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March 15,2008
Round 1 Grants
Statewide Food Delivery to the Needy
- 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.
Public Policy & Antitrust Enforcement
- 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.
Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund
Round 2 Grants
Nutritional and Health Outreach
- 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.
Professional Education
- 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.
Food Safety & Quality
- 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.
Vitamin Cases Consumer Settlement Fund
Round 3 Grants
Scientific and Medical Research
A. Emergency Food Assistance
Homeless Shelters
- 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.
Soup Kitchens
- Loaves & Fishes ($150,000) to provide hot meals
for low-income consumers in Contra Costa County.
- Plowshares ($93,000) to equip a new kitchen and dining
room serving low-income consumers in Ukiah, California.
- Salvation Army Modesto ($90,000) to provide fresh
fruits and vegetables through its emergency food basket, noon
meals and child nutrition program serving low-income consumers
in Stanislaus County.
- Samaritan House ($500,000) to construct a new kitchen
for its Food and Nutrition Program providing meals to low-income
consumers in San Mateo County.
- Society of St. Vincent de Paul ($60,763) for building
repair and upgrades to its dining room serving low-income consumers
in San Rafael, California.
Food Pantries
- Butte County Department of Public Health ($30,000
over three years) to provide emergency food and supplies for
low-income seniors in Butte County.
- Catholic Charities of the East Bay ($50,000) to purchase
supplemental food, produce and vitamin supplements for low-income
consumers in Contra Costa County.
- Congregation Emanu-El ($48,000) to provide supplemental
food to seniors through the Geary Pantry Program and low-income
families through the Healthy Children Pantry Program in San
Francisco.
- Mendocino Food & Nutrition
Program ($90,000) to
provide supplemental food to low-income consumers in Mendocino
County.
- Mercy Retirement & Care Center ($80,000) to purchase
a new truck and cargo van for its Brown Bag Program, which
provides groceries to low-income seniors in Alameda County.
- South Hayward Neighborhood Collaborative ($70,000)
to purchase a refrigerator, freezer and cargo van to support
its food program serving low-income consumers in the City of
Hayward.
Food Banks
- California Foundation for Independent Living Centers ($500,000)
to increase access to food pantries and other emergency food
distribution sites for low-income individuals with disabilities
in California.
- Food Bank of Nevada County ($61,623) to purchase a
new refrigerated van to support its food distribution programs
serving low-income consumers in Nevada County.
- Rescue Mission Alliance ($25,000) to purchase a forklift
for its Valley Food Bank, which distributes food to pantries,
soup kitchens and homeless service providers in Los Angeles
County.
- San Francisco Food Bank ($1.5 million) to (a) increase
the amount of produce and perishables distributed to low-income
consumers, (b) open new food distribution sites and (c) expand
existing distribution sites in underserved areas in California.
The funds will be distributed to food banks throughout California
and support a statewide produce project.
B. Grants to Improve and Expand the Reach of Public Nutrition
and Health Programs for Children
Pre-School Age Children in Child Care
- Child Care Food Program Roundtable ($300,000) to (a)
Advocate for state policies to strengthen the nutrition quality
of meals for children in child care, (b) Develop improved nutrition
standards for family child care providers and childcare centers,
(c) Work with sponsors of family child care providers to implement
the improved standards and (d) Promote participation in the
Federal Child and Adult Care Food Program in California.
- Contra Costa Children's Council ($344,117) to develop
and implement Assessment Tools and Model Policies, conduct
training sessions and provide technical assistance to improve
nutrition and increase physical activity for children in child
care environments in Contra Costa County.
School-Based Nutrition and Health Programs
- California Food Policy Advocates ($500,000) to engage
in research and advocacy to improve nutrition in K-12 schools
and increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables in low-income
neighborhoods in California.
- California School Health Centers Association ($225,000)
to engage in research, advocacy, education and training to:
(a) increase the number of school health centers, (b) provide
adequate funding for services delivered by centers and (c)
provide effective programming, including nutrition and physical
activity programs through centers in California.
- Chula Vista Elementary School District ($126,000)
to implement a standards-based Physical Education program in
grades K-3 in the City of Chula Vista.
- Edgewood Center ($342,500) to make renovations to
the kitchen on its main campus serving abused and neglected
children in San Francisco.
- University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public
Health ($316,766) to conduct a nutrition and physical
activity education program in an after-school program in
the Alhambra Unified School District.
C. Grants to Support Community-Based Nutrition and Health
Programs and Policies
- Agriculture and Land Based Training Association ($121,000)
to develop additional farm stands, produce box delivery programs
and other projects to increase access to fresh produce for
low-income consumers in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito
counties.
- A Place Called Home ($200,000) to upgrade its kitchen
and purchase a commercial van to pickup donated food items
for its Nutrition Program serving at-risk youth in South Los
Angeles.
