Awarded September 2005
TCWF's Board of Directors approved the following grants in support of the Foundation's mission of improving the health of the people of California and to further its four goals: addressing the health needs of underserved communities, supporting and strengthening nonprofit organizations, recognizing and encouraging leaders, and informing the development of public policies. For current application guidelines, please see the preceding How To Apply pages.
ALAMEDA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS, INC.
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide home-delivered meals for low-income, homebound seniors who are unable to purchase or prepare food for themselves, as a health promotion strategy.
API WELLNESS CENTER
San Francisco, CA
$235,000 over three years
For core operating support for the A&PI Transgender Empowerment Program to continue to provide health education and support services to transgender sex workers in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties.
ARC ECOLOGY
San Francisco, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide environmental health education and technical assistance targeting communities affected by environmental hazards caused by military bases.
ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to strengthen health policy infrastructure and continue to educate policymakers about the health issues and concerns affecting California’s Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities.
ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES
Oakland, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide comprehensive patient education about chronic diseases to Asian immigrants in Alameda County.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
Gardena, CA
$300,000 over three years
To continue support for the Senior Services Programs to increase awareness of diabetes and hypertension and encourage healthier lifestyles by Latino immigrant seniors in the Inglewood and West Los Angeles areas.
BOAT PEOPLE S.O.S., INC./BOAT PEOPLE SOS-SACRAMENTO
Falls Church, VA
$105,000 over three years
To provide cancer prevention case management services to Vietnamese immigrant and refugee women in the Sacramento and Central Valley areas.
BUSINESS HEALTHCARE CONNECTION
San Diego, CA
$225,000 over three years
To expand outreach and education efforts targeting low-wage workers and their employers about health coverage and increase their access to affordable health care services in San Diego.
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY ON SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to strengthen infrastructure and advocacy capacity to educate policymakers about school health centers.
CALIFORNIA BLACK HEALTH NETWORK
San Diego, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to strengthen public policy infrastructure and continue to educate policymakers about health issues affecting Africans and African-Americans in California.
CALIFORNIA FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$1,000,000 over one year
To continue support for the Peer Provider Program providing reproductive health services for the prevention of teenage pregnancy.
CALIFORNIA PLANNED PARENTHOOD EDUCATION FUND INCORPORATED
Sacramento, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to enhance public awareness and policy advocacy on adolescent reproductive health issues through communications and media outreach in California.
CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL STUDIES/INSURE THE UNINSURED PROJECT
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to educate policymakers about health coverage options and provide technical assistance to state and local efforts to increase health care coverage for the uninsured.
CENTRO DE SALUD-HEW 1 SAN YSIDRO HEALTH CENTER
San Ysidro, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved residents of San Ysidro, located in the South Bay region of San Diego County.
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA/OAKLAND WORKER CENTER CONSORTIUM
Oakland, CA
$235,000 over three years
To support the Oakland Worker Center Consortium’s Health Program to provide health education and health care services to low-wage workers.
CITY OF STOCKTON/PEACEKEEPER GANG OUTREACH PROGRAM
Stockton, CA
$225,000 over three years
To support the Peacekeeper Gang Outreach Program to reduce gang-related violence in Stockton and the surrounding communities of Lodi, Manteca and Tracy.
CLINICA MONSIGNOR OSCAR A. ROMERO
Los Angeles, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved residents in Los Angeles.
COASTSIDE MEDICAL DENTAL CLINICS, INC.
Half Moon Bay, CA
$208,000 over three years
For core operating support to sustain the Sonrisas Community Dental Clinic providing dental care services to low-income residents of the coastal area of San Mateo County.
COLLECTIVE SPACE
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
To continue to provide environmental health education and leadership development to residents of substandard housing in the MacArthur Park community in Los Angeles.
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, INC.
North Hills, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue the provision of violence prevention and youth development services as a health promotion strategy for at-risk youth in the San Fernando Valley, Venice, Hollywood and the Santa Clarita Valley.
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY
Santa Rosa, CA
$340,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Wellness for Women program to continue to provide health-related intensive case management to homeless women in Sonoma County.
COMMUNITY CLINIC ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Los Angeles, CA
$500,000 over three years
To support the Skid Row Homeless Healthcare Initiative to develop and implement a chronic disease health care model.
COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION & TREATMENT
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over one year and six months
To organize and educate community members, policymakers and opinion leaders regarding the necessity of keeping Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles open and available to train minority health professionals, as a strategy to improve the health of underserved Californians.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS/CALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support for California Latinas for Reproductive Justice to conduct reproductive and sexuality health policy advocacy focused specifically on Latinas’ health needs in Los Angeles.
CONEJO VALLEY SENIOR CONCERNS
Thousand Oaks, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Adult Day Center to provide adult day care services to physically and mentally frail seniors and respite services to their senior caregivers in Ventura County.
COSTA MESA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION
Costa Mesa, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support for the fall prevention program to increase the strength, stamina and flexibility of low-income seniors in the Costa Mesa area.
CREATING HEALTHY LIVES, INC.
Ridgecrest, CA
$165,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide workplace wellness programs, health education, and information and referrals to low-wage workers in the Indian Wells Valley.
CRITICAL LEARNING SYSTEMS
Alta Loma, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2005 TCWF Sabbatical Award to provide a sabbatical as a mental health/health promotion strategy for the executive director and to sustain the organization’s effectiveness in providing health services to the underserved in California.
DOMINICAN SANTA CRUZ HOSPITAL FOUNDATION/ TAGAWAY TATTOO REMOVAL PROGRAM
Santa Cruz, CA
$175,000 over three years
To support the TagAway Tattoo Removal Program to provide tattoo removal and counseling services for gang-affiliated youth and at-risk youth as a violence prevention strategy.
EAST VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC.
West Covina, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved residents in the East San Gabriel Valley.
THE FOUNDATION FOR TAXPAYER AND CONSUMER RIGHTS
Santa Monica, CA
$100,000 over two years
For the California Health Consensus Project to build broad-based support through media advocacy and an e-advocacy campaign for cost-effective solutions for universal health care coverage.
THE FREEDOM BOUND CENTER
Sacramento, CA
$140,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to strengthen youth health advocacy efforts and fund development capacity.
FRESNO CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS
Fresno, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2005 TCWF Sabbatical Award to provide a sabbatical as a mental health/health promotion strategy for the executive director and to sustain the organization’s effectiveness in providing health services to the underserved in California.
FRESNO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY
Fresno, CA
$100,000 over two years
For core operating support to continue public policy advocacy efforts to improve health care and health access for low-income residents of the Central Valley.
FRIENDS FOR YOUTH, INC.
Redwood City, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue the provision of mentoring services as a violence prevention strategy for at-risk youth in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL
Los Angeles, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support for Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies to continue to provide perinatal case management services to low-income women in the Pico Union and MacArthur Park areas of Los Angeles.
GROSSMONT-CUYAMACA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AUXILIARY ORGANIZATION/SAN DIEGO WELCOME BACK CENTER
El Cajon, CA
$250,000 over three years
To support the San Diego Welcome Back Center to provide opportunities for internationally trained workers in the Imperial Valley to enter the health care workforce as a strategy to improve the health of underserved Californians.
HEALTH CARE COUNCIL OF ORANGE COUNTY
Santa Ana, CA
$60,000 over six months
For core operating support for the Minority Nursing Education Program to continue to provide internship opportunities and interest-free loans to minority nurses.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Sacramento, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide scholarship and loan repayment awards to Licensed Vocational Nurse students from economically disadvantaged communities throughout the state as a strategy to improve the health of underserved Californians.
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
Los Angeles, CA
$450,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide employment training and support services to assist at-risk and formerly gang-involved youth as a violence prevention strategy.
HOMELESS CHILDREN’S NETWORK
San Francisco, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2005 TCWF Sabbatical Award to provide a sabbatical as a mental health/health promotion strategy for the executive director and to sustain the organization’s effectiveness in providing health services to the underserved in California.
INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles, CA
$235,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Worker Health Program to provide health education and referrals to health care services for day laborers and domestic workers in the Los Angeles region.
IRIS CENTER WOMENS COUNSELING AND RECOVERY SERVICES
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide culturally appropriate health education, substance abuse treatment, and behavioral health services to low-income women in San Francisco.
JAPANESE COMMUNITY YOUTH COUNCIL
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue the provision of violence prevention and substance abuse prevention services for at-risk Asian youth in San Francisco.
