2024 WINNERS
Finalists and Categories
LEGISLATIVE IMPACT: Innovation through policy reform and improvements in financial models to improve service delivery and reduce barriers to care.
INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Innovative service models in behavioral health leading to emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: Innovative service models integrating social determinants of health and health care, services that strengthen families, and approaches that ensure a healthy environment and other community conditions.
INNOVATIVE MODELS FOR ACHIEVING HEALTH EQUITY: Innovative strategies or models of care that reduce health disparities and or improve social or economic conditions.
INNOVATION IN SERVICES FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS: Innovative strategies and services that improve health outcomes and quality of life.
COMMUNITY VOICE IMPACT: Novel strategies to promote community voice inclusion and belonging that influence program and or policy, with a focus on improving health equity for medically underserved populations at greatest risk for poor health.
POPULATION HEALTH IMPACT: Innovative strategies improving clinical health outcomes, improved care coordination and patient engagement supported by appropriate financial and care models for a disadvantaged and or low resourced populations.
PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACT: Sustained innovative practice and or policy change in public health.
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Innovative service models leading to earning a living wage and economic freedom, especially targeted to typically marginalized groups.
EDUCATION: Innovative ideas that advance access to high-quality education and/or interventions and services that allow people to enter post-secondary education, vocational programs or employment.
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Innovative attainable, stable or permanent housing service models that strengthen individuals, families and communities.
INNOVATIVE FUNDER STRATEGIES: Funders who take an innovative approach to social sector investment strategies.
INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS: Innovative through a cross-sector approach to solving complex social or environmental issues on a large scale, especially to help those with complex needs.
