Celebrating 2022 at CHC: Creating Healthier Communities

Major health equity program grants, new corporate partnerships and volunteer projects, new CEO search and more

We have so much to celebrate at CHC in 2022, thanks to our dedicated board, staff, partners and network. Here are a few of our favorite highlights.

Celebrating 17 years of service from CHC’s CEO

After more than 17 years of distinguished leadership with CHC plus a 40-year nonprofit career dedicated to advancing health for all people, President & CEO Thomas G. Bognanno announced he will be retiring from full-time responsibilities in 2023. Following his decision, the CHC Board of Directors announced the search for a new President & CEO. Thank you to Kevin Clayton, former CHC board chair and head of social impact and equity at the Cleveland Cavaliers, for leading the search process. 

CHC launched two major new grant partnerships to advance health equity:

  • Thanks to $7 million from Elevance Health Foundation(formerly Anthem Foundation), CHC launched the Black Birthing Initiative in January 2022 to address the maternal health crisis and reduce preterm births. CHC established collaborative partnerships with community-based organizations in Atlanta, Cleveland and Indianapolis and held informative focus groups and listening sessions with doulas, birth advocates and pregnant and postpartum Black women, plus created an implementation guide and screening tool and much more. Read about this partnership and CHC’s community-informed, health equity-centered work.
  • CHC announced a new multi-year partnership with MetroHealth to document the organization’s integrated health equity approach as a case study and model for the country. Read the press release and Crain’s Cleveland article. Or read more about the partnership.

CHC will be announcing major new partnerships in January 2023 so stay tuned!

40+ top companies join council to advance social impact

CHC’s Corporate Leadership Council grew to more than 40 corporate social impact professionals, representing companies such as Nike, Walt Disney, LinkedIn, Starbucks, NFL, Walmart, Comcast and Wells Fargo.

Thank you to our chairs from J&J and Pfizer. Check out the full group Corporate Leadership Council | CHC: Creating Healthier Communities (chcimpact.org) or view articles in our CSR Center.

 

 Standing with Ukraine

Thanks to CHC’s generous partners, including Continental Resources, Echo Global Resources, King County, Port of Virginia, Virginia Maritime Association, and the International Longshoreman’s Association Partner, we raised nearly $184,000 for Ukraine crisis response. 

CHC corporate partners engaged employees and supported health:

  • The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and Telligen provided a combined $100,000 gift to CHC to support mental health and substance use disorder programs within the Chickasaw Nation. American Indians continue to die at higher rates than other Americans in many categories of preventable illness and are three times as likely to die from a drug overdose.
  • ThisWay Global and CHC partnered to promote unbiased hiring and equity with a cause marketing campaign to promote 1 million new jobs through ThisWay Global’s unbiased hiring platform, including $1 per job with a shared goal of $1 million donated in the first year to CHC to advance health equity. Read the press release and check out the landing page.
  • Thank you also to Medica, UnitedHealthcare and Elevance for additional generous corporate gifts.

CHC had a banner year with campaign partners like these:

  • Our longstanding Ohio State Campaign partnership saw the generosity of employees increase this year by nearly $35,000 for a total of $373,000 supporting CHC and our nonprofit partners.
  • Mohegan Sun. partnered with CHC for their annual employee giving campaign raising more than $700,000 – more than double the amount raised last year.
  • Lathrop GPM matched employee donations, raising their campaign to more than $50,000.
  • Echo Global Logistics allowed employees to give to any registered nonprofit using CHC’s Purpose Platform, plus increased their employee match, resulting in $7,000 more in employee pledges.
  • RK Black launched a new employee appreciation campaign, “Share the Love” offering employees $50 CHC GiveCards to redeem as a donation to one of fourteen nonprofits + an additional $5,000 charitable gift.
  • Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) implemented their first-ever employee incentive with a $50 company match and a $25 leadership team match for employees, resulting in a 62% increase in company giving.
  • Bankers Life Forget Me Not Days® campaign raised over $34,486 for the Alzheimer’s Association —a 13% increase over last year.
  • The OKC Dodgers once again hosted American Indian Health Night in partnership with CHC and Southern Plains Tribal Health Board.

Read more about CHC’s corporate partners.

CHC partners volunteered, rallying employees and advancing health equity:

  • Hilti and its employees built 1,000 Healthier Moms Kits with CHC, plus hosted a live screening of the documentary, AfterShock. Check out the video recap. Aftershock Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion hosted by CHC – YouTube
  • CHC’s generous corporate partners, including MetLife ($90,000), Elevance ($12,500 + $32,000), Hilti ($10,000), Connexus ($3,500) and Saks ($9,000), partnered on volunteer projects locally, nationally and globally.
  • More exciting volunteer partnerships are planned for 2023, including year 2 of volunteer partnership programs for Saks and Elevance, plus year 3 for Hilti.

Top nonprofit partners

Thank you to CHC’s nearly 1,500 nonprofit partners in 2022. CHC supports more than 5,000 nonprofits annually. Find out more about partnership. Become a CHC Partner (chcimpact.org)

Exceptional Board Leadership

CHC in the News

Check out some of our favorite media highlights:

Don’t forget to follow us @chcimpact on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, plus check our posts for great resources, such as donating in-kind, mental health, HIV/AIDS awareness, Black women and breast cancer, human rights, allyship, conference presentations, and more.

Wishing you a happy, healthy holiday season from all of us at CHC.