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Community Health Grants 2009
Goal: Improve the health of communities, particularly underserved populations, by expanding access to services, promoting prevention to reduce illness, and advancing health policy reform.
112 grants totaling $3,952,467
Objective: Improve access to healthcare, services, and treatment for those who are low-income, uninsured, and/or underinsured. Total: $1,160,000
A Home Within
To support mental health programs involving volunteer psychologists working with foster children and youth in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$60,000>
Access Institute for Psychological Services
To expand access to mental healthcare to low-income and uninsured individuals and families.
San Francisco
$30,000
Adult Day Services Network of Alameda County
To stabilize and promote wellness for the increasing number of adults with mental illness enrolled in the 14 Alameda County Adult Day centers, by leveraging and enhancing agency and staff expertise and better utilizing County Behavioral Health and other existing resources.
Oakland
$30,000
Afghan Coalition
To support the Afghan Health Partnership Program, promoting access to direct health-related services for underserved Afghan women, youth, and their families.
Fremont
$30,000
Alameda County Health Care Foundation
To build the capacity of the Alameda County Medical Center’s Prosthetic Clinic to provide prosthetic devices to amputees with little or no income.
Oakland
$30,000
Axis Community Health
To improve access to healthcare, services, and treatment for those who are low-income, uninsured, and/or underinsured in the Tri-valley area.
Pleasanton
$30,000
Blind Babies Foundation
To support the Off to a Good Start program, serving families with children who are blind or visually impaired in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.
Oakland
$60,000>
California Institute of Integral Studies
To support student interns from its community mental health program provide the children, youth, and family residents of two affordable housing communities with free on-site mental health services and life skills management workshops.
San Francisco
$30,000
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants
To support Raising Our Youths' Aspirations, a mental health intervention project for Cambodian teens and young adults.
Oakland
$30,000
Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco State University, University Corporation
To support 50% of a bilingual social worker position (to be matched by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation matching grant) for a new family-related approach to prevention and care to help ethnically diverse families with LGBT children at risk of poor physical and mental health.
San Francisco
$50,000
Children's Hospital of Oakland
To provide support for unreimbursed mental health services at the Youth Uprising/Castlemont Health Clinic in East Oakland, serving the students at Castlemont Community of Small Schools and the greater Alameda County residents at large between the ages of 12 and 21.
Oakland
$30,000
Family Service Agency of Marin County
To support the Marin Alliance for Psychiatric Services project, which will provide comprehensive, culturally competent, community-based outpatient psychiatric and mental health services to Marin's most vulnerable adults who are without other access to needed services.
San Rafael
$30,000
Friendship House Association of American Indians, Inc.
To promote healing and wellness in the American Indian community through substance abuse prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services.
San Francisco
$20,000
G.O.A.L.S. for Women
To continue and expand upon capacity building efforts, including staff and board development, impact measurement, a space to accommodate surplus demand for programming, and a diversified resource base.
Berkeley
$35,000
Jewish Family and Children's Services
To provide home care for seniors and adults.
San Francisco
$100,000>
Jewish Home and Senior Living Foundation
To support a new site master plan ensuring the Jewish Home of San Francisco meets the needs of the growing and changing population of seniors consistent with anticipated future trends in health services options.
San Francisco
$25,000
Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly
To hire part-time development staff to assist in expansion and diversification of the funding base in support of volunteer programs for isolated elders.
San Francisco
$25,000
New Leaf: Services for Our Community
To support integrated mental health, substance abuse, and psychiatry services to LGBTQ youth, adult, and elder residents of San Francisco and the Bay Area, especially those who are low-income, uninsured, or underinsured.
San Francisco
$30,000
Openhouse
To support the expansion of projects engaging isolated LGBT seniors at neighborhood senior centers where they can access mainstream care systems.
San Francisco
$30,000
Operation Access
To support the expansion and growth of programs helping low-income, uninsured Bay Area residents access donated surgeries and specialty care through its network of volunteer medical professionals, partner hospitals, and referring community clinics.
