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.
"Though the philanthropic sector has a decades-long history of supporting boys and men of color, this past year represented a new, critical chapter...more
The process for submitting letters of interest to the Foundation has been streamlined with the introduction of an online grants application process...more
Philanthropic leader, Judy Belk, will take a new leadership role as The California Wellness Foundation's next president and CEO, effective April 7, 2014.
Belk is currently senior vice president...more
The California Wellness Foundation is a private, independent foundation created in 1992, with a mission to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion,...more
The California Wellness Foundation is a private independent foundation created in 1992 with a mission to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness...more
The Revolutions Awards and Evelyn G. Ullman Award, sponsored by Gifford Hillegass & Ingwersen, LLP are to be presented at the 21st Nonprofit Summit.
Winners include: Chaiwon Kim, President & CEO...more
The John C. Fremont Health Care District was recently awardeed a three-year $150,000 grant.
According to the CEO Charles E. Bill, the grant came from the California Wellness Foundation, wherein...more
As a private foundation that has unabashedly embraced diversity and addressing the needs of communities of color, some question why The California Endowment has taken an ”oppose” position to AB...more
David Fenton was branded the most dangerous man in American Politics.
Fenton started at the Liberation News Service, one of the Societ backed front groups of the Vietnam era. It was an...more