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Kraft Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Community Health

Are you changing the landscape of community health? You may be eligible for the $100,000 Kraft Prize for Community Health Excellence and Innovation!

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The Kraft Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Community Health recognizes and celebrates transformative organizations, programs, or innovations that are making a measurable impact on health outcomes and have the potential to serve as scalable models for improving community health.

The winner will demonstrate a clear and measurable impact on community health in at least one of the following priority outcomes:

  • Cancer
  • Cardiometabolic disease
  • Maternal health
  • Substance use disorder

Innovations can include efforts that address access and quality of care or social factors such as food insecurity, economic mobility, or housing stability that impact these health outcomes.

Prize details

Deadline

Applications are due on April 4, 2025.

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Eligibility and application requirements

We encourage applications from:

  • Healthcare professionals
  • Non-profit organizations
  • Private-sector leaders, innovators, and inventors

Applicants must be based in the U.S.

Applicants must apply through the application portal and submit two letters of recommendation from community partners or organizations. Additionally, at least one member of the winning team must attend and present at the 2025 World Medical Innovation Forum on September 15-17, 2025, in Boston, MA.

All applicants will be evaluated and selected in an objective and nondiscriminatory manner. There are no limitations based on race, gender, creed, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.

Learn more about eligibility, application requirements, and opportunities for the winning team here.

* The prize money and the value of other benefits awarded may be considered taxable income to the award recipients. Awardees are encouraged to contact their tax professional or the IRS with any questions; Massachusetts General Brigham and the Kraft Center for Community Health cannot provide tax or legal advice.

Frequently asked questions

Eligibility is open to U.S.-based:

  • Non-profit and private-sector leaders
  • Community health practitioners
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Non-profit organizations
  • Innovators and inventors

The review committee will carefully consider the impact of each applicant’s innovative work, focusing on measurable health outcomes. For additional eligibility questions, please contact the Kraft Center for Community Health.

Applications are due on April 4, 2025. Finalists will be selected in April-May, 2025. The selected prize recipient and the two finalist teams will be notified in June, 2025. Please see the full timeline within the application portal.

Applications will first be reviewed for eligibility by the Kraft Center for Community Health team. Following the first round of review, a diverse committee of internal and external community health and innovation experts will review, score, and select the prize recipient and finalists.

For additional information or questions about the Kraft Prize, please visit the application portal where you can find more details and contact information for the Kraft Center for Community Health team.

About the Kraft Center for Community Health

The Kraft Center for Community Health at Mass General Brigham is dedicated to expanding access to high-quality, affordable healthcare for medically underserved patients and communities. Established in 2011 through a generous donation from Robert Kraft, the Center aims to catalyze innovative solutions to real-world community health problems, implement these solutions locally, and scale them to improve health outcomes for disadvantaged populations across the country.

Learn more about the Kraft Center.