The Strive for Change: Drawing on Our Strengths Challenge is open to youth, particularly those from marginalized communities, including teens aged 16 – 18, and young adults, 19 to 25 years old, to submit a graphic art submission (single still image) showcasing community health strengths: partnerships, customs, traditions, or aspects of culture that promotes positive health outcomes.
Donor Name: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Challenge
Deadline: 11/16/2022
Size of the Grant: $15,000
Details:
Building off the work of the NICHD’s STrategies to enRich Inclusion and achieVe Equity (STRIVE) initiative, the STRIVE for Change: Drawing on Our Strengths Art Challenge is soliciting single, still graphic art submissions that focus on one or more community that experience health disparities. The artwork should highlight ways that people in the community manage adversity and promote resilience to promote positive health outcomes. Artwork should address a specific type of disadvantage that results in poorer health outcomes and focus on practices by or characteristics of the people in the community, such as events, ways of sharing resources and information, and cultural traditions, that address the disadvantage as well as highlight community strengths. This challenge provides participants with the opportunity to express their voices and perspectives.
Funding Information
The total prize purse for the STRIVE for Change: Drawing on Our Strengths Art Challenge is $15,000. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) intends to award six prizes totaling up to $15,000 to the Challenge winner(s). Entries will be grouped in two age categories: Teen (16 to 18 years old at the time of submission) and Young Adult (19 to 25 years at the time of submission) for purposes of judging, with at least one award going to each age group. NICHD intends to award a 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize award for each age category.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to win a prize under this Challenge, a Participant:
- Shall be aged 16 to 25 years old at the time of submission;
- Shall be one individual; no groups or teams may enter;
- Shall have registered to participate in the Challenge under the rules promulgated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as published in this announcement;
- Shall have complied with all the requirements set forth in this announcement;
- Shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States;
- Shall not be a federal entity or federal employee acting within the scope of their employment;
- Shall not be an employee of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS, or any other component of HHS) acting in their personal capacity;
- Who is employed by a federal agency or entity other than HHS (or any component of HHS), shall consult with an agency ethics official to determine whether the federal ethics rules will limit or prohibit the acceptance of a prize under this Challenge;
- Shall not be a judge of the Challenge, or any other party involved with the design, production, execution, or distribution of the Challenge or the immediate family of such a party (i.e., spouse, parent, step-parent, child, or step-child).
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