Mission

Find, nurture, and try ideas to transform the health of communities

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Who We Serve

As a nonprofit Private Foundation, we provide funding and support for other nonprofits and eligible organizations to understand what health means to communities and to try out relatively untested ideas for creating healthy communities. Our current focus is on communities in Texas.

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Leadership

Our volunteer board leads ReInvent Healthy. Board members bring a variety of experiences in healthcare administration, health and medical education, health research, public policy, and community partnerships to support health:

| Evelyn Waiwaiole | Wendy Waiwaiole | Angie Hochhalter|

Our Story

ReInvent Healthy was first born when our founder Angie was chatting with her boyfriend in 2018. He asked what she would do if she won the lottery. Before she had time to think, her mouth said "Start a foundation!" That was it. By the time her mind caught up with her mouth, she realized that a foundation could be a fun and productive way to respond to frustrations she had heard or experienced for years:

Creative nonprofit leaders and passionate individuals had unusual ideas for promoting health but little funding was available for projects that hadn't already been shown to work. There was a need for support that allowed community groups to do their own version of research and development.
Health was often being defined by test results, diseases, how many medicines someone took, life expectancy, and numbers like body mass index. These definitions made sense to her in some ways, but they did not capture how people wanted to feel in their bodies, minds, and emotions. There was a need to understand what communities wanted for their health.

As she began learning about foundations (she knew very little!), she realized what could be created in response to the needs she had seen. ReInvent Healthy was born the same year.