Awarded September and December 2008
TCWF’s Board of Directors approved the following grants in support of the Foundation’s mission of improving the health of the people of California and to further its four goals: addressing the health needs of underserved communities; supporting and strengthening nonprofit organizations; recognizing and encouraging leaders; and informing policymakers and opinion leaders about important wellness and health care issues. For current application guidelines, please see the preceding How To Apply pages.
Al Wooten Jr. Youth and Adult Cultural-Educational Center
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Program, providing respite to health nonprofit leaders to mitigate stress and burnout and to sustain their effectiveness in providing services to the underserved in California.
Anka Behavioral Health, Incorporated
Concord, CA
$180,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain safe housing, mental health and other supportive services for former foster youth in Riverside County.
Another Choice, Another Chance
Sacramento, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Program, providing respite to health nonprofit leaders to mitigate stress and burnout and to sustain their effectiveness in providing services to the underserved in California.
Arc Ecology
San Francisco, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide technical assistance for California communities that struggle with adverse environmental health issues related to military bases.
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to inform policymakers about the health issues and concerns affecting California’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.
Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County
San Jose, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain primary health care for low-income immigrants and refugees in Santa Clara County.
Asian Health Services
Oakland, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide comprehensive health care services for low-income Asians and Pacific Islanders in Alameda County.
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Diabetes Collaborative to sustain diabetes care management services for low-income, primarily Asian/Pacific Islander immigrant seniors in Los Angeles County.
Berkeley Food and Housing Project
Berkeley, CA
$120,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide case management and supportive housing services for homeless women and their children in Alameda County.
Bienvenidos Children’s Center, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the school-based El Joven Noble male-involvement teenage pregnancy program serving at-risk and sexually active youth in East Los Angeles.
Breathe California of the Bay Area
San Jose, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Program, providing respite to health nonprofit leaders to mitigate stress and burnout and to sustain their effectiveness in providing services to the underserved in California.
Build Program
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain violence prevention and intervention services for high-risk youth in South Los Angeles.
California Black Health Network
San Diego, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about the health issues affecting African-Americans in California.
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain “Having Our Say!”, a statewide coalition representing communities of color focused on informing policymakers about health care issues impacting underserved communities of color.
California Planned Parenthood Education Fund Incorporated
Sacramento, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Program, providing respite to health nonprofit leaders to mitigate stress and burnout and to sustain their effectiveness in providing services to the underserved in California.
California Planned Parenthood Education Fund Incorporated
Sacramento, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to inform policymakers, opinion leaders and media outlets in the Central Valley about promising teenage pregnancy prevention and comprehensive sexuality education programs.
California School Health Centers Association
Oakland, CA
$225,000 over two years
For core operating support to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about school health centers that provide reproductive health services and comprehensive sexuality education.
California State University, Channel Islands Foundation
Camarillo, CA
$240,000 over three years
For support to provide scholarships to attract and retain a culturally diverse nursing student population at California State University, Channel Islands.
Catholic Charities of The Diocese of Oakland, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the CARE program’s provision of safe housing, counseling and other supportive services for former foster youth in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Center for Governmental Studies/Insure The Uninsured Project
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Insure the Uninsured Project to continue to provide policymakers, advocates and consumers with information that identifies, analyzes and informs about measures needed to link those in California without health insurance to viable, sustainable health care.
Center on Policy Initiatives
San Diego, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to inform policymakers, opinion leaders and the public about health care issues facing low-wage workers in San Diego.
Centro De Salud La Comunidad De San Ysidro, Inc.
San Ysidro, CA
$325,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved residents of San Ysidro, located in the South Bay region of San Diego.
Children Now
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about children’s oral health.
Children’s Dental Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$258,750 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide ongoing health education and oral health care treatment services for underserved and severely medically compromised children in Long Beach and surrounding areas.
Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Orange, CA
$80,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide environmental health and asthma prevention education through the Breathmobile project, a mobile health van.
Children’s Initiative
San Diego, CA
$130,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain juvenile diversion services as a violence prevention strategy for at-risk youth in San Diego County.
City of Stockton
Stockton, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the Operation Peacekeepers program to reduce gang-related violence in Stockton and the surrounding communities of Lodi, Manteca and Tracy.
Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice
Los Angeles, CA
$172,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to coordinate interfaith efforts at promoting access to health coverage and to create healthier working conditions for low-wage workers.
Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero
Los Angeles, CA
$170,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved residents in Los Angeles.
Collective Space
Los Angeles, CA
$210,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide environmental health education and leadership development to residents of substandard housing in the MacArthur Park community in Los Angeles.
Communities In Schools of San Fernando Valley, Inc.
North Hills, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain violence prevention and intervention programming for at-risk and gang-involved youth in the northeast San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.
Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County
Soquel, CA
$250,000 over three years
For project support for a regranting project to promote the health of low-income and underserved residents of Santa Cruz County.
Community Initiatives/John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
For project support to improve and expand supportive housing programs across California for homeless, former foster youth.
Community Partners/California Latinas For Reproductive Justice
Los Angeles, CA
$180,000 over three years
For core operating support for the California Latinas for Reproductive Justice to continue to educate policymakers, opinion leaders and community members about reproductive health issues facing Latinas in California.
Community Partners
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over one year
To plan, coordinate and evaluate a statewide conference on environmental health.
Community Partners/Khmer Girls In Action
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support for Khmer Girls in Action to continue the provision of a youth leadership training program as a teenage pregnancy prevention strategy.
Compasspoint Nonprofit Services
San Francisco, CA
$200,000 over two years
For project support to create the Leadership Program for Next Generation Leaders of Color, a pilot program for health and human service professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Compasspoint Nonprofit Services
San Francisco, CA
$145,000 over one year
For project support to plan, implement and evaluate TCWF’s Conference on Violence Prevention and California Peace Prize Awards dinner in 2009.
Compasspoint Nonprofit Services
San Francisco, CA
$310,000 over two years
To support leadership development training and support for executives at California nonprofit organizations that improve the health and well-being of transition-age youth.
Conejo Free Clinic
Thousand Oaks, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain health care services for low-income, uninsured residents of Ventura County.
Consultative Group on Biological Diversity/Health And Environmental Funders Network
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Health and Environmental Funders Network to continue to work to strengthen philanthropic efforts related to environmental health and justice in California.
Costa Mesa Senior Citizens Corporation
Costa Mesa, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain falls prevention services for low-income seniors in Costa Mesa and surrounding communities.
Creating Healthy Lives, Inc.
Ridgecrest, CA
$115,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain workplace wellness programs and health education, screenings and referrals for low-income workers in the Indian Wells Valley.
Crla Foundation
Sacramento, CA
$120,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the Pesticide and Work Safety Project to inform policymakers, opinion leaders and others about occupational health and safety hazards affecting California farmworkers.
Csula Auxiliary Services, Inc./Edmund G. Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to engage in community health care policy and research programming and activities focused on the Asian and Pacific Islander and Latino Communities of East Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley.
Desarrollo familiar
Richmond, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the Proyecto Bienestar teenage pregnancy prevention programming for at-risk, underserved youth in Contra Costa County.
Dolores C. Huerta Foundation
Bakersfield, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain teenage pregnancy prevention and education activities serving at-risk youth in Kern County.
Donald P. Mccullum Youth Court, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain an alternative sentencing diversion program for first-time youth offenders in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco Counties, as a violence prevention strategy.
Downtown Women’s Center
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide case management and health education to homeless women in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles.
Each One Reach One
South San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the Healthy Choices teenage pregnancy prevention program serving incarcerated youth in South San Francisco and San Mateo County.
East Valley Community Health Center, Inc.
West Covina, CA
$135,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved residents in the East San Gabriel Valley.
Faith In Community
Fresno, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to strengthen community organizing efforts to improve the health of residents in Fresno County.
Family Health Care Centers Of Greater Los Angeles, Inc.
Bell Gardens, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide health care services for low-income residents of Southeast Los Angeles.
Fenton Communications
San Francisco, CA
$1,000,000 over one year
For project support to implement a public education campaign to provide information to policymakers and opinion leaders about the health care workforce and its diversity and to inform underrepresented minority youth about health careers.
Foundation For California Community Colleges/San Francisco Welcome Back Center
Sacramento, CA
$235,000 over two years
For core operating support for the San Francisco Welcome Back Center to continue to support the entrance of internationally trained health workers into California’s health workforce.
Great Beginnings For Black Babies, Inc.
Inglewood, CA
$175,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide case management to improve pregnancy outcomes among underserved women in South Los Angeles and the surrounding areas.
Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District Auxiliary Organization/San Diego Welcome Back Center
El Cajon, CA
$300,000 over three years
To support the San Diego Welcome Back Center to provide internationally trained health providers in Imperial Valley with support to re-enter the health professions.
Health Access Foundation
Oakland, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue health policy analysis, community organizing and ongoing coalition-building efforts on behalf of uninsured and underinsured Californians.
Health Professions Education Foundation
Sacramento, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide scholarship and loan repayments to economically disadvantaged health profession students who practice in medically underserved communities in California.
The Health Trust
Campbell, CA
$300,000 over three years
To support a community-based prevention and education program addressing health disparities among low-income Latino and Vietnamese families in Santa Clara County.
Healthy Smiles Mobile Dental Foundation
Fresno, CA
$258,750 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide oral health services to children residing in four counties of the Central Valley.
Hillsides
Pasadena, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain Youth Moving On’s provision of safe housing, counseling and other supportive services for former foster youth in Los Angeles County.
Hope Works Santa Rosa, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain employment training and support services for gang-involved and previously incarcerated youth in Sonoma County, as a violence prevention strategy.
Horizons Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$600,000 over three years
To support the Working to Increase Services to Elders program to promote healthy aging among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors in Bay Area counties through a regranting and technical assistance program.
Independent Sector
Washington, DC
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about policies that affect health nonprofits and foundations in California.
Individuals Now, Inc., Social Advocates for Youth
Santa Rosa, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain safe housing, counseling and supportive services for homeless, runaway and former foster youth in Sonoma County.
Instituto De Educacion Popular Del Sur De California
Los Angeles, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Workers Health Project to continue to provide health education and referrals to day laborers and domestic workers in the Los Angeles region.
Interface Children Family Services
Camarillo, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain crisis intervention, counseling, emergency shelter and other supportive services for homeless, runaway, emancipating foster and other at-risk youth in Ventura County.
International Community Foundation
National City, CA
$100,000 over one year
To support the TB in San Diego-Baja California Initiative to improve coordination of tuberculosis control efforts in the border region.
John Muir Health/Dental Health Collaborative of Contra Costa Mobile Dental Clinic
Walnut Creek, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide underserved children with access to oral health services and education.
Jwch Institute, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services to women and girls in the Bell Gardens and Norwalk communities of Los Angeles County.
Kern County Department of Public Health/Nurse Family Partnership Program
Bakersfield, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Nurse Family Partnership Program to continue to provide high-risk, first-time moms in Kern County with support to ensure healthy pregnancy outcomes and improve child health and development.
Kids Come First
Ontario, CA
$325,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide free and low-cost health care to underserved children in Ontario.
Korean Community Services, Inc.
Buena Park, CA
$100,000 over two years
For project support to provide outreach, health education, health care enrollment and navigation services for Korean Americans in Orange County.
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$190,000 over two years
For project support for the CLEAN Carwash Campaign to improve the health and safety of carwash workers in Los Angeles.
La Raza Centro Legal-San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Jornaleros Unidos Project to continue promoting the health and well-being of day laborers and domestic workers through health education, leadership development, and occupational health and safety interventions.
Liberty Hill Foundation
Santa Monica, CA
$1,000,000 over two years
For project support for a pilot program to provide capacity-building grants to small, grassroots, minority-led health and/or human service organizations in Los Angeles County.
Life Eldercare, Inc.
Fremont, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain home-delivered meals and falls pre-vention services for homebound seniors in the Tri-City area of Alameda County.
Lifelong Medical Care
Berkeley, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain high-quality health and psychosocial services for low-income seniors in Alameda County.
Lions Blind Center of Diablo Valley
Pittsburg, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain vision impairment detection, intervention and management services for low-income seniors in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Inland Empire Violence Prevention Coalition.
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Youth Services Department to continue to provide mental health and other supportive services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender homeless and runaway youth in Hollywood.
Ma-At Youth Academy
Richmond, CA
$145,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide environmental health education in West Contra Costa County.
Martha’s Village and Kitchen, Inc.
Indio, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support for Martha’s Medical Clinic to continue to provide health care services to homeless and uninsured individuals in the Coachella Valley.
Meals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego, Inc.
San Diego, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain home-delivered meals for homebound seniors in San Diego County.
Mendocino Community Health Clinic, Inc.
