CHIC Wins Two Awards for Social Innovation
Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC) was one of Panorama Global’s first fiscally sponsored projects, partnering with us in 2019. It has since become one of the largest: it now has 18 employees worldwide and collaborates with thousands of community health workers (CHWs) and dozens of health organizations in 60+ countries. CHIC’s advocacy efforts have successfully mobilized public health experts, grassroots organizers, and civil society across the globe in support of professional community health workers (proCHWs).
CHIC’s mission is to make proCHWs the norm worldwide by changing guidelines, funding, and policy. To do this, CHIC uses three interconnected tactics—Research, Advocate, and Activate—and seeks to ensure that all CHWs are salaried, skilled, supervised, and supplied. At the World Health Assembly in May, CHIC hosted Transforming Healthcare: Integrating professional CHWs into healthcare systems in one term, with Johnson & Johnson. The conversation featured Dr. Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Millicent Miruka, a community health worker delivering frontline care in Kenya, on what it takes to make professional CHWs the norm.
Panorama is excited to celebrate CHIC’s two awards: the Schwab Foundation’s 2025 Collective Social Innovator Award, and the Skoll Award for Social Innovation in 2025, which recognized and elevated the innovative work CHIC has done as a field catalyst to impact health system design.
Panorama’s fiscal sponsorship has allowed CHIC to house its operations within Panorama’s platform while zeroing in on impact, leveraging its network, and seeking opportunities for expansion. For projects like CHIC, fiscal sponsorship provides a chance to build critical infrastructure while exploring different social impact models to best meet its goals.
Dr. Madeleine Ballard and Margaret Odera collect the Skoll Award for Social Innovation on behalf of CHIC.