US Health Resources and Services Administration
Authored FY 2005 through FY 2010 Ryan White CARE Act Title I application on behalf of the San Francisco Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA), providing support for comprehensive HIV health and social services in the Northern California counties of Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo, with an approximate annual value of $28 million. These projects included facilitating grant planning components of the San Francisco HIV Health Services Planning Council and its Planning Committee.
US Health Resources and Services Administration
Authored FY 2005 through FY 2010 Ryan White CARE Act Title I application on behalf of the San Francisco Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA), providing support for comprehensive HIV health and social services in the Northern California counties of Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo, with an approximate annual value of $28 million. These projects included facilitating grant planning components of the San Francisco HIV Health Services Planning Council and its Planning Committee.
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Wrote and submitted as successful $2 million, two-year program to develop, test, and replicate a model nurse mentor and preceptor program in three Bay Area hospitals for the California Nurses Foundation, the non-profit service and program development arm of the California Nurses Association, the nation’s largest federation of registered nurses. The program has already produced important models that have begun to be replicated in other Bay Area hospitals and health care settings.
US Health Resources and Services Administration
Authored FY 2001 through FY 2004 Ryan White CARE Act Title I applications for the Oakland Eligible Metropolitan Area, consisting of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties in Northern California. All but the fourth of these applications resulted in an annual funding increase over the previous year’s allocation. The Fiscal Year 2002 funding amount represented the only increase that year of any of the five Eligible Metropolitan Areas in Northern California.
US Department of Justice, Violence against Women Office
$1.27 million over two years to support the implementation of a comprehensive campus-wide violence prevention program at University of California, Davis, through the university’s Violence Prevention Program. The innovative initiative includes a state-of-the-art advertising campaign designed to draw attention to the problem of sexual assault, along with a comprehensive model network of victim support and follow-up services. The grant was the single largest non-research grant ever received by U.C. Davis.
California Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS, Sacramento, CA
$1.35 million over 3 years to Northern California Grantmakers AIDS Task Force to implement an innovative new public/private grantmaking partnership through which the Task Force matched State contributions with those of private foundations to award grants ranging in size from $125,000 to $250,000 to minority AIDS organizations in support of innovative, impactual primary HIV prevention activities focused on HIV-infected persons of color. The initiative includes activities to increase fundraising and development capacity among ethnic minority HIV/AIDS organizations throughout California over the three-year grant period. Proposals received the highest score of any State HIV prevention proposal submitted in any category during its specific cycle.
US Health Resources and Services Administration, Washington, DC
$2.8 million over 3 years to bring the Florida AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) program from its previously-funded home at the University of Miami to the University of South Florida in Tampa. The grant continues to support statewide HIV/AIDS medical care and treatment education for physicians, nurses, and health specialists. The grant application was one of two highest-scoring proposals in the nation.
Ford Foundation, New York, NY
$2.5 million over 2 years in continuing support for the administrative and support activities of the Washington, DC-based National AIDS Fund. The renewal proposal stressed the Fund’s changing internal dynamic and its role in the wake of a merger with the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS, and presented the first outlines of a new strategic planning process beginning in 1997.
Corporation for National Service, Washington, DC
$1.5 million over 3 years for a national AmeriCorps program through which the National AIDS Fund continues to support the work of 45 AmeriCorps members in 5 U.S. cities. The program’s members are involved in community-based HIV/AIDS service and prevention projects, and the program is the only HIV-specific AmeriCorps program funded by the Corporation.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI
$2 million over 4 years for a broad-based consortium of organizations and agencies in Oakland, California, including the Alameda County Public Health Department, the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, and numerous community-based organizations to develop a communitywide public health initiative to link community and public health services and methods, including establishment of a Community Health Academy in the city of Oakland, California.
U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Rockville, MD
$1.7 million over 3 years to the Substance Abuse Division of the Contra Costa County Health Services Department to found and develop the Family Recovery Project, providing a continuum of family centered drug treatment and recovery services to recently unincarcerated African-American men and their spouses and children, including funds to establish a new Community Services Center for families in recovery within the city of Richmond, California. Proposal was the highest-rated in the nation of all applications received.