The Arizona Community Foundation, Republic Media, and ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy are pleased to announce the six finalists for the Common Good Challenge, the fifth annual philanthropic awards contest offered under the banner of the New Arizona Awards. I am pleased to

A total of 38 teams met the deadline and submitted their projects for consideration by a 32-member evaluation committee, with 6 teams scoring high enough to qualify as finalists. These finalists will pitch their solutions at the Finalist Pitch & Awards Ceremony, which will be livestreamed from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 24 at Creighton University Health Sciences Campus in Phoenix. The top three projects will be selected by a nine-member selection committee whose members will be nominated during the event and will each receive her $100,000 grant.

The Common Good Challenge invited a group of individuals and organizations with diverse perspectives to identify persistent problems facing the community and work together to develop solutions. The Common Good Challenge embraces the idea that society is stronger when people with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences work together to seek meaningful responses to complex problems.

The six finalists represent numerous community organizations and partners who have joined forces to bring collaborative and innovative solutions to the community.

team: Anytown Leadership Program Co., Ltd.
Project: Anytown: Developing leaders for a better tomorrow
Jurisdiction: Coconino, Hira, Maricopa, Pima, Yavapai, Yuma

Hate speech and hate crimes dominate the headlines. People are openly harassed because of their race, sexual orientation, political or religious beliefs, etc. You don’t have to do it this way. At Anytown, we believe that differences make us stronger and youth is the key to a brighter future.

team: ASU Lodestar Philanthropy and Non-Profit Innovation Center
plan: CoGenerational Service Academy at ASU Lodestar Center
Jurisdiction: Coconino, Maricopa, Pima

The ASU Lodestar Center CoGenerational Service Academy engages senior and younger community members from diverse backgrounds, learns from members of different generations, and fosters sustainable collaboration by solving community problems through jointly co-created solutions. Create generational relationships and opportunities for collaboration.

team: Boys to Men Tucson
plan: Healthy Intergenerational Masculinity (HIM) Initiative
Jurisdiction: Pima

A diverse coalition of community leaders has called for “healthy education” to address crises related to how boys are raised, including gender-based violence, academic achievement gaps, school shootings, addiction and untreated mental health. Launched the Intergenerational Masculinity Initiative. This community-based system change project was born out of the wisdom that communities become safer when men and boys practice wholeness together.

team: creative flagstaff
plan: ARTx: Art + Ideas Experience Arizona
Jurisdiction: Coconino

ARTx is a city-wide festival of arts, culture and ideas that inspires joy while sparking meaningful and accessible community discussion about important topics. Interactive, interdisciplinary, art-centric experiences appear in unexpected places. Imagine a large floral installation surrounding an aerial dancer telling a powerful story of wildfires flooding Flagstaff.

team: read better, get better
plan: Read Better Be Better After School Reading and Writing Guidance
Jurisdiction: Maricopa

Read Better Be Better is the only local nonprofit that pairs middle school and third grade leaders in a college education major-driven program to solve Arizona’s literacy crisis. With this unique cross-age peer tutoring, Read Better Be Better will serve two of her students simultaneously while providing a valuable classroom experience for future educators.

team: Tucson food share
plan: Supporting Tucson Communities with Tucson FoodShare and Food Not Bomb
Jurisdiction: Pima

Tucson FoodShare is a volunteer mutual aid project that redistributes food. Through this process, we build and strengthen community ties that strengthen resilience through relationships of trust and caring. It’s a practice that fills your heart and soul as much as it fills your stomach!

To watch the team videos and learn more about the finalists, please visit: commongoodchallenge.org.

The New Arizona Award aims to create the Arizona of the future. It is a state where innovation thrives, ingenuity is supported, and the best thoughts are harnessed to create long-term, positive solutions to enduring needs. Arizona Community Foundation continues to provide over $145 million in grants, scholarships and impact loans in the last fiscal year, while hosting a philanthropic awards contest aimed at attracting new thinking and innovation doing. Through these open, fair, and transparent competitions, ACF collaborates with Republic Media and the Morrison Institute for Public Policy to leverage some of our philanthropic resources to develop innovative solutions to state challenges. increase.

About Arizona Community Foundation

Founded in 1978, the Arizona Community Foundation is a statewide charitable foundation supported by thousands of Arizonas. With regional offices serving communities throughout Arizona, ACF is one of the top 25 community foundations in the nation, with more than $1.4 billion in trust and endowed assets and a national standard for U.S. community foundations. with the highest 4-star rating. Worked as a charity navigator for 12 years. Since its inception, ACF has provided her over $1.2 billion in grants, scholarships and loans to nonprofits, schools, students and government agencies. For more information, please refer to the following URL: azfoundation.org.

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