Applications Open for Healthy Public Challenge: A Chance to Win up to $10,000, Deadline: 16 September 2016

Applications Open for Healthy Public Challenge: A Chance to Win up to $10,000

Deadline: 16 September 2016

The Civic Hall Labs, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has launched Healthy Public Project to catalyze innovation in addressing the civic roots of health.

The Challenge calls upon eligible entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, academics, technologists, designers, planners, students, and the public at large to propose civic solutions that have the potential to create a healthier public.

Civic Hall Labs exists to collaboratively design and build technology for the public good. As one of our themed labs, the Health Lab uses an interdisciplinary approach to shift from the mainstream notion of health as disease management to addressing the civic roots of health disparities.

Target Areas

Solutions to the Healthy Public Challenge shall be broad in scope, diverse in the application of new or existing tech, and innovative in approach. Applicants should speak to how their civic innovation aligns with one or more of these categories:

• Civic Cohesion– increase communal interactions, community discourse, and engagement within and across groups;
• Civic Agency– support underrepresented groups to participate in governing our public at the local, state, and/or national levels, improve decision-making through data equity, open sourced tools, or access to information;
• Public Assets – protect and increase access to public goods and social safety nets.

Award

The challenge winner will be awarded up to $10,000 and six months of advising.

Eligibility Criteria

The Challenge is open only to:

• business and nonprofit entities formed and maintaining a principal place of business in the United States,
• individuals who are:
  • U. S. citizens or permanent residents, and
  • of the legal age of majority, at the time of entry, to form valid contracts in their respective jurisdiction of legal residence, or
• individuals who serve as Team Leads (as defined below) who are:
  • U. S. citizens or permanent residents, and
  • of the legal age of majority, at the time of entry, to form valid contracts in their respective jurisdiction of legal residence. Foreign citizens can be listed as a Team Member by an eligible Team Lead or can enter as employees of an entity that is properly incorporated in the U.S. and maintains a primary place of business in the U.S.
• Each individual/Team Lead and each entity is referred to as an “Entrant” in these Rules. Affiliated Persons (as defined below) are ineligible to participate in the Challenge.
• If an Entrant is an entity, the Entrant warrants that the appropriate officers, executives, managers, or other persons who have the authority to approve Entrant’s Entry have approved the Entry and these Rules bind such entity.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted online via given website.

Eligible Country: United States

For more information, please visit Healthy Public Challenge.