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Deadline to submit your nomination for the 2025 Sapphire Awards competition is October 21, 2024, before 3:00 p.m. (ET).

The 2025 Sapphire Awards will honor, through a competitive external review process, outstanding programs, organizations, and individuals whose services are distinguished by exemplary leadership, innovation, and documented impacts in local communities.

We are seeking nominees that excel at one or more of the following:

  • Creating groundbreaking, innovative, or technology-enabled interventions that address health disparities and improve community health.
  • Demonstrating clear and impactful change in health care access and health outcomes.
  • Leveraging resources, strategies, and relationships to advance cutting-edge solutions and collaborations that transform the lives of individuals and communities.
  • Incorporating one or more of the three priority areas of the Foundation–Health Equity, Mental Well-being, or Food Security.

Sapphire Award recipients will share up to $525,000 in award funds based on recognition level. Recipients and recognition levels will be announced during the awards program and dinner on May 1, 2025.

To learn more, watch the Sapphire Awards Application Clarification Webinar and read the 2025 Sapphire Awards Guidelines. The applications are accessible via the Foundation’s grants management system.

The 2025 Community Health Symposium and Sapphire Awards is set for May 1-2, 2025, at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld hotel. The theme is Transforming the Future of Health. The event registration website will open in November. Please monitor your email and the Foundation’s website for updates. Please direct questions to the Foundation’s email.