The California Wellness Foundation is a private, independent foundation established in 1992 as a result of Health Net's conversion from nonprofit to for-profit status.
The foundation is committed to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness, education, and disease prevention.
The foundation focuses on eight health issues which include diversity in health professions; environmental health; healthy aging; mental health; teenage pregnancy prevention; violence prevention; women's health; and work and health.
FAIRFIELD -- Solano Community Foundation reminds potential grantees that the 2018 application cycle is still open for two grant programs. Applications from Solano and Napa nonprofit organizations...more
At the same time, there are underlying problems in philanthropy and nonprofit funding that this tactic can't solve. Note that some of the challenges found in executing sabbaticals that were...more
A new report finds that, broadly speaking, health legacy foundations “are expanding the scope of their grant making and initiatives to focus on the social determinants of health…[seeking] to...more
There are a lot of big funding partners involved in this collaboration and an increasing interest in why so many young people of color are embroiled in the juvenile justice system. A few months ago,...more
The McCune Foundation is providing leadership support and the Ventura County Community Foundation is providing administrative support. The fund has attracted some major donors, including Direct...more
Last May, in NPQ, the Management Assistance Group outlined some options, including: ... Linnell, who has worked with nonprofits for nearly 40 years, says sabbaticals are a highly effective strategy...more
Terence Mulligan of the Napa Valley Community Foundation (NVCF) has been named to the board of directors of the California Wellness Foundation. Mulligan has led the NVCF as its president for the last...more
The California Wellness Foundation makes grants in a variety of health-related fields and limits its giving to the state of California. The gift to Annenberg, however, finds the foundation zooming...more
Affected by the October Wine Country fires that devastated parts of Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties? A recipient of a $41,750 grant from the California Wellness Foundation, the Solano Community...more
12, 2017 _ The USC Annenberg School of Journalism today announced the launch of the Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund, which supports results-focused, explanatory and investigative reporting...more
First Enterprise Business Agency (FEBA), a Nottingham-based business support organization, is a contender for two categories at the first Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards to be held this coming February.