Join us in this exploration of learning with our communities as we identify lessons learned and best practices for promoting community health across the country. Check back regularly as we continue to share what we're learning.
Listening Tour Report: Listening, Learning, and Leading Together
November 2, 2021
There is an urgent need to facilitate and amplify community-centered efforts to remove economic and social obstacles to health, such... […]
BUILD Communities After 2020: What We Carry With Us
November 9, 2022
For The BUILD Health Challenge’s (BUILD) third cohort of communities, as with people the world over, the global COVID-19 pandemic...
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Forging a New Path: BUILD’s Health Plan Partners
September 20, 2022
What is the role of health plans in driving sustainable solutions that lead to better health for all? This...
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Stories of Change from BUILD 3.0
August 17, 2022
The BUILD Health Challenge (BUILD) launched its third cohort in the fall of 2019 with 18 dynamic communities from across...
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Webinar: Moving Policy to Action – Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis
August 15, 2022
Many localities and states across the country have declared racism as a public health crisis, offering an opportunity to observe...
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Journeying Toward Healthier Communities: A Report on Trends in the Field
January 25, 2022
The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD) team ended last year, like many of you reading this, with more questions than answers....
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BUILD’s Two Key Frameworks
January 18, 2022
BUILD’s five principles—Bold, Upstream, Integrated, Local, Data-Driven—guide communities as they address upstream health and health equity in ways that honor...
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Listening Tour Report: Listening, Learning, and Leading Together
November 2, 2021
There is an urgent need to facilitate and amplify community-centered efforts to remove economic and social obstacles to health, such...
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Moving to Center: BUILD’s Journey to Advance Health Equity
September 15, 2021
In 2015, The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD) was created with the bold goal of transforming systems through cross-sector partnerships, a...
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Is More Always Better? A Reflection on the Dynamic Nature of Nationally and Regionally Focused Funder Collaboratives
July 22, 2020
Five years ago, five organizations shared a vision to advance health equity and sought to develop innovative approaches that could...
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Community Approaches to System Change
November 12, 2019
The BUILD Health Challenge (BUILD) worked with 19 communities across the country over the last two years with the goal...
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19 Stories from the Field: What Systems Change Looks Like in Communities
November 12, 2019
What does it take to create lasting change when it comes to improving health in communities? The BUILD Health Challenge...
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CASE STUDY: Healthy Ontario Initiative
September 30, 2019
The BUILD Health Challenge followed six communities that participated in its first cohort of awardees on their journey to drive...
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