Des Moines, IA

Refugee & Immigrant Voices in Action

Training Volunteers as Culturally-Specific Community Health Workers

$45K Finalists

By hosting community-led health services at targeted cultural centers, RIVA and partners will engage immigrant and refugee individuals in bridging the service gap between mainstream healthcare providers, and marginalized ethnic/cultural communities that experience access disparities to preventive and continuing healthcare services.

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Des Moines, IA

West Des Moines, IA

Waukee, IA

Let’s build community trust and improve people’s health and well-being.

The NIH Build UP Trust Challenge will award as many as ten Finalists up to $45,000 each and the opportunity to win one of four $200,000 prizes for promising strategies that increase research participation and the adoption of medical care by building trust and improving engagement with historically underserved communities.

A Competition by Carrot

Carrot helps organizations build competitions that engage new talent and deliver groundbreaking solutions.

As part of its mission, NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) provides assistance in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI provides the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) as a contract platform for running crowdsourced challenges for NASA and other federal agencies. See all government challenges at