KERN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING PROGRAM, NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
Bakersfield, CA
$330,000 over three years
To support the Nurse Family Partnership to provide high-risk, low-income mothers with assistance to foster healthy pregnancies and raise healthy infants.
LA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL-SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco, CA
$235,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Jornaleros Unidos Project, which promotes the health and well-being of day laborers and domestic workers through health education, leadership development, and occupational health and safety interventions.
LATINO CENTER FOR PREVENTION & ACTION IN HEALTH & WELFARE
Santa Ana, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide health promotion and disease prevention services in Orange County.
LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES
Vista, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2005 TCWF Sabbatical Award to provide a sabbatical as a mental health/health promotion strategy for the executive director and to sustain the organization’s effectiveness in providing health services to the underserved in California.
LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE
Berkeley, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide high-quality health and social services to low-income seniors in Oakland and Berkeley.
LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide health services to medically indigent women in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Youth Services Department to continue to provide transitional living and emergency services including case management and psychological counseling for homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth.
LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Senior Services Program to continue to provide case management, caregiver and transportation services to linguistically appropriate medical providers for limited-English-speaking seniors in the Greater Los Angeles area.
THE MAR VISTA INSTITUTE
Culver City, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue the provision of the By Youth For Youth project as a violence prevention strategy.
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide legal and policy expertise to policymakers, advocates and providers working to improve the health of low-income Californians.
NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER, INC.
Santa Rosa, CA
$110,000 over three years
To support a violence prevention and youth development project targeting Indian youth in Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake Counties.
NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP HOUSING SERVICES, INC.
Montclair, CA
$150,000 over three years
To support the Safe Homes for Seniors program to provide falls-prevention programs for low-income seniors in western San Bernardino County.
NORTH COUNTY INTERFAITH COUNCIL, INC.
Escondido, CA
$232,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Confia en Ti program, which provides health services and case management to migrant workers and day laborers and their families in north inland San Diego County.
NORTH COUNTY RAPE CRISIS AND CHILD PROTECTION CENTER
Lompoc, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2005 TCWF Sabbatical Award to provide a sabbatical as a mental health/health promotion strategy for the executive director and to sustain the organization’s effectiveness in providing health services to the underserved in California.
OGILVY PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE
Sacramento, CA
$250,000 over three months
To conduct and disseminate a survey of adults to assess attitudes about teen pregnancy in order to educate policymakers and opinion leaders about policies and programs to prevent teen pregnancy.
PASADENA CHILDREN’S TRAINING SOCIETY
Pasadena, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Transitional Independent Living Program to help youth aging out of foster care to successfully transition into an independent living environment as a mental health strategy.
PORTALS HOUSE, INC.
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Transition Age Youth Program to provide a range of mental health treatment and supportive services to youth who are exiting the child social services system of Los Angeles County.
PREVENTION INSTITUTE
Oakland, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to develop policy solutions and advance strategies that integrate primary prevention as a key element of health care reform.
PROJECT HOPE-THE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION, INC.
Millwood, VA
$50,000 over two years
To support coverage of foundation grants related to California health policy in the Health Affairs’ GrantWatch section.
PROJECT OPEN HAND
San Francisco, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Senior Lunch Program to continue to provide nutritious lunches in congregate settings to seniors in San Francisco and Alameda Counties.
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE/CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE PLANNING
Oakland, CA
$420,000 over two years
To provide logistics and content support for TCWF’s annual Increasing Diversity in the Health Professions conference.
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
Oakland, CA
$409,000 over two years
To support production and dissemination of reports on teenage pregnancy prevention issues to policymakers and opinion leaders.
RAINBOW SERVICES, LTD.
San Pedro, CA
$150,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide health and wellness services to limited-English-speaking low-income women in the South Bay/Harbor area of Los Angeles County.
REDWOOD CHILDREN’S SERVICES
Ukiah, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2005 TCWF Sabbatical Award to provide a sabbatical as a mental health/health promotion strategy for the executive director and to sustain the organization’s effectiveness in providing health services to the underserved in California.
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES/CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over two years
To build the capacity of Spanish-speaking, community-based health organizations to access and use health data in their program development and advocacy work.
SACRAMENTO MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION
Sacramento, CA
$100,000 over two years
For the Healthy@Home project to empower residents of SMHA’s housing developments to identify and address health issues in their communities.
