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Coasterners Connect
Helping people find, understand, and use the health systems built to serve them — starting with the communities those systems reach last.
Coasterners Health Access Foundation Inc. is a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 42-2717249). Donations to the U.S. organization are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
What Connect does
The shortest path between people and care
For many families, the biggest barrier isn't the absence of services — it's finding them, understanding them, and using them. Connect turns confusing systems into usable ones.
Health & digital literacy
Plain-language health education and hands-on digital skills: patient portals, telehealth, trustworthy health information, and everyday health technology.
System navigation
Helping individuals and families understand eligibility, find services, coordinate across health and social supports, and follow through on referrals.
Community outreach & education
Workshops, health fairs, faith- and community-based sessions, and multilingual materials designed with the communities they serve.
Patient education & self-advocacy
Preparing people to ask questions, understand their conditions and medications, and take a confident seat in their own care.
Why it matters
Support exists. Access doesn't — yet.
Too many people fall through the gaps between programs — not because help doesn't exist, but because reaching it demands time, digital skills, language, and system knowledge that are unevenly shared. Every unnavigated referral and unread portal message is care that was funded but never delivered.
Connect exists to close that last mile. When people can find, understand, and use the services already built for them, existing investments in health finally reach the people they were meant for — and families gain skills that keep paying off long after a single visit.
Fund the work
Your gift clears someone's path
- Sponsors plain-language health and digital-skills workshops
- Supports one-to-one navigation help for families facing complex systems
- Funds multilingual, accessible education materials
- Extends outreach to communities facing the greatest barriers
Program goals
What Connect is working to deliver
500
Community members reached annually through workshops and outreach
300
Navigation supports completed — referrals, applications, and follow-through
12
Community partner sites delivering Connect programming
Partners
Built with partners, not around them
Connect is delivered through community organizations, libraries, faith communities, schools, clinics, and public agencies. If your organization serves a community facing barriers to care, let's build something together.
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Give to Coasterners Connect
100% of your donation goes to Coasterners — our giving platform charges the foundation no platform or processing fees. You may see an optional tip request at checkout; tips go to Zeffy, the platform, not to Coasterners, and are entirely optional. One-time and monthly gifts are both welcome; monthly giving sustains programs year-round.
$25
Plain-language health guides for one family
$50
A seat in a digital health skills workshop
$100
A month of navigation support for one household
$250
A community outreach session with a local partner
Giving levels are illustrative of program costs; all gifts support Coasterners Connect and the mission of Coasterners Health Access Foundation Inc.
🇺🇸 United States
Tax-deductible to the extent permitted by U.S. law.
🇨🇦 Canada
Canadian donors may give to the U.S. organization; official Canadian tax receipts are not yet available.
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Coasterners Health Access Foundation Inc. (United States) and Coasterners Health Access Foundation (Canada) are separate legal entities that share this website and a common mission.
Donations on this page are made to Coasterners Health Access Foundation Inc., a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 42-2717249), and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by U.S. law. No goods or services are provided in exchange for contributions unless otherwise stated.
Coasterners Health Access Foundation (Canada) has applied for registered charity status with the Canada Revenue Agency and cannot issue Canadian official donation receipts at this time.
Giving questions, answered
Is my donation tax-deductible?
Donations on this page go to Coasterners Health Access Foundation Inc., a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 42-2717249), and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by U.S. law. You'll receive a receipt by email.
I'm in Canada — can I get a Canadian tax receipt?
Not yet. Coasterners Health Access Foundation (Canada) has applied for registered charity status with the CRA. Until registration is granted, Canadian donors may give to the U.S. organization, but gifts are not deductible in Canada.
How much of my gift reaches the program?
100% of your donation. Our platform, Zeffy, charges Coasterners no platform or processing fees. Zeffy sustains itself through optional tips donors may choose to add at checkout — tips go to Zeffy, not to Coasterners.
What's the optional tip at checkout?
Zeffy may suggest a tip that supports Zeffy's free platform for nonprofits. It is entirely optional — you can set it to zero and your full donation still reaches Coasterners.
Can I give monthly?
Yes — monthly giving is the steadiest way to sustain Connect programming year-round. You can change or cancel a monthly gift anytime.