Our 2012 Community Health Grantees
36 grants totaling $1,526,540
Goal: Promote health equity for underserved populations by expanding access to services, promoting community-based prevention, and advancing health policy reform.
Objectives:
- Support policy and advocacy efforts to implement health reform so that underserved populations have access to culturally competent, quality, and affordable healthcare.
- Invest in community clinics and other healthcare safety net providers to assure access to culturally competent, quality, and affordable healthcare for underserved populations.
- 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.
| Organization | Purpose | Amount | Grantee Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult Day Services Network of Alameda County | To re-imagine and retool the unique components and strengths of the Adult Day Health Care model in a way that addresses the needs and financial models of the emerging managed care environment, in order to preserve and expand access to quality healthcare for underserved frail and disabled adults. | $30,000 | Oakland |
| Allen Temple Health & Social Services Ministries | To conduct a formal collaboration and planning process with existing FQHC’s to develop a new medical home in East Oakland that will create community based solutions to better serve under-insured and uninsured residents of the community. | $65,000 | Oakland |
| American Heart Association of San Francisco | To reduce risk and incidence of heart disease among African Americans in the Bay Area through faith-based health outreach, health screenings and behavioral change. | $50,000 | San Francisco |
| Asian Health Services | To assure that underserved immigrant and refugee groups have a voice in health care reform implementation through AHS’ innovative patient leadership council program. | $40,000 | Oakland |
| 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. | $100,000 | Oakland |
| Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative | To enable a strategic, regional collaboration of senior leadership and staff from eleven local health departments in the Bay Area to continue to work with communities and other local, state, and national partners to address the root causes of health inequities. | $40,000 | Oakland |
| BRIDGE Housing Corporation | To fund the Healthy Generations Project, a community based health program to reduce health disparities in Potrero public housing by focusing on preventative developmental health measures in the areas of toxins, nutrition, emotional security, and cognitive enrichment. | $80,000 | San Francisco |
| California Budget Project | To support analysis of state budget and budget-related policy issues, with a particular focus on the implementation of health reform, and related outreach and communications efforts. | $35,000 | Sacramento |
| 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 develop and disseminate policy briefs. | $40,000 | Oakland |
| California School Health Centers Assn. | To build on opportunities within health care reform at the state and federal levels to secure a sustainable role for school-based health centers in health care delivery and enrollment systems. | $65,000 | Oakland |
| Center for Youth Wellness | To provide case management and educational advocacy for low income, urban children and youth affected by adverse childhood experiences, to reduce health disparities. | $80,000 | San Francisco |
| ChangeLab Solutions | To develop the Healthy Places Community Assessment (HPCA), a step-by-step evaluative framework that will engage local stakeholders in identifying strategic opportunities for revising, amending, and creating healthy and sustainable programs, policies, and practices at the local level. | $35,000 | Oakland |
| Chinese Progressive Association | To work within the Chinese immigrant community, and with other underserved communities, to build their capacity to address disproportionate environmental health risks and improve access to healthcare. | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| Community Clinic Consortium of Contra Costa | To continue the core work of the Consortium in Contra Costa County-saftey net integration. | $40,000 | Richmond |
| Daly City Youth Health Center | To support health education, outreach, and access to health services for youth in northern San Mateo County. | $35,000 | Daly City |
| Family Service Agency of San Francisco | To reduce childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods/drinks, iincreasing physical activity, emphasizing the importance of breastfeeding, working with families to improve home activity & eating habits, and advocating for changes in the community environment. | $35,000 | San Francisco |
| Hayward Day Labor Center | To serve as an entry point to health care services for the hard to reach low-income day labor worker population in southern Alameda County and strengthen and improve health care admissions coordination among various community based and hospital providers. | $40,000 | Hayward |
| 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. | $40,000 | Sacramento |
| Health Access Foundation | To support the work of the LGBT Health and Human Services Network to implement health reform and state-level health regulations in ways that insure all LGBT people and their families, particularly those in need of safety-net services, have access to culturally inclusive health care. | $40,000 | Sacramento |
| HillCare Foundation | To provide medical and life-skills services for re-entry and at-risk women in the East Oakland communities through ReGynesis Health Services. | $35,000 | San Leandro |
| Huckleberry Youth Programs | To provide wrap-around culturally competent, confidential counseling and health services to youth at Huckleberry House, Community Assessment & Referral Center and HYP’s Multi-Service Center. | $35,000 | San Francisco |
| Institute for Food and Development Policy | To support the ongoing operation of the Oakland Food Policy Council (OFPC) to transform neighborhood food systems into engines for local economic development and improve access to healthy eating choices for underserved communities. | $25,000 | Oakland |
| La Clinica de la Raza, Inc. | To build capacity and enhance infrastructure of School Based Health Centers to provide accessible no cost medical and health education services to low income underserved students in Oakland and San Lorenzo. | $26,540 | Oakland |
| Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services | To increase the number of patients served to 3,000 a year, increase access and efficiency for patients, and prepare for electronic health records and primary medical home certification. | $80,000 | San Francisco |
| Maitri AIDS Hospice | To provide general operating support | $10,000 | San Francisco |
| Nuestra Casa | To expand the work of promotoras in addressing health and well-being disparities among the low-income, immigrant Latino populations of East Palo Alto and Belle Haven. | $40,000 | East Palo Alto |
| 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 | San Francisco |
| Planned Parenthood of Shasta-Pacific | To support continued expansion of reproductive health care services, sexuality education programs, and advocacy activities in San Francisco and Marin Counties. | $40,000 | Concord |
| Ravenswood Family Health Center | To develop a nationally recognized Patient Centered Medical Home model and provide focused care for formerly incarcerated/homeless and undocumented patients suffering complex chronic conditions. | $40,000 | East Palo Alto |
| San Francisco Department of Public Health | To evaluate the SF Hep B Free campaign to determine which outreach strategies had the most impact on behavior change among 1) clinicians to provide hepatitis B testing, vaccination and appropriate follow-up testing for Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) and 2) APIs to seek out and accept these services. | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| San Mateo County Union Communty Alliance | To support SMCUCA’s outreach, community organizing, and advocacy in its Community Coordinating Project for Access to Health Care and to build SMCUCA’s capacity to plan and implement primary community prevention work with a focus on the root causes of health disparities. | $80,000 | Foster City |
| St. James Infirmary | To provide free primary care, reproductive, and transgender health services for uninsured sex workers. | $20,000 | San Francisco |
| The Insight Prison Project | To support rehabilitation programs for incarcerated individuals in prisons and jails that positively affect rates of institutional violence, successful and safe reentry into Bay Area communities, and individual health and well-being. | $30,000 | San Rafael |
| Transgender Law Center | To increase access to medically and culturally competent health care in the Bay Area through Project HEALTH (Harnessing Education, Advocacy, and Leadership for Transgender Health). | $25,000 | San Francisco |
| Transitions Clinic | To provide ongoing care for recently released prisoners with chronic diseases returning to San Franicsco, and to provide transitional care to prisoners with chronic diseases returning to other Bay Area counties. | $40,000 | San Francisco |
| Volunteers in Medicine, San Francisco | To support the expansion of primary care and preventive health services for working uninsured adults in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. | $40,000 | San Francisco |