Grants History: Summary of Grants 1999-2000
In fiscal year 1999-2000, MZHF distributed grants totaling approximately $4.9 million. Of this total, $3 million came from advised funds, $803,000 from research funds, $482,000 from patient care funds, $220,000 from unrestricted funds, and $406,000 from education funds.
The Summary of Grants below includes awards approved by the Directors of Mount Zion Health Fund during fiscal year 1999-2000 from Board discretionary and other funds, as well as selected significant awards from donor-advised funds.
| UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center | |
| To implement a Patient Service Improvement Project over two years | $150,000 |
| To enhance patient-support programs at the Cancer Resource Center | $145,000 |
| To undertake a merger of cancer patient databases | $132,000 |
| Mount Zion Violence Prevention Project | |
| For continued support of community programs | $80,000 |
| International Institute | |
| To build capacity to meet refugee and immigrant preventive health needs at San Francisco General Hospital's Refugee Clinic | $80,000 |
| Jewish Home | |
| To hire a geriatric nurse practitioner | $70,000 |
| UCSF Mount Zion | |
| For a case manager position to coordinate care for the Russian émigré population | $54,000 |
| Bay Area Jewish Healing Center | |
| For expansion of services to Jews in institutional settings | $45,000 |
| To initiate a mental illness education and outreach program | $20,000 |
| Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center | |
| For patient support programs | $35,000 |
| UCSF Mount Zion | |
| To publish "Everyone's Guide for Cancer Therapy" | $25,000 |
| Continuum | |
| To maintain professional health, social, and spiritual support programs for persons living with HIV/AIDS | $25,000 |
| Mothers' Living Story Project | |
| To further the development of support programs targeted at mothers facing life-threatening illnesses | $25,000 |
| The Alzheimer's Association - Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |
| To expand the family care coordination program | $25,000 |
| UCSF Mount Zion Department of Ophthamology | |
| To purchase state-of-the art equipment | $18,000 |
| Apple Tree California | |
| For start-up costs for a mobile dental service for the elderly (matching 3:2 grant) | $15,000 |
| North and South Market Adult Day Health | |
| For physical and occupational therapy equipment at presentation Senior Community | $15,000 |
| UCSF Mount Zion Division of Interventional Radiology | |
| For purchase of equipment to facilitate performance of certain medical procedures | $14,000 |
| Jewish Community Library | |
| To support the Roving Readers program | $10,000 |
| Goldman Institute on Aging | |
| To sustain the Russian Arts and Language Program of the Consortium for Elders and Youth in the Arts | $5,000 |
| UCSF Mount Zion - Harris M. Fishbon Chair | |
| To support an endowed chair in medicine | $ 1,000,000 |
| Medical Library of UCSF Mount Zion | |
| To support continued operations | $330,000 |
| Cancer Risk Program of UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center | |
| For community education on the hereditary risk of Cancer and for general support | $125,000 |
| UCSF Mount Zion Department of Geriatrics | |
| To provide home care service for the seriously chronically ill and associated training for resident physicians | $122,000 |
| UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health | |
| To underwrite Women's Health 2000 Conference | $50,000 |
| Jewish Vocational Service | |
| To support employment, career counseling and computer training services for individuals living with HIV/AIDS | $12,000 |
| To support the Certified Nurse Assistant/Home Health Aide training for émigrés | $10,000 |
| Community Health Resource Center of the Patient Assistance Foundation | |
| To offer Senior Brown Bag lectures and health screenings at the Central YMCA for Russian émigrés and other participants | $ 5,000 |
- Patient Care
- Education
- Research
- Community
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