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nurse_landing.jpgThe Community Health Program works to expand access to health and mental health services, promote health prevention, and support policy and advocacy efforts that advance healthcare reform in the five Bay Area counties we serve. Our goal is to improve health on an individual and community level and provide safety net services to underserved populations. Within our web pages, you can learn more about our program objectives and strategies, updates on our grantmaking, and the latest news.

For more information about the Community Health Program at The San Francisco Foundation, please contact us at 415.733.8500 or healthinfo@sff.org.


Responsive Grantmaking in FY 2010

Community Health will continue funding in its current objectives and strategies through FY 2010 (July 2009 - June 2010). However, given the severity of the economic crisis, priority will be given to organizations that:

  • Provide food, referrals to other social services, and/or provide crisis services
  • Expand access to healthcare services for the uninsured
  • Support policy and advocacy efforts that:
    1. maximize federal stimulus dollars targeted to health and human services programs
    2. address state budget cuts to health and human services programs
  • Have been a grantee in the past three years

Community Health does not fund:

  • Programs targeting single disease, such as arthritis, muscular dystrophy, osteoporosis, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, and Parkinson's
  • Complimentary and alternative medicine and therapies
  • Neighborhood and school-based gardens and farm stands
  • Stand-alone physical fitness programs
  • Residential substance abuse treatment programs
  • End of life care


Using restricted trusts, Community Health funds organizations that serve the following special populations/programs on an invitation-only basis:

  • Cancer care for indigent patients
  • Services for amputees
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Services for the visually and hearing impaired
  • Nursing students/education
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Seniors

 

Community Health Staff

Denise Martin, BSN, MPH [bio]
Program Officer, Community Health

Andrea Zussman
Disaster Preparedness Project Coordinator

Josaphine Stevenson
Program Associate, Community Health

Maria Healey
Program Assistant, Community Health

Community Health Goal and Objectives


Goal - Improve the health of communities, particularly underserved populations, by expanding access to services, promoting prevention to reduce illness, and advancing health policy reform.

Objective: Improve access to healthcare, services, and treatment for those who are low-income, uninsured, and/or underinsured.

Objective: Foster efforts to prevent poor health status, disease, and disability through investments in health promotion and health education.

Objective: Ensure access to the health services safety net.

Objective: Support local efforts designed to reduce and/or eliminate disparities in health status due to poverty, disproportionate exposure to environmental agents/hazards, and/or race.

Objective: Advance policy reform efforts that improve access to health services.

View a more detailed version of our goals, objectives, and strategies (PDF)