About

Shared seats represent a leadership posture practiced from inside systems—sharing accountability, holding context, and shaping outcomes alongside the people doing the work. This approach is embedded, relational, and increasingly necessary in complex, resource constrained environments. Sometimes described as fractional, the core idea is leadership practiced with people, not at them.

Shared Seat Partners, LLC doesn’t replace leadership—we strengthen it. Leadership is strongest when it is shared, practiced, and grounded in real relationships. Embedded leadership means working inside the system, not advising from a distance.

Our focus is the community health center movement, including CHCs, state primary care associations, and health center controlled networks. We also work with like minded partners supporting the movement, including corporate and foundation funders, and nonprofits.
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Jason Patnosh has spent his career bringing together health centers with philanthropy, corporations, and public sector partners. After more than 25 years at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), Jason founded Shared Seat Partners, LLC to help health centers, PCAs, and networks build stronger partnerships and diversify revenues. At NACHC, Jason and his team raised nearly $100 million in public and private support over the last five years, benefiting more than 700 organizations. His funder and partner portfolio includes Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Kaiser Permanente, Johnson & Johnson, Kresge Foundation, Abbott, Henry Schein Cares, Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Mobile Healthcare Association, American Heart Association, HLTH, Pfizer, Commonwealth Fund, CareMessage, Sesame Street Workshop, Direct Relief, and Americares.

Through Shared Seat Partners, Jason works alongside health center leaders as a trusted advisor and fractional partner to identify funding opportunities, cultivate relationships, and build lasting philanthropic capacity.