Our 2011 Community Health Grantees
Total: 39 grants totaling $1,335,414
Goal: Promote health equity for underserved populations by expanding access to services, promoting community-based prevention, and advancing health policy reform.
Objective One: Support policy and advocacy efforts to implement health reform to insure that underserved populations have access to culturally competent, quality, and affordable healthcare. Total: $491,510
Objective One Grantees
Adult Day Services Network of Alameda County
To provide technical assistance to county Adult Day Health programs and build partnerships with managed care providers to protect the health of older and disabled adults, and to promote access to care within state and federal health reform guidelines.
$30,000
California Budget Project
To support analyses of state budget and budget-related policy issues, with a particular focus on the implementation of health reform and related outreach and communications efforts.
$50,000
California Council of Churches
To educate members of Bay Area congregations about healthcare reform from a moral and policy perspective, and inform them about how to access available health resources, and work towards healthcare access for all.
$25,000
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
To advocate for public policies to improve the health of communities of color, mobilize constituents through community convenings and the Having Our Say coalition, and educate stakeholders through an online presence.
$50,000
California School Health Centers Assn.
To maximize opportunities for school health centers that are emerging from healthcare reform at the federal, state, and local level.
$30,000
Center for Policy Analysis
To engage, inform, and mobilize community partners in the Bay Area to support health reform implementation, defend gains achieved, and advocate for health reform policies to assure culturally competent, high quality, and affordable healthcare for underserved populations.
$40,000
Community Resources for Independent Living
To provide a coordinated county-wide effort to ensure that low-income seniors and persons with disabilities in Alameda County will successfully navigate the newly required Medi-Cal mandatory managed care enrollment as part of federal healthcare reform.
$40,000
The Foundation Center
To support the San Francisco Library and Learning Center.
$10,000
Health Access Foundation
To expand and improve access to healthcare for uninsured and underinsured residents of the Bay Area through education and research; to prevent harmful budget cuts to public health; and to inform, implement, and improve health reforms at the federal, state, and local level.
$50,000
San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium
To support policy and advocacy efforts to implement health reform so that underserved populations have access to culturally competent, quality, and affordable healthcare.
$25,000
San Mateo County Union Community Alliance
To promote health equity for underserved populations by expanding access to services, promoting community-based prevention, and advancing health policy reform in the County.
$25,000
University of the Pacific, School of Dentistry
To develop and disseminate a Policy Tool Kit for Improving Oral Health for Underserved Populations by combining lessons from its Virtual Dental Home delivery system demonstration project and multiple areas of policy work.
$36,510
Western Center on Law and Poverty
To advocate for increased access to affordable, quality healthcare for low-income residents in the Bay Area through the implementation of federal healthcare reform and the state’s renewal of the 1115 Medicaid Waiver.
$30,000
The Women’s Foundation of California
To promote advocacy and policies to restore safety net services for low-income women and their families in the Bay Area.
$40,000
Objective Two: Invest in community clinics and other healthcare safety net providers to ensure access to culturally competent, quality, and affordable healthcare for underserved populations. Total: $618,904
Objective Two Grantees
3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic
To improve access for underserved youth in Bayview Hunters Point to primary healthcare, as well as to prevention, and health and wellness education services.
$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, and other immigrants and refugees with limited English language skills.
$30,000
Asian Health Services
To provide patient-centered healthcare services to Asian and Pacific Islander patients, especially new and emerging immigrant populations, at the Frank Kiang Medical Center.
$20,000
California Pacific Medical Center, Bayview Child Health Ctr.
To provide accessible and culturally sensitive pediatric healthcare services for at-risk children residing in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
$40,000
Central American Resource Center
To provide community health and wellness programs for Latino immigrants, particularly youth, in order to prevent obesity and diabetes and to foster long-term health.
$20,000
Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation
To create a medical home for formerly incarcerated African American men in Richmond.
$40,000
Glide Foundation
To provide primary healthcare services to the homeless and medically underserved residents of the Tenderloin neighborhood.
$35,000
Haight Ashbury Free Clinic
To expand access to comprehensive, high-quality healthcare services for underserved communities.
$25,604
Huckleberry Youth Programs
To provide wrap-around culturally competent, teen-friendly, confidential services that support the medical services provided by the San Francisco Department of Public Health Community Health Programs for Youth at the Cole Street clinic.
$30,000
LifeLong Medical Care
To provide access to healthcare services for undocumented immigrants.
$40,000
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
To support activities of the Children’s Regional Integrated Service System Project by promoting medical homes for low-income children with special health needs via referral support for high-volume pediatric providers and information for families, including insurance options under healthcare reform.
$28,000
Native American Health Center, Alameda
To support a health education series, which will serve a minimum of 75-100 low-income patients living with diabetes and related chronic conditions and other high-risk patients.
$25,000
Nuestra Casa
To develop and implement a certification program for “Promotores de Salud y Comunidad” to serve the health and well-being needs of the immigrant Latino population of East Palo Alto.
$30,300
Operation Access
To provide access to donated surgeries and specialty care for low-income, uninsured residents of the Bay Area through its network of volunteer medical professionals, partner hospitals, and referring community clinics.
$30,000
Prescott-Joseph Center For Community Enhancement, Inc.
To support the Breathmobile®, a program designed to address the health disparities in Alameda County through education, evaluation, and treatment of asthma.
$30,000
Ravenswood Family Health Center
To expand access to underserved communities in southern San Mateo County by providing a comprehensive outreach, enrollment, and retention program that will include expansion of advocacy and support for prenatal and senior patients.
