Students lead the work
Members plan fundraising, outreach, volunteer activities, events, sponsorships, communications, and financial stewardship.
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Putting essential medical equipment within reach.
Students lead. Communities give. Nonprofit partners identify the need. Together, we provide volunteering services and help essential equipment reach seniors, uninsured individuals, military veterans, children living with chronic medical conditions and health organizations.
Student-ledReal leadership through fundraising, service, outreach, budgeting, and community partnership.
Our mission
Help Nonprofit organizations with providing volunteering services and obtain the equipment people need to live healthier, safer and more independent lives.
Improve access
Support essential medical and mobility equipment needs.
Develop leaders
Give students meaningful ownership and responsibility.
Build community
Bring students, families, nonprofits, and businesses together.
How the mission comes to life
A service organization built around leadership, partnership, and tangible impact.
Founded by Students, Driven by Service
Health Within Reach was co-founded by Chase Fichman, Joao Wan, and Cooper Fichman, student leaders committed to helping make essential medical equipment more accessible to people in need.
They created Health Within Reach to bring students, families, donors, businesses, and nonprofit organizations together to support seniors, uninsured individuals, and children living with chronic medical conditions while giving students meaningful opportunities to lead and serve their communities.
Student Leadership
Chase Fichman
Co-Founder
Chase co-founded Health Within Reach to help connect student leadership with meaningful community service and improve access to essential medical equipment for individuals and families in need.
Student Leadership
Cooper Fichman
Co-Founder
Cooper co-founded Health Within Reach to help students turn community service into meaningful action while supporting greater access to essential medical equipment for individuals and families in need.
Student Leadership
Joao Wan
Co-Founder
Joao co-founded Health Within Reach to help students turn leadership and community service into meaningful action. He supports the organization’s mission of building partnerships, raising awareness, and helping nonprofit organizations gain access to essential medical equipment for the people they serve.
Parents support the mission
Parents and guardians help students participate safely and reliably while preserving the student-led nature of the organization.
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Partners identify the need
Recipient organizations help define equipment needs, verify eligibility, and document the impact created for their communities.
Partner with us →Management Team
Management Team
The team focuses on community outreach, operational support for mobile health initiatives, and transparent project stewardship. Its work includes planning health awareness campaigns and community education workshops, coordinating volunteers and local partnerships, practicing responsible financial stewardship for fundraising and donations, and representing Health Within Reach professionally with donors, sponsors, partners, and the public.
Management Team
Daniel Zelfman
Chief Operating Officer
For students
Lead something that matters.
Health Within Reach gives students practical leadership experience through real service projects rather than symbolic titles.
Leadership opportunities
Fundraising • Community Outreach • Secretary • Treasurer • Marketing & Communications • Volunteer Coordination • Events • Social Media
Student expectations
- Participate reliably in meetings, service projects, and fundraising activities.
- Take ownership of assigned responsibilities and meet agreed deadlines.
- Represent the organization professionally with donors, partners, and the community.
- Help plan fundraising events, awareness campaigns, sponsorship outreach, and volunteer activities.
- Practice responsible financial stewardship and transparency.
- Develop leadership, teamwork, communication, project management, and public-speaking skills.
For parents & guardians
Support the mission while letting students lead.
Parents play an important supporting role in helping students participate safely, responsibly, and consistently while preserving student ownership of the work.
Parent expectations
- Encourage dependable participation and follow-through.
- Assist with transportation or event logistics when reasonably needed.
- Help students maintain appropriate safety, conduct, and communication standards.
- Support fundraising and outreach without taking over student leadership responsibilities.
- Help protect donor trust, privacy, and responsible handling of funds and equipment.
These are proposed operating expectations and should be formally approved by the organization before being treated as policy.
Equipment that expands access to care
Practical technology can create a meaningful difference in everyday health.
Health Within Reach intends to help qualified nonprofit and community organizations obtain practical medical equipment that can improve monitoring, support earlier awareness of health changes, strengthen day-to-day care, and help people remain safer and more independent.
Our goal is not simply to distribute devices. It is to help put useful healthcare tools into the hands of organizations and caregivers that can use them to serve seniors, uninsured individuals, children with chronic medical needs, and other people who may have limited access to essential equipment.
Pulse Oximeters
Compact pulse oximeters provide a simple way to monitor blood oxygen saturation and pulse rate. For community organizations, senior-care programs, and individuals managing ongoing health concerns, access to this type of equipment can provide useful information that supports more informed conversations with healthcare professionals.
