Community Health Council

What Community Health Council does

Community Health Council (CHC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in November 2012 by Adam Frange, Nick Glasnovich, and Joseph Glasnovich after Adam witnessed the 'Christmas Fire' disaster in Belen, Peru. It operates in settings of extreme poverty, currently delivering primary healthcare in Haiti (Oranger, Zorange, Fayette) and Peru (Loreto region, Belen, Iquitos). Its core operating model — branded Community Health Clinics — equips, supplies, and physically hosts primary care clinics that are owned and operated by local doctors and nurses from within the communities served, creating permanent care infrastructure where none previously existed.

CHC's service portfolio comprises Mobile Clinics (free, transient primary care in remote Loreto and Haitian mountain communities), Community Health Clinics (permanent, locally-staffed primary care facilities), a Research Abroad Program for IRB-approved university research, Volunteer Programs spanning US-based and abroad medical, student, carpentry, engineering, and artist roles, and a Speaker Bureau presenting on global health, social entrepreneurship, women in medicine, and poverty solutions. The organization began with mobile clinics in partnership with Amazon Promise, expanded into Haiti in 2014, and that same year pivoted from the mobile-only model to its current community-run clinic model after learning that up to 50% of Haitian physicians are unemployed.

CHC funds operations through tax-deductible donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations — accessed via PayPal, Venmo, GiveLively, Amazon Smile, and an Amazon Wish List — supplemented by small sliding-scale patient fees at clinics. Patients who cannot pay are not turned away. The organization reports treating more than 35,000 patients cumulatively since 2012, including a 2016 World AIDS Day program that screened 199 patients and initiated lifelong antiretroviral therapy for five HIV-positive individuals. CHC is governed by a Board of Trustees that includes two Haitian physician-entrepreneurs, and maintains a mailing address in Cambridge, Massachusetts and an operational address in San Francisco, California.

Name

Community Health Council

Legal name

Community Health Council

Website

https://communityhealthcouncil.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Community Health Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 2012 that empowers local doctors and nurses to operate primary care clinics in Haiti and Peru, funding operations through tax-deductible donations and small sliding-scale patient fees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Global Health Non-Profit Services

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Health & Health Equity Organizations (BPAGACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Health Systems Strengthening & Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnerships (HLAJAOAL), Health Systems Strengthening & Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (BPADAIAE)

Keywords

• Community health clinics
• Primary care delivery
• Global health nonprofit
• Mobile medical clinics
• Healthcare volunteering programs

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, CHC relies primarily on donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations. Donations are tax-deductible and support clinic operations, equipment, medication, and supplies.
2. Patient Fees (Sliding Scale): CHC Community Health Clinics charge a very small fee for visits to those who can afford it, enabling clinics to pay local medical professionals a living wage and achieve self-sustainability. Those who cannot afford to pay are not turned away and receive treatment free of charge.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Community Health Council empowers local doctors and nurses in Haiti and Peru to establish and operate permanent primary care clinics in settings of extreme poverty. CHC provides the equipment, medication, supplies, and physical clinic location, while local medical professionals deliver scientifically sound primary care on a sliding-scale fee basis to fund a living wage for staff and ensure clinic sustainability. The organization also runs mobile clinics in remote communities and volunteer and research programs to support the clinics.

Product overview

Community Health Council operates two core healthcare service models: Mobile Clinics providing free healthcare in remote communities of Peru and Haiti, and permanent Community Health Clinics staffed by local medical professionals offering affordable primary care. Supporting programs include Research Abroad opportunities for university researchers and diverse Volunteer Programs engaging medical professionals, students, crafters, engineers, and artists. The organization transitioned from transient mobile clinic model to sustainable community-run clinics as its primary strategy for achieving health for all through primary care.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mobile Clinics Free mobile healthcare clinics that bring primary medical care to remote and underserved communities in Loreto, Peru and the mountains of Haiti, focusing on those who could not travel to a doctor.
• Community Health Clinics Permanent primary care clinics run by local doctors and nurses from within the community, providing scientifically-sound medical care at affordable cost. Those who cannot pay are not turned away and receive free treatment. CHC provides equipment, medication, supplies, and physical clinic location.
• Volunteer Programs Various volunteer opportunities including US-based volunteers (fundraising, marketing, supply management), medical professionals abroad (nurses, doctors, specialists), carpenters and crafters, engineers, students, and artists.
• Research Abroad Program University-affiliated student and faculty research opportunities in community health settings in Haiti and Peru, involving social and biological determinants of health, requiring IRB approval.
• Speaker Bureau Expert speakers available for presentations at schools, universities, conferences, and corporations on topics including global health, social entrepreneurship, women in medicine, and new models to solve poverty.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 35,000 patients treated since founding in 2012
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Amazon PromisecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Partnership with Amazon Promise at founding in 2012 for mobile clinic operations in Peru. CHC co-founder Adam Frange was volunteering with the Gesundheit! Institute at an orphanage in Belen, Peru when the Christmas Fire disaster occurred, leading to collaboration with Amazon Promise to organize medical care for the catastrophe-stricken community.

Scale indicators4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Partners in Health: Large global health nonprofit operating hospitals and clinics in Haiti and other resource-poor settings. Directly comparable mission and geography; offers a much larger-scale comparison for CHC's community clinic model.
• Global Health Corps: Nonprofit that places young health professionals in year-long fellowships with health organizations in East Africa and the US. Comparable talent-deployment model targeting health systems strengthening in resource-limited settings.
• Last Mile Health: Community health organization that recruits and trains local workers (including unemployed health workers) to deliver primary care in last-mile settings. Directly comparable empowerment-based primary care delivery model in low-resource geographies.
• Living Goods: Community health organization supporting networks of community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Comparable empowerment-and-local-ownership model for primary care delivery in underserved communities.
• Possible Health: Nepal-based nonprofit operating community health worker programs and primary care in rural Nepal. Directly comparable model of pairing local clinicians with nonprofit-supported infrastructure to deliver primary care in extreme-poverty settings.
• Health Equity International (formerly St. Boniface Haiti Foundation): Haiti-focused health nonprofit operating hospitals, clinics, and community health programs in southern Haiti. Directly comparable target geography and primary care focus, though with a stronger facility-based orientation than CHC.
• Real Medicine Foundation: Global health nonprofit that implements community-based healthcare programs in underserved regions. Comparable mission and clinic-partnership model, though it operates across a broader set of countries and crisis contexts.
• Amazon Promise: Peru-based nonprofit providing mobile medical clinics and primary care in the Peruvian Amazon. CHC's founding operational partner and a directly comparable mobile-clinic model in the same Loreto geography.

Broad incumbents

• Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières: Largest international medical humanitarian organization, operating emergency and primary care programs globally including Haiti. Overlapping mission and geography but vastly larger scale, emergency-response orientation, and institutional funding.
• BRAC (Health Program): Large international development organization operating community-based primary health programs in multiple low-income countries. Comparable empowerment-driven community health model at much greater scale and geographic breadth.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CommHealthCncl
• Facebookfacebook.com/CommunityHealthCouncil
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/communityhealthcouncil

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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