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Health care plays an essential role in protecting and maintaining individual and community health. Yet many of Los Angeles County’s residents experience barriers to routine health care access due to the cost of care, lack of insurance or lack of
service providers that are responsive to their needs. The results are inappropriate use of health services, delayed care and increased health disparities among uninsured and medically underserved populations.
Goal:
Improve access to a regular, sustainable source of quality health care for low-income adults and children.
To achieve this goal, the foundation supports organizations whose work:
INCORPORATES THESE STRATEGIES |
WILL LIKELY RESULT IN THESE OUTCOMES |
| Capacity building and direct service provision of nonprofit community clinics that provide comprehensive primary health care services to low income and uninsured populations regardless of their ability to pay. |
Increased percentage of low-income and uninsured patients with a usual source of primary health care.
Increased capacity of community clinics to serve the uninsured and underserved. |
| Policy and advocacy efforts that preserve or strengthen the outpatient safety net (i.e., community clinics). |
Sustained or increased federal, state and local government revenues for outpatient safety net providers. |
| Policy and advocacy efforts that expand health insurance coverage for uninsured children. |
Increased health insurance coverage rates for children at or below 300 percent of the federal poverty level. |
Competitive Funding Requests
View and compare sample descriptions of organizations whose funding requests are more likely to be competitive in the foundation's grantmaking.
Other Funding Opportunities
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The Centinela Medical Funds aim to create an integrated system of care for residents of the Centinela Valley (including Inglewood, Hawthorne, South Los Angeles, Watts, Compton, El Segundo and Lawndale). Grants are awarded to eligible hospitals and community-based organizations that operate health
care and related programs in which 90 percent of the clients served are residents of these target communities. |
| Program Related Investments |
The National Cooperative Bank, in partnership with Capital Link, provides funding and technical assistance for the development and expansion of community health clinics in Los Angeles County. |
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