Selected Grants Awarded March - September 2004
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
Beverly Hills, CA
$170,000 over three years
To develop leadership and increase advocacy
skills among young women attending
community college in California as a health
promotion strategy.
FILIPINOS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, INC.
Oakland, CA
$135,000 over three years
To support the Healthcare After Lay-Offs
project, which provides health education and
health program enrollment services for laid-off
airport screeners and their families in Oakland.
FIRST PLACE FUND FOR YOUTH
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to address the
mental health and supportive housing needs of
youth emancipating from the foster care system.
KATHERINE A. FLORES
Fresno, CA
$25,000 over one year
For the 2004 Champions of Health Professions
Diversity Award to recognize and acknowledge
individuals who have made substantial
contributions to the diversity of California’s
health professions.
FOOTHILL-DE ANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
FOUNDATION/DE ANZA COLLEGE
Cupertino, CA
$100,000 over two years
To develop health-related English as a Second
Language classes for health care professionals
and students in Santa Clara County.
FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA REGIONAL
HEALTH AUTHORITY, INC.
Goleta, CA
$175,000 over two years
To support the planning and development
of a health insurance program for uninsured
children in Santa Barbara County.
FRESNO CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS
Fresno, CA
$150,000 over three years
To develop a mental health advocacy and
counseling program for incoming Hmong
refugees in Fresno.
FRESNO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY
Fresno, CA
$135,000 over three years
To educate community members on air
pollution and its health effects and to organize
advocacy efforts that address environmental
health issues in Fresno.
GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY
Garden Grove, CA
$120,000 over two years
For support to conduct a needs assessment and
develop a resource guide to foster healthy aging
among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
seniors.
PATRICIA GIGGANS
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000 over one year
For the 2004 California Peace Prize, which
acknowledges the past violence prevention
activities of this individual working to address
the root causes of violence in her community.
GIRLS AFTER SCHOOL ACADEMY
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue an
after-school program for girls in the Sunnydale
public housing development in San Francisco as
a violence prevention strategy.
GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY/ENVIRONMENTAL
LAW AND JUSTICE CLINIC
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support for the
Environmental Law and Justice Clinic to sustain
the provision of technical and legal support of
organizations that seek to eliminate toxic
pollutants in minority communities in the Bay
Area as a disease prevention strategy.
GOLDEN VALLEY HEALTH CENTER
Merced, CA
$140,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision
of preventive and primary care, counseling
services, as well as dental services to the working
poor in Merced and Stanislaus Counties.
PRISCILLA GONZALEZ
Fair Oaks, CA
$25,000 over one year
For the 2004 Champions of Health Professions
Diversity Award to recognize and acknowledge
individuals who have made substantial
contributions to the diversity of California’s
health professions.
GROUP HEALTH COOPERATIVE OF
PUGET SOUND
Seattle, WA
$635,000 over two years
To evaluate the sustainability of three
TCWF-funded initiatives (the Health
Improvement Initiative, the Work and Health
Initiative, and the Children and Youth
Community Health Initiative) three years after
TCWF funding for them ended.
HEALTHY OAKLAND
Oakland, CA
$100,000 over three years
To provide health information, prevention,
screening and case management services for the
African-American community in Oakland.
HISPANAS ORGANIZED FOR POLITICAL
EQUALITY - CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue to
train California Latina leaders and mobilize
members to advocate for programs and policies
that increase access to quality health care.
HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS, INC.
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue
providing counseling services to homeless and
runaway youth in San Francisco.
I.E. COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
San Francisco, CA
$101,000 over nine months
To produce a statewide videoconference to
inform policymakers and opinion leaders about
the state of youth violence and the need for
public investment in youth violence prevention
programs.
IDYLLWILD HELP CENTER
Idyllwild, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support for the health care
assistance program to provide vouchers for
health care services for low-income individuals
residing in mountain communities in Riverside
County.
IMPERIAL COUNTY OFFICE OF
EDUCATION/MIGRANT EDUCATION
PROGRAM
El Centro, CA
$140,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Migrant
Education Program, which provides dental services
to migrant farmworkers and their families
in the southeastern desert region of the state.
INDIAN DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES, INC.
Sacramento, CA
$100,000 over two years
To support the creation of an advocacy
association to ensure that counties in
Northern California are in compliance with
federal legislation affecting Native American
youth in foster care.
INLAND COUNTIES HEALTH SYSTEMS
AGENCY
Riverside, CA
$210,000 over three years
To expand Por La Vida, a lay health worker
program that educates Latinas in the San
Bernardino County community of Adelanto
about cardiovascular disease and breast and
cervical cancer.
INSTITUTE ON AGING
San Francisco, CA
$140,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain a
comprehensive elder abuse prevention program
in San Francisco.
INTERAMERICAN COLLEGE
National City, CA
$130,000 over three years
To develop a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
program for bilingual students and nurses
trained outside the United States.
