The Blue Shield of California Foundation is partnering with the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco to design and implement Clinic Leadership Institute (CLI). CLI is an 18-month leadership program designed to prepare the next generation of community clinic leaders for executive leadership positions in order to sustain a strong and vibrant community clinic system in California.

BTW informing change is conducting an ongoing evaluation of CLI. “The Pathway to Leadership: Lessons from Clinic Leadership Institute” highlights evaluation findings based on the experiences of the first two cohorts and offers key ways in which those in the community clinics field can support CLI participants and other emerging clinic leaders.

In 2008, The Community Clinics Initiative (CCI) launched their Networking for Community Health (NCH) grantmaking program. The program was designed to support California community clinics in strengthening their working relationships with both traditional and non-traditional partners. Over the past three years, CCI has supported clinics’ projects that work on a wide variety of issues, including improving access to nutritious food, engaging youth and coordinating health services, among others.

This report examines the ways in which the NCH program has enhanced the capacity of clinics and their partners to improve community health. It describes the conceptual framework of the NCH program, presents evaluation findings to date and offers practical suggestions for other funders and communities interested in pursuing a similar approach to improve community health.

Social Web sites have rapidly grown into large, sophisticated networks that can span the globe.This brief provides a snapshot of one nonprofit online community—the Community Clinic Voice. The Community Clinics Initiative (CCI) supports the Voice to aid health care safety net professionals in building stronger, healthier communities.

The brief explores the Voice model, including its structure, evolution, members and the benefits that they gain from utilizing the Voice. It also summarizes CCI’s approach to online community management and considerations for those who are interested or involved in developing or maintaining online communities as a tool to support the work of the nonprofit sector.

Community health workers, public health aides, promotores and peer educators are all terms used to describe the role of community health promoters. These workers are recruited from communities to apply their knowledge of the area and their personal connections with residents to promote the public’s health. The Community Clinics Initiative requested that BTW examine the role of community health promoters in their Networking for Community Health grantmaking program. This brief documents the role and effectiveness of community health promoters in the program.

In 2008, The Community Clinics Initiative (CCI)’s launched their new Networking for Community Health grantmaking program. The program provides California community clinics with two-year grants to strengthen networking efforts with other organizations to promote the health of the communities they serve. Grantees’ networks have addressed a variety of community health priorities, from exposure to toxins to access to healthy food and regular exercise to disaster planning.

At a mid-point during the inaugural cohort, BTW informing change created a “visual summary” that describes the program’s key findings and learnings in a visually appealing, easy-to-use and condensed format.

From 2003 thorough 2007, the Community Clinics Initiative (CCI) invested more than $17 million in community health centers to undertake capital projects and enhance their fund-development capacity. BTW has worked with CCI over the past few years to evaluate the MCCG Program.

As the Program comes to an end, BTW has produced a brief report that provides grantmaking considerations for funders who are thinking about, or already involved in, capital funding programs for nonprofit organizations. The report, “Building for the Future,” also provides a short description of the MCCG grantmaking approach and key impacts that resulted from the program.

As part of our broader work with the Community Clinics Initiative (CCI), BTW undertook an evaluation of the Managing Ambulatory Health Care (MAHC) training program, which is offered by the Harvard School of Public Health and was supported by CCI from 2003 to 2007.

The program provides an intensive “Management 101” for medical directors of community clinics and health centers. CCI supported the participation of approximately 160 medical directors representing most community clinics in California. This brief presents the key evaluation findings for the MAHC program.

This evaluation brief outlines how the Community Clinics Intiative (CCI), a joint project of Tides and The California Endowment, has been successful in effecting broad and deep social change within the community-clinics field in California.

In addition to a description of CCI’s impacts and the evaluation design, the brief discusses critical factors that emerged for achieving deep, systems-level changes, and offers some summary reflections. These factors and reflections can inform the design and implementation of other philanthropic initiatives and grantmaking efforts.

The purpose of the Women’s Foundation of California Reproductive Justice and Sexual Rights Program is to equip organizations, leaders and advocates to protect and strengthen reproductive rights and access to care for women and girls from low-income communities of color in California. The Program incorporates strategic grantmaking, policy advocacy, capacity building and technical assistance.

This evaluation report captures information about the Program’s efforts from 2001 to 2007. It includes key accomplishments, strengths, opportunities for improvement and programmatic implications that can increase overall effectiveness and impact.

The Kaiser Permanente Community Clinic Partnership (the Partnership) is a collaboration of Kaiser Permanente (KP) in California and the state’s system of community clinics. KP contracted with BTW informing change to examine the Partnership experience within KP,  the clinic networks and individual clinics. The evaluation focuses on the Partnership’s first phase of support between 2002 and 2005, and examines the accomplishments of the Partnership, how the Partnership achieved these accomplishments and the central lessons learned.