Who We Help
Catalyzing Local Health Leadership
Community health flourishes when local leaders take the lead. Shift Health Accelerator catalyzes and partners with these leaders and institutions to ensure that community-driven solutions are fully supported and resourced.
Why Collaborate with Us?
We turn vision into action.
Shift ensures that community-led
solutions are at the forefront. By
partnering with us, you’ll see more
relevant, sustainable outcomes and
benefit from our adaptable,
collaborative approach.
We stay until the work sticks.
We help shift institutional behavior,
share power with community leaders,
and put a sustainability plan in place so the program runs locally—without us.
Community Leaders & COALITIONS
We help community coalitions turn lived priorities into fundable, well-run initiatives—and keep community voices in the room where decisions are made.
Facilitation and Trust
We help community leaders and organizations build lasting governance structures and trust, ensuring that initiatives are rooted in local wisdom and long-term impact.
Network Building
We support the creation of strong, collaborative networks that connect community leaders with each other and with resources.
Pilot and Readiness
We assist in piloting new ideas and preparing organizations for funding and implementation, ensuring that solutions are both effective and sustainable.
Bridge Building
We foster connections between institutions, funders, and communities around shared values, priorities, and successes.
Healthcare Systems + Institutions
we help hospitals, clinics, and public health agencies build community-rooted initiatives. we align institutional priorities with mission and help translate strategy into actionable programs and insights.
Mission-Driven Alignment
We help healthcare institutions—from hospitals and clinics to public health agencies—align their assets and efforts with their mission, ensuring that community impact is at the core of their work.
Strategic Translation
We assist in translating institutional strategies into actionable, community-focused approaches, fostering meaningful partnerships.
Participatory Approaches
We promote participatory governance models, ensuring that community voices are integral in decision-making processes.
Partnership Cultivation
We help build and sustain robust partnerships that create lasting, equitable health outcomes.
Funders + Philanthropy
We help funders back stronger community-led bets through strengthening participatory design. We help source and craft investable proposals, reimagine impact, align co-funders, and put trust-based practices and learning in place – to focus on outcomes, not activity.
Participatory Governance
We help funders embed community voices into decision-making processes, ensuring that investments align with community needs and goals.
Sourcing Investments
Leveraging our network of community leaders, we help funders identify and source impactful investment opportunities that drive real change.
Learning and Field Building
We foster communities of practice and push the envelope of the philanthropic field, creating spaces for innovation and shared learning.
Accountability and Impact
Our approach ensures that philanthropic efforts are transparent, accountable, and truly transformative, amplifying impact and building a more equitable field.
Collaborative Partners
We host practice spaces for values-aligned organizations to collaborate in building a more equitable health landscape. We cultivate networks of true partners committed to health equity and community-led change.
Communities of Practice
Bringing colleagues together to share learning, practices, and emerging tests of community governance and participatory investing
Visionary Narratives
Reframing assumptions about community health and reimagining a community-rooted vision for health
Trust-based Networks
Cultivating intentional, long-term, trust-based, sustained relationships across place, discipline, and sector to move in aligned direction.
Collaborative Funding
Supporting co-funding, pooled investments, and collaborative resourcing of community health initiatives
How We Work Together
Community health flourishes when local leaders take the lead. Shift Health Accelerator catalyzes and partners with these leaders and institutions to ensure that community-driven solutions are fully supported and resourced.
Better Outcomes
When local leaders drive change, we see more relevant and sustainable health improvements. plan with clear roles, voting rights, and timelines.
Collaborative Spirit
We work alongside funders, healthcare institutions, and community leaders to co-create solutions that truly resonate locally.
Adaptive Approach
Our work is flexible and bespoke, tailoring strategies to meet the unique needs of our partners and the communities we serve.
Seasoned Expertise
Our national network is made up of experienced health equity leaders who are committed to creating lasting impact.
Courageous Conversations
We’re not afraid to engage with complex issues like power dynamics and resource allocation to drive meaningful, transparent change.
Value and Impact
We aim to deliver not just outcomes, but meaningful, lasting change that aligns with our partners’ missions and values.
Our Success Snapshot
$500K+
distributed through community governance and participatory funding initiatives
$20M+
secured in partnership with local leaders pitching health equity initiatives rooted in local priorities and vision
6+
co-design efforts centering community co-design and governance of local funds and coalitions
25
communities served supporting community-led visioning and resourcing strategy