$0
To create and launch
Building your campaign page, publishing it, posting updates, and keeping it running never costs you a single dollar, at any stage or scale.
Health EquityGetting proper health care still depends too much on income, language, or an address. From nonprofits to local organizers, everyone working to change that can fundraise on HealthCommons and put committed donors behind the work.
You bring the cause and the vision. HealthCommons brings the free start, the credibility, and the donors who already fund health equity work.
$0
To create and launch
Building your campaign page, publishing it, posting updates, and keeping it running never costs you a single dollar, at any stage or scale.
Verified
Before the first donation
Our team reviews each campaign and its story by hand before it goes live, so donors always find yours already checked and approved.
Amplified
After you go live
The Narrative Amplification Engine carries live campaigns into social feeds, inboxes, and press coverage until the right donors find yours.
Health inequities begin long before anyone reaches treatment. Insurance gaps, language barriers, rural provider shortages, maternal care deserts, and rising prescription costs all push care further out of reach. That distance leaves underserved communities carrying worse outcomes from conditions that timely care could have prevented.
The greatest barriers fall on rural communities, uninsured families, veterans, Tribal communities, immigrants, people with disabilities, and Black and Indigenous mothers, who still face the highest risks in pregnancy. For these groups, getting care means fewer options, longer waits, and illnesses caught too late, even though they often need it most.
Follow the steps below to take your fundraising idea from a first thought to a fully funded, donor-backed campaign that leaves a lasting impact on your community.
Build your campaign page around the gap you're addressing, who it affects, and what the money will change. Set a goal based on what the work actually costs, and add photos of the real places and people your fundraiser will help.
As soon as your campaign request comes in, our team runs a thorough check on who you are, how credible your campaign is, and who it serves in the community. Once everything holds up, your fundraiser is cleared to launch as a verified campaign.
Once your campaign goes live, promotion starts on two fronts. The Narrative Amplification Engine takes your story to social media, email, and press, while you rally people who already know your work. Together they bring in donations from beyond your network.
Every donation shows up on your dashboard the moment it arrives, and you can trace each gift through to payout. When the money reaches the work, post updates that show donors where every dollar went.
Each cause below takes on a different barrier to care, from maternal health to language access to coverage for the uninsured. Find where your campaign belongs and start fundraising there.
Too many mothers face pregnancy without the care they need, a gap widest in Black maternal health, sparing no one. Maternal health nonprofits, birth equity organizations, and anyone serving mothers can fundraise here for whatever care is missing, from prenatal checkups and doula training to safe deliveries and postpartum support.
Browse Maternal & infant health campaignsEvery untreated need grows more urgent by the day. Take it to HealthCommons, rally donors, and fund equitable care for your community.
A strong cause alone doesn't fund a campaign. How you present it does. The tips below cover the details donors check before they give.
Six essentials
Drawn from campaigns that hit their goal.
Health equity covers a lot of ground, and campaigns that try to cover it all blur together. Choose one barrier and the people it affects.
Price out the staff hours, sessions, or supplies behind your plan, and show donors the math. Goals they can trace feel safe to fund.
A donation is an act of trust in people the donor may never meet. These four practices make sure that trust is never taken for granted.
Documented payouts
When a campaign closes, every stage of the payout is documented until the money lands with the organizer.
Create your campaign page with a story, a cost-based goal, and photos, then send it in for review. Once our team verifies it, the campaign goes live and promotion begins. From there, your dashboard follows every donation from arrival to payout.
Nonprofits, community health programs, tribal organizations, public health departments, and individuals organizing on a community's behalf. If your fundraiser widens access to care for a whole group of people rather than one household, you can submit it for review.
Anything that removes a barrier between people and the care they need, such as interpreter services, maternal health programs, enrollment assistance, or accessible exam rooms. Cost, distance, language, exclusion: if that's the obstacle, the campaign belongs in this category.
Yes. Campaigns that focus on one group are welcome, whether that's Black maternal health, veterans health, or care in Tribal communities. The one requirement is scale: your fundraiser should serve that whole group in your community, not a single household.
The story of the gap you're closing, a funding goal built from real costs, and a spending plan showing where the money will go. Review also confirms your identity and organization, so keep those details at hand. Strong photos from your program help too, so gather them early.
Campaigns are vetted before they can accept anything, donations stay visible on a live dashboard, and payouts are documented until funds land with the verified organizer. Donors can also follow posted updates as the money becomes work.
Nearly all of it. HealthCommons keeps a small 5% fee that covers verifying campaigns, processing payments securely, and running the platform. Everything else reaches your campaign, and starting one costs nothing.
Communities rarely face one problem alone. Support a cause that connects to Health Equity.
Removing a barrier to care takes funding and someone willing to ask for it. Fundraise here, ask on your community's behalf, and the platform carries the rest.
Every one of these gaps is fundable, and funding them is exactly what HealthCommons was built for. As a crowdfunding platform for public health, it bridges the distance between communities that need care and donors ready to back them. Each campaign is vetted before launch, promoted nationwide, and tracked until every dollar arrives where it was promised.
Stock images make campaigns look like ads. A real photo from your own program, shared with permission, makes yours look like work worth funding.
Donors give to people, not descriptions. Name your organization, introduce your team, and say how long you've been doing this work.
Start with the people who believe in your work. Their gifts arrive fastest, and every donor who follows sees a campaign that's already trusted.
Donors remember campaigns that write back. When the work moves forward, tell them what their money just did, and many will follow you to the next goal.
Itemized receipts by email
Each donation comes with an itemized receipt sent straight to the donor's inbox.
