Align Systems with Community Priorities
Communities understand their needs and strengths best. Supporting them to have more say in which issues get addressed is the best way to build lasting, more equitable solutions to health disparities, domestic violence, or any other societal issue.
2021: The year in numbers
March 16, 2022In 2021, Blue Shield of California Foundation awarded 96 grants totaling over $30 million to organizations that are...
How California’s Community-Based Organizations Filled the Gaps for Underserved Communities: Meeting the Needs of Racially & Ethnically Diverse Communities During the Pandemic
February 14, 2022Since the beginning of the pandemic, community-based organizations (CBOs) across California have stepped up to provide...
Using Disadvantage Indices to Guide State Health Equity Efforts: On-the-Ground Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
September 30, 2021Increasingly, policymakers are exploring how disadvantage indices can help guide efforts to dismantle structural...
Bold goals, refined strategy: Foundation takes new approaches to fulfilling its mission
September 10, 2021The Foundation recently updated its priorities with three new multidisciplinary tracks to turn California into the healthiest state and end domestic violence.
Applying the lessons of one pandemic to another
August 23, 2021The echoes of the AIDS crisis have been ringing loudly since the start of COVID-19 pandemic.
How to leverage federal dollars to advance equity through community councils
May 27, 2021This piece...
Communities of tomorrow can be free of violence by focusing on prevention today
December 11, 2020We explore five ways communities of the future can prevent domestic violence.
Prevention Institute Beyond Screening: Achieving California's Bold Goal of Reducing Exposure to Childhood Trauma
October 30, 2020California is facing a crisis: adverse childhood experiences. Fifteen percent of children under the age of five show...
New grants support Californians whose ‘new normal’ in the pandemic is intolerable
April 15, 2020When I came to the Foundation just a few weeks ago, I was energized to help achieve our bold goal: to make California the...
Prevention Institute: A Health Equity and Multisector Approach to Preventing Domestic Violence
October 15, 2019Prevention Institute conducted a preliminary landscape scan to inform and strengthen a statewide approach to preventing...