First quarter 2015 grantee announcement

Health Care and Coverage grants

• California Pan-Ethnic Health Network ($125,000): To conduct research and advocacy on statewide healthcare issues that promote improvement in healthcare access for communities of color, including the development and implementation of new mental health and substance use benefits in Medi-Cal, coverage and access programs for the remaining uninsured, and the next Medicaid Section 1115 waiver.
• Tides Center ($3,250,000): To support the adoption of patient care innovations in California's healthcare safety net that improves the ability of providers to deliver high-value care and enhance patient experience and engagement, through convening’s, coaching, technical assistance and re-grantmaking.
• Capital Link, Inc. ($200,000): To provide targeted community health centers (CHCs) and consortia with data analysis, training and technical assistance to increase understanding of key financial metrics and develop strategies to improve their overall financial performance.
• Integrated Healthcare Association ($106,470): To increase effectiveness and standardization across all Medi-Cal pay-for-performance programs by convening a learning collaborative comprised of representatives from Medi-Cal managed care plans and other safety net stakeholders to explore development of a core measure set and share best practices.
• Insure the Uninsured Project ($500,000): To advance California's implementation of health reform and value-based care in the safety net by building consensus on policy options among key policymakers and stakeholders through ITUP's annual conference, regional and statewide workgroups, reports, and educational workshops.

Blue Shield Against Violence grants

• Center for Domestic Peace ($300,000): To support the second phase of a financial consolidation business model that will expand services to up to eight new domestic violence organizations who will receive custom financial services at every level of financial management, based on individual organizational need.
• National Family Justice Center Alliance ($400,000): To strengthen Family Justice Center capacity in California to better serve and be held accountable to survivor needs and self-defined successes.
• Full Frame Initiative, Inc. ($400,000): To implement a capacity-building institute for cohorts of practitioners, policymakers and survivors from three CA communities to use strengths-based strategies and new tools to develop and implement community-specific change efforts that will make systems' response to violence more survivor-centered.
• Futures Without Violence ($400,000): To change policy and practice to ensure that a whole-person approach incorporates prevention of violence, identification of those experiencing violence and links to healing services to improve health equity and outcomes.
• Prevention Institute ($80,000): To conduct a landscape scan and produce a report that will include a framework for multi-sector collaboration to prevent DV in California, and a summary of preliminary findings and recommendations for engaging new sectors in DV prevention in California in partnership with the DV field.

Other grants

• Project HOPE - The People to People Health Foundation, Inc. ($175,000): To publish and disseminate research and analyses to educate policymakers, government officials, researchers, and healthcare providers in California and across the nation on those who gained coverage after ACA, the remaining uninsured populations, and efforts related to value based care.
• Southern California Grantmakers ($100,000): To continue building an “open source” approach among founders that leverages relationship-building, technology, and partnerships in order to foster authentic collaboration.
• Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. ($180,000): To rollout and implement the Strength at Home intervention for preventing intimate partner violence across nine sites within the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs medical community and address a critical gap in services.
• University of Southern California, School of Social Work ($200,000): To provide backbone support for the Los Angeles Veterans Collaborative (LAVC): a collective impact effort involving more than 400 organizations in coordinating a comprehensive and culturally responsive, seamless system of holistic services for military connected communities; and designed using quality community data.