Catalyzing contributions to health justice where everyone can shape the systems that influence their health.
Who We Are
Born from the vision and dedication of a nurse with deep experience in the public and philanthropic sectors.
Founder, Rachel Reichlin, MSN, MPH, RN, has nursed at the bedside, in community, in managed care, and in philanthropy.Rachel fosters relationships that bring about change. Through the strength of relationships built on trust, joy, curiosity, and integrity, she contributes to the Health Justice movement.
What We Do
We listen deeply and elevate the voice of the community.
We connect people, ideas, and resources.
We build for collective impact.
We partner with philanthropy, health institutions, and grassroots leaders along the life cycle of their initiative. Guided by the nursing process, that is intentionally participatory, we are skilled in assessment and planning, start-up operations and implementation, and evaluation. We provide strategic advising, collaboration capacity, and professional coaching.
Recent Projects
Strategic advising and funder mobilization for Live Healthy Chicago, a citywide civic population health initiative to close the nation’s greatest life expectancy gap by improving blood pressure control.Live Healthy Chicago has an innovative financing model that is testing a newmarket for preventive care incentives at a population level.
Start-up support for an emerging nonprofit organization that will strengthen public health infrastructure in Chicago, in partnership with the local health department.This includes a landscape scan, governance model recommendations, strategic partnership engagement, and operations development.
Facilitated a planning process with Coleman staff and Board that resulted in a refreshed strategy for their health giving.Our partnership was extended to support staff with implementation: grantmaking criteria, guidelines, key messaging, and proposal solicitation.
Partners
“Health Justice Partners was critical to helping us clearly articulate the connection between power building and health equity. Because of Health Justice Partners, we were able to build a larger table of funders working in coalition to fund statewide power.” - Amanda Hwu, Executive Director of Illinois Community Power Fund (ILCPF)
Let's weave a healthier future together