ARTS CULTURE & THE HUMANITIES

Grants for Capacity Building, Management & Technical Assistance
California—CALIFORNIA
394. Tides Center, San Francisco, CA. $125,000, 2008. To support youth-led
education and advocacy campaign to organize community residents to
advance policies that will address environmental health and justice
concerns within East Palo Alto in San Mateo County.
395. Tides Center, San Francisco, CA. $100,020, 2008. To provide
place-based cross-sector leadership training to nonprofit executive
directors in health and social service fields, with goal of strengthening
individual leaders as well as improving impact of their organizations in
San Francisco/Bay Area.
396. Tides Center, San Francisco, CA. $50,000, 2008. To support
development and implementation of communications and advocacy
strategies in order to achieve health care coverage for all children
throughout California.
397. Tides Center, San Francisco, CA. $30,000, 2008. To support leadership
development, policy advocacy and public education activities to promote
health of Asian and Pacific Islander American women in California.
398. Tides Center, San Francisco, CA. $20,000, 2008. To establish
collaborative that will support enhancement of health information
technologies to improve health safety net in California.
399. Tides Foundation, San Francisco, CA. $150,000, 2008. To strengthen
and expand youth boundary-crossing leadership curriculum and to build
statewide boundary-crossing infrastructure for youth-led nonprofits
working to create healthier communities in California.
400. United Farm Workers of America, Keene, CA. $70,000, 2008. To assist
organizations for farm workers to more effectively address health-related
policy, immigrant rights, education and health advocacy for farm workers
and their families in Tulare County.
401. United Way, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. $220,188, 2008. For Los Angeles
Workforce Funders Collaborative to increase health career job training
and employment opportunities for underserved populations in Los
Angeles County.
402. University of California, Davis, CA. $2,389,305, 2008. For California
Post-Baccalaureate Consortium Phase II to expand and further integrate
medical post-baccalaureate programs at University of California schools
of medicine into one streamlined UC-systemwide consortium in order to
diversify physician work force by assisting students who are
underrepresented in medicine and/or economically disadvantaged in
gaining admission to medical schools throughout California.
403. University of California, San Francisco, CA. $1,998,737, 2008. For
ACTION Toward Cultural Competence to support implementation of
evidence-based best practices for advancing language access, cultural
competency and health care disparities reduction by health systems and
health providers throughout California.
404. University of California, Los Angeles, CA. $1,450,000, 2008. For Blue
Sky Initiative Phase III to develop statewide and national models and
policy recommendations to reform health care delivery and financing
systems to improve long-term population health in California.
405. University of California, Los Angeles, CA. $506,251, 2008. For Train
Trainer Program to build capacity of community-based organizations in
California to carry out policy advocacy activities and community needs
assessments to improve community health and health planning by
building their skills in accessing and applying health data.
406. University of California, Los Angeles, CA. $350,000, 2008. To provide
evaluation support and technical assistance to health care safety net
providers implementing health coverage activities for individuals
ineligible for county health coverage programs in California.
407. University of California, San Francisco, CA. $349,500, 2008. To conduct
assessments, produce briefs and develop training curriculum that
addresses training needs of medical assistants and other office staff in
solo and small group physician practices in California to increase cultural
competency and reduce health care disparities.
408. University of California, Berkeley, CA. $207,750, 2008. For California
Health Policy Research Program.
409. University of California, Berkeley, CA. $160,998, 2008. To provide
education, technical assistance and training to policymakers on health
and mental health issues of children in juvenile justice system in
California.
410. University of California, San Francisco, CA. $150,000, 2008. To develop
white paper and five issue briefs on health and education/schools that
will present rationale for improving practices and policies that support
health of school-aged children in California.
411. University of California, San Francisco, CA. $114,419, 2008. To assess
level of support for physician education on cultural competence and level
of interest in and feasibility and acceptability of cultural competence
measures in organizations implementing pay-for-performance quality
improvement programs in California.
412. University of California, San Francisco, CA. $79,192, 2008. For Allied
Health Work Force regional analysis and planning to collect, analyze and
publish regional allied health work force data, disseminate findings and
provide technical assistance on program development.
413. University of San Diego, San Diego, CA. $232,186, 2008. For
strengthening community’s voice on health care licensing boards.
414. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. $870,631, 2008. For
Health Journalism Fellowship Program to support expansion, planning
and development of second phase of fellowships program in health
journalism to better provide in-depth and qualitative coverage of health
and health care issues facing California.
415. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. $50,000, 2008. To
research and analyze key elements of movement building models and
their application to health policy in California.
416. University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. $496,271, 2008. For California
Dental Pipeline Program to increase underrepresented minority student
admissions to dental schools, integrate cultural competency into dental
education and training, and promote community-based training at five
dental schools in California.
417. Urban League of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. $138,000, 2008. To
support planning and community engagement project for school reform
that strengthens education infrastructure in order to support and provide
access to health careers for underserved students at Crenshaw High
School in South Los Angeles.
418. Urban League of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. $50,000, 2008. For
summit that will enable African-American leaders to have dialogue about
health challenges that impact African Americans in Los Angeles.
419. Vietnamese Community of Orange County, Santa Ana, CA. $219,627,
2008. For development and testing of health care provider education
toolkit.
420. Volunteer Center of Greater Orange County, Santa Ana, CA. $124,615,
2008. To support organizational strategic planning in order to improve
access to specialty care for low-income and uninsured residents of
Orange County.
421. West County Community Services, Guerneville, CA. $25,000, 2008. For
strategic planning in order to provide health, mental health and social
services to low-income residents of Sonoma County.
422. West Fresno Coalition for Economic Development, Fresno, CA. $60,550,
2008. For collaborative effort to implement asset-based community
development strategy, geographical informational assessment of public
and private qualities, that will generate economic, social and health
development opportunities in underserved area of West Fresno in Fresno
County.
423. William C. Velasquez Institute, San Antonio, TX. $10,000, 2008. For two
workshops at conference of policymakers and key stakeholders on
obesity prevention and on connection between land use and health in
California.
424. Womens Foundation of California, San Francisco, CA. $500,448, 2008.
To support environmental scan, convenings, technical assistance and
leadership development in order to build alliances, share resources,
develop strategies and strengthen organizations in environmental justice
and environmental health fields in Central Valley and Central Coast of
California.
425. Working Partnerships USA, San Jose, CA. $300,000, 2008. To create
innovative, replicable models for expanding access to health care for
uninsured adults in Santa Clara County.
426. World Institute on Disability, Oakland, CA. $269,864, 2008. To develop
local partnerships between county and community agencies in order to
support policy and advocacy activities that increase access to health
care benefits for people with disabilities throughout California.
427. YMCA of the East Bay, Oakland, CA. $125,000, 2008. For Building
Blocks for Kids project to improve health of children and families living
in Iron Triangle neighborhood of Richmond.
428. Youth UpRising, Oakland, CA. $627,523, 2008. For PeaceMaking
Program to support community transformation effort through
enhancement of street-based violence prevention model and to build
capacity to document resulting impacts among youth of color in Oakland.
429. YWCA of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA. $15,000, 2008. For Family
Justice Center to determine feasibility of establishing coordinated
multi-agency center to address family violence in Sonoma County.
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