Selected Grants — Awarded March 2001
For current application guidelines, please see the preceding How To Apply page.
INITIATIVE GRANTS
Children and Youth Community Health
NUNN CONSULTING INC.
Culver City, CA
$675,000 over one year and six months
To continue providing technical assistance and training services for the 10
“wellness villages” of the Children and Youth Community Health Initiative.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention  
HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Sacramento, CA
$600,000 over two years
To develop and implement a statewide program that
recognizes leaders in teen pregnancy prevention.
GENERAL GRANTS
Community Health
LOS ANGELES WOMEN’S FOUNDATION
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide technical assistance and small grants
to grassroots women’s health organizations in underserved communities of Los
Angeles County.
Population Health Improvement
CALIFORNIA RURAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD INC.
Sacramento, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide health promotion and disease prevention
services to Native Americans of rural California.
THE CENTER FOR CIVIC PARTNERSHIPS
Sacramento, CA
$200,000 over one year
For core operating support for the California Healthy Cities and Communities
Program and to provide
preventive services in five participating communities.
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention
FAMILY HEALTH CARE NETWORK
Porterville, CA
$75,000 over two years
For core operating support for a community health
education program that includes teen pregnancy
prevention and outreach to Latino migrant farmworkers in Tulare County.
MATCH-TWO INC.
Vallejo, CA
$100,000 over two years
To provide mentors for incarcerated youth and to
implement the Pre-Release Enrichment Program that focuses on teen pregnancy
prevention.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SAN DIEGO AND
RIVERSIDE COUNTIES
San Diego, CA
$100,000 over two years
To implement an outreach and education campaign about existing
confidentiality policies and the availability of contraceptive and other health
services for teens in Riverside County.
Violence Prevention
COURT DESIGNATED CHILD ADVOCATES INC.
San Jose, CA
$50,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide violence prevention services in the
form of mentoring to abused and neglected children in the foster care systems of
Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
HOMIES UNIDOS INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide gang violence
prevention and intervention services to Central-American youth in Los Angeles
County.
MOVE
San Francisco, CA
$75,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide education, training and counseling
services to prevent domestic violence in the San Francisco Bay Area.
PARTNERS, A UMC MENTORING PROGRAM 
San Diego, CA
$75,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide violence prevention services in the
form of mentoring and case management to first-time offenders and at-risk youth
in central and southern San Diego County.
PEACE GAMES INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000 over two years
To pilot a violence prevention curriculum for children in three elementary
schools in Los Angeles.
WILD IRIS WOMEN’S SERVICES
Bishop, CA
$75,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide services to victims of domestic
violence, child abuse and sexual assault in Inyo and Mono counties.
Work and Health
GREATER GOLDEN HILL COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
San Diego, CA
$75,000 over two years
To improve health services by supporting the training
of allied health care professionals through its Health Careers Academy.
LA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL
San Francisco, CA
$50,000 over two years
To provide health promotion programs and services to day laborers in the San
Francisco Bay Area.
LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000 over two years
To continue outreach and education about the benefits of health insurance to
employees and their employers covered under the Los Angeles Living Wage
Ordinance.
SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM
San Diego, CA
$75,000 over one year
For support of “Pathways to Success Counseling Services,” a mental health
component of a job readiness program for the long-term unemployed.
SPIRIT OF WOMAN OF CALIFORNIA INC.
Fresno, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support for health and wellness services to women
recovering from substance abuse so they can gain and keep employment.
SPECIAL PROJECTS 
AIDS PROJECT CENTRAL COAST
Santa Barbara, CA
$40,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen a comprehensive and integrated set
of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Santa Barbara County.
BERKELEY BIOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION INC.
Berkeley, CA
$120,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide education and employment opportunities
for at-risk youth in the
bioscience and health care industries.
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over three years
To establish a Sacramento office to strengthen public policy efforts for
health and human service organizations in California.
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTES OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
La Jolla, CA
$50,000 over one year
For a planning grant to develop a prototype of preventive medicine centers.
CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
Sacramento, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to increase participation of physicians in
community health efforts.
THE CHILDREN’S PLANNING COUNCIL
FOUNDATION INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$500,000 over two years
For core operating support for a coordinated public/private effort to build
healthier communities for children and families in Los Angeles County.
CITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000 over two years
To develop community health programs that serve
economically disadvantaged children and youth.
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SILICON VALLEY
San Jose, CA
$500,000 over two years
To expand a comprehensive health and social support program to increase
self-sufficiency of families in the Mayfair neighborhood of East San Jose.
COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE OF PASADENA
Pasadena, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide primary and preventive health care to
residents of San Gabriel Valley.
COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES OF MENDOCINO COUNTY
Ukiah, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen infrastructure and support the
provision of preventive health services by member clinics.
COMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICES
San Francisco, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide high-quality and affordable management
assistance services to nonprofit health care organizations in California.
CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
Oakland, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support to expand the supportive
housing model as a strategy to improve physical and
mental health for chronically homeless individuals.
DOWNTOWN WOMEN’S CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to maintain health and social services for
homeless women in downtown Los Angeles.
FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC.
Washington, DC
$200,000 over two years
To inform California state and local health advocacy
organizations about federal health policy developments.
FRESNO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY
Fresno, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support for health care advocacy
and organizing.
LIBRERIA DEL PUEBLO INC.
San Bernardino, CA
$300,000 over two years
To recruit and train health promoters in San Bernardino
in order to increase access to culturally appropriate health care services.
LOS ANGELES METROPOLITAN CHURCHES
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
To expand a leadership development project that focuses on community health
and environmental protection among four congregations in South Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES OPERATION HOPE
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000 over one year and six months
To identify the health needs and resources in South
Central Los Angeles neighborhoods in order to improve population health.
THE LOS ANGELES UNITED METHODIST
URBAN FOUNDATION
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over two years
To increase faith-based, community health activities that improve the health
of residents in 20 Los Angeles County
neighborhoods.
MANAGED CARE CONSUMER ADVOCACY
COLLABORATIVE
Oakland, CA
$400,000 over two years
To represent consumer interests in the development of regulations and
policies governing the new Department of Managed Health Care and the Office of
Patient Advocates.
MULTICULTURAL COLLABORATIVE
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to broaden and deepen
multiethnic networks to prevent interethnic conflict and violence in Los
Angeles.
NORTH COAST CLINICS NETWORK
Eureka, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen network activities and support the
provision of primary and preventive health services by member clinics.
NORTHERN SIERRA RURAL HEALTH NETWORK
Nevada City, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen network activities and support the
provision of primary and preventive health services by member clinics.
PROJECT NEW HOPE
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
To strengthen prevention and support services for those infected and affected
by HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles.
THE RESOURCE CENTER FOR
NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT
Riverside, CA
$200,000 over two years
To build the organizational capacity of 10 nonprofit health organizations in
Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
 SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE
San Diego, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide health promotion grants and technical
assistance to organizations serving underserved populations in San Diego County.
SHASTA CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
Shingletown, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen infrastructure and support the
provision of preventive health services by member clinics.
URBAN & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSTITUTE, OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over two years
To mobilize communities around the commercialization of professional wet
cleaning to reduce acute and chronic health risks associated with dry cleaning.
VENTURA COUNTY AIDS PARTNERSHIP
Camarillo, CA
$80,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen HIV prevention education and AIDS
patient care.
VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC.
Santa Ana, CA
$150,000 over two years
To provide comprehensive health services for Vietnamese women.
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