BuildIt
Building the American Dream
What if homebuilding became a sport—and the winner was homeownership?
We compete in almost everything. We race cars, run marathons, build robots, launch startups, cook under pressure, and push athletes to accomplish what once seemed impossible.
At the Dream Fund, we believe one of America’s greatest challenges deserves that same energy.
BuildIt is a competitive homebuilding initiative bringing together builders, trades, suppliers, manufacturers, innovators, financial partners, community leaders, and future homeowners to tackle one challenge: how can we build quality homes smarter, faster, and more affordably—and create new pathways to homeownership?
BuildIt turns problem-solving into action.
It is part competition, part innovation platform, part workforce opportunity, and part homeownership initiative—all centered around real people pursuing the American Dream.
A Marathon for Builders. A Finish Line That Matters.
BuildIt challenges participating teams to push beyond business as usual.
Every project creates an opportunity to examine how homes are designed, sourced, financed, constructed, and delivered. Teams are challenged to leverage their experience, relationships, resources, technology, creativity, and purchasing power to find responsible ways to reduce unnecessary costs while protecting what matters most:
Quality. Safety. Durability. Livability. Value.
This isn’t a race to build the cheapest house.
It is a race to build homeownership better.
Builders aren’t being asked simply to donate their work. BuildIt is designed around the belief that sustainable solutions must work for everyone involved—from the homeowner to the contractor, tradesperson, supplier, lender, community, and corporate partner.
Because if an idea only works once, it isn’t a solution.
Real Homes. Real People. Real Opportunity.
At the center of every BuildIt challenge is a person or family working toward something generations of Americans have pursued: a place to call their own.
Selected candidates aren’t treated as spectators. BuildIt is designed to make the future homeowner part of the journey—creating opportunities to better understand the responsibilities, economics, and possibilities of ownership.
The goal is bigger than handing someone keys.
We want to help create prepared homeowners who can establish roots, build equity, strengthen their financial future, and become part of a thriving community.
The house is where the competition happens.
Homeownership is the finish line.
The Competition Creates the Innovation
Every builder knows that the price of a home isn’t determined by one thing.
Land. Materials. Labor. Design. Engineering. Permitting. Transportation. Financing. Energy. Insurance. Supply chains. Waste. Time.
BuildIt creates an environment where industries that normally operate separately can work toward a common objective.
Instead of simply asking: “Why does housing cost so much?”
BuildIt asks: “What can we do about it?”
The competition provides the pressure. Collaboration provides the leverage. Innovation creates the possibilities.
The Dream Fund will capture lessons from each BuildIt initiative so successful ideas can help inform future projects and expand the conversation around attainable homeownership.
Certain competition methodologies, evaluation systems, partnership structures, candidate processes, financial models, and operational frameworks are intentionally reserved for participating BuildIt partners.
We share the mission. We protect the model.
More Than Builders
It takes far more than a builder to build a home.
That’s why BuildIt is designed to bring an entire ecosystem to the table.
Builders and developers can bring construction expertise and leadership. Manufacturers and suppliers can challenge material and equipment costs. Architects and engineers can rethink design. Trades can improve installation and productivity. Technology companies can introduce better tools. Financial institutions can help tackle the affordability equation. Colleges and workforce organizations can connect education with real-world experience.
And major corporate partners can provide something even more powerful: scale.
A donated product can help one home.
A national partnership capable of changing how products, purchasing, logistics, training, technology, and resources are deployed could help change thousands.
Become a Founding BuildIt Partner
We are seeking a select group of Founding Partners willing to help launch and grow BuildIt.
For companies serving America’s builders and homeowners, BuildIt provides an opportunity to do more than sponsor another event.
Put your people, products, knowledge, relationships, and resources into the arena.
Major partners can help underwrite homes, contribute materials and equipment, support workforce opportunities, provide technology, activate vendor networks, participate in storytelling, and help advance practical solutions that make homeownership more attainable.
BuildIt also creates opportunities for partners to demonstrate innovation in a real-world environment while being associated with something Americans understand deeply: the opportunity to own a home.
Corporate partnerships can be developed at local, regional, and national levels, including opportunities for category exclusivity, challenge sponsorships, workforce partnerships, product integration, media participation, and national program expansion.
For Builders: Step Into the Arena
This isn’t another construction project.
