“Centering Community Voice in Strategic Design: The BUILD Health Challenge Model” is a co-authored article in an 2025 Foundation Review issue, sponsored by The Fund for Shared Insight. In the piece, co-authors Melissa Monbouquette with the de Beaumont Foundation and Jessica Mulcahy with Success Measures reflected on five years of working and thinking together to create structures for listening into BUILD’s culture.
This article highlights the listening process, led by Success Measures, that BUILD invested in over several years and what it enabled. It also highlights what made the listening possible, how BUILD and its community partners took action based on the feedback and how the long-term practice built trust and enabled transformative change.
The article discusses Success Measures’ past work with BUILD. It is the culmination of mutual trust, deep partnership and thoughtful collaborations with Melissa Monbouquette and the BUILD team. Opportunities to process and share ongoing learning in such good company are rare and treasured moments.
Read the full article at The Foundation Review.
The full article is publicly available thanks to the support of the Fund for Shared Insight, who sponsored the full issue.