San Francisco
$40,000
Planned Parenthood: Shasta - Diablo
To fund a half-time nurse practitioner to provide core reproductive healthcare services to students at four West Contra Costa County High School Satellite Express sites.
Concord
$30,000
Positive Resource Center
To support the creation of a new Director of Foundations and Individual Cultivation position to strengthen the organization's financial base and continued ability to provide counseling and job opportunities for HIV residents.
San Francisco
$30,000
SAGE Project, Inc.
To support trauma recovery, substance abuse treatment, vocational training, housing assistance, and legal advocacy for women and girls who are in the justice system, especially those who are at risk for sexual exploitation and violence.
San Francisco
$30,000
San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
To develop a comprehensive and interdisciplinary program to enhance the care of amputees and provide them with tools to thrive in the community.
San Francisco
$120,000>
Street Level Health Project
To provide health and wellness programs to low-income immigrants in Alameda County, including the Community Connection and Capacity-Building Program, the Health Access Program, and the Health Education and Leadership Program.
Oakland
$30,000
Thesecondopinion.com
To increase the access of cancer patients and their family members to second opinions through multidisciplinary review panels.
San Francisco
$20,000
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Inc.
To increase access to healthcare services by providing information and referral services among hard to reach low-income and uninsured Mexican immigrants in the Bay Area who seek services at the Mexican Consulate.
Union City
$30,000
Tri-City Elder Coalition
To support the Pathways to Positive Aging strategic plan to improve the long term care system and health of seniors in southern Alameda County.
Fremont
$25,000
West County Adult Day Care/Alzheimer's Respite Center
To assist families caring for people living with Alzheimer's disease and related conditions.
Richmond
$40,000>
Women's Recovery Association
To provide comprehensive mental health and substance abuse treatment services to women in San Mateo County through residential homes and intensive outpatient programs.
Burlingame
$30,000
Zen Hospice Project
To support the in-progress renovation of its hospice facility, the Guest House, and obtain its full hospice licensure to increase its service capacity for underserved and underinsured Bay Area residents.
San Francisco
$30,000
Objective: Foster efforts to prevent poor health status, disease, and disability through investments in health promotion and health education. Total: $552,500
Adolescent Health Working Group
To support and strengthen the safety net of community health providers who serve poor, low-income, uninsured, and marginalized youth and young adult populations, including youth of color, immigrant, homeless, LGBTQ, foster, and incarcerated youth.
San Francisco
$10,000
Alameda County Health Care Foundation
To support the hospital-based Youth Violence Prevention Peer Intervention Program that provides services to youth between the ages of 12 and 20 who are being treated for violent injuries.
Oakland
$30,000
Alameda County Medical Center
To improve breastfeeding education and support services for uninsured women, including increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration within the medical center and its clinics.
Oakland
$50,000>
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center
To support health education, prevention, and care services for Asians and Pacific Islanders living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS, and to actively engage in local and national advocacy efforts to improve this population’s access to health resources.
San Francisco
$40,000
Bay Area Black United Fund
To provide core operating support for the Critical Mass Health Conductors Project that recruits, trains, and supports volunteer community health advocates to serve as role models for healthy living and making better life choices to reduce risk factors associated with the metabolic syndrome.
Oakland
$50,000<
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action
To manage the outreach and logistics for a disaster preparedness workshop for residents of West and South Berkeley in March 2009.
Berkeley
$3,500<
Built to Last Community Collaborative
To increase the disaster preparedness of youth and other residents of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park through integration of preparedness activities into the Out of Harm's Way project.
Menlo Park
$3,000
Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic
To support the continuation of fund development initiated in 2006, including relocation to a new Oakland clinic facility in order to expand complementary alternative medicine treatments and social services to low-income women with cancer.
Oakland
$50,000>
Contra Costa Health Services TeenAge Program
To support the TeenAge Program, which will combine comprehensive sexual health education and the Teen Navigator project to support high-school-age youth in utilizing appropriate information and services.
