Funding Research, Scholarship and Community Partnerships

In fiscal year 2018-2019, MZHF awarded new grants totaling approximately $1,923,000. Of this total, $733,000 was allocated from patient care and education funds, $660,000 was allocated from unrestricted funds, and $530,000 was allocated from research funds. The following grants listing summary includes a selection of awards approved by Mount Zion Health Fund’s Board of Directors during fiscal year 2018-19.

Jewish Legacy Awards

Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation

Jewish Home Financial Accessibility Fund – a multi-year award to provide health-related services for low-income, frail elderly residents of the Home’s rental-based assisted living and memory care residential facilities
$200,000 (payment on multi-year award)

Institute on Aging

Caring for Our Caregivers – to pilot and evaluate practices for strengthening staff members’ ability to manage stress and keep balance in body, mind and spirit while providing care for San Francisco’s primarily low-income, high-need older adults and adults with disabilities
$90,000

Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

Healing Without Borders: Ruach Omanut (Spirit of the Arts) – through a number of strategic partnerships with arts organizations, creation of more accessible portals to both the spiritual healing that art offers and to lift up the artistic expression of marginalized sick, grieving and disabled voices
$65,000

Jewish Vocational Service

Healthcare Sector Strategy – to provide training to help underserved, low-income job seekers in San Francisco build skills and secure health care career path jobs toward economic self-sufficiency
$60,000

Shalom Bayit

San Francisco Healthy Jewish Families Project – to reduce and prevent domestic violence in Jewish homes, improve community response, increase provider competence, and ensure appropriate intervention for those affected
$45,000

Hasidah

Jewish Infertility Support – to provide emotional, spiritual, financial and informational support for people in the Jewish community experiencing infertility and other fertility challenges
$10,000

Mount Zion Campus-Community Partnership Awards

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine in partnership with San Francisco Marin Food Bank and SF Department of Public Health

Mount Zion Food Pharmacy Initiative
$75,000

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine in partnership with YMCA of San Francisco

Increasing Knowledge, Accessibility and Uptake of the Diabetes Prevention Program in Primary Care
$74,320

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in partnership with Year Up Bay Area

Mindfulness for Underserved Youth
$75,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in partnership with Legal Aid at Work

Advancing the Health of Underserved Pregnant and Parenting Workers
$75,000

UCSF Primary Care Pediatrics in partnership with Huckleberry Youth Program

Huckleberry Wellness Academy-UCSF Pediatrics Residency Partnership
$50,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in partnership with BAYCAT

Young Women’s Health Leaders Media Arts Partnership
$40,000

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based Awards

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Cancer Supportive Care Programming
$39,140

Art for Recovery
$38,000

Cancer Survivorship Wellness
$26,296

Mindfulness-based Cancer Recovery Provider Training and Survivor Caregiver Intervention
$19,970

UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine

Implementing Addiction Treatment in the Primary Care Setting with an Embedded Buprenorphine Clinic and Patient Navigator
$40,000

Pilot Program of Digital Tools and Team-based Care to Improve Hypertension Control in Black Patients in the General Internal Medicine Practice
$35,000

Improving Cardiovascular Risk and Hypertension Control in a Multi-ethnic Group of Primary Care Patients
$35,000

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Integrative Oncology Research Program
$200,000

Community Care Fund
$40,000

Medical Center-based Massage Therapy at Mount Zion
$35,000

Integrative Behavioral Medicine Group Treatment Program for Sleep Disorders
$20,000

UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Helping Patients Choose the Right Treatment
$40,000

Make the Choice for a Healthy Voice – Vocal Health Education in SF Schools
$39,000

Longitudinal Patient Reported Quality of Life Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Following Treatment
$20,000

Intranasal Microbiome in Patients with Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
$20,000

Improving Health Literacy Surrounding Hearing Loss and Vestibular Disorders via Online Patient Education Videos
$15,000

UCSF Primary Care Pediatrics

Expanding Developmental and Behavioral Health Capacity in Pediatric Primary Care
$40,000

Promoting Sustainable Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Care for Children with Developmental-Behavioral and Socioemotional Concerns
$40,000

Improving the Transfer from Pediatric to Adult Care for Young Adults with Childhood-Onset Chronic Diseases
$20,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Enhancing the Outreach and Diversity of the WISDOM Breast Screening Program
$40,000

Postpartum Village at UCSF Mount Zion
$35,710

Eliminating Disparities in Post-Myomectomy Care
$10,200

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based – other grants

Pilot Research Block Grant for General Research (multiple awards through UCSF RAP)
$230,000

Pilot Research Block Grant for Cancer Research (multiple awards through UCSF RAP)
$100,000

Educational Travel (multiple division/department awards)
$45,000

Radiation Oncology – Increasing Access to Compression Sleeves/Garments and Lymphedema Educaton for High Risk Breast Cancer Patients
$30,000

Surgery – Reducing Postoperative Opiate Use in Endocrine Surgery through Patient Education
$10,000