The Community Health Impact Coalition exists to make professionalized community health workers a norm worldwide. Members of CHIC and co-authors of this piece: Jennifer Foth, MPH, deputy director, New Country Expansion at Living Goods; Daniel Palazuelos, MD, director of Community Health Systems at Partners in Health; Carey Westgate, deputy director at the Community Health Impact Coalition; Mallika Raghavan, MPH, director of country engagements at Last Mile Health; Julia Bishop, country director at OnetoOne Africa; Michel Juarez is manager, Early Child Development Research Program at Wuqu' Kawoq; Ash Rogers, MPA, CEO of Lwala Community Alliance; Ari Johnson, MD, CEO of Muso; Serah Malaba, senior advisor to Government at Living Goods; Stephanie Rapp is global partnerships manager at Muso; Rebecca Alban, MPH, OpenLMIS community manager for VillageReach; Bénédicte Razafinjato, MSc, monitoring and evaluation manager at PIVOT; Jennifer Schechter, MSW, MPH, CEO at Integrate HealtH; Isaac Holeman, PhD, chief research officer of Medic Mobile.