Martinez
$30,000
HIV Research Section
To partner with members of San Francisco's African American communities to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS.
San Francisco
$26,000
Mind Body Awareness Project
To support the Alameda County Incarcerated Youth Initiative, which seeks to provide mindfulness-based rehabilitation services to all youth incarcerated within the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center, and aftercare services for youth post-release.
Oakland
$30,000
SalvaSIDA, Inc.
To support an increase in advocacy policy work, infrastructure development, and fiscal agent services to community groups that provide HIV/AIDS support services to the Latino community.
Oakland
$20,000
San Francisco Hep B Free
To strengthen the Hep B Free campaign via a Leadership Level Initiative that engages a broad cross-section of key leaders to magnify high-level participation in the campaign, ensuring integration, coordination, and networking efforts, and further establish it as a model for eliminating hepatitis B.
San Francisco
$30,000
Sisters Network San Francisco
To support ongoing Women of Color Breast Health and Survivor support programs including wellness intervention for breast cancer survivors, physical activity and nutrition support meetings, 2009 workshop outreach on medical insurance, resources, education, and the 2009 Walk for Life Health Fair.
San Francisco
$50,000>
Stop AIDS Project
To support multiple HIV prevention programs, including individual and Internet interventions, outreach, condom distribution and referrals, public education, community building, and leadership development.
San Francisco
$30,000
Support for Families of Children with Disabilities
To support the development of a new five-year strategic plan, and to complete an agency procedural handbook to better serve families with special needs children.
San Francisco
$30,000
Survivors International
To strengthen the institutional infrastructure and increase the organizational effectiveness in order to serve the growing number of victims of torture and gender-based persecution in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$30,000
Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases
To improve the health of underserved women and girls, particularly African Americans, living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS, through expanding access to care and support services, promoting prevention of HIV/AIDS, and enhancing policy efforts.
Oakland
$40,000
Objective: Ensure access to the health services safety net. Total: $1,489,967
A Safe Place
To provide emergency sheltering and support services to victims of domestic violence.
Oakland
$50,000
Abode Services
To provide short term shelter to individuals and families.
Fremont
$30,000
Alameda County Community Food Bank
To support healthy food distribution and nutrition education to low-income individuals and families throughout Alameda County, and to educate the public and government officials on the issue of hunger.
Oakland
$40,000
Alameda County Community Food Bank
To increase capacity to meet food and nutrition needs.
Oakland
$30,000
Alameda County Meals on Wheels
To strengthen the fundraising capacity of the organization to better serve the increasing need for its services in the aging population due to rising fuel and food costs.
Oakland
$20,000
Alameda County Meals on Wheels
To support the core programs of this food security and distribution organization.
Oakland
$4,742<
Allen Temple Health and Social Services Ministries
To provide financial assistance to families who are experiencing a short term crisis or emergency, including help with rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, car repair, or childcare, and to maintain domestic violence prevention services.
Oakland
$30,000
Bay Area Community Services
To support core programs with special emphasis on the Meals on Wheels program to provide nutritious meals to older homebound adults suffering from food insecurity.
Oakland
$50,000
Building Futures with Women and Children
To increase crisis service capacity related to domestic violence.
San Leandro
$30,000
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency
To provide short term shelter to individuals and families.
Berkeley
$30,000
California Association of Food Banks
To reduce hunger and food insecurity by providing fresh produce to low-income families and individuals, coordinating among multiple food banks, increasing access to food stamps and other food programs, and providing nutrition education.
Oakland
$50,000
Catholic Charities CYO
To provide financial assistance to families who are experiencing a short-term crisis or emergency, including help with rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, car repair, or childcare.
San Francisco
$30,000
Coastside Hope
To provide core operating support for safety net food, clothing, and safe shelter services to those in need on the San Mateo County coast.
