Alameda County Medical Center
Oakland, CA
    To develop and implement a strategic plan designed to restructure the medical center toward primary care and prevention.
    $200,000
American Journal of Health Promotion
Keego Harbor, MI
    To contribute to the endowment for the Robert F. Allen Symbol of H.O.P.E. Award, an annual award to an individual who makes an outstanding contribution to promoting cultural diversity or serving underserved populations within the health promotion field.
    $20,000
Archbishop Riordan High School
San Francisco, CA
    For scholarships for minority students interested in careers in health to receive a college preparatory education for the 1996-98 academic years.
    $15,000
Asian Health Services
Oakland, CA
    To partially fund the Region IX Chief Financial Officer Training Conference for chief financial officers of community health centers in Region IX of the Public Health Services, to increase their knowledge of managed care.
    $11,000
California Food Policy Advocates
San Francisco, CA
    To support a multifaceted project aimed at minimizing the harshest consequences of nutrition and income support program changes, developing community capacity to initiate systems change, and reviewing the welfare reform bill for potential assistance for families.
    $100,000
California Latino Civil Rights Network
San Francisco, CA
    To support on-going efforts to increase Latino civic participation by serving as an informational clearinghouse, a statewide advocate and a network of progressive organizations that influence policies affecting the health of Latinos in California.
    $15,000
California Nonprofit Policy Council
Los Angeles, CA
    To support the second annual California Nonprofits Week, April 21-25, 1997, in Sacramento and other sites.
    $20,000
California Partnership for Children
Sacramento, CA
    To establish and convene the California Children's Health and Managed care Task Force and the Parent/Consumer Council through which a series of child health reform proposals will be developed and disseminated.
    $200,000
California State University, Northridge
Northridge, CA
    To support the work of the Los Angeles area members of the International Women's Health Coalition.
    $15,000
California Tomorrow
San Francisco, CA
    To build and share knowledge on how technical assistance can strengthen the capacity of health and human service organizations to understand the dynamics of race, language, culture, and class.
    $200,000
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Los Angeles, CA
    To support increasing the organization's capacity for fiscal self-sufficiency as it transitions from federal to private funding.
    $225,000
Computer Technologies Program, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
    To support the Commemoration Steering Committee for the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the adoption of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, prohibiting discrimination toward people with disabilities.
    $15,000
Foundation for National Progress
San Francisco, CA
    To review and analyze protocols by principal investigators conducting medical and biological research at the University of California.
    $15,000
Gifts to Share, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
    To support the "Prime Time Team" program, to mobilize and involve teens in the basics of early childhood development and to provide for teen participation in educational life skills workshops, community projects, and work experience while attending school.
    $25,000
Girls Incorporated
Culver City, CA
    To provide girls with the skills necessary to enhance their self-esteem and overall sense of wellness through the use of Girls Incorporated's research-based programming.
    $72,000
Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
Seattle, WA
    To conduct a statewide conference on the evaluation of comprehensive community-based health promotion programs.
    $58,000
Health Care Council of Orange County
Santa Ana, CA
    For general support to advocate for a viable health care system for all residents of Orange County via research, coalition-building and health education.
    $25,000
Health Watch
Brooklyn, NY
    To support the Los Angeles downlink site for a national teleconference in October 1996 that addressed multiple problems for teens in African-American and Latino communities.
    $12,700
Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital
Valencia, CA
    To fund the purchase of transport monitors and a crash cart for the hospital's emergency department.
    $25,000
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Berkeley, CA
    To provide general support for health promotion on behalf of Latino communities in California and the United States.
    $25,000
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Berkeley, CA
    To support a feasibility study of the creation of a national funding collaborative to strengthen capacity in the Latino nonprofit sector.
    $12,500
Huckleberry Youth Programs
San Francisco, CA
    To support Cole Street Clinic's capacity to provide health promotion services to high-risk youth in San Francisco.
    $150,000
Human Interaction Research Institute
Los Angeles, CA
    To assist the Foundation in the creation and implementation of strategic dissemination activities for four of its five major funding initiatives.
    $25,000
International Medical Services for Health
Sterling, VA
    To support the implementation of the Service Awareness Plan, a home visitors program, and advance efforts to replicate it in other community-based outreach programs.
    $25,000
Lead Safe California
San Francisco, CA
    To increase outreach efforts to educate affected constituency groups about the scope of lead poisoning hazards and to build consensus among stakeholders on this issue.
    $80,000
Leadership High School
San Francisco, CA
    For curriculum development, multicultural/diversity student recruitment, and program support in the health sciences.
    $25,000
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
New York, NY
    To support the first year of a five-year study to assess the impact of welfare reform on the health of individuals, families, and neighborhoods in Los Angeles County.
