{"id":347,"date":"2017-10-01T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelrun.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2020-01-07T00:10:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:10:44","slug":"gospel-run-wins-1st-place-in-national-american-heart-association-competition-for-urban-health-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/01\/gospel-run-wins-1st-place-in-national-american-heart-association-competition-for-urban-health-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Run wins 1st place in national American Heart Association competition for urban health innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>October 2017<\/em>\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Out of over 125 applicants from across the United States, Gospel Run won first place in the American Heart Association\u2019s national competition for innovative urban health solutions.\u00a0\u00a0The competition was held on October 17<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>at the inaugural\u00a0EmPOWERED To Serve (ETS) Summit in Washington DC. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EmPOWERED To Serve (ETS) is a national initiative of the American Heart Association created to advance health justice in urban and minority communities. ETS focuses on fostering health equity through advocacy, policy, education and social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u201cThis is a full circle moment for us,\u201d says Gospel Run Founder, Nyasha Nyamapfene.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAHA was actually our first local health partner when we launched in Chicago, and now they are our first national partner.\u00a0The monetary award is incredibly appreciated, and extending our strategic partnership with AHA nationally will also help to extend our reach and our impact.\u00a0\u00a0Winning first place nationally is a great validation of our work from one of our most valued partners.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As first place winner, Gospel Run will partner with the American Heart Association to expand the Gospel Run model to additional US geographies and receive $30,000 to support its scaling.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 1924, the American Heart Association (AHA) is the nation\u2019s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease. \u00a0The Dallas-based organization \u00a0has over 33 million volunteers and supporters and over 3,400 employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to AHA feature story:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.heart.org\/chicago-entrepreneur-works-change-focus-managing-diseases-supporting-health\/\">https:\/\/news.heart.org\/chicago-entrepreneur-works-change-focus-managing-diseases-supporting-health\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2017\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Out of over 125 applicants from across the United States, Gospel Run won first place in the American Heart Association\u2019s national competition for innovative urban health solutions.\u00a0\u00a0The competition was held on October 17th\u00a0at the inaugural\u00a0EmPOWERED To Serve (ETS) Summit in Washington DC. \u00a0 EmPOWERED To Serve (ETS) is a national initiative of the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gospelrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/oct18.jpg?fit=1596%2C704&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelrun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}