Call for Applications: BUILD Health Challenge

Call for Applications: BUILD Health Challenge The BUILD Health Challenge partners believe that local nonprofits, health departments, and hospital systems are uniquely positioned to create opportunities for better health in their communities. We are especially concerned about people whose circumstances have made them vulnerable to poor health, whether that’s because of poor access to healthy, affordable food, safe places to walk and play, job prospects, or safe, affordable housing. Community health is determined by the interplay of our social, physical and economic environments, and their influences on the choices we make every day. Too many people experience external barriers to health that are beyond their control, particularly in low-income communities experiencing health disparities. Recognizing that health starts long before illness, in our neighborhoods, homes, schools, and jobs, the BUILD Health Challenge will award grants to collaborative partnerships that are making community conditions more conducive to health for everyone within a particular neighborhood, not just certain individuals. Planning grants will enable community-based partnerships to connect the dots between downstream health problems and potential upstream solutions, and to develop a comprehensive plan to implement those solutions. Planning awards are more appropriate for collaborations that need support to develop a well-defined community health improvement action plan with clear roles ...
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