CHC: Creating Healthier Communities

T O G E T H E R F O R H E A LT H

Efforts to improve health in the United States have traditionally focused on healthcare delivery as the key factor in health outcomes. While increasing access to healthcare is important, research shows that improving population health and achieving health equity require broader approaches that address the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health.

CHC: Creating Healthier Communities brings business and health sector leaders together to focus on improving the resilience and health of communities across the U.S. Particular emphasis will be placed on the social, economic and environmental factors influencing health, including unemployment, poor housing conditions and low educational attainment, along with lack of access to quality healthcare. 

CHC also engages corporate and philanthropic partners to identify and support interventions in specific communities concerning disaster relief and community resilience, women’s health, and other health related initiatives that address these “social determinants of health.”

Here in Minnesota, CHC represents over 50 high-impact nonprofits that are working to address barriers to good health and equity while powering transformative change in the communities in which we work.

About CHC 

For more than 65 years, Community Health Charities (CHC) has been creating stronger, healthier communities. We build capacity for nonprofits by raising awareness, amplifying their message, and driving more funds and supporters to their cause; increase employee engagement and social impact for companies through giving, volunteering, health resources, engagement tools, community partnerships, and more; bring leaders together at the national, regional, and local levels to educate, elevate key issues, and improve overall social impact and community health; build community partnerships to harness collective efforts and coalitions; working together to tackle projects that improve community health and address root causes at scale.