Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund Grants to Date

March 15,2008

Round 1 Grants

• Boys & Girls Club of Greater San Diego ($140,000) to purchase snacks for inner-city youth participating in after-school programs, support for its Teen Cuisine program aimed at providing nutrition information for at risk teens and nutrition education for youth living in rural areas of San Diego County.
  
  
• California Food Bank System ($7,213,278) to be distributed to 40 food banks throughout California to purchase trucks, forklifts and other equipment, increase the number of food distribution sites in underserved areas and increase the capacity of food banks to distribute more fresh produce, dairy products and other perishable items to low-income consumers.
  
  
• Friends in Sonoma Helping ($50,000) to purchase food-including breakfast foods, baby foods and nutritional supplements for seniors-to be distributed by an all volunteer organization to families and individuals in need in the City of Sonoma and surrounding communities.
  
  
• Friends in Service Here of Santa Rosa ($50,000) to purchase food to be distributed by an all volunteer organization to families and individuals in need in the City of Santa Rosa and surrounding communities.
  
  
• Glide Foundation ($200,000 to support its Free Meals Program in San Francisco's Tenderloin District).
  
  
• Homeless Care Force ($119,800) to support its program which delivers hot meals, clothing and personal care packages to the homeless in Santa Clara County.
  
  
• Italian American Community Services Agency ($50,000) to subsidize the purchase of prescription drugs and vitamins for seniors experiencing short-term, financial emergencies in San Francisco.
  
  
• Institute on Aging ($68,016) to provide lunches to seniors with Alzheimer's Disease in San Francisco.
  
  
• North of Market Senior Services ($25,000) to provide breakfasts to low-income seniors in San Francisco.
  
  
• On Lok Day Services ($145,000 to provide meals to seniors through its 30th Street Dining Room, six congregate dining sites and home delivery to homebound seniors in San Francisco).
  
  
• Senior Meals and Services ($240,000) for meals, nutrition counseling and high-nutrient supplements to homebound seniors in Northern Orange County.
  
  
• Mama's Kitchen ($100,000) to provide home delivered meals, grocery bags and food through a walk-in pantry for clients with HIV/AIDS and their dependent children throughout San Diego County.
  
  
• Project Angel Food ($100,000) to support its home delivered meals program serving individuals with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses throughout Los Angeles County.
  
  
• Project Open Hand ($100,000) to support its home delivered meals program serving individuals with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses in San Francisco and Alameda counties.
  
  
• Food for Thought ($50,000) to provide food to individuals with HIV/AIDS through weekly delivery of grocery bags and walk-in food bank in Sonoma County.
  
  
• Catholic Charities of Stockton ($45,000) to upgrade its Park Village and St. George sites serving meals to low-income children in Stockton.
  
  
• Eastside College Preparatory ($500,000) to equip a new kitchen and dining room serving low-income students from East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park.
  
  
• Sacred Heart/St. Dominic Elementary School ($100,000) to upgrade its kitchen serving low-income students from San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Solano counties.
  
  
• San Joaquin County Child Abuse Prevention Center ($100,086) to equip a new kitchen for its First Step Children's Center & Crisis Nursery providing emergency childcare in San Joaquin County.
  
  
• Sonoma Valley Hospital ($34,190) for basic kitchen equipment, adaptive equipment for patients with physical disabilities and a small amount of kitchen equipment for educational classes to serve patients and families in Sonoma Valley.
  
  
• St. Anthony Foundation ($569,630) to equip a new kitchen for St. Anthony's Dining Room serving the poor and homeless in San Francisco.
  
  

• California Attorney General ($1 million) for the Attorney General's Antitrust Litigation Deposit Fund to be used for expert witnesses, legal, economic and technical consultants, equipment and specialized training to support the enforcement of antitrust laws.
  
  
• Fresno Metropolitan Ministry ($500,000) over three years to support its work on hunger, nutrition and health care.
  
  
• California Food Policy Advocates ($1,000,000) over three years to improve participation and nutritional quality of the School Breakfast Program in California.
  
  
• Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights ($200,000) over two years to increase access to health care.
  
  
• Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco ($80,000) over one year to provide advocacy and information for its homeless clients regarding Food Stamps, Supplementary Security Income and Restaurant Meals Allowance.
  
  
• American Antitrust Institute ($496,800) over two years to produce and distribute a documentary film, classroom video, teacher training and materials showing how enforcement of the antitrust laws benefit consumers.
  
  
• California Center for Public Health Advocacy ($801,130) over two years, for research, information and technical assistance to community leaders and policymakers in California regarding childhood obesity in California.
  
  
• Public Health Institute ($200,000) over eighteen months for legal research and technical assistance to parent associations, public health organizations and community groups to open school food and beverage contracts to public inspection, allow for public review and, if necessary, public involvement in amending or renegotiating the contracts to promote the nutrition and health of school children.
  
  
• Strategic Alliance to Prevent Childhood Obesity ($200,000) over two years to coordinate strategy among public health groups working on various aspects of childhood obesity and serve as a resource bank for individuals and groups interested in working to prevent childhood obesity.
  
