2023 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.

INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH EQUITY

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, INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND/OR AUTISM, MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES, AND OLDER ADULTS: 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 AND PUBLIC 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 EMERGENCY IMPACT: Sustained innovative practice and or policy changes(s) in response to the COVID pandemic.

INNOVATIONS IN SOCIAL MOBILITY

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.

INNOVATIONS IN SOCIAL SECTOR SYSTEMS

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.