Selected Grants Awarded March 2003

Violence Prevention

CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, INC.
Oakland, CA
$60,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of violence prevention services for at-risk Cambodian youth in Oakland.

CITY OF SAN DIEGO OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
San Diego, CA
$60,000 over three years
To conduct strategic planning, convening and evaluation activities to improve implementation of the Family Justice Center, which provides comprehensive domestic violence services.

MARJAREE MASON CENTER, INC.
Fresno, CA
$100,000 over three years
To expand a school-based domestic violence prevention program for youth in rural communities throughout Fresno County.

THE MENTORING CENTER
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of violence prevention mentoring and support service programs for at-risk and incarcerated youth in Alameda County.

MONO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION
Mammoth Lakes, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of mentoring activities for at-risk youth, ages 5 to 17, in five Mono County communities.

PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER
Petaluma, CA
$75,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the continuation of a school-based violence prevention and development program for at-risk youth in Petaluma and surrounding southern Sonoma County communities.

PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the education and training of medical professionals around firearm violence and prevention.

ROUND VALLEY INDIAN HOUSING AUTHORITY
Covelo, CA
$100,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of Building Horizons, a community-based, after-school violence and substance abuse prevention program.

YOUTH RADIO
Berkeley, CA
$100,000 over three years
To develop Youth Radio Los Angeles, a media advocacy, radio training program for youth, as a violence prevention and development strategy in Southern California.

 

Women’s Health

DUNLAP BAND OF MONO INDIANS HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Fresno, CA
$50,000 over two years
To support the establishment of a nutrition program to reinforce positive food habits and reduce the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases among women and families in the Dunlap Band of Mono Indians.

EXHALE
Oakland, CA
$60,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of an after-abortion counseling and referral hotline for women in California.

FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION
San Diego, CA
$75,000 over three years
To support reproductive health services to low-income and underserved women in the ParentCare Recovery program in San Diego County.

HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM, INC.
San Francisco, CA
$120,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of perinatal substance abuse services, housing assistance, and other health and support services to homeless women and families in
San Francisco.

LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA FRUITVALE HEALTH PROJECT, INC.
Oakland, CA
$90,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain a perinatal case management program that provides linguistically and culturally appropriate services to pregnant women in the Fruitvale and San Antonio neighborhoods of Oakland.

LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN
Palo Alto, CA
$75,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of preventive, primary and perinatal health care to uninsured women in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties through Mommy Van, a mobile medical clinic.

NATIONAL BLACK WOMEN’S HEALTH PROJECT, INC.
Washington, DC
$120,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain an interactive website to provide health information to black women in California.

NETWORK ON WOMEN IN PRISON
San Francisco, CA
$90,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain a reproductive health care advocacy program for women prisoners in California.

POSITIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN ENGAGED IN RECOVERY
Lemon Grove, CA
$75,000 over three years
For core operating support to provide outpatient substance abuse recovery and treatment services to women and families in central, south and eastern San Diego County.

WOMEN’S HEALTH RIGHTS COALITION
Oakland, CA
$90,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain ACCESS, which provides information and referral services on reproductive health for women in Central California.

Y-ME SAN DIEGO
Escondido, CA
$45,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain bilingual services and breast health information and resources for Latinas in the San Diego area.
 

Work and Health

CALIFORNIA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
Sacramento, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of statewide faith-based outreach and advocacy about the barriers to health care facing TANF recipients as they move from public assistance to employment.

CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER- CARECEN-OF CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, CA
$90,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of technology training as a strategy to foster healthier futures for at-risk and low-income youth in the Pico Union/Westlake area of Los Angeles.

HIGH TECH COLLABORATIVE
Oakland, CA
$80,000 over two years
To support the High Tech Collaborative to address the workplace health and safety needs of electronics assembly workers in Silicon Valley.

LABOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Berkeley, CA
$165,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain work to improve health and safety conditions for youth and immigrant workers in California.

LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY
Los Angeles, CA
$160,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Living Wage Health Project that promotes access to employment-based health coverage and healthy workplaces for low-income workers in Los Angeles.

MANPOWER DEMONSTRATION RESEARCH CORPORATION
Oakland, CA
$75,000 over one year
To support the publication and dissemination of a report on the effects of welfare reform on participants, households, and neighborhoods in Los Angeles County and their access to health care.

ORGANIZACION EN CALIFORNIA DE LIDERES CAMPESINAS, INC.
Pomona, CA
$160,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of pesticide exposure and field sanitation education and leadership training to farmworker women and girls in rural areas of California as a health promotion strategy.

PUENTE A LA SALUD
Orange, CA
$150,000 over three years
To provide support to expand services provided by Puente a La Salud, a mobile health education and service program for farmworkers.

SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM
San Diego, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain Pathways to Success, a professional mental health counseling program that addresses psychological barriers to employment for the homeless and unemployed in San Diego County.

SWEATSHOP WATCH
Oakland, CA
$85,000 over two years
To support research and policy analysis on global policies and assess their impact on the short- and long-term health of the state’s garment workers.
 

Special Projects

ASIAN PACIFIC AIDS INTERVENTION TEAM
Los Angeles, CA
$95,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

BIENESTAR HUMAN SERVICES, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$110,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain HIV/AIDS prevention efforts in eight Southern California communities.

BORDER HEALTH INITIATIVE
National City, CA
$1,000,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the provision of ongoing services to improve access to health care for underserved communities in the California/Baja California region.

COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY COALITION INC.
Venice, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the California Community Food Security Network to foster a more powerful, cross-linked food, agriculture and health movement in California.

FRAMEWORKS INSTITUTE
Washington, DC
$75,000 over nine months
To support the research and development of a communications strategy to support state
advocacy efforts to increase access to health care.

HARM REDUCTION COALITION
Oakland, CA
$95,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain statewide HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.

LIBRERIA DEL PUEBLO, INC.
San Bernardino, CA
$300,000 over three years
To increase access to health care for low-income residents of Imperial, Inyo, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.

NORTH COAST CLINICS NETWORK
Eureka, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen the Network’s infrastructure and sustain the provision of primary and preventive health services by member clinics.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS
San Francisco, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen educational programs and services to educate and increase the effectiveness of health grantmakers.

NORTHERN SIERRA RURAL HEALTH NETWORK
Nevada City, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen network activities and sustain the provision of primary and preventive health services by member clinics.

PALS FOR HEALTH PROGRAM
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over two years
To support the creation of a Spanish-language health care interpretation project in Los Angeles County.

REDWOOD COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION
Santa Rosa, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen the consortium’s infrastructure and sustain the provision of health services by member clinics.

SHASTA CONSORTIUM OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
Redding, CA
$300,000 over two years
For core operating support to strengthen the consortium’s infrastructure and sustain the provision of primary and preventive health services by member clinics.

SOUTH COUNTY HOUSING
Gilroy, CA
$150,000 over three years
To provide health screening, health education, information and referral services to residents of South County’s housing developments along California’s Central Coast

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