Our CHC Invest campaign calls on Congressional leaders to not only increase immediate funding for health centers to $9B in FY26, but also scale investments in health center infrastructure, workforce, and innovation to reach a total of $30B by 2030. This will ensure FQHCs can fulfill their mission of providing services to critically underserved populations, including veterans, students, individuals experiencing homelessness, public housing residents, and agricultural workers.
See our CHC Invest and CHC Invest: 30 by 30 one-pagers.
In addition to four years of consistent advocacy on Capitol Hill, we delivered a letter from more than 550 national health care organizations that urges Congress to increase funding for community health centers through the Community Health Center Trust Fund reauthorization.
Current funding for the CHC Fund runs out on September 30, 2025 and we need Congress to take immediate action to ensure health centers can continue to serve the more than 32 million patients they provide care to each year.
Our FY2026 CHC Invest Policy Priorities
$9B for combined mandatory and discretionary funding for Community Health Centers:
$5.8B through the Community Health Center Fund, which must be reauthorized in 2025, and
$3.2B through the FY26 appropriations process
Meaningful Increases for Community Health Centers Workforce Programs:
$950M (mandatory) for the National Health Service Corps
$300M (mandatory) for the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program