Background
The 2025 Innovation Initiative (i2) is a challenge grant taking place over the course of 9-months to identify, build, and scale innovative, transformative, and sustainable solutions with the potential to solve our most intractable health challenges. AHF is seeking sustainable market-based innovations and system-change solutions that can improve access, quality, and health outcomes for systematically marginalized and under-resourced residents in our region.
One of the most efficient ways we can support population health improvement is by helping innovations succeed, scale, and achieve sustainability.

Your zip code, race, socioeconomic status, gender, or ability should not determine your life expectancy. We are seeking sustainable market-based innovations and/or systems-change transformations aimed at closing gaps in health and wellbeing.

On Thursday, October 23, 2025, five finalists will make their final pitch in-person before an audience of AHF board of trustees, committee members, Resident Leaders, AHF staff, Nex Cubed team and i2 mentors.