Springboard HealthLab

We’re an organization founded in 2021 with a clear goal: supporting big ideas that can improve health equity. Home of Building Health Online Communities: https://bhocpartners.org/ We envision a world where public health fundamentally improves life for everyone. Our mission is to advance health equity by fostering bold ideas and launching high-impact solutions. Springboard HealthLab is an incubator for big ideas that aim to improve health equity across communities. We support projects that need a home, that need support to get off the ground or to grow, and then help them find a permanent home. We work with projects that are: - Designed to address health equity - Focusing on structural/systems change - Can find a new home, or are short-term - Have funding that is available or can be easily acquire - Amenable to incubation/support from Springboard Every project is unique and will benefit from a different set of support options. Your project might need a strong lift, or just some extra support. We offer a variety of support, including: - Being a thought partner - A “virtual” place to call home - Contracting and financial services - A package of services to help your idea grow that may include: needs assessment, business planning, project management or oversight, and/or strategic planning Our Values LEADERSHIP. We lead with compassion and courage. We incubate and accelerate high risk, high reward projects to stimulate discovery and generate new approaches. JUSTICE. We center our work in justice, by supporting and implementing ideas with the goal of achieving equity for all communities. COLLABORATION. We prioritize collaboration and partnership with organizations of all sizes to ensure maximum impact of our work. AGILITY. We are agile and move nimbly in our support of projects that improve public health equity. We look forward to collaborating with you in the future!