Potential impact: greater awareness, convenient monitoring, and increased confidence for caregivers and individuals.
Automatic Blood Pressure Monitors
Automatic blood pressure monitors make routine blood-pressure checks easier and more accessible. Providing these devices through community and nonprofit organizations can help individuals participate more actively in monitoring their health while giving caregivers another practical tool for supporting ongoing wellness.
Potential impact: easier routine monitoring, stronger health awareness, and better access to basic health information.
Cardiac Monitoring Equipment
Cardiac monitoring technology can provide organizations and caregivers with additional information about heart activity when appropriate for their setting. Health Within Reach intends to support access to equipment that helps qualified organizations strengthen the resources available to the populations they serve.
Potential impact: stronger monitoring capabilities and additional support for community-based healthcare programs.
mWear Solution System
Our longer-term goal includes helping smaller hospitals, retirement communities, and similar care organizations gain access to more comprehensive monitoring solutions such as the mWear system. Technology of this type can help organizations extend monitoring capabilities across multiple patients while giving care teams additional tools to manage health information efficiently.
Potential impact: scalable monitoring, greater efficiency for care teams, and broader access to technology that smaller organizations may otherwise struggle to obtain.
Equipment shown and described represents examples of products Health Within Reach may support. Actual equipment purchases and distributions will depend on recipient needs, available funding, organizational eligibility, appropriate use, and applicable requirements. Health Within Reach does not provide medical advice or determine individual medical treatment.
Volunteering
Give your time. Strengthen your community. Make an impact.
Health Within Reach connects students, families, and community volunteers with meaningful opportunities to support seniors, uninsured individuals, military veterans, children living with chronic medical conditions, and health organizations.
Our volunteer efforts are designed to address practical community needs while giving volunteers the opportunity to make a direct and measurable difference.
Support Seniors
Assist with community outreach, wellness initiatives, equipment distribution, senior-support programs, and activities that help older adults remain connected, safe, and independent.
Help Uninsured Individuals
Support community organizations, health-access events, medical-equipment initiatives, donation drives, and outreach programs serving people with limited access to healthcare resources.
Serve Military Veterans
Partner with veteran-focused organizations on service projects, equipment initiatives, community events, donation drives, and programs supporting veterans and their families.
Support Children
Work with nonprofit organizations and community partners serving children and families managing chronic medical conditions through fundraising, equipment drives, special projects, and volunteer events.
Assist Health Organizations
Support nonprofit healthcare organizations, community clinics, senior-care organizations, and other health-focused partners with volunteer projects, fundraising, equipment initiatives, events, and community outreach.
Volunteer as an Individual or a Team
Students, parents, families, businesses, school organizations, and community groups can participate. Opportunities vary based on the needs of our nonprofit and healthcare partners.
Organizations: Tell Us Where Volunteers Are Needed
If your organization serves seniors, uninsured individuals, military veterans, children with chronic medical conditions, or other populations with healthcare-related needs, tell us about your volunteer needs. We will work to identify opportunities where our students, families, and community volunteers can make a meaningful contribution.
For recipient organizations
Tell us what your community needs.
We seek relationships with nonprofit healthcare organizations, senior-assistance organizations, children’s organizations, community clinics, healthcare professionals, medical equipment suppliers, businesses, civic groups, foundations, and other charitable partners.
Mission alignment
Serve populations consistent with Health Within Reach’s charitable purpose.
Documented need
Describe the type, quantity, intended use, and community benefit of requested equipment.
Verification
Provide appropriate nonprofit and organizational information for due diligence.
Impact confirmation
Help document receipt and use so donors and students can understand the outcome.
Measurable impact
Transparency from fundraising to equipment delivery.
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Give access. Give independence.
Your donation can become essential medical equipment.
Donations support the purchase and delivery of equipment requested by qualified community partners. Health Within Reach intends to maintain detailed records of funds raised, equipment purchased, and recipient organizations to support donor transparency.
Suggested amounts are general contributions and do not represent the exact cost of a specific device unless stated in a designated campaign.
Make a donation
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Get involved
Students, families, volunteers, sponsors, and nonprofit partners all have a role.
Use this form to join the mission, ask a question, volunteer, explore sponsorship, or tell us about a medical-equipment need in your community.
Recipient organizations
Please include the type of equipment needed, estimated quantity, who the equipment will support, and any timing considerations. Health Within Reach may contact you for additional nonprofit and organizational verification.