ABOUT THE PITCH-A-THON

Nurse-led interdisciplinary health systems teams will identify a challenge, take it apart, fix it, and use technology, creativity and experience to build a better solution, with the goal of receiving up to $150,000 in grant funding! 

Nurses bring forward powerful ideas on how to help improve health and healthcare for all.  Strengthening this critical workforce is essential to delivering equitable healthcare, and establishing and sustaining healthy work environments in all settings where nurses practice is crucial.   

This request for proposals seeks innovative solutions that create systemic and sustainable change for a thriving workforce and healthier work environments. 

Eligibility 

  • The NurseHack4Health Pitch-A-Thon is free and open globally to non-profit/501c3 designation health systems, or those with a fiscal partner.  

  • Nurse-led teams should be interdisciplinary – collaborating across professions, departments and the health system maximizes creativity and innovation in problem-solving. 

 
Teams will receive coaching support throughout the process.  Applications open May 6 and are due August 9th. The top entries will be invited to pitch their innovative solutions at a virtual session at 1:00 pm ET on October 15, with the opportunity to receive up to $150,000 in grant funding.  

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Innovation Accelerator for Finalists Teams

NurseHack4Health: Innovation Accelerator & Pitch-A-Thon, presented by Johnson & Johnson, SONSIEL and Microsoft, with support from ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare and the Johnson & Johnson Foundation. 

Innovation Accelerator: September 5 – October 11, 2024

During the Accelerator, the finalist health system teams will be assigned coaches to pressure test their innovations/solutions, develop a detailed one-year budget, and practice their pitches.

Pitch-A-Thon: October 15, 2024

Finalists will present their pitches to a panel of industry-expert judges. Selected awardee(s) will receive grant funding from ALL IN: Wellbeing First for Healthcare to assist with the creation, testing or expansion of early-stage solutions to catalyze a healthy environment for nurses and the patients they care for within their health systems. 

The award amount will be determined by the budget and feasibility provided by the teams, with a maximum of $150,000.

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