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.