    $100,000
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Burbank, CA
    To support a perinatal needs assessment describing the current needs and access to care of pregnant/parenting families in Southern California for future planning of maternal-infant health care services.
    $15,000
Mental Health Association of Alameda County
Oakland, CA
    For general support with an emphasis on primary and secondary prevention programs that educate about mental illness and its effective treatment, provide screening services, and create access to appropriate care.
    $20,000
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
    To disseminate information about the health of California's immigrant children and families.
    $100,000
National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction
Washington, DC
    To support development of an endowment and operating support while long-term funding development is being undertaken.
    $100,000
National Immigration Law Center
Los Angeles, CA
    To support the Immigrant and Welfare Reform Collaborative, an integrated program of policy, training and education to service providers, policymakers, and foreign-born residents on the health-related impacts of welfare reform.
    $100,000
Northern California Grantmakers
San Francisco, CA
    Toward a funding pool from which grants will be made to implement and evaluate community-based AIDS prevention programs and to build the capacity of AIDS organizations to participate in shaping the policies that affect the AIDS epidemic.
    $75,000
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
Los Angeles, CA
    To support a Women's Health Summit in February 1997 and related activities to address the health care delivery and policy issues facing women in Los Angeles County due to imminent implementation of the county's new managed care system.
    $20,000
Paradigm Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
    To support the production of "The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle," a two-hour film documenting the creation of the first successful union of farmworkers, which aired nationally on PBS in April 1997.
    $25,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
San Francisco, CA
    To strengthen and expand the infrastructure of Planned Parenthood family planning clinics and health services throughout California.
    $600,000
Project Headway, Inc.
Northridge, CA
    For general support of this organization that provides services and housing for young adults with severe brain injuries.
    $25,000
Project on Community Capacity and Institution Building
San Francisco, CA
    To involve low-income community leaders in the welfare reform system change efforts in the Greater Bay Area.
    $140,000
Public Counsel
Los Angeles, CA
    To pilot a "legal check-up" project to diagnose and protect the legal health of community-based health clinics and programs serving low-income residents in Los Angeles County.
    $40,000
Public Law Center
Santa Ana, CA
    To support the Health Care Education and Assistance Project to help Orange County's indigent population in the transition and utilization of Cal-OPTIMA, the county's new managed care system.
    $25,000
RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA
    To support the analysis of a public education campaign aimed at increasing public awareness of the importance of the first three years of life, and an assessment of the benefits of early childhood interventions.
    $134,000
Sacramento Valley Organizing Community
Sacramento, CA
    To educate uninsured low-income residents from Sacramento, Yolo, and Solano counties about health insurance opportunities and involve them in efforts that increase access to health insurance.
    $65,000
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
San Francisco, CA
    To support a joint project with the AIDS Health Project to undertake an extensive process of planning, implementing, and evaluating new HIV prevention interventions that address the most at-risk populations.
    $200,000
San Francisco Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
San Francisco, CA
    To assist Bay Area residents who need help to retain their housing or to address other critical family health needs.
    $20,000
Schacht & Associates Consulting Services
Oakland, CA
    To evaluate seven urban clinic association grants made for direct preventive health services and capacity building during the transition to managed care, and provide technical assistance to help six of these associations implement their grant funds.
    $25,000
Sports 4 Kids
Oakland, CA
    To support the expansion of elementary school sports programs that engage youth in structured physical education and sports activities in the East Bay Area of San Francisco.
    $100,000
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
    To support the development of a proposal in response to The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Smokeless States: Statewide Prevention and Control Initiatives 1996."
    $50,000
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
San Francisco, CA
    To support an endowed postgraduate public interest fellowship in memory of Ralph Santiago Abascal.
    $100,000
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
    To assess the impact of Medi-Cal managed care on safety net providers in California.
    $135,000
University of Southern California
Sacramento, CA
    To support the building fund for the Sacramento Center, a graduate education and research organization for health industry professionals.
    $20,000
Utility Consumers' Action Network
San Diego, CA
    To develop a consumer health section of ConsumerNet, a publicly accessible network of consumer and legal service organizations on the Internet/World Wide Web.
    $100,000
Ventura County AIDS Partnership
Camarillo, CA
    To support a funding pool from which grants will be made to support AIDS prevention and services activities in Ventura County.
    $25,000
Western Center on Law and Poverty, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
    To assist community-based organizations and community health service providers understand recent changes in federal health care policies and funding that affect low-income people in California, and to advocate for effective public policy around this issue.
    $100,000
Western Center on Law and Poverty, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
    To develop an analysis of the health impacts on California of federal welfare reform (HR 3734) and disseminate findings to community-based organizations and policymakers.
    $25,000