project so that it can achieve the greatest impact?
- Community Connection (20%): How is the team connected to the community they are addressing with their work?
- Innovation (bonus!): Does the project feature a technical achievement in RT3D? Does it use Unity or a RT3D development platform in a unique way?
The criteria for each call for submissions may vary to reflect topical social issues and causes.
For the grant opening April 2021, projects must fall under environment and sustainability-themed stories and/or solutions.
All projects must be submitted in English. We work with creators with varying levels of English ability.
Creators must fill out the application form provided through the submission portal and upload a pitch deck in PDF format. You will be asked for a link to a video sample or trailer showcasing the project using the field provided on the application form.
Please make sure the pitch deck includes:
- Information about the team and company (with consent from each teammate)
- Bio and headshots of the team
- Key art from the project (in-progress work accepted, does not need to be final)
- A production budget with a plan for use of Unity funding, if received
- Information on any partners attached to the project including non profits or charitable organizations associated
- A production timeline, distribution timeline, and detailed distribution plan
- Community connection and motivation to your subject matter
- Impact goals and charitable action attached to the project
Projects will be selected by Unity employees and/or representatives internally, including Unity for Humanity Program team members for the initial selection, employees from across teams and verticals, and a final committee of judges for the final decisions.
If the grant is in partnership with another organization, representatives from the organization will also serve as guest judges to select the potential grantees.
Unity for Humanity will make grant recommendations from a pool of $350,000 to the Unity Charitable Fund, a fund sponsored by the Tides Foundation. In addition, Unity will provide technical support services to grant recipients.
No further action is required. You should have received a confirmation email indicating that the project has been received. We review all projects submitted, and applicants will be notified when the committee has made their selection. 2021 grant nominees will be notified by September 2021.
Only selected applicants will be notified, with additional documentation required to be complete, and there is no guaranteed volume of selections.
Thank you for submitting!
Unity partners with the Tides Foundation to set up the Donor Advisor Fund (DAF) for charitable purposes. If the project created by your team is selected, we will recommend your team as a potential grantee, subject to Tides’s review process for eligibility. This process can take anywhere from two to six weeks and is a secondary review process.
The date and time deadline are indicated in Pacific Standard Time. Please give yourself ample time to submit in case of issues within your submission process.
No, unfortunately we are not able to give extensions for applications so that we can review and grant in a timely manner. The application window is open for approximately six weeks.
UNEP and Project Drawdown expand the subject matter expertise and mentorship opportunities provided through this grant. Representatives from each organization will help select winners and provide impact coaching to each winning grant project recipient to ensure they drive the largest impact possible.
Please ensure your pitch deck includes all the info requested in the “What materials are needed to apply?” section.
Yes, you can reapply to Unity for Humanity, so long as your project meets the requirements, theme and criteria.