Ukiah, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Program, providing respite to health nonprofit leaders to mitigate stress and burnout and to sustain their effectiveness in providing services to the underservedin California.
Merced Lao Family Community, Inc.
Merced, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Program, providing respite to health nonprofit leaders to mitigate stress and burnout and to sustain their effectiveness in providing services to the underserved in California.
Mission City Community Network, Inc.
North Hills, CA
$135,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the TeenSMART Outreach pregnancy prevention program serving at-risk, underserved youth in the Northeast San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles.
Ms. Foundation For Women, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$100,000 over two years
For project support for the Women and AIDS Fund to support organizations led by and for HIV-positive women in California.
Mujeres Unidas Y Activas
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain occupational health and safety education to Latina domestic workers through the Caring Hands Worker’s Association.
Murrieta Valley Unified School District
Murrieta, CA
$225,000 over two years
To support the creation of the Southwest Riverside County Gangs in School Training and Technical Assistance Center, as a violence prevention strategy.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Washington, DC
$130,000 over two years
For project support to develop a culturally appropriate teenage pregnancy prevention media campaign targeted at Latino youth in the Central Valley region of California.
National Health Law Program, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide technical assistance and training on state and federal health policies to advocates, policymakers and providers working to improve the health of low-income residents in California.
National Indian Justice Center, Inc./California Indian Environmental Alliance
Santa Rosa, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support for the California Indian Environmental Alliance to continue to provide environmental health education and leadership training to California tribal members.
North County Interfaith Council, Inc.
Escondido, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Confia en Ti program to continue providing health services and case management to migrant workers and day laborers and their families in north inland San Diego County.
Northeast Valley Health Corporation
San Fernando, CA
$135,000 over two years
For core operating support for the San Fernando High School Teen Health Center to sustain teenage pregnancy prevention activities.
Oakland Community Organization
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to strengthen community organizing efforts to improve the health of residents in Alameda County.
Oasis Institute
St. Louis, MO
$180,000 over three years
To support the Baldwin Hills Center to implement an evidence-based falls prevention program in South and East Los Angeles for low-income, primarily African-American and Latino seniors.
Olive View-Ucla Medical Center Foundation, Inc.
Sylmar, CA
$100,000 over two years
For project support to provide health promotion and disease prevention services to low-income residents of northeastern Los Angeles County.
Optimist Boys Home & Ranch
Los Angeles, CA
$180,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Transitional Housing + Program to sustain safe housing, counseling and other supportive services for former foster youth in Riverside County.
Parks And Recreation Community Foundation/Allforone Youth Mentoring Program
Santa Barbara, CA
$230,000 over three years
For core operating support for the AllForOne Youth Mentoring Program to sustain male-involvement teenage pregnancy prevention programming serving gang-involved youth in Santa Barbara County.
Partnership for The Children of San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo, CA
$258,750 over three years
For core operating support for La Clinica de Tolosa to continue to provide oral health services to children from underserved families in San Luis Obispo County.
Pediatric and Family Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide pregnancy care and education to underserved women and girls in Los Angeles.
Peninsula Interfaith Action
San Carlos, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to inform policymakers about the health care needs of low-income residents in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
Penny Lane Centers
North Hills, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain teenage pregnancy prevention programming serving high-risk youth in the Antelope and San Fernando Valleys of Los Angeles County.
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Inc./Healthy Homes Collaborative
Los Angeles, CA
$135,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Healthy Homes Collaborative to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about environmental health issues affecting low-income tenants in Los Angeles.
Planned Parenthood Shasta Diablo, Inc.
Concord, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide reproductive health services and health education to underserved women in Northern California.
Playa Vista Job Opportunities and Business Services
Los Angeles, CA
$175,000 over two years
For project support to implement a pilot employment internship program for previously incarcerated youth participating in the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s Adult Day Reporting Center, as a violence prevention strategy.
Prevention Institute
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to inform policymakers and other stakeholders about strategies that integrate and advance prevention as a key element of health care reform.
Project Open Hand
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Senior Lunch Program to sustain a nutrition program for seniors in San Francisco and Alameda Counties.
Project Sister Family Services
Pomona, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain comprehensive sexuality education programs serving at-risk youth in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties.
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students, Inc./Los Angeles Tenth District PTSA
Los Angeles, CA
$175,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Los Angeles Tenth District PTSA Dental Referral Program to continue to provide oral health prevention and referral services for uninsured and underinsured children of Los Angeles County.
Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc./Choices
City of Industry, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the CAMP program, a school-based, comprehensive sexuality education program serving youth in the San Gabriel Valley.
Public Health Institute
Oakland, CA
$200,000 over two years
For project support to implement the Safe Futures/Safe California initiative to replicate and refine an evidence-based strategy to reduce gang- and gun-related violence in California.
Public Policy Institute of California
San Francisco, CA
$50,000 over one year
To produce and disseminate a report on the environmental health impacts of California’s air quality and climate change policies.
Radio Bilingue, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$200,000 over three years
To produce a three-year radio campaign to provide health education to farmworkers.
Rancho Los Amigos Foundation, Inc.
Downey, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Know Barriers Outreach program to continue teenage pregnancy prevention programming serving high-risk, underserved youth in Compton.
Reach Out West End, Inc.
Upland, CA
$100,000 over two years
For project support to implement a comprehensive sexuality education program as a teenage pregnancy prevention strategy in the Northtown area of Rancho Cucamonga.
Redwood Community Action Agency
Eureka, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the Youth Services Division’s provision of safe housing, counseling and other supportive services for youth who are homeless, runaway or aged out of foster care in Humboldt County.
Regents of The University of California, Berkeley/Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice
Berkeley, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice program.
Regents of The University of California, Berkeley/University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
Berkeley, CA
$435,000 over three years
To support the California Senior Leaders Program to recognize and train senior leaders from across California.
Regents of The University of California, Davis/Consortium of Student-Run Clinics
Davis, CA
$135,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Consortium of Student-Run Clinics to continue to provide preventive health services at six clinics in Sacramento.
Regents of The University of California, Los Angeles/Center for Health Policy Research
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000 over two years
For project support for the Center for Health Policy Research to produce and disseminate California Health Information Survey-based policy briefs to improve understanding about critical health issues impacting underserved seniors in California.
Regents of The University of California, San Francisco/National Center of Excellence In Women’s Health
San Francisco, CA
$275,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Women’s HIV Program to continue to provide wraparound services to HIV-positive women in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Riverside County Physicians’ Memorial Foundation/Project K.I.N.D.
Riverside, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support for Project Kids in Need of Doctors (K.I.N.D.) to continue to provide access to health care services for children in Riverside County.
SAJE
Los Angeles, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of environmental health education to community residents and information to policymakers about environmental health conditions in low-income housing.
Samuel Dixon Family Health Center, Inc.
Valencia, CA
$350,000 over three years
To establish and operate a new health center in the Newhall area of Santa Clarita Valley.
San Diego Foundation for Change
San Diego, CA
$225,000 over two years
For project support to build the organizational capacity of nonprofits promoting the health and well-being of immigrant workers.
The San Diego Foundation
San Diego, CA
$190,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the Clean Environments, Healthy Communities Initiative, to provide grants and other support to organizations working to improve environmental health in underserved communities.
San Diego Presbytery/Reality Changers: Agentes De Cambio
San Diego, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Reality Changers program, a mentoring violence prevention strategy.
San Diego Youth & Community Service, Inc.
San Diego, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain safe housing, counseling and other supportive services for youth who are homeless, runaway or aging out of foster care in San Diego County.
San Francisco Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over one year
For the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative to provide information to policymakers and opinion leaders about the health impacts of air pollution.
San Francisco Public Health Foundation/Transitions Clinic
San Francisco, CA
$300,000 over three years
For support to expand health care to parolees with chronic medical conditions in San Francisco.
San Joaquin Community Data Council, San Joaquin Data Cooperative
Stockton, CA
$200,000 over two years
For project support of the Improving Health through Data and Evaluation project to provide comprehensive data and evaluation training for health care providers in San Joaquin County.
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics
Santa Barbara, CA
$135,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide bilingual health care services for low-income diabetes patients in Santa Barbara County.
Santa Cruz Women’s Health Center
Santa Cruz, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services to low-income women in Santa Cruz County.
Senior Community Centers of San Diego
San Diego, CA
$265,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain nutrition, case management, health and other supportive services for homeless and near-homeless seniors in San Diego County.
Senior Gleaners, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain a nutrition program for low-income seniors in Sacramento and surrounding counties.