It’s a challenge.
Bring your best superintendent. Your best estimator. Your best trades. Your strongest vendor relationships. Your smartest ideas.
Then put them to work.
BuildIt will recognize excellence across the areas that matter— including cost, time, quality, efficiency, innovation, creativity, and the homeowner experience.
The strongest solutions won’t simply earn recognition.
They can help establish a better way forward.
For Donors: Help Us Build More Than Houses
Your contribution helps the Dream Fund turn ideas into real-world projects.
Support can help fund homeownership opportunities, construction, materials, workforce participation, education, innovation, program operations, candidate support, storytelling, research, and the expansion of successful solutions.
You aren’t simply funding square footage.
You’re helping someone build equity.
You’re helping an industry test new ideas.
You’re helping communities create homeowners.
You’re helping build the American Dream.
For Suppliers, Trades & Innovators: Bring What You Do Best
Sometimes changing the cost of a home doesn’t require reinventing the entire house.
It requires solving one problem better.
A material.
A process.
A tool.
A financing solution.
A design decision.
A piece of technology.
A supply-chain improvement.
BuildIt creates a place for those ideas to meet the jobsite.
Whether you’re a national manufacturer or a local trade contractor, there is a place in this competition for people willing to solve problems.
The BuildIt Movement
BuildIt begins with homes.
But its larger purpose is to create a platform where competition drives innovation, collaboration creates leverage, and innovation creates opportunity.
Local challenges can generate local solutions.
Those solutions can inform regional programs.
And the ideas that work can ultimately contribute to something much bigger:
BuildIt America
A national movement challenging America’s builders, businesses, innovators, and communities to compete for something worth winning.
Not simply another trophy.
Not simply another house.
More homeowners.
More equity.
More opportunity.
Stronger communities.
BUILD IT.
BEAT THE COST. BEAT THE CLOCK.
BUILD THE AMERICAN DREAM.
Builders • Sponsors • Suppliers • Trades • Innovators • Financial Partners • Donors • Future Homeowners
Ready to step into the arena?
Partner with BuildIt | Sponsor a Challenge | Compete | Contribute | Support Homeownership
Building the American Dream
What if homebuilding became a sport—and the winner was homeownership?
We compete in almost everything. We race cars, run marathons, build robots, launch startups, cook under pressure, and push athletes to accomplish what once seemed impossible.
At the Dream Fund, we believe one of America’s greatest challenges deserves that same energy.
BuildIt is a competitive homebuilding initiative bringing together builders, trades, suppliers, manufacturers, innovators, financial partners, community leaders, and future homeowners to tackle one challenge: how can we build quality homes smarter, faster, and more affordably—and create new pathways to homeownership?
BuildIt turns problem-solving into action.
It is part competition, part innovation platform, part workforce opportunity, and part homeownership initiative—all centered around real people pursuing the American Dream.
A Marathon for Builders. A Finish Line That Matters.
BuildIt challenges participating teams to push beyond business as usual.
Every project creates an opportunity to examine how homes are designed, sourced, financed, constructed, and delivered. Teams are challenged to leverage their experience, relationships, resources, technology, creativity, and purchasing power to find responsible ways to reduce unnecessary costs while protecting what matters most:
Quality. Safety. Durability. Livability. Value.
This isn’t a race to build the cheapest house.
It is a race to build homeownership better.
Builders aren’t being asked simply to donate their work. BuildIt is designed around the belief that sustainable solutions must work for everyone involved—from the homeowner to the contractor, tradesperson, supplier, lender, community, and corporate partner.
Because if an idea only works once, it isn’t a solution.
Real Homes. Real People. Real Opportunity.
At the center of every BuildIt challenge is a person or family working toward something generations of Americans have pursued: a place to call their own.
Selected candidates aren’t treated as spectators. BuildIt is designed to make the future homeowner part of the journey—creating opportunities to better understand the responsibilities, economics, and possibilities of ownership.
The goal is bigger than handing someone keys.
We want to help create prepared homeowners who can establish roots, build equity, strengthen their financial future, and become part of a thriving community.
The house is where the competition happens.
Homeownership is the finish line.
The Competition Creates the Innovation
Every builder knows that the price of a home isn’t determined by one thing.
