The Community Health Grants Program will support established, effective nonprofit 501(c) (3) healthcare programs and services. This means that the Peninsula Health Care District will seek to fund those programs with the greatest potential for affecting positive improvements in the District’s priority health funding areas. In order to guide the grantmaking activities of the District, the ad hoc Service Agreement Advisory Committee and The Board of Directors have adopted the following grantmaking principles:

• Maximizing leverage. The Peninsula Health Care District will seek to support nonprofit community-based programs and services which can use District funds to leverage additional moneys or other forms of program or organizational support which amplify the impacts of the District’s resources.

• Encouraging Community collaboration. The Peninsula Health Care District aims to support programs and services which incorporate results-based collaborations among community agencies, local government, and the private-sector, where appropriate, to improve the health of the District’s residents.
  

• Working collaboratively with other funders. The probability of affecting improvements in the health and well-being of the District’s residents will be increased if the Peninsula Health Care District is able to work in effective, program-focused collaborations with other local funders and with local, regional and national healthcare initiatives.

• Setting need-driven funding priorities. The allocations of the Peninsula Health Care District resources through the Community Health Grants Program will be governed by an articulated set of health-related funding priorities that are driven by the health needs of the District community. Research projects will not be eligible for funding through the Community Health Grants Program.

• Investing in successful, competent, promising programs and avoiding duplication. The Community Health Grants Program funding decisions will be guided by a strong commitment to support those nonprofit programs, services, and agencies which have demonstrated track records of producing successes and impact in their work as well as those programs with highest probability of meeting their defined goals and objectives. The Peninsula Health Care District Board of Directors is equally committed to preventing duplication of services and programs and will encourage collaboration and related strategies to ensure the most effective use of community health resources.

• Ensuring demonstrable impacts. The programs, services, and nonprofit agencies considered for funding by the Peninsula Health Care District must be able to demonstrate the specific health-related outcomes of their proposed projects. In the selection of the grantees, the District Board will give considerable weight to those organizations with the capacity to produce and measure individuals, family, organizational, and/or community -level impacts.

• Seeking economies of scale. Whenever feasible, the Peninsula Health Care District will support those non-profit programs and organizations which are able to achieve economies in the delivery of services. The District will seek to build on successful programs and add resources to effective, results-focused interventions.

• Supporting the Peninsula Health Care District. The Peninsula Health Care District will emphasize in its grantmaking those programs and services which directly or indirectly support the mission of the Peninsula Health Care District as a key community health resource.

For More Information
To learn more about the Peninsula Health Care District's Community Health Grants Program and to request application information please call (650) 697-6900.