Funding Research, Scholarship and Community Partnerships

In fiscal year 2020-2021, MZHF awarded new grants totaling approximately $2,250,000. Of this total, $750,000 was allocated from patient care and education funds, $650,000 was allocated from unrestricted funds, and $850,000 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 2020-21.

Jewish Legacy Awards

Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation

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

Institute on Aging

Living with Dementia – Year One Pilot – to help persons and families facing dementia by providing bundled care services intending to serve more people city-wide, and designed to decrease caregiver stress, improve quality of life, and reduce unnecessary health care expenditures
$87,000

Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

Kol Haneshama and Imadi: Death-bed Vigiling – to continue this hospice volunteer training and service, including bedside end-of-life vigiling for San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living clients
$71,000

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
$61,000

Jewish Vocational Service

JVS’ Medical Administrative Training Program – to train a new cohort of job-seekers to prepare to be Medical Administrative Assistants at UCSF, and to support the prior year’s cohort of job-seekers, increasing both the capacity and cultural competency of UCSF’s frontline, patient-facing workforce.
$45,000

Hasidah

Jewish Infertility Support – to provide emotional, spiritual, and informational support for people in the Jewish community experiencing infertility and other fertility challenges
$11,000

Mount Zion Campus-Community Partnership Awards

UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine in partnership with San Francisco-Marin Food Bank

The Mount Zion Food Pharmacy Initiative
$70,000

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in partnership with SFDPH Tom Waddell Urban Health Clinic

Expanding the Reach of the Integrative Pain Management Program through Telehealth
$68,000

UCSF Mount Zion Pediatrics in partnership with Center for Youth Wellness

Building Trauma Informed Capacity to Strengthen Post-ACEs Screening Care
$67,000

UCSF Geriatrics (MZ) in partnership with At Home with Growing Older

AGE SELF CARE: Leveraging Technology to Expand Access to Safe & Healthy Aging in Place during COVID-19
$65,000

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine in partnership with Shanti Project

Sharing Humanity through Arts, Reflection, and Expression (SHARE)
$58,000

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in partnership with Alemany Farm/SF Parks Alliance

Food Insecurity and Health in San Francisco Southeast Sector
$47,000

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based Awards

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Development of a Pilot Integrated Exercise Oncology Program for Rectal Cancer Patients
$39,520

Art for Recovery (FY21-22)
$38,922

Survivorship Wellness Group Program (FY21-22)
$25,187

Development of e-Learning for High Resolution Anoscopy Training (HRA)
$19,464

UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine

Developing and Delivering a Virtual Modified Diabetes Prevention Program to Overweight and Obese Patients
$40,000

Development of a Shared Advocacy Curriculum for UCPC Residents (FY21-22)
$31,233

Integrating Mind-Body Medicine into Primary Care: An Online Pilot Program
$30,910

UCSF Mount Zion Gastroenterology

Lifestyle and Outcomes after Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study
$70,000

The Hereditary Cancer Calculator: A Patient-facing Approach to Ascertain Individuals at Increased Risk for Cancer
$38,640

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Community Care Fund (FY21-22)
$40,000

Health through Lifestyle Modification and Engagement in Rheumatology (HEALER)
$40,000

Developing an Integrative Ayurvedic Medicine On-Line Curriculum for Health Care Providers
$40,000

UCSF Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Real-Time Automated Speech Transcription at UCSF for Patients With Hearing Loss
$40,000

Cost-Effective Trismus Device for Head & Neck Cancer Patients
$40,000

Creating a Smartphone App to Enhance Vestibular Diagnostics
$30,000

Optimizing Hearing and Communication in Healthcare Encounters in the time of COVID-19
$15,000

UCSF Mount Zion Radiation Oncology

Acquisition of a Flow Cytometer Machine for Mount Zion Cancer Research
$175,000

Safe, Novel Breath-hold Strategy for Breast Cancer Radiotherapy During COVID
$40,000

HERO: High School Exposure to Research in Oncology
$19,360

UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Engaging Diverse Communities in the WISDOM Program (FY21-22)
$40,000

UCSF Mount Zion Women’s Health Primary Care Practice Food as Medicine Pilot Program
$39,998

Black Women’s Community Advisory Council (BWCAC)
$21,875

UCSF Mount Zion Campus-based – other grants

UCSF Dermatology – Genetic and Immunologic Evolution of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
$150,000

UCSF Primary Care Pediatrics – Identifying Facilitators, Barriers, and Educational Needs Pertaining to ACEs Screening Implementation, Among Pediatric Primary Care Providers and Staff
$34,678

UCSF Mount Zion Surgery – Decision-Making and Patient Management in Perforator Flap Surgery
$40,000

Block Grant for General Pilot Research (multiple awards through UCSF RAP)
$250,000

Block Grant for Cancer Pilot Research (multiple awards through UCSF RAP)
$172,000

Professional Education Courses and Conferences (multiple division/department awards)
$45,000