INTERFAITH COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT
RIGHTS
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen
the capacity of religious and immigrant
communities to advocate for state and local
policies that protect and increase access to health
care for immigrants.
ISLA VISTA YOUTH PROJECT, INC.
Goleta, CA
$90,000 over three years
To continue providing bilingual counseling and
case management in Isla Vista, Goleta and Santa
Barbara.
JOHN MUIR-MT. DIABLO COMMUNITY
HEALTH FUND
Walnut Creek, CA
$175,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the healthy
aging initiative to expand the role of nonprofit
agencies to meet the needs of older adults in
Contra Costa County.
JUMA VENTURES
San Francisco, CA
$140,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of health education to youth workers
in San Francisco.
JUSTICE NOW
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to improve the
health and wellness of women prisoners in
California by expanding their access to health
information and treatment.
KALUSUGAN COMMUNITY SERVICES
National City, CA
$140,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of preventive health services to the
Filipino community in National City.
KERN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Bakersfield, CA
$150,000 over three years
To support a regranting project providing
funding to promote the health of low-income
and underserved residents of rural Kern County.
KINGSBURG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
Kingsburg, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Rural
Health Clinic to provide primary and preventive
health services to the uninsured and low income
residents of Kingsburg and the
surrounding rural communities in the San
Joaquin Valley.
KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES
OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, CA
$135,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of health services for Korean
immigrant workers in Los Angeles.
LABOR’S COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY
San Diego, CA
$200,000 over three years
To support the Healthy LINK program,
which prepares San Diego’s underemployed
multiethnic citizens to meet rapidly changing
health care workforce needs.
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain and
expand the Assertive Community Treatment
initiative to provide mental health services to
homeless and runaway youth in San Francisco.
LEGAL AID SOCIETY-EMPLOYMENT LAW
CENTER
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
To support the Paid Family Leave Outreach
Collaborative to educate working Californians
and service providers on the new paid family
leave benefits as a health promotion strategy.
LEGAL COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE
San Francisco, CA
$90,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue legal
policy research and analysis, educational
outreach and advocacy efforts to prevent gun
violence in California.
LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Sacramento, CA
$140,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain legal
assistance on health-related matters for
underserved seniors statewide.
LOS ANGELES MISSION, INC./LOS ANGELES
MISSION CLINIC
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the
provision of health care services to underserved
homeless individuals in the Skid Row area of
Los Angeles.
M F PLACE INC.
Hollywood, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support for Healthy Friends,
a health promotion and health care access
program for homeless and high-risk youth in
Los Angeles.
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH ACCESS
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue
advocacy efforts to preserve and improve state
and Los Angeles County health care programs
for low-income families, and to strengthen
organizational infrastructure.
MEDICAL EDUCATION COOPERATION
WITH CUBA
Atlanta, GA
$150,000 over three years
To establish the Faculty Community Health
Leadership Program in South Los Angeles.
MERCED COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
Merced, CA
$140,000 over two years
To expand the health careers education and
internship program at two high schools that
serve low-income minority youth in Merced
County.
MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER
San Francisco, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to
provide community-based, culturally relevant
primary care health services to low-income
uninsured and underinsured individuals in San
Francisco.
MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND/SAN
FRANCISCO HUMAN SERVICES NETWORK
San Francisco, CA
$65,000 over two years
For support to expand efforts to foster effective
public policies that preserve and strengthen San
Francisco’s community-based health and
human services.
NATIONAL SENIOR CITIZENS LAW CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain
long-term care advocacy programs.
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE
COUNCIL, INC.
New York, NY
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue
research, advocacy and education efforts to
improve environmental health in California.
OMEGA BOYS CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to
provide an after-school program that integrates
academic enrichment, conflict resolution and
mentoring for youth in San Francisco as a
violence prevention strategy.
ONE 2 ONE MENTORS
Victorville, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue
providing educational workshops and
mentoring services to at-risk youth in
Victorville, Apple Valley, Adelanto and
Hesperia as a violence prevention strategy.
ANTHONY ORTIZ
San Jose, CA
$25,000 over one year
For the 2004 California Peace Prize, which
acknowledges the past violence prevention
activities of this individual working to address
the root causes of violence in his community.
PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES
IN DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT,
AND SECURITY
Oakland, CA
$135,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue efforts to
reduce environmental pollution, build local
leadership and provide environmental health
education in North Richmond and West
Oakland.
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE/NEW CALIFORNIA
MEDIA
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
To conduct polls on key health issues facing
California’s ethnic communities.
PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL
Pacoima, CA
$135,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue
to educate and empower residents to address
environmental health hazards in and around
Pacoima homes in the Northeast San
Fernando Valley.
PASADENA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION LTD
Pasadena, CA
$120,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain health
promotion and case management services for
seniors in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los
Angeles County.
PASADENA-FOOTHILL VALLEY YWCA
Pasadena, CA
$100,000 over three year
For core operating support to sustain an
after-school violence prevention program
serving at-risk girls in Pasadena and Altadena.
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