El Granada
$45,000
Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse
To provide core operating support for services that include a crisis hotline, emergency response, individual and support group counseling, an emergency shelter and transition housing program, and case management for victims of domestic violence in San Mateo County.
San Mateo
$30,000
Contra Costa Crisis Center
To support the youth violence prevention program offering targeted classroom and community presentations throughout Contra Costa County, as well as a 24-hour youth crisis hotline.
Walnut Creek
$30,000
Contra Costa Crisis Center
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Walnut Creek
$30,000
Davis Street Family Resource Center
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
San Leandro
$30,000
Ecology Center
To support the Farm Fresh Choice program in South and West Berkeley to reduce health disparities in low-income communities of color, support small sustainable farmers, and generate economic opportunities for local youth of color.
Berkeley
$30,000
Ecumenical Hunger Program
To support all safety net programs, including food, shelter, clothing, household resources, and emergency financial assistance.
East Palo Alto
$46,000
Emergency Shelter Program, Inc.
To support the renewal of the organization through board development and a new strategic, marketing, and comprehensive fundraising plan designed to strengthen and improve domestic violence services in Alameda County.
Hayward
$30,000>
Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
San Francisco
$30,000
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
To support the food collection and distribution program activities in Contra Costa County with the goal of allowing people the ability to concentrate on the other necessities of life.
Concord
$40,000
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
To increase capacity to meet food and nutrition needs.
Concord
$30,000
Food First
To support the launch of the Oakland Food Policy Council to transform neighborhood food systems into engines for local economic development and healthy eating choices for underserved communities.
Oakland
$25,000
Glide Foundation/Glide Memorial United Methodist Church
To provide core operating support to its integrated substance abuse services and Free Meals Program.
San Francisco
$50,000
Greater Richmond Interfaith Program
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Richmond
$30,000
Haight Ashbury Free Clinic
To eliminate barriers in access to healthcare services and increase the number of patients who seek medical treatment.
San Francisco
$4,742<
Homeless Prenatal Program
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
San Francisco
$30,000
La Casa de las Madres
To increase the crisis service capacity related to domestic violence.
San Francisco
$30,000
La Casa de las Madres
To provide comprehensive emergency shelter services for victims and survivors of domestic violence.
San Francisco
$4,742<
Meals on Wheels of San Francisco
To support its Home-Delivered Meals program.
San Francisco
$60,000>
Mercy Brown Bag Program
To increase access to food to reduce or eliminate hunger and positively effect the health of low-income seniors in Alameda County.
Oakland
$20,000
Monument Crisis Center
To support the food distribution program for at-risk clients, as well as nutrition and education programs for seniors, teens, and children in Contra Costa County.
Pleasant Hill
$30,000
Monument Crisis Center
To increase capacity to meet food and nutrition needs.
Pleasant Hill
$30,000
Monument Crisis Center
To provide basic nutritional resources, referrals, education, and support to low-income families in Contra Costa County.
Pleasant Hill
$4,742<
Open Heart Kitchen of Livermore, Inc.
To increase capacity to meet food and nutrition needs.
Livermore
$30,000
People's Grocery
To support the Grub Box program, a social enterprise that distributes weekly boxes of local fresh produce to low-income West Oakland families, reducing the environmental impact of the food system, creating jobs for youth, and improving the health of the West Oakland community.
Oakland
$30,000
Prescott-Joseph Center For Community Enhancement, Inc.
To support the West Oakland Food Pantry to provide emergency food for residents.
Oakland
$40,000
Project Night Night
To provide Night Night Packages, including a security blanket, stuffed animal, and children's book, to homeless children in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$15,000
Project Open Hand
To support the weekly delivery of meals and lunches at congregate senior sites, grocery shopping for HIV/AIDS clients, and home-delivered meals and grocery shopping for breast cancer clients.
San Francisco
$20,000
Project Open Hand
To increase capacity to meet food and nutrition needs.
San Francisco
$30,000
Salvation Army, Golden State Division
To provide financial assistance to families who are experiencing a short term crisis or emergency, including help with rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, car repair, or childcare.