  

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Round 2 Grants

• California Project LEAN (Leaders Encouraging Activity & Nutrition) cosponsored by Public Health Institute and California Department of Health Services ($750,000) over two years to fund teams of youth and adult leaders to advocate for policies that increase access to healthy food at schools, after-school programs, and community markets.
  
  
• California WIC Association ($749,187) over three years to convene an Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Forum to develop strategies to address the increasing number of California pre-schoolers who are overweight or at risk of being overweight and conduct research, policy analysis and advocacy to improve the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.
  
  
• Children's Hospital and Health Center, The Teaching Kitchen Program ($177,450) over one year to provide nutrition education and conduct a community-based research project to assess the availability of nutritious foods to residents of the City Heights Area of San Diego.
  
  
• Children Now ($154,952) over two years to conduct research, policy analysis, outreach and advocacy to increase access to dental services for low income children in California.
  
  
• Fresno County of Education, Powermid Program ($607,273) over three years to expand its Powermid Program involving classroom teaching, physical education, food service and after-school programs to help students make healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices.
  
  
• Garden Project ($195,000) over one year to purchase vehicles (e.g., tractor, flat bed pick up truck, refrigerated cargo van) and other equipment to be used in its program employing former offenders to grow organic vegetables for distribution to low income residents in Hunters Point and Mission District of San Francisco.
  
  
• Reach Out Project ($180,000) over eighteen months to conduct research, analysis and outreach to increase access for uninsured consumers to free and sliding scale care at hospitals in San Diego County.
  
  
• University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Quick! Help for Meals Program ($142,027) over one year to provide customized nutrition education and recipes to low-income consumers who receive fresh vegetables from food pantries.
  
  
• Vista Community Clinic—$713,579 over two years for prevention and treatment of nutrition-related conditions and diseases in low income, uninsured consumers in North San Diego County.
  
  

• Health Care Education Foundation ($1,000,000) over three years for scholarships, loan repayments and leadership development training for health professional students and graduates who provide healthcare services in medically underserved areas in California.
  
  
• Project Concern International, Community Health Worker Regional Development Center ($30,000) over two years for scholarships for Community Health Workers to attend the National Community Health Workers Conference and convene a meeting to share the information obtained among a broader group of Community Health Workers in San Diego.
  
  
• UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine ($1,000,000) for an endowment that will enable three faculty members to develop and teach new methods of delivering health services in low-income communities.
  
  
• UCLA Department of Family Medicine ($1,000,000) for (1) an endowment dedicated to teaching nutrition, exercise, lifestyle health risk and complementary medicine to medical students and residents and (2) a four-year community-wide prevention and early intervention program serving a low-income, primarily Latino population in Los Angeles County.
  
  
• University of San Francisco, School of Nursing ($800,000) to establish an endowed scholarship fund to provide assistance to the highest need nursing students enrolled in its Master Entry Option Program designed as a change-of-career, direct entry program for students with non-nursing baccalaureate or higher degrees.
  
  
• Children's Hospital and Health Center (Feeding Team) ($155,032) over two years to conduct sufficient evaluations and interventions to document and inform other health providers of the effectiveness of its multi-disciplinary approach to helping young children with feeding problems.
  
  

• Pacific Egg & Poultry Association ($31,375) over three years to continue to educate producers and processors on reducing the risk from Salmonella Eneritidis and other illness-producing pathogens in eggs in California.
  
  

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Round 3 Grants

• University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine ($708,750) over three years to investigate whether certain vitamin-dependent biochemical reactions provide new insights into the use of anti-estrogen and anti-androgen therapy in cancers and to define the role of certain specific regulatory molecules involved in physiological functions involving vitamin A and vitamin D that have to do with gene expression.
  
  
• University of California, Davis, Department of Nutrition ($5,006,903) over four years to establish a Center for Health and Nutrition Research to examine the roles of California fruits, vegetables and nuts and their roles in providing vitamins and other phytochemicals that lower the risks of chronic disease. The following grants to be conducted under the auspices of the Center:
  • Loma Linda University, Department of Nutrition ($71,467) to study the effects of almonds on cardiovascular disease prevention;
    
    
  • Loma Linda University, Department of Nutrition ($809,004) to study effects of walnuts and fish on selected risk factors for coronary heart disease;
    
    
  • University of California, Davis, Department of Nutrition ($569,168) to study reproductive, metabolic and genetic consequences of flavonoid-rich diets during pregnancy.
    
    

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  Round 4 Grants

• Downtown Womens's Center ($240,000) to continue to (1) improve the nutritional quality of meals provided and (2) offer an evening meal to homeless and very low-income women at it's shelter in Los Angeles.
  
  
• Episcopal Community Services ($287,667) to (1) prepare and serve meals to approximately 200 homeless students at its Skills Center and (2) improve the nutritional quality of meals served to 3,500 homeless adults at its shelters in San Francisco.
  
  
• San Diego Rescue Mission ($120,000) to purchase supplemental food for low-income consumers in grantee's emergency shelter, transitional housing and rehabilitation program in San Diego.