At The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD), we believe that community health improves through community-centered, cross-sector collaboratives. We also know that people are at the heart of that work.
Through the BUILD National Network, we recognize and invest in the individuals who move community health forward through bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven approaches. If you’ve been part of a BUILD community, we’ve seen how your journey continues to have impact and we want to continue supporting you doing this work in you community every day, providing the infrastructure, relationships, and tools you need to grow and keep going.
Explore upcoming offerings for BUILD alumni from the BUILD National Network below:
Leadership Virtual Series
The National Network is partnering with AORTA to offer a training series built for the day-to-day realities of network work: friction, feedback, and the decisions that shape how teams move forward. Across three modules – Disagreement, Facilitation, and Decision-Making – participants will practice locating where disagreement actually lives (versus where we assume it does), giving and receiving feedback safely, and building protocol-based approaches to shared decision-making.
- Rooted and Ready – Feedback and Disagreement
- Facilitate for Freedom
- Deep Dive on Decision-Making
2026 Leadership Cohort & In-Person Training
Offered in partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) and their expert team in leadership development, up to 25 BUILD alumni will have the opportunity to come together for a deep dive on influential communication and effective decision-making at a two-day in-person intensive at the CCL campus in Greensboro, NC on November 9-10.
Cohort participation is for BUILD National Network leaders who are ready to sharpen how they show up in complex, high-stakes spaces. Whether you are a leader in formal or informal spaces – this is an opportunity to give back to you! Participants bring their BUILD experience and beyond, and are looking to strengthen their influence, decision-making, and impact as leaders by sharpening their existing skills and gaining tools to communicate and advocate with greater impact.
Learn more. (Applications now closed.)
Stay tuned for more!
If you’re a former BUILD awardee looking to reconnect, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to info@buildhealthchallenge.org to stay informed!
Past National Network activities and trainings:
- BUILD National Network Launch – Marketplace Connections – San Diego, CA, May 2025
- Policy Resources with ChangeLab Solutions – Virtual, June 2025
- Peer Connection and Marketplace Followup – Virtual, October 2025
- De-Escalation Training with Nonprofit Secure & Mazorca Facilitation, Part 1 & Part 2 – Virtual, April 2026
- Surviving the News Cycle with Eleanor Dunlap, Acacia Salatti, and Sarah de Guia (ChangeLab Solutions), Part 1 & Part 2 – Virtual, June 2026