SAJE
Los Angeles, CA
$225,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue environmental health education and policy advocacy efforts to improve environmental health conditions in low-income housing in Los Angeles.
SALVADORAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
Los Angeles, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Health Careers Scholars Program to continue to support Central American and Latino students in the Greater Los Angeles area pursuing public health, nursing, medicine and other health careers, as a strategy to improve the health of underserved Californians.
SALVATION ARMY A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Oxnard/Port Hueneme Corps Medical and Dental Clinic to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved residents of Ventura County.
SAMUEL DIXON FAMILY HEALTH CENTER, INC.
Val Verde, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved residents in the Santa Clarita Valley area of Los Angeles County.
SAN DIEGO FAMILY CARE
San Diego, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary health care services for underserved children in San Diego.
SANTA CRUZ WOMEN’S HEALTH CENTER
Santa Cruz, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide primary care services to low-income women and girls.
SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO
San Diego, CA
$375,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide case management, mental health, nutrition, transitional and supportive housing, and other critical health-related services for homeless and near-homeless seniors of San Diego.
SOUTH CENTRAL FAMILY HEALTH CENTER
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000 over three years
To provide support for the Southside Coalition for Community Health Centers to build infrastructure and capacity to strengthen the safety net of primary preventive health care services in South Los Angeles.
SOUTHERN SIERRA BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
Ridgecrest, CA
$225,000 over three years
To support the development of after-school programs for youth, ages 12 to 18, in Ridgecrest as a violence prevention strategy.
STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION
Los Angeles, CA
$120,000 over two years
To provide leadership and advocacy to further the training of low-income people of color in Los Angeles for health careers as a strategy to improve the health of underserved Californians.
SUICIDE PREVENTION OF YOLO COUNTY
Davis, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2005 TCWF Sabbatical Award to provide a sabbatical as a mental health/health promotion strategy for the executive director and to sustain the organization’s effectiveness in providing health services to the underserved in California.
SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION
San Francisco, CA
$250,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue to provide case management, health referrals and assistance to secure entitled health benefits to veterans in San Francisco.
TIDES CENTER/THE CHILDREN’S PARTNERSHIP
San Francisco, CA
$120,000 over three years
To advance the use of technology to increase access to, and the quality of, health care for underserved communities in California.
TIDES CENTER/YOUTH UNITED FOR COMMUNITY ACTION
San Francisco, CA
$275,000 over three years
For core operating support for Youth United for Community Action to continue the provision of environmental health education and leadership development to youth.
TRANSITIONAL LIVING & COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Sacramento, CA
$200,000 over three years
For core operating support for transition-age youth programs to provide case managment, life skills training, mental health rehabilitation, supportive housing, and other independent living services for homeless or former foster youth in Sacramento.
TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK
Forest Knolls, CA
$95,000 over three years
For core operating support of a public education and action campaign to alert Californians of health risks associated with seafood consumption due to mercury contamination.
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS, INC.
Cambridge, MA
$275,000 over three years
For core operating support to continue the California Diesel Clean-Up Campaign to build strong public and grassroots support at the local level for policies and technologies that reduce diesel pollution as a health promotion strategy.
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000 over three years
For core operating support for the Pathways to Independence transitional living program to continue to provide a full spectrum of support, including mental health services, for youth emancipated from the Los Angeles County foster care system.
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO/CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY INSTITUTE
San Diego, CA
$450,000 over three years
To support the School of Law’s Children’s Advocacy Institute to engage in research, analysis, public education, collaboration and advocacy to extend foster care benefits in California from the current age limit of 18 to between 21 and 23, as a health promotion strategy.
THE WALL-LAS MEMORIAS
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000 over one year
For the 2005 TCWF Sabbatical Award to provide a sabbatical as a mental health/health promotion strategy for the executive director and to sustain the organization’s effectiveness in providing health services to the underserved in California.
WESTERN SIERRA MEDICAL CLINIC, INC.
Downieville, CA
$375,000 over three years
For core operating support to provide clinical preventive health care, in-home care and injury prevention services to rural resident seniors of Downieville and western Sierra County.
YOUTH RADIO
Berkeley, CA
$275,000 over three years
To support the new “environmental desk” for increased coverage of environmental health and justice stories.
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