Grants 1999-2000
In fiscal year 1999-2000, MZHF distributed grants totaling approximately $4.9 million. Of this total, $3 million came from advised funds, $803,000 from research funds, $482,000 from patient care funds, $220,000 from unrestricted funds, and $406,000 from education funds. The Summary of Grants below includes awards approved by the Directors of Mount Zion Health Fund during fiscal year 1999-2000 from Board discretionary and other funds, as well as selected significant awards from donor-advised funds.
UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center
To implement a Patient Service Improvement Project
$150,000 (over two years)
To enhance patient-support programs at the Cancer Resource Center
$145,000
To undertake a merger of cancer patient databases
$132,000
Mount Zion Violence Prevention Project
For continued support of community programs
$80,000
International Institute
To build capacity to meet refugee and immigrant preventive health needs at San Francisco General Hospital’s Refugee Clinic
$80,000
Jewish Home
To hire a geriatric nurse practitioner
$70,000
UCSF Mount Zion
For a case manager position to coordinate care for the Russian émigré population
$54,000
Bay Area Jewish Healing Center
For expansion of services to Jews in institutional settings
$45,000
To initiate a mental illness education and outreach program
$20,000
Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
For patient support programs
$35,000
UCSF Mount Zion
To publish “Everyone’s Guide for Cancer Therapy”
$25,000
Continuum
To maintain professional health, social, and spiritual support programs for persons living with HIV/AIDS
$25,000
Mothers’ Living Story Project
To further the development of support programs targeted at mothers facing life-threatening illnesses
$25,000
The Alzheimer’s Association – Greater San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
To expand the family care coordination program
$25,000
UCSF Mount Zion Department of Ophthamology
To purchase state-of-the art equipment
$18,000
Apple Tree California
For start-up costs for a mobile dental service for the elderly (matching 3:2 grant)
$15,000
North and South Market Adult Day Health
For physical and occupational therapy equipment at presentation Senior Community
$15,000
UCSF Mount Zion Division of Interventional Radiology
For purchase of equipment to facilitate performance of certain medical procedures
$14,000
Jewish Community Library
To support the Roving Readers program
$10,000
Goldman Institute on Aging
To sustain the Russian Arts and Language Program of the Consortium for Elders and Youth in the Arts
$5,000
UCSF Mount Zion – Harris M. Fishbon Chair
To support an endowed chair in medicine
$1,000,000
Medical Library of UCSF Mount Zion
To support continued operations
$330,000
Cancer Risk Program of UCSF Mount Zion Cancer Center
For community education on the hereditary risk of Cancer and for general support
$125,000
UCSF Mount Zion Department of Geriatrics
To provide home care service for the seriously chronically ill and associated training for resident physicians
$122,000
UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health
To underwrite Women’s Health 2000 Conference
$50,000
Jewish Vocational Service
To support employment, career counseling and computer training services for individuals living with HIV/AIDS
$12,000
To support the Certified Nurse Assistant/Home Health Aide training for émigrés
$10,000
Community Health Resource Center of the Patient Assistance Foundation
To offer Senior Brown Bag lectures and health screenings at the Central YMCA for Russian émigrés and other participants
$5,000