- California Center for Public Health Advocacy ($500,132)
to develop a Nutrition Policy Toolkit, conduct workshops and
provide technical support to assist city officials in adopting
local policies that promote the consumption of healthy food.
- CalOptima ($150,625) to provide a medically based
intervention and a community-based intervention for children
enrolled in the Medi-Cal program, who are either obese or at
risk for obesity in Orange County.
- City of Chino Hills ($100,000) purchase a cargo truck,
exercise equipment and healthy snacks to provide a mobile recreation
program which will take organized physical fitness activities
to children who do not have access to a community park, transportation
or funds necessary to participate in fee-based recreation programs.
- Inland Empire United Way ($150,000) to expand its
Kids Pack Program, which provides weekend meals to low-income
students in San Bernardino County.
- Kings County Department of Public Health ($612,994)
to support the Nutrition on the Go Program, which distributes
fresh produce and health and nutrition information to low-income
consumers in Kings and Tulare counties.
- Little Wishes ($25,000) to provide special meals to
children in hospitals in San Francisco and Sacramento.
- Los Angeles County Department of Public Health ($613,261)
to conduct a social marketing campaign to increase the awareness
of middle and high school students about the importance of
healthy eating, decreasing their consumption of fast food and
soda and increasing their involvement in food policy advocacy
in Baldwin Park and South Los Angeles.
- San Francisco Department of Public Health ($343,000)
to increase folic acid supplementation among women of childbearing
age in San Francisco.
- Tulare Hospital District ($90,000) to implement fitness
and nutrition education classes for mothers, toddlers and seniors
at its fitness and rehabilitation center in the City of Tulare.
- Venice Family Clinic ($276,813) to provide vitamins
to low-income children, pregnant women and homeless patients
in Los Angeles.
D. Grants to Support Community-Based Nutrition Programs
for Seniors and Disabled Adults
- Asian-America Resource Center ($234,991) to provide
congregate meals and nutrition education to Southeast Asian-American
seniors in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
- Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services ($210,240)
to renovate its kitchen, purchase kitchen equipment and purchase
a cargo van to provide meals to low-income seniors in the southeastern
portion of San Francisco.
- Congress of California Seniors
Education & Research
Foundation ($329,620) to educate In-Home Support Services
caregivers about the fundamentals of sound nutrition, supplementation,
food preparation and storage in California.
- Council on Aging ($200,000) to provide therapeutic
meals and nutritional supplements for homebound seniors in
Sonoma County.
- Guardian Adult Day Health Center ($49,226) to upgrade
its food preparation area serving frail elderly in Contra Costa
County.
- Healy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt County ($70,164)
to expand the reach of its home delivered meals program in
Humboldt County.
- On Lok Day Services ($150,000) to support its home
delivered meals program, 30th Street Dining Room and congregate
meals program provided through its 30th Street Nutrition Program
in San Francisco.
- Sacramento County, Department of Human Assistance ($31,200)
to purchase a refrigerated truck for its Senior Nutrition Services
Home Delivered Meals Program.
- Southern Trinity Health Services ($75,561) to expand
its home delivered meals program for frail elderly and disabled
adults in Trinity County.
- Spectrum Community Services ($500,000) to construct
a new kitchen for home delivered and congregate meals for low-income
seniors in Alameda County.
E. Grants to Improve Access to
Nutrition and Health Related Benefits & Services
- Alameda County Department of Public Health, WIC Program ($210,000)
to conduct an outreach project to enroll low-income women in
the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants
and Children in Alameda County.
- Community Health Improvement Partners ($194,578) with
to (1) create a comprehensive database on childhood obesity
and diabetes prevention services accessible through 211 San
Diego and (2) conduct an outreach/marketing campaign to increase
awareness and promote utilization of the database by pediatricians,
endocrinologists and family practitioners as a referral source
for their patients in San Diego County.
- East Bay Community Law Center ($278,891) to expand
the Medical-Legal Partnership to improve the health outcomes
of pediatric patients.
- Legal Services of Northern California ($150,000) to
inform seniors about eligibility for food stamps and assist
eligible seniors with enrollment in California.
- Public Council ($160,000) to increase food stamp Electronic
Benefits Transfer access at farmers markets and ethnic markets
in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
F. Grants to Improve Professional Education Regarding Health
and Nutrition
- California School Board Association ($300,000) to
provide school board members with information, education and
technical support on how to work with other locally elected
officials to develop and implement strategies that address
childhood obesity.
- California WIC Association ($150,000) to (a) fund
scholarships to support professional training and development
of local WIC Program employees and (b) research the need for
a new professional accreditation to serve WIC agencies and
other community-based programs.
- University of California, San Diego, Department of Pediatrics ($159,000)
to develop and disseminate a curriculum to educate pediatric
clinicians in training how to recognize children at risk for
obesity and counsel children to make healthy dietary choices
and increase physical activity.
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