$40,000
RotaCare Bay Area, Inc.
To provide healthcare services primarily to Contra Costa County residents who do not qualify for public insurance, with the use of a mobile medical unit.
$30,000
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Inc.
To conduct a Strategic Planning process that serves as a roadmap to respond to healthcare reform.
$15,000
Transitions Clinic
To train community health workers to address the complex needs of returning prisoners with chronic conditions in an effective and culturally competent manner.
$40,000
Tri-City Health Center
To expand its capacity to serve low-income, uninsured Hispanic immigrants who suffer from diabetes and hypertension and do not qualify for public insurance programs, through the services of a Spanish/English bilingual patient navigator.
$40,000
Objective Three: Invest in community-based organizations, community leaders, and public health departments to plan and implement community prevention activities to reduce chronic disease rates and address health inequities. Total: $225,000
Objective Three Grantees
Bay Area Black United Fund
To support the implementation of a new Organizational Transition Plan which includes launching a new mission and branding platform, and an online donor development initiative for BABUF and its family of health-related member agencies.
$25,000
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
To enable a regional collaboration of senior leadership from eleven health departments in the Bay Area to work with communities to address the root causes of health inequities, including those that may be a result of adverse environmental impacts.
$30,000
Drug Policy Alliance
To advocate for implementation of the San Francisco Mayor’s Hepatitis C Task Force recommendations and to raise awareness about the HCV crisis.
$35,000
Public Health Policy & Law
To build the capacity of healthy equity advocates to effectively engage in SB 375 policy decisions, and to integrate the public health community into SB 375 equity and smart growth coalitions.
$25,000
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
To improve the health and well-being of children and families through culturally appropriate legal services within the Children’s Health Center.
$25,000
Recession Recovery Grantmaking – Safety Net Program
Total: 50 grants totaling $2,120,000
Goal: To prevent families from homelessness, alleviate hunger, and provide safe harbor and hope for women and children facing domestic violence.
Recession Recovery Grantees
A Safe Place
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
Oakland
$40,000
Abode Services
To provide short-term shelter to individuals and families, as well as homeless prevention services.
Fremont
$50,000
Alameda County Community Food Bank
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
Oakland
$50,000
Allen Temple Health & Social Services Ministries
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Oakland
$40,000
Bay Area Legal Aid
To provide free, high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Bay Area residents.
Oakland
$50,000
Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
San Francisco
$50,000
Berkeley Food and Housing Project
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Berkeley
$40,000
Building Futures with Women and Children
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
San Leandro
$40,000
California Association of Food Banks
To support advocacy and policy efforts to maintain and expand access to food assistance.
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, childcare, etc.
San Francisco
$50,000
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Oakland
$50,000
Center for Domestic Peace
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
San Rafael
$40,000
Coastside Hope (formerly Coastside Opportunity Center)
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
El Granada
$30,000
Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
Burlingame
$40,000
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
$50,000
Crisis Support Services of Alameda Co
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Oakland
$50,000
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
$50,000
East Bay Community Law Center
To provide free, high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Bay Area residents.
Berkeley
$40,000
East Oakland Community Project
To provide short-term shelter to individuals and families, as well as homeless prevention assistance.
Oakland
$50,000
Ecumenical Hunger Program
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
East Palo Alto
$30,000
Emergency Shelter Program, Inc.
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
Hayward
$34,000
Family Violence Law Center
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
Oakland
$40,000
Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
Concord
$50,000
Glide Foundation
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
San Francisco
$30,000
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
Hamilton Family Center
To provide short-term shelter to individuals and families, as well as homeless prevention assistance.
San Francisco
$50,000
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
$50,000
Homeward Bound of Marin
To provide short-term shelter to individuals and families, as well as homeless prevention assistance.
Novato
$50,000
Hope 4 the Heart
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
Hayward
$30,000
La Casa de las Madres
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
San Francisco
$40,000
Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
Concord
$30,000
Meals on Wheels of San Francisco
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
San Francisco
$40,000
Monument Crisis Center
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Pleasant Hill
$50,000
Open Heart Kitchen of Livermore, Inc.
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
Livermore
$30,000
Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, Inc.
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
Oakland
$30,000
Project Open Hand
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
San Francisco
$50,000
Puente de la Costa Sur
To provide social service support to families or individuals, including intake and referral, public benefits, case management, and basic needs.
Pescadero
$30,000
Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
Fremont
$40,000
Samaritan House
To provide short-term shelter to individuals and families, as well as homeless prevention assistance.
San Mateo
$30,000
San Francisco Bar Association Volunteer Legal Services Program
To provide free, high quality civil legal assistance to low-income Bay Area residents.
San Francisco
$35,000
San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
San Francisco
$50,000
San Francisco Food Bank
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
San Francisco
$50,000
Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
San Jose
$50,000
Shelter Network
To provide short-term shelter to individuals and families, as well as homeless prevention assistance.
Burlingame
$50,000
Shelter, Inc. of Contra Costa County
To provide short-term shelter to individuals and families, as well as homeless prevention assistance.
Martinez
$50,000
Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Alameda County
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
Oakland
$50,000
St. Anthony Foundation
To alleviate hunger and strengthen the food safety net.
San Francisco
$50,000
St. Mary’s Center
To provide short-term shelter to individuals and families, as well as homeless prevention assistance.
Oakland
$40,000
STAND! For Families Free of Violence
To increase crisis service capacity in the area of domestic violence and provide short-term shelter to individuals and families.
Concord
$40,000
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
$35,000