Selected Grants — Awarded June 2001
For current application guidelines, please see the preceding How To Apply
page.
INITIATIVE GRANTS 
Children and Youth Community Health
THE IMOYASE GROUP, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$897,000 over two years
To continue to conduct an evaluation of the
Children and Youth Community Health Initiative.
NUNN CONSULTING, INC.
Culver City, CA
$413,000 over one year and three months
To provide meeting logistics, conference planning and advisory committee support for the Children and Youth Community Health Initiative.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
CALIFORNIA FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$2,000,000 over two years
To support continuation of the Peer Provider Program providing reproductive health services for the prevention of teen pregnancy.
Violence Prevention
COMMUNITY WELLNESS PARTNERSHIP
Pomona, CA
$160,000 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in the city of Pomona.
EYE COUNSELING & CRISIS SERVICES, INC.
Escondido, CA
$160,000 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in the city of Escondido.
INLAND COUNTIES HEALTH SYSTEMS AGENCY
Riverside, CA
$125,000 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in the city of Riverside.
INNERCITY STRUGGLE
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in East Los Angeles.
LA FAMILIA COUNSELING CENTER, INC.
Sacramento, CA
$112,500 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in the community of South Sacramento.
LOS ANGELES COMMISSION ON ASSAULTS
AGAINST WOMEN
Los Angeles, CA
$160,000 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in the mid-San Fernando Valley.
MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, INC.
San Francisco, CA
$160,000 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in the Mission District of San Francisco.
SANTA CRUZ BARRIOS UNIDOS, INC.
Santa Cruz, CA
$160,000 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in Santa Cruz County.
WEST OAKLAND HEALTH COUNCIL
Oakland, CA
$160,000 over two years
To continue to provide community-based youth violence prevention services in West Oakland.
GENERAL GRANTS
Community Health
SHOTS FOR TOTS BY AGE 2
Sacramento, CA
$40,000 over two years
To support a program to improve the immunization rate for two-year-olds in the Sacramento area.
Population Health Improvement
THE LOS ANGELES EYE INSTITUTE
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide vision care for
families in South Central Los Angeles.
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention
ECHO PARK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000 over one year
For core operating support for SMART Girls, a teen
pregnancy prevention program for girls ages 10 to 17.
GIRLS INCORPORATED
Culver City, CA
$75,000 over two years
For core operating support of the Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy program.
Violence Prevention
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICO CA, INC.
Chico, CA
$75,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide afterschool violence prevention programs for youth in Butte County.
CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support of a school-based violence
prevention program that includes case management and counseling services.
GIRLS AND GANGS
Pasadena, CA
$85,000 over two years
For core operating support to provide violence prevention workshops to adolescent girls, 12 to 18, at the Camp Scott juvenile facility.
LAO IU MIEN CULTURE ASSOCIATION, INC.
Oakland, CA
$85,000 over two years
To support a violence prevention program designed to reduce gang involvement through workshops and a
mentoring program for Iu Mien youth and their families
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
WATTS CENTURY LATINO ORGANIZATION
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
To support the School/Community Violence Prevention Network Program serving South Central Los Angeles
residents.
Work and Health
CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPS
Klamath, CA
$75,000 over three years
For core operating support to implement and evaluate an education and treatment program addressing substance abuse problems among corps members.
SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND
AIDS PARTNERSHIP CALIFORNIA
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen the organization’s efforts to provide grants to community-based organizations to provide services for persons of color living with HIV.
AIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000 over two years
To support, develop and disseminate Impacto, a
bimonthly, Spanish-language publication providing
HIV prevention and treatment information.
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
To support a project to help poverty-level children in foster care to have continuous access to quality health care in Los Angeles County.
AMERICAN YOUTH WORK CENTER
Washington, D.C.
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue coverage of
adolescent health issues and California-based content and circulation of the newspaper Youth Today.
BI-NATIONAL AIDS ADVOCACY PROJECT
San Diego, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen and enhance
HIV prevention and advocacy efforts.
BLACK COALITION ON AIDS
San Francisco, CA
$50,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen HIV/AIDS
prevention programs and organizational capacity.
CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR CHILDHOOD
IMMUNIZATION
Sacramento, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen organizational structure and build a strong advocacy network dedicated to achieving and maintaining a 90 percent immunization rate statewide.
CALIFORNIA LATINO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over two years
To establish a statewide network of Latino physicians.
CALIFORNIA STATE RURAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Sacramento, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen organizational capacity and enhance member services to improve health care services in rural communities.
CALIFORNIA WIC ASSOCIATION
Sacramento, CA
$250,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen this statewide association and build the capacity of local WIC (Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants
and Children) programs.
CAMPESINOS UNIDOS
Brawley, CA
$115,000 over two years
To sustain community organizing and advocacy efforts to promote environmental health for the people of Calexico, on behalf of the Calexico New River Committee.
CENTER FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
Torrance, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support of community outreach
programs devoted to disease prevention, health promotion and community services among low-income, minority and medically at-risk Southern Californians.
COMPUTERS IN OUR FUTURE STATEWIDE NETWORK
Riverside, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain this network of 11 Computers In Our Future centers that provide low-income youth and adults with computer skills training, thus improving their education and employment opportunities and long-term health outcomes.
CORRECT HELP
West Hollywood, CA
$40,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen HIV/AIDS
prevention education and advocacy work in California’s correctional facilities.
CURE AUTISM NOW
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
To support a parent outreach project that provides help and resources through a hotline and support groups and educates parents and the public about autism.
FIGHT CRIME: INVEST IN KIDS CALIFORNIA
Oakland, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to educate the public and
policymakers about the need to increase resources statewide for afterschool programs and other effective
violence prevention policies.
THE FOUNDATION FOR TAXPAYER AND
CONSUMER RIGHTS
Santa Monica, CA
$150,000 over two years
To support efforts to organize a broad-based coalition to develop and advocate for a new model of universal health insurance coverage.
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL, INC.
New York, NY
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support for the Los Angeles ChildSight program that provides free vision screenings and glasses to public middle-school students in Los Angeles County.
INSURE THE UNINSURED PROJECT
Santa Monica, CA
$400,000 over two years
For core operating support to identify, assist and promote new approaches to affordable and comprehensive health coverage for the uninsured.
INTERFAITH COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over two years
For project support to expand efforts to increase
immigrant access to health services by implementing
public education, community capacity and advocacy efforts in faith settings statewide.
JUSTICE NOW
Oakland, CA
$50,000 over two years
To support the Peer Education Support Program, a key component of the Initiative on Health and Wellness for incarcerated women.
LATINO COALITION FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen public education and advocacy efforts related to an annual Latino health policy agenda.
MERCED LAO FAMILY COMMUNITY, INC.
Merced, CA
$100,000 over two years
To provide health education services to the Southeast Asian community in Merced.
NONPROFIT RESOURCE CENTER
Sacramento, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen California Management Assistance Partnership’s network of
management support centers that serve primarily health and social service nonprofit organizations statewide.
ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY
ORGANIZATION
Anaheim, CA
$350,000 over two years
To increase equitable access to quality, affordable health care services for primarily low-income Latino residents of central Orange County.
PEOPLE AND CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER
FOR STOCKTON
Stockton, CA
$100,000 over two years
To increase access to health care for uninsured South Stockton residents.
PHARMACY ACCESS PARTNERSHIP
Oakland, CA
$100,000 over one year
For core operating support to expand access to emergency contraception.
PUBLIC ALLIES, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
To train Los Angeles-based young people as leaders in the nonprofit health services arena.
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
Berkeley, CA
$150,000 over two years
For annual retreats and trainings for California state health policy/advocacy organizations.
REDWOOD COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION
Santa Rosa, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen the consortia’s infrastructure and
support the provision of health services by member clinics.
ST. JOHN’S WELL CHILD CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over two years
To expand access to preventive and primary medical
services for children of poverty-level families living in Compton and South
Central Los Angeles.
UNITED INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
Trinidad, CA
$200,000 over two years
For core operating support for the traditional health and wellness component of
the Potawot Health Village Project serving the Native American communities of
Humboldt and Del Norte counties.
WOMEN’S HEALTH COLLABORATIVE
Oakland, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to maintain a leadership and policy development
program for women’s health activists throughout the state.
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