Land. Materials. Labor. Design. Engineering. Permitting. Transportation. Financing. Energy. Insurance. Supply chains. Waste. Time.
BuildIt creates an environment where industries that normally operate separately can work toward a common objective.
Instead of simply asking: “Why does housing cost so much?”
BuildIt asks: “What can we do about it?”
The competition provides the pressure. Collaboration provides the leverage. Innovation creates the possibilities.
The Dream Fund will capture lessons from each BuildIt initiative so successful ideas can help inform future projects and expand the conversation around attainable homeownership.
Certain competition methodologies, evaluation systems, partnership structures, candidate processes, financial models, and operational frameworks are intentionally reserved for participating BuildIt partners.
We share the mission. We protect the model.
More Than Builders
It takes far more than a builder to build a home.
That’s why BuildIt is designed to bring an entire ecosystem to the table.
Builders and developers can bring construction expertise and leadership. Manufacturers and suppliers can challenge material and equipment costs. Architects and engineers can rethink design. Trades can improve installation and productivity. Technology companies can introduce better tools. Financial institutions can help tackle the affordability equation. Colleges and workforce organizations can connect education with real-world experience.
And major corporate partners can provide something even more powerful: scale.
A donated product can help one home.
A national partnership capable of changing how products, purchasing, logistics, training, technology, and resources are deployed could help change thousands.
Become a Founding BuildIt Partner
We are seeking a select group of Founding Partners willing to help launch and grow BuildIt.
For companies serving America’s builders and homeowners, BuildIt provides an opportunity to do more than sponsor another event.
Put your people, products, knowledge, relationships, and resources into the arena.
Major partners can help underwrite homes, contribute materials and equipment, support workforce opportunities, provide technology, activate vendor networks, participate in storytelling, and help advance practical solutions that make homeownership more attainable.
BuildIt also creates opportunities for partners to demonstrate innovation in a real-world environment while being associated with something Americans understand deeply: the opportunity to own a home.
Corporate partnerships can be developed at local, regional, and national levels, including opportunities for category exclusivity, challenge sponsorships, workforce partnerships, product integration, media participation, and national program expansion.
For Builders: Step Into the Arena
This isn’t another construction project.
It’s a challenge.
Bring your best superintendent. Your best estimator. Your best trades. Your strongest vendor relationships. Your smartest ideas.
Then put them to work.
BuildIt will recognize excellence across the areas that matter— including cost, time, quality, efficiency, innovation, creativity, and the homeowner experience.
The strongest solutions won’t simply earn recognition.
They can help establish a better way forward.
For Donors: Help Us Build More Than Houses
Your contribution helps the Dream Fund turn ideas into real-world projects.
Support can help fund homeownership opportunities, construction, materials, workforce participation, education, innovation, program operations, candidate support, storytelling, research, and the expansion of successful solutions.
You aren’t simply funding square footage.
You’re helping someone build equity.
You’re helping an industry test new ideas.
You’re helping communities create homeowners.
You’re helping build the American Dream.
For Suppliers, Trades & Innovators: Bring What You Do Best
Sometimes changing the cost of a home doesn’t require reinventing the entire house.
It requires solving one problem better.
A material.
A process.
A tool.
A financing solution.
A design decision.
A piece of technology.
A supply-chain improvement.
BuildIt creates a place for those ideas to meet the jobsite.
Whether you’re a national manufacturer or a local trade contractor, there is a place in this competition for people willing to solve problems.
The BuildIt Movement
BuildIt begins with homes.
But its larger purpose is to create a platform where competition drives innovation, collaboration creates leverage, and innovation creates opportunity.
Local challenges can generate local solutions.
Those solutions can inform regional programs.
And the ideas that work can ultimately contribute to something much bigger:
BuildIt America
A national movement challenging America’s builders, businesses, innovators, and communities to compete for something worth winning.
Not simply another trophy.
Not simply another house.
More homeowners.
More equity.
More opportunity.
Stronger communities.
BUILD IT.
BEAT THE COST. BEAT THE CLOCK.
BUILD THE AMERICAN DREAM.
Builders • Sponsors • Suppliers • Trades • Innovators • Financial Partners • Donors • Future Homeowners
Ready to step into the arena?
Partner with BuildIt | Sponsor a Challenge | Compete | Contribute | Support Homeownership