Grants History: Summary of Funds 2005–2006
In fiscal year 2005–2006, MZHF distributed grants totaling approximately $4.8 million. Of this total, approximately $3.79 million came from advised funds, $394,000 from patient care funds, $308,000 from research funds, $308,000 from unrestricted funds, and $47,000 from education funds.
The grants listing below includes awards approved by the Directors of Mount Zion Health Fund during fiscal year 2005–2006 from Board discretionary funds.
| Access Institute | |
| Provide on-site mental health services for low-income children and families at a San Francisco public elementary school. | $20,000 |
| A Home Within | |
| Matching volunteer psychologists with San Francisco foster children and youth to provide free long-term mental health services. | $15,000 |
| Caduceus Outreach Services | |
| Provide comprehensive psychiatric care and support to homeless individuals. | $25,000 |
| Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic | |
| First year start-up of San Francisco clinic providing complementary alternative medicine and social services to low-income women with cancer. | $15,000 |
| Continuum | |
| Chronic Care HIV/AIDS Multi-disciplinary Program providing care and support to homeless and low-income adults. | $25,00 |
| Friends of the San Francisco Public Library | |
| Western Addition branch renovation (located near UCSF at Mount Zion and utilized by campus neighbors, faculty, staff and patients). | $15,000 |
| Huckleberry Youth Programs | |
| Provide mental health services to at-risk youth at three San Francisco locations (over three years). | $120,000 |
| Jewish Community Federation | |
| Emergency grant for hurricane relief efforts. | $12,500 |
| Jewish Home | |
| Pharmacy modernization project to improve patient care. | $100,000 |
| Latina Breast Cancer Agency | |
| Breast cancer outreach and screening program in collaboration with San Francisco General Hospital mammovan program. | $20,000 |
| North and South of Market Adult Day Health Center | |
| Purchase of physical and occupational health equipment for new combined housing/health program for frail elders in Mission Bay. | $10,000 |
| Philanthropic Ventures Foundation | |
| Support for the 6th Annual Young Women’s Health Conference. | $2,500 |
| Planning for Elders in the Central City | |
| Health outreach, organizing and advocacy for elders and caregivers. | $5,000 |
| San Francisco Free Clinic | |
| Type 2 Diabetes Care Enhancement Program providing outreach, education and care for low-income individuals. | $10,000 |
| San Francisco Suicide Prevention | |
| Support for the Youth Risk Reduction Program. | $2,500 |
| Shalom Bayit | |
| Healthy Jewish Families Project to provide care for victims of domestic violence and reduce incidence of domestic violence within the Jewish community. | $20,000 |
| Southern Mutual Help Association | |
| Emergency grant for hurricane relief efforts. | $12,500 |
| UCSF at Mount Zion | |
| Center for Pelvic Physiology to conduct patient and physician outreach and education. | $81,116 |
| Cancer Center Clinical Investigator Research Program Award. | $75,000 |
| Center for Balance and Falls at Mount Zion to purchase patient care equipment and support staff start-up costs for this new program. | $60,000 |
| Cancer Center to support a data manager for investigator-initiated clinical trials. | $50,000 |
| Colorectal Cancer Prevention Program transitional funding to support a genetic counselor.Colorectal Cancer Prevention Program transitional funding to support a genetic counselor. | $45,000 |
| MZHF Fellowship in Intimate Partner Violence, a one-year postdoctoral training fellowship within LINC, a program of the UCSF Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. | $43,393 |
| Asian Heart and Vascular Center to conduct health screenings and educational outreach to San Francisco’s Chinese community. | $40,354 |
| Cancer Resource Center for a family retreat, volunteer training and recognition, and outreach communications. | $39,500 |
| Community-based and participatory research and outreach activities to raise awareness of the Cancer Center among underserved and minority populations in San Francisco. | $32,934 |
| Art for Recovery Firefly Project, a collaborative program which builds relationships between seriously ill patients and healthy teens through an exchange of letters/artwork culminating in a public reading. | $25,100 |
| Women’s Cancer Survivorship Program to expand access to care through clinical services, education and training. | $23,100 |
| Black Youth Cancer Education Program to introduce African American high school students to the research environment and health careers. | $22,440 |
| Cancer and the LGBT Community, a conference/community-awareness raising event to address cancer disparities and obstacles to care in this underserved population. | $13,760 |
| Bladder Cancer Support Group to establish an infrastructure and initiate regular meetings for patient education and support. | $12,120 |
| Acne and Psychosocial Outcomes study to measure health state utilities of acne vulgaris in SF public high school students. | $11,100 |
| To conduct patient-oriented outreach and educational seminars on the topic of “Skin Cancer and Organ Transplant Patients”. | $7,700 |
| Study-related Transportation for Dialysis patients to ensure low-income patients’ ability to participate in an NIH-sponsored clinical trial of frequent dialysis. | $7,500 |
| Pediatric Patient Incentive Reward Campaign to encourage well-baby and child visits among low-income families and provide health and development-related educational materials. | $7,000 |
| UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine | |
| Pilot research study, “Effects of Stress Reduction on Eating, Fat Distribution, and Cell Aging Among Overweight Women.” | $50,000 |
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- Education
- Research
- Community
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