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News and Updates
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Nora Dunlap Joins Sierra Health Foundation
Please join us in welcoming Nora Dunlap as the new Program Associate working with the SJVHF. Nora is based in the Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management’s Sacramento office.
You can reach her by e-mail or by calling (916) 922-4755 x3213. Learn about Nora.
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Grant Renewal Applications Due Dec. 7
SJVHF Round 1 grantee partner organizations are invited to submit a grant renewal request for up to $20,000. Download the application form. Applications must be e-mailed no later than Monday, Dec. 7, at noon for consideration. If you are awarded a renewal grant, please mark your calendar for a grantee partner meeting in Visalia on April 14. Contact Program Officer Amparo Cid with any questions.
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Funding Round 2 Proposers’ Conferences Held in Three Valley Counties
We had good participation last month at three proposers’ conferences in Stockton, Madera and Hanford, as well as a webinar, for the SJVHF Round 2 grant opportunity. Applications for funding are due Dec. 1 at noon. Application materials and the webinar slides are available on the SJVHF web page.
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SJVHF Grantee Partners Gather in Merced
Management and lead staff from SJVHF grantee partner organizations had an opportunity to interact with each other and to meet funders at the SJVHF quarterly convening held at the Multicultural Arts Center in Merced on Nov. 6.
The day included presentations on civic engagement by Mindy Romero, Ph.D., Director of the California Civic Engagement Project at UC Davis, and Karin Wang, Vice President of Programs and Communications at Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Grantee partners participated in breakout sessions and provided insight and input into a policy platform to present at the state capitol visit on Feb. 11. Additionally, grant renewal information was provided to Round 1 grantee partners who are interested in continued funding.
Download Dr. Romero’s presentation
Download Ms. Wang’s presentation
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Sierra Health Foundation Partners with California Health Report to Highlight Work in the San Joaquin Valley
The California Health Report is an independent, nonprofit journalism project with a mission to inform Californians about public health and community health issues. We were pleased to support two episodes that highlight efforts taken by people in the San Joaquin Valley who are improving their lives and the conditions of their communities.
California Health Report Episode 7 explores efforts to improve the rate of breastfeeding in San Joaquin County, highlights the struggles midwives are feeling as a result of the high demand for their services and discusses work being done for patients in acute psychiatric crisis.
California Health Report Episode 8 chronicles efforts to tackle high asthma rates, highlights advocates who are trying to make a city more bike friendly, explores the ways Cambodian elders find healing through culture and discusses the impact on caregivers who care for family members.
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Featured Partner: Faith in the Valley
Current SJVHF partners and local PICO federations People and Congregations Together (Stockton), Congregations Building Community (Modesto, Ceres) and Merced Organizing Project are part of a regional effort called
Faith in the Valley. The effort was created by the five local PICO federations in the region, which includes the three SJVHF partners and Faith in Community (Fresno) and Faith In Action Kern County (Bakersfield, Arvin, Lamont and Delano). These federations have nearly 50 years of collective experience developing effective, confident grassroots leaders. Currently, there are nearly 75 active congregations representing 52,000 constituent families engaged in the organizing efforts. Community leaders include Latinos, Hmong, African-Americans, low-income families from various races/ethnicities and immigrants, who are most directly impacted by lack of health coverage, violence and incarceration.
This past summer, Faith in the Valley youth leaders in Stanislaus and Merced counties led a powerful effort to educate voters in the San Joaquin Valley about clean air and improving the environment. In three weeks, they talked to nearly 2,800 voters, 94 percent of whom were voters of color including API, Latino/a and African-Americans, regarding efforts to increase California’s renewable energy mix to 50 percent and double the energy efficiency of existing buildings. The support of these communities for environmentally sound policies is not surprising given they are directly impacted by the cumulative health impacts from poor air quality and residential homes being next to industry. Faith in the Valley believes these policies will serve to combat dirty air and fight climate change, while ushering in a new era for the state’s electricity system – one defined by a cleaner,
more resilient and dynamic electric grid.
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Resources
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CityLab Series Looks at Future of San Joaquin Valley Unincorporated Communities
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Struggling to Get By: The Real Cost Measure in California 2015
This new financial stability report from United Ways of California measures the real cost of living in California’s communities. It shows that many San Joaquin Valley families struggle every month to meet basic needs.
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Beyond Almonds and Blond Lawns: Investing in Non-Profit Organizations to Sustain Central Valley Communities Beyond the Drought
This report by Fresno Regional Foundation and partners – Kern Community Foundation, The California Endowment and Schonfield Consulting – looks at the impact of the drought on nonprofits working in the San Joaquin Valley and how funding can be used to improve their impact. Download the report on the Fresno Regional Foundation web site.
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Transportation and Health Tool
The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the launch of the new Transportation and Health Tool, which provides easy access to data that practitioners can use to examine the health impacts of transportation systems. The tool provides data on 14 transportation and public health indicators for each state, metropolitan statistical area and urbanized area.
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Peer Learning and Sharing
We want to encourage peer learning and sharing, and encourage all grantee partners to reach out to your colleagues to collaborate and connect on the system change and advocacy work you are doing. In order to facilitate that connection, we’re sharing a grantee partner contact list.
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Technical Assistance
One vision of the Alliance for Justice is to ensure that the right of nonprofits to engage in advocacy is protected by providing expertise and information to help nonprofits and foundations understand their advocacy rights under the law. Download Worry-Free Lobbying for Nonprofits.
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We Want to Hear From You!
This newsletter is for you and by you! Please share stories, photos and upcoming events to be included in the newsletter. E-mail us your information.
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Use Social Media!
The SJVHF is on Twitter! If you or your organization tweets, please use the hashtag #SJVHF to call attention to the work you are doing in the San Joaquin Valley.
Please like us on Facebook and use it as a resource for collaboration and connection with other organizations doing similar work.
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Merced Conference Center
The Center for Health Program Management’s Conference Center in downtown Merced offers meeting space for nonprofit organizations and public agencies at no charge. Learn more and apply for meeting space on the Center web site.
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