2011 Caring Community Awards Reception and Photos

CARING COMMUNITY AWARDS

2011-12 Community Grantees

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Thirty Peninsula nonprofit healthcare and community service agencies have received $1.635 million in Sequoia Healthcare District Caring Community grants to support programs serving several hundred area residents.

This funding represents about seven percent of Sequoia Healthcare District’s more than $10 million in total community support, but has an outsized impact on the district’s most vulnerable populations — homebound seniors, infants and children who would otherwise not receive healthcare, the hungry and homeless of all ages.

Average grant size is $55,000. Funding went to nine programs focused on children’s health, six on programs for adults, 10 on adults and five on families. As a proportion of funding, the breakdown was 26 percent of total funding for children’s programs ($430,000), eight percent for adults ($125,000), 37 percent for the elderly ($605,000) and 29 percent for families ($475,000).

This is the 11^th grant cycle for the Caring Community program, which in total has returned more than $23 million to the community.

Through Caring Community Grants, the Healthy Schools Initiative supporting four public schools distriict, a nursing baccalaureate program, the HeartSafe program and public clinic funding, Sequoia Healthcare District directly assists more 35,000 women, children and seniors in the district, which includes the cities of Atherton, Belmont, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Carlos, Woodside, and portions of San Mateo and Foster City from Skyline Boulevard to the Bay.

Grant awardees were presented their first six-month awards at ceremonies held June 7 at Ralston Hall on the Notre Dame de Namur University campus in Belmont. The university donated use of the facility as a gift to the district program.

Grant award sizes and purposes, awardees and grant award presentation attendees follow.