Igniting innovations to advance adolescent health
Launch is an accelerator program that supports innovators who are building solutions to improve health outcomes for young people. Many of Launch’s innovation teams are working on innovations to improve adolescent sexual health.
What is Launch?
By providing training, coaching, funding and access to subject matter experts, the Launch accelerator enables innovators to rapidly test and iterate on their solutions.
Why join Launch?
By joining Launch, you will have access to:
Integrated training and coaching
Learn strategies to understand how your innovation resonates with end users and potential customers. Practice testing your assumptions to support scaling and sustaining your innovation.
Pilot funding
Accelerate your idea’s growth with financial resources. Each team accepted to Launch will be awarded up to $120,000.
Connections and youth engagement
Get connected with other innovators, subject matter experts, and young people — because innovation is a team sport and takes more than funding to reach success.
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Is Launch right for you?
Consider joining Launch if you:
- Have a solution or working prototype with data proving that your solution works
- Want to bring your solution or prototype to market
- Are ready to engage in an intensive accelerator program
Who should apply?
We want to help ignite your idea, even if you don’t have formal training in the entrepreneurship space. Past Launch teams have come into the program with:
- the first draft of a new curriculum
- the concept for a digital tool and an understanding of how it will work
- the initial build of a game
- an old curriculum, game, or tool that they want to refresh
- a robust curriculum and a desire to explore ways to scale it
What happens during the accelerator?
Teams that join the accelerator will work with the Launch team to test, iterate, and scale their innovation. Launch operates with a hybrid model, with in-person training and pitch days paired with remote coaching, training, and cohort connection events.
“Launch has given us a way to reimagine the future of [our innovation]. We now have a deeper understanding of our stakeholders and a foundational knowledge of fundraising.”
– Launch Innovator, Cohort 1
A team of experts to Launch your innovations
Launch is a federally funded partnership among several organizations with expertise in adolescent health, entrepreneurship, youth engagement, commercialization, and more.
