Elevating Innovation in
Child Welfare

Each year state child welfare agencies receive over 4 million reports of abuse and neglect. The federal, state and local governments collectively spend over $30 billion each year and yet each year communities do not have what they need to care for their children and families. At the Aviv Foundation we believe that social workers, advocates and other leaders are doing their best and yet the tools we provide are not adequate to address the complex and evolving needs of families. We cannot expect our old tools to fix today's problems.

The Springboard Prize for Child Welfare recognizes that innovation is essential to creating meaningful, lasting change. The Prize takes a different approach to funding innovation by investing early, when flexible capital can help promising ideas take shape, grow, and gain traction. It seeks to uncover bold new approaches and support innovators often overlooked by traditional philanthropy, particularly people with lived experience in the child welfare system and those from low-income, Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.