DASH Funding Programs

Incubator

The Incubator is a funding and support program for established multi-sector or multi-focus local collaborations working to strengthen and advance equitable data-sharing ecosystems. Participating organizations and community members with lived experience co-design the meaningful work that they will implement, while DASH staff, technical assistance advisors, and peers provide structure and support.

Learning and Action in Policy and Partnerships (LAPP)

In 2021-2022, LAPP grantees received funding and technical assistance to enhance community data-sharing capabilities and foster relationships between state governments, community-based organizations, and community members.

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)

The ABCD program design prioritizes local strengths and assets—especially grass-roots community leadership—in order to engage in health equity work. In 2022, eleven communities received support from DASH. Participants were guided through a curriculum, engaged directly with trained faculty, received 1-1 coaching, and participated in peer-learning opportunities on how to use the principles of ABCD.

Program Archive

  • Incubator

    (2024-present)

    The Incubator is a funding and support program for established multi-sector or multi-focus local collaborations working to strengthen and advance equitable data-sharing ecosystems.

    The Incubator provides funding ($800,000 in total), technical assistance, mentoring, and peer learning for eight awardees. Participating organizations and community members with lived experience co-design the meaningful work that they will implement.

  • ABCD

    (2022)

    The Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) funding program was designed to help organizations increase their understanding of community data infrastructure as an asset they can leverage.

    The ABCD funding program provided funding, training, and coaching to help communities use ABCD principles and tools. 11 communities received $20,000 to support their work.

  • LAPP

    (2021-2022)

    The Learning and Action in Policy and Partnerships (LAPP) funding program helped community partners engaged in data-sharing projects connect with state policymakers.

    11 state and community partnerships received funds and technical assistance from DASH across two rounds of the program: six recipients received up to $100,000 in funding in the first round, and five recipients received $80,000 in the second round of LAPP.

  • CIC-Cohort

    (2020-2021)

    Recognizing the value of learning from others, the CIC-Cohort program made peer-learning its primary focus. In 2020-2021, the program awarded $25,000 to 8 projects.

    The projects either pursued racial health equity within the development of data systems, or they were community-based social service organizations leading collaborative efforts to develop data systems that improve the health of communities.

  • CIC-START

    (2018 - 2021)

    The DASH funding program called Community Impact Contracts – Strategic, Timely, Actionable, Replicable, Targeted (CIC-START) was designed to help local collaborations build on their ongoing efforts to share and use multi-sector data to improve community health.

    DASH awarded over 50 grants of $25,000 across 5 CIC funding rounds to support local multi-sector collaborations.

  • Mentor Program

    (2018 - 2021)

    Under the Mentor Program, seven experienced ‘Mentor’ organizations offered coaching and peer-to-peer learning to small groups of ‘Mentee’ organizations to help them develop their own data-sharing abilities.

    The program had three funding rounds and reached 104 communities across 38 states.

  • Original Grantees

    (2016 - 2018)

    In February 2016, DASH awarded ten grants (totaling $2 million) to support projects that improve health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.

    DASH grantees received up to $200,000 each to develop and implement multi-sector data-sharing projects that addressed a range of public health challenges over the course of 18 months.

DASH Grantee Map

Coming Soon: DASH Knowledge Base

DASH will soon launch a knowledge-sharing platform called the DASH Knowledge Base (DKB).

Our ambition with the DKB is to strengthen institutional memory and elevate community experiences so that organizations engaged in multi-sector data sharing can avoid duplicating efforts and advance their work more efficiently.

The platform will provide a repository of people, organizations, collaboratives, projects, and resources, including white papers, articles, toolkits, and other media related to best practices.

The DKB will offer an increased understanding of relationships and connections between entities, which means it will potentially reveal new opportunities for cooperation and more impactful solutions for communities.

If you’d like to be among the first to join, enter your name and email address below and we’ll notify you when the DKB goes live.