Center for Health Progress

What Center for Health Progress does

Center for Health Progress is a multi-racial, member-led grassroots advocacy nonprofit based in Colorado that organizes poor, working, and middle class communities to fight corporate healthcare power and advance health equity. Its core work consists of organizing campaigns, legislative advocacy, and leadership development across three geographic bases: Metro Denver, Fort Morgan, and Pueblo. The organization runs active campaigns on medical debt protection (The Medical Debt Protection Act), immigrant health coverage protection (Health Over Corporate Wealth/OmniSalud/Cover All Coloradans), and rural community education (The Cost of Cruelty Tour), alongside a Healthcare Worker Organizing program. Underlying strategic framework is the "Three Faces of Power" model (Win Demands, Drive Agenda, Shape Story), supported by a narrative research partnership with academic researchers begun in Fall 2022.

The organization has no proprietary technology platforms or software products; its "infrastructure" is a member base of hundreds of community members, three physical offices, and a staff of approximately eight including three Co-Executive Directors (Dana Kennedy, Joe Sammen, Theresa Trujillo), a Director of Strategic Initiatives (Marissa Hallo), and four field organizers. It operates under a member-controlled governance structure and in 2023 became an affiliate of People's Action Institute, a national network of 40+ power-building organizations in 30 states.

The business model is donation-funded rather than revenue-generating. CHP raises funds through individual donor contributions with suggested tiers of $30, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, or custom amounts, plus a recurring monthly contribution option (default ask of $25/month). Revenue is supplemented by event co-sponsorship from peer advocacy nonprofits (Colorado Center on Law and Policy, Colorado Children's Campaign, Healthier Colorado, Towards Justice, Young Invincibles, Colorado Cross Disability Coalition, People's Action). Go-to-market is community-led organizing: member recruitment, leadership development, direct action campaigns, and legislative advocacy. No commercial products or services are sold, and no financial figures are publicly disclosed.

Name

Center for Health Progress

Legal name

Center for Health Progress

Website

https://centerforhealthprogress.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Center for Health Progress is a Colorado-based, member-led grassroots advocacy nonprofit that organizes poor, working, and middle class communities across Denver, Fort Morgan, and Pueblo to win health equity campaigns on medical debt, immigrant coverage, and corporate healthcare accountability.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Advocacy and Community Organizing

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Health & Health Equity Organizations (BPAGACAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Patient Advocacy, Navigation & Access to Care (BPAGACAH)

Keywords

• Health equity advocacy
• Community organizing services
• Grassroots healthcare campaigns
• Policy advocacy nonprofit
• Healthcare reform organizing

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: One-time and recurring donations from individual supporters. Donation tiers include $30, $50, $100, $500, $1,000 and other amounts. Monthly recurring contributions encouraged.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Center for Health Progress is a multi-racial, member-led grassroots advocacy nonprofit that recruits, develops, and retains hundreds of Colorado community members to run healthcare reform campaigns. It delivers issue-based campaigns (medical debt protection, immigrant health coverage, healthcare worker organizing), leadership development programming, and direct legislative advocacy through three regional offices in Metro Denver, Fort Morgan, and Pueblo.

Product overview

Center for Health Progress is a multi-racial, member-led grassroots advocacy organization in Colorado — not a product software company. Its offerings consist of advocacy campaigns (The Cost of Cruelty Tour, The Medical Debt Protection Act, Health Over Corporate Wealth), leadership development programming, and community and healthcare worker organizing. These programs collectively build collective power to win policy changes that benefit historically oppressed communities, not a software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Cost of Cruelty Tour

Quantifiable outcome

• Won tens of thousands of dollars in additional OmniSalud outreach investment for Fort Morgan community through direct negotiation with Connect for Health Colorado CEO
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Rx FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 May 2024Collaborated on webinar 'Holding Institutions Accountable for Access and Equity' featuring leaders from People's Action, Center for Health Progress, and El Centro in Kansas City discussing work to hold healthcare institutions and insurers accountable.
• People's Action InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023In 2023, CHP member leaders voted to join as an affiliate of People's Action Institute, a national network of 40+ power-building organizations in 30 states advancing equity and justice. This affiliation strengthens CHP's leadership development and base building, issue campaigns, and brings Colorado voices to a national stage. CHP hosts regional Train the Trainer programs for the network.
• Narrative Researchers TeamsupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Partnership with academic narrative researchers beginning Fall 2022 to study how research grounded in organizing can help reveal narrative possibilities for health justice counter-narratives.
• Colorado Center on Law and PolicysupportingOthersSupporting sponsor of CHP's 2024 Member Assembly event.
• Colorado Children's CampaignsupportingOthersSupporting sponsor of CHP's 2024 Member Assembly event.
• Colorado Cross Disability CoalitionsupportingOthersSupporting sponsor of CHP's 2024 Member Assembly event.
• Healthier ColoradosupportingOthersSupporting sponsor of CHP's 2024 Member Assembly event.
• Towards JusticesupportingOthersSupporting sponsor of CHP's 2024 Member Assembly event.
• Young InvinciblessupportingOthersSupporting sponsor of CHP's 2024 Member Assembly event.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• People's Action Institute: National 40+ organization power-building network of which CHP became an affiliate in 2023. Runs shared campaigns, leadership development, and base building across 30 states — directly aligned mission, model, and tactics with CHP.
• Faith in Action: National faith-based power-building network of 75+ affiliates running health equity, immigrant rights, and economic justice campaigns. Closely mirrors CHP's grassroots base-building methodology and policy targets at scale.
• Community Catalyst: National health advocacy organization focused on healthcare affordability, Medicaid, and consumer protection. Comparable campaign portfolio to CHP's Medical Debt Protection Act and Health Over Corporate Wealth work, but at a national scale.

Direct peers

• Colorado Center on Law and Policy: Colorado-based health and economic justice advocacy nonprofit and supporting sponsor of CHP's 2024 Member Assembly. Operates in the same Colorado health-equity advocacy space with overlapping issue campaigns on Medicaid and immigrant access.
• Healthier Colorado: Colorado-focused health advocacy nonprofit and 2024 Member Assembly sponsor. Competes for overlapping donor dollars and pursues adjacent health-policy reform, making it a directly comparable peer in the same Colorado advocacy niche.
• Colorado Children's Campaign: Children's health and equity policy advocacy organization and Member Assembly sponsor. Works on overlapping Colorado policy campaigns (e.g., CHP+ expansion under HB22-1289) for similar base constituencies.
• Center for Popular Democracy: National multi-racial, member-led power-building organization affiliated with People's Action ecosystem. Closely comparable organizing model, with shared affiliate network and similar healthcare and immigrant-rights campaigns.

Emerging players

• Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition: Colorado disability rights and health access coalition, 2024 Member Assembly sponsor. Focuses on intersecting healthcare access issues for Coloradans with disabilities — adjacent to CHP's patient advocacy work.
• Young Invincibles: Youth-focused health and economic opportunity advocacy organization and 2024 Member Assembly sponsor. Overlaps with CHP on Medicaid expansion, young-adult coverage, and immigrant access advocacy.

Regional players

• Towards Justice: Colorado-based worker and economic justice legal advocacy org, 2024 Member Assembly sponsor. Shares CHP's worker-organizing orientation and healthcare worker campaigns.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/chprogress
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/CenterforHealthProgress
• Facebookfacebook.com/centerforhealthprogress

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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