Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The BUILD Health Challenge (BUILD) is inviting communities with innovative ideas to address health disparities caused by systemic or social inequities to apply for its new fourth cohort (4.0).
As a BUILD community, your team will be part of a special cohort leading the way to the creation of a new norm in the U.S.—one that advances health equity and racial justice by centering multi-sector and community-driven partnerships.
BUILD seeks to support communities in their efforts to advance health equity—to ensure that no one is disadvantaged from achieving their full health potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.
Focus Areas
- Bold: Partnerships that aspire to advance racial justice by driving fundamental shifts in policy, regulation, and/or sustainability that support systems-level changes through a lens of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Upstream: Partnerships that focus primarily on the social, environmental, and/or economic factors that have the greatest influence on the health of a community, rather than on access or care delivery.
- Integrated: Partnerships that align the practices and perspectives of communities, health systems, public health, and payers, under a shared vision, establishing new roles while continuing to draw upon the strengths of each partner.
- Local: Partnerships that prioritize the diverse lived experiences, voices, and leadership of neighborhood residents and community members throughout all stages of planning and implementation.
- Data- Driven: Partnerships that use varied forms of data from both clinical and community sources as tools to identify key needs, measure meaningful change, and facilitate transparency amongst stakeholders to generate actionable insights.
Benefits
Each award includes:
- Up to $300,000 in funding over three years
- A robust array of coaching and support services
- Specialized trainings and capacity-building opportunities
- Participation in a national network of peers engaged in similar work
- Opportunity to spotlight your local work on a national level
Outcomes: BUILD aims to place multi-sector, community-driven partnerships at the center of promoting health equity. To do so requires a concerted effort to shift the systems that affect upstream, social determinants of health. They recognize that this type of change is a long-term proposition and nuanced, and it also requires a laser-like focus on this shift as a specific goal. Competitive projects should articulate how their activities may result in systems changes that will ultimately improve health outcomes and advance health equity.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a BUILD award the following criteria must be met:
- The lead applicant must be a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit community organization
- Assembly of a partnership including (at minimum) of a nonprofit community organization, a hospital/health system and/or health plan, a local health department, and residents.
- The participating hospital(s)/health system(s) and/or health plan must demonstrate a 1:1 match met through direct cash support or a combination of cash and in-kind support.
- Proposal must be focused on a defined zip code(s), census tract(s), or neighborhood(s) experiencing significant health disparities within a city of 100,000 residents or more.
- Be willing to participate in convenings and learning/evaluation activities, including openly sharing challenges, results, and outcomes.
- The learning element is a critical component of the award and requires a time commitment of three to five hours per month on average from awardees throughout the award cycle.
- Applicants from the following geographic areas are exempt from the population requirement:
- The states of Arizona, California, Michigan, North Carolina
- Select counties in the states of Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas
- The following cities:
- Idaho – Boise, Caldwell, Nampa
- Illinois – Chicago (South and West sides) and surrounding Cook County western suburbs
- Maryland – Silver Spring, Germantown, Towson
- Michigan – Adrian, Ypsilanti
- Ohio – Columbus
- Pennsylvania – Allentown
For more information, visit The BUILD Health Challenge.
For more information, visit https://buildhealthchallenge.org/application/