Grant Highlights
The planetarium attracts 400,000 annual visitors through its exhibitions, sky shows, and collection of historical astronomical instruments, books, maps, and manuscripts. This challenge grant is being used to renovate the 280-seat Sky Theater, as part of a $35 million modernization campaign.
Established in 1952, the school focuses on educating socially responsible mental-health practitioners, providing holistic services to underserved communities, and advancing social justice, primarily through its Institute on Social Exclusion. Funding supports the institute’s professional conference “The Social Determinants of Mental Health: From Awareness to Action.”
Admission Possible provides intensive college-access assistance and services to underserved high school juniors and seniors in the metropolitan areas of Minnesota’s Twin Cities and Milwaukee, Wis. This three-year grant supports a national expansion strategy and helps to fund the launch of the program in Omaha, Neb., its third market.
In response to the economic crisis, our trustees approved one-time operating support grants in 2009 and 2010 to recent grant recipients for safety-net services such as food, shelter, and other emergency assistance. This support helped direct-service organizations on the front line cover funding gaps caused by the economic crisis.
The senior center offers a continuum of services, such as advocacy, mental health, and case management, to adults with severe mental illness and other disabilities, as well as caregivers and their families. A two-year grant supports a demonstration project designed to improve health outcomes for foster-care home residents with severe mental illness who suffer disproportionately from diet-related chronic diseases.
The nonprofit organization offers artists professional work facilities and opportunities to develop and exhibit their artwork. The grant provides technical assistance to develop a systems-replacement plan for the society’s Kala Art Institute, an artists’ residency and arts center.
The partner organizations provide free legal assistance in civil cases to low-income residents, including migrant farm workers, immigrants, disabled individuals, and the elderly. Faced with a growing gap between the need for legal services and funding to deliver those services, the grantees are using grant assistance to support their current operations.
The agency’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program has reduced lead hazards for Alameda County children through remediation efforts, home evaluations, case management, and training in lead-safe construction practices. Grant assistance helps the Get the Lead Out coalition strengthen its infrastructure, extend its advocacy and educational outreach to day laborers, and support the enforcement of lead-safe regulations for renovations.
The center serves as the local safety-net hospital in the San Francisco Bay area, providing primary, emergency, and urgent care as well as specialty surgical services for uninsured and underinsured patients. Challenge-grant funding is being used to purchase angiography equipment for the hospital’s trauma center, facilitating the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.
The department designs and delivers community-health services and programs and serves as the lead agency for the Food to Families initiative. This three-year grant supports the initiative, which is aimed at reducing the risk of obesity, improving access to healthy foods, and fostering community activities that support the health of African American and Latino pregnant women.