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About CHC: Creating Healthier Communities

We envision a world where every person in every community has an opportunity to live their healthiest life.

CHC: Creating Healthier Communities brings nonprofits, businesses and communities together around a shared commitment to better health and wellbeing. For nearly 70 years, CHC has worked together with partners to address the barriers to good health and equity and create resilient communities where everyone can thrive.

CHC impacts more than 5,000 nonprofits every year, officially partnering with 1,500 organizations of all sizes, and financially supporting an additional 3,500.

  1. We leverage partnerships to raise funds
  2. We deliver programs
  3. We elevate solutions in communities

Our greatest impact is together.

We build partnerships to address health inequities by fostering trusted community engagement, fundraising, and offering programs and services to help support communities where everyone can thrive.

With our community, nonprofit, and corporate partners, we’re working to build collaborative strategies to achieve improved health outcomes, create inclusive opportunities, and support resilient communities where everyone can thrive.

  1. Mobilizing the volunteer and philanthropic support of 17 million employees each year.
  2. Driving billions to date to high-impact nonprofits.
  3. Convening our Corporate Leadership Council, representing top global experts in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG), and Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
  4. Stewarding through our dedicated National Board of Directors, representing The Cleveland Cavaliers, Chevron, Walmart, Saks Fifth Avenue, Starbucks, UnitedHealth Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Ameriprise Financial, and more.

We serve as a catalyst for good health and wellbeing by accelerating positive change among our corporate, nonprofit and community partners.

CHC is working towards greater health equity by building partnerships within communities in ways that intentionally share power and decision making and allow for meaningful participation. Our work towards sustainable change includes alliances with community partners, public agencies, and broader public health movements. Read more to find out about our nonprofit partnerships, corporate partnerships, and work in health equity.