THE BIG IDEA
Collective action through radical collaboration.
As a nonprofit field catalyst, the Coalition is achieving systems change. Not scaling up a particular organization.
CHIC flies in the face of the traditional aid model. Rather than protecting their intellectual property, members and allies are unpacking it and making it public. This radical collaboration is how we wield influence on a scale sufficient to change global norms. It’s pragmatic solidarity: a shared vision of health for all, without caring who gets the credit.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
We’re a team—not a club—with one shared mission.
Policy-focused
While we change guidelines and funding too, we know the endgame is national policy.
Top-down, bottom-up
We are uniquely composed of both CHWs and aligned health organizations.
Field catalyst
We influence the direct actions of others, achieve systems change, and are built to win—not to last.
Meet the coalition
Featured CHWs
Members
Allies
Funders & partners
Coalition staff
Advisory board
FOUNDING STORY
From indignation to common cause.
Community Health Impact Coalition started as a loose collaboration of six innovative implementers: Partners in Health, Living Goods, Last Mile Health, Muso, Possible, and Integrate Health.
These organizations demonstrated that salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied CHWs dramatically reduced child mortality. In an astonishingly short timeframe. So the hunch was that radical collaboration could spread good design—driving results faster.
After two years of informal collaboration, we made CHIC official in 2019.
Since then, CHIC has crystallized into an audacious, 60+ country movement. Today, the Coalition comprises thousands of CHWs and dozens of global health organizations in low- and middle-income countries. All members endorse proCHW best practices. Plus, invest serious sweat equity in driving our joint work. Allies support proCHW best practices, fund or work with community health workers, and contribute annually to at least one Coalition project.
