About the Foundation
Our Mission
Improve the lives of Californians, particularly underserved populations, by making health care accessible, effective, and affordable for all Californians, and by ending domestic violence.
Our Goals
- Ensure that California can successfully implement national health reform to expand coverage to the uninsured
- Ensure that California’s safety net optimizes the opportunities created by national health reform to expand access for the state’s underserved and/or uninsured
- Build a strong, coordinated network of domestic violence service providers in California
What We Do
We are working towards a future in which every Californian has access to affordable, high-quality health care and is free of domestic violence. The Foundation is one of California’s largest health philanthropies, focusing its support in two program areas: Health Care and Coverage and Blue Shield Against Violence.
The Foundation seeks to spur innovation, build partnerships necessary to advance systems change, strengthen safety net providers and networks, foster policy solutions, and cultivate the leaders of tomorrow.In these tough economic times, we’re focusing more than ever on the people and solutions that meet our state’s urgent needs, while also working towards the healthy California that we all dream about.
Watch the video, Ally for Change, to learn more about Blue Shield of California Foundation, its programs, and grantees.
Our Corporate Parent
Blue Shield of California Foundation is funded entirely by contributions from Blue Shield of California, a mission-based, not-for-profit health plan founded by physicians in 1939. We are a private foundation that shares the corporation's core mission of providing everyone access to quality health care. Foundation grantmaking is approved by a distinguished Board of Trustees.