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.
From Vision to Impact: Ten Years of Building Together
June 4, 2025
The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD) began in 2015 with an interest in understanding how conditions related to where a person... […]
Learnings and Insights from BUILD’s Third Cohort
December 12, 2022
In November 2019, The BUILD Health Challenge (BUILD) launched the third BUILD cohort, supporting 18 cross-sector, community-centered partnerships for 30...
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Stories of Change from BUILD 3.0
December 12, 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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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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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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