Where We Are Now: Sustainability, Inclusivity, and Community

A Turning Point: BUILD’s New Funding Opportunity
Last week, The BUILD Health Challenge (BUILD) began accepting applications for its new, fourth cohort (also known as BUILD...
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Journal Publication: Centering Equity in Community Health Partnerships
What is the role of place-based programs in supporting community partners during the pandemic? How can the field of community...
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How Can Philanthropy Best Support Communities Advancing Equity?
What do communities across America need and want to advance equity? How can philanthropy be a more effective partner in...
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Where We Are Now: Sustainability, Inclusivity, and Community
Every quarter, The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD) community awardees share with us their progress, their challenges, their wins, and their...
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Let’s Talk About #HowWeHeal
On this National Day of Racial Healing created by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, we come together to foster truth-telling, affirm our...
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A Look Back At 2021
It is December 2021. I keep checking my calendar, because it feels unbelievable that we are a mere two weeks from the...
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Building Advocacy Capacity With Residents
The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD) has always emphasized the “Bold” nature of awardee community partnerships – that is, coming together...
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Listening, Learning, Acting: BUILD’s Health Equity Journey
In 2015, five funders and 18 communities set out together with the bold goal of transforming systems through cross-sector partnerships, a focus on the social determinants...
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Designing With, Not For
How explicit is your organization about advancing equity—when considering your own programs and your work with partners? We reflect on this question daily at The BUILD Health...
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Collaborating for Change: BUILD’s Learning Journey
Over the past year, the world has experienced change at a rate and at a scale that was unthinkable and...
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On The Continued Fight for Equity
Yesterday, Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges for the murder of George Floyd last May, which sparked worldwide...
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