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.
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The Bridging Role of Community Health Promoters
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Creating Connections for Healthier Communities: The Community Clinics Initiative’s Networking for Community Health Program
Friday, June 4th, 2010In 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.
Community Clinic Leadership in California: State of the Field and Implications for the Future
Friday, November 27th, 2009What kinds of actions taken now would ensure that community clinics have the leaders they need to meet the impending challenges of coming years? In 2008, two leading health care funders in California—the Blue Shield of California Foundation and the Community Clinics Initiative, a joint project of Tides and The California Endowment—engaged a team of consultants from BTW informing change and CompassPoint Nonprofit Services to assess the state of leadership in the community clinics field and answer this question.
Three separate studies were undertaken, and the results of all three are summarized in this publication. Community Clinic Leadership in California: State of the Field and Implications for the Future is a snapshot of the current leadership landscape and calls out important implications for consideration by clinic leaders, their funders and other community clinics stakeholders.
Mission Critical: The State of CEO Leadership in California Community Clinics
Thursday, November 26th, 2009This report describes the findings and implications from an assessment of CEOs within California’s community clinics field. It looks at CEO’s perspectives on their current position, career path and aspirations, job challenges and rewards and the types of support that are most important for them to be successful in their work.
The report is part of a larger compendium of studies that provide a snapshot of clinic leadership within the state and key implications to stimulate discussion and action among clinic leaders, their nonprofit and for-profit partners, funders and other stakeholders in the community clinics field.
Taking the Pulse: The State of Medical Director Leadership in California Community Clinics
Thursday, November 26th, 2009This report describes the findings and implications from a study of Medical Directors within California’s community clinics field. It looks at Medical director’s career pathways and their current job satisfaction, the most significant rewards and challenges of their leadership position, the extent to which they share leadership with others and important sources of support and training. It is part of a larger compendium of studies that provide a snapshot of clinic leadership within the state and important implications for consideration by clinic leaders, their partners, funders and other community clinic stakeholders.
The Pipeline Promise: A Study of Emerging Leaders in California’s Community Clinics
Thursday, November 26th, 2009This report describes the findings and implications from a study of emerging leaders within the community clinics field in California. It looks at the degree to which their group of clinic staff are interested in and poised to become future CEOs, medical directors or other senior leaders in community clinics and consortia and what types of support they need to do so. It is part of a larger compendium of studies that provide a snapshot of clinic leadership within the state and important implications for preparing the next generation of clinic leaders.
Building for the Future: The Community Clinics Initiative’s Major Capital Campaign Gifts Program
Thursday, November 26th, 2009From 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.
Evaluation Findings for the Managing Ambulatory Health Care Training Program
Thursday, November 26th, 2009As 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.
Cultivating Leadership Through Social Change Initiatives: Broadening Our View and Support of Nonprofit Leaders
Thursday, November 26th, 2009In 2008, BTW examined the ways in which the Community Clinics Initiative (CCI), a joint project of Tides and The California Endowment, has sought to develop and strengthen leadership in community clinics in California. Throughout the life of the Initiative, CCI has aimed to enhance the capacities of its grantees and strengthen the broader community clinics field in California.
In this brief, we use CCI’s leadership cultivation efforts to show the variety of ways in which leadership can be developed and strengthened within the nonprofit sector. Read about how leadership has been, and continues to be, cultivated within a broad social change initiative.
Creating Currents of Influence: Success Factors for a Multifaceted Social Change Initiative
Thursday, November 26th, 2009This 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.