San Francisco
$30,000
San Francisco Food Bank
To support the expansion of the Pantry Network in order to alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
San Francisco
$50,000
San Francisco Women Against Rape
To support rape crisis services, which include a 24-hour crisis line, short-term peer counseling, support groups, and case management.
San Francisco
$30,000
Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo
To support the Mobile Pantry Program, which distributes food to low-income people in geographically isolated walking communities in San Mateo County.
San Jose
$40,000
Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County
To provide financial assistance to families who are experiencing a short term crisis or emergency, including help with rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, car repair, or childcare.
Oakland
$30,000
STAND! Against Domestic Violence
To increase crisis service capacity related to domestic violence.
Concord
$30,000
Street Level Health Project
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Oakland
$30,000
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. Total: $385,000
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health
To support program activities to strengthen the consortium’s capacity to advance community organizing, public education, and policy reform efforts in order to improve access to healthcare for American Indians living in Bay Area urban communities.
San Francisco
$25,000
Environmental Education Council of Marin
To support the health of underserved communities in Marin City and the Canal neighborhood by expanding access to healthy nutrition and produce, providing nutrition education to children and adults, providing general health support to teens, and advancing policy reform and county support of improved services.
Fairfax
$30,000
Samuel Merritt University
To improve the success, retention, and graduation rates of students who are under represented in the nursing field with a focus on African American and Hispanic/Latino nursing students.
Oakland
$150,000>
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
To develop Partners in Nursing Education, a comprehensive and supportive program to mentor existing nursing staff from underrepresented minority communities who want to pursue a professional career in nursing.
San Francisco
$150,000>
West Oakland Asthma Coalition
To support the Breathmobile program, a program designed to address the health disparities in West Oakland through education, evaluation, and treatment of asthma.
Oakland
$30,000
Objective: Advance policy reform efforts that improve access to health services. Total: $365,000
California Public Interest Research Group
To support advocacy and policy work aimed at enacting comprehensive healthcare reform in California with a focus on cost containment issues and solutions.
Los Angeles
$30,000
Health Access Foundation
To educate and mobilize Bay Area organizations and individuals to engage in public policy debates to increase access to healthcare for underserved populations and to protect healthcare programs from budget reductions at the local and state level.
Sacramento
$100,000>
Human Impact Partners
To improve health and reduce health disparities through the assessment of the health impacts of health policies under consideration at the state level.
Berkeley
$30,000
Latina Breast Cancer Agency
To support and strengthen the activities of the Bay Area Women's Health Advocacy Council, a diverse coalition of community partners in the Bay Area whose services and advocacy efforts focus on improving the health and wellness of all women.
San Francisco
$40,000
Mental Health Association of San Francisco
To improve the access to and quality of mental healthcare for low-income and underserved populations through advocating for public policy reform in the mental health system.
San Francisco
$30,000
Project Inform
To support policy work on access to healthcare for low-income people with HIV, expansion of the availability of HIV testing, and the prevention and treatment of hepatitis C.
San Francisco
$25,000
San Francisco Adult Day Services Network
To support the Access to Care Initiative, including raising awareness about the need for and value of adult day services in the long term care community, and increasing access to these services for low-income, uninsured, or underinsured seniors.
San Francisco
$30,000
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
To support the hiring of an assistant communications director to perform essential communications and community relations functions related to building a new acute care facility on campus.
San Francisco
$20,000<
Senior Services Coalition of Alameda County
To provide the continuity, coordination, leadership, and dedicated efforts needed to build awareness among policy makers and the public about issues affecting the health and well-being of seniors in Alameda County.
Oakland
$30,000
Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry, California
To strengthen and expand a Unitarian Universalist Voices for Healthcare Project that can train, inspire, and organize clergy and lay leaders to become more confident, informed, strategic, collaborative, organized, and publicly visible advocates for universal, affordable, quality healthcare.
Sacramento
$30,000
< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.