Healwell
Jeff Kost has an extensive background in nonprofit leadership and philanthropy. Currently serving as a Board Member at Healwell since April 2023, Jeff previously held the position of Director of Donor and Community Relations at National Capital Treatment & Recovery from November 2020 to November 2024. At Capital Caring Health, from April 2015 to February 2020, Jeff was part of the senior leadership team, overseeing a team of 12 fundraisers and playing a key role in major donor engagement and fundraising initiatives. Jeff's earlier experience includes Vice President roles at Development Resources, Inc. and Capital Caring Health, along with significant positions at various nonprofit organizations, including Development Director at the Association of Nutrition Services Agencies and Deputy Executive Director at the Center for Nonprofit Advancement. Jeff has also served as President of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Washington DC Metro Area Chapter and Development Director at Hopkins House. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Boston University and a Certificate from The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
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Healwell
We create interdisciplinary education, research projects, and provide direct service to raise the quality of health care and to address the pressing public health issues of access, inequity and systemic racism. Effective, human-centered care is far from standard. Healwell partnerships provide care that prioritizes personal connection, quality of life and outcomes that are valuable from both the patient and provider perspective. We know that this kind of care does not exist in a vacuum and it never relies on a single discipline. When Healwell was founded in 2009, we did not fully understand how interdependent we all are as humans caring for humans. Over the years, as we have partnered with organizations, patients, family caregivers, researchers and others in ways that have opened our eyes to the need to be deeply collaborative. Thoughtful consideration and solutions to issues of racism, equity, access, inclusion and social justice are essential to the path forward toward health, even in the presence of disease. Our programs create and leverage unique synergies between research, service and education to bring all of health care, including massage therapy, to a higher level. A level that humanizes every single human. A level that listens generously. A level that redefines what it means to care. Our hands-on partnerships function not only as sites of compassionate clinical excellence where massage therapy shines its own light, but also augments the value of interventions that have long been considered standard. These collaborations also function as real world labs where we conduct research about important measures like self-efficacy, what it's like to be sick and what it's like to care for people who are sick. They are also our teaching labs where massage therapists and other providers who want to learn with us about how to cultivate deep self-awareness, effective, kind communication skills and personal accountability. Learn more at healwell.org.