Sierra Club Foundation/Sierra Club California
San Francisco, CA
$130,000 over two years
For core operating support for Sierra Club California for the Environmental Health Initiative to sustain efforts to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about environmental health issues in California.
Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs/East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Los Angeles, CA
$165,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide environmental health education and leadership training to residents of Commerce and nearby communities.
South County Community Health Center, Inc.
East Palo Alto, CA
$145,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services to underserved residents of southern San Mateo County.
St. Anne’s Maternity Home
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Transitional Housing Program’s provision of safe housing, counseling and other supportive services in Los Angeles County for young women who have exited foster care and their children.
Street Level Health Project
Oakland, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide health services to low-income immigrant workers in Alameda County.
Swords to Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization
San Francisco, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue providing case management for health services, legal, employment and advocacy services to homeless and at-risk veterans.
Taller San Jose
Santa Ana, CA
$160,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain employment training and support services for at-risk and formerly gang-involved youth in Orange County, as a violence prevention strategy.
TERI, Inc.
Oceanside, CA
$175,000 over two years
For project support of the Increased Access to Preventive and Primary Dental Care Program to provide oral health services for developmentally disabled adults in San Diego County.
Union Of Concerned Scientists, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$275,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the California Clean Trucks Campaign to reduce the health impacts of diesel pollution.
United Friends of the Children
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Pathways Transitional Living Program to sustain safe housing, mental health services and other supportive services for former foster youth in Los Angeles County.
The University Corporation, San Francisco State/Marian Wright Edelman Institute
San Francisco, CA
$225,000 over three years
To assist underrepresented nursing students in becoming successful leaders in the field of nursing.
University of San Diego/Children’s Advocacy Institute
San Diego, CA
$450,000 over three years
For support to inform policymakers and other stakeholders about promising programs and policies affecting the health and well-being of California’s emancipating and emancipated foster youth.
University of Southern California/University of Southern California, School of Dentistry
Los Angeles, CA
$258,750 over three years
For core operating support for the University of Southern California, School of Dentistry’s USC+URM Dental Clinic to continue providing oral health care services in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles.
Valencia, Pérez & Echeveste, Inc.
South Pasadena, CA
$200,000 over one year
For project support to develop, plan and implement a conference on health issues affecting the California/Mexico border region in 2009.
Valley Vision, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$170,000 over two years
For project support to develop a web-based asset map of violence prevention and youth development programs in Sacramento County to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about promising programs.
Volunteer Center of Riverside County
Riverside, CA
$200,000 over two years
For project support of the Health Care: The Future of Nonprofits program to support nonprofits to be leaders in public policy reform and work together to strengthen services provided in Riverside County.
Walnut Avenue Women’s Center
Santa Cruz, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Program, providing respite to health nonprofit leaders to mitigate stress and burnout and to sustain their effectiveness in providing services to the underserved in California.
Welcome Door
San Diego, CA
$105,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide case management, health education and supportive housing to homeless women in the San Diego area.
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about the health care needs of low-income residents of California.
Wildcoast
Imperial Beach, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2008 TCWF Sabbatical Program, providing respite to health nonprofit leaders to mitigate stress and burnout and to sustain their effectiveness in providing services to the underserved in California.
Wildcoast
Imperial Beach, CA
$80,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain efforts to improve the environmental health of residents of south San Diego County.
Women’s Foundation of California
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
For project support of the Elder Women’s Initiative to develop and implement a health promotion leadership training program for senior women in California.
Women’s Foundation of California
San Francisco, CA
$140,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Environmental Health and Justice Program, a grantmaking and technical assistance program that seeks to address the disproportionate impact of environmental degradation on women’s health.
Woodland Memorial Hospital Foundation
Woodland, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Your Life...Your Health project to sustain on-site health screenings and health education for farmworkers in Yolo County.
Working Partnerships USA
San Jose, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain efforts to expand health coverage for low-wage workers in Santa Clara County.
World Institute on Disability
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over two years
For project support for the Medical Advocacy Program to provide leadership development activities to enable disabled women to effectively advocate for improved health care access in California.
Youth Uprising
Oakland, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain teenage pregnancy prevention programs for at-risk youth and teen parents in East Oakland.
Ywca of Santa Monica-Westside
Santa Monica, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Housing and Education Program to sustain safe housing, counseling and other supportive services for young women in Santa Monica who have aged out of foster care.
