Community benefit & community health program

Community benefit grants program

Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara is committed to serving and empowering our communities to achieve better health. Our Grants Program supports local organizations striving to improve the health and well-being of our communities, with an emphasis on vulnerable, low-income, and at-risk populations.


Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Service Area’s Focus Areas 2008─2010

  1. Focus 1: To improve and promote healthy lifestyles for children and youth. Programs need to aim at improving and promoting healthy lifestyles for children and youth, with an emphasis on addressing childhood obesity via family-oriented strategies, systems approach, and collaboration .

  2. Focus 2: To increase access to health care to the underserved – due to income, language, culture or age barriers. Programs need to aim at improving access to health care services for the underserved populations, with an emphasis on older adults, effective chronic conditions management, or linkage/establishment of "medical homes."


Process of Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Service Area Grants Application

  1. Letter of Inquiry. We value your time. Before you submit a proposal, please submit a Letter of Inquiry (LOI). If the proposed program on the LOI is aligned with the focus area(s), you will be asked to submit a full proposal. Please give yourself an adequate amount of time to proceed through these two stages of application. The grant making timeline is provided below.

  2. If the proposed program on the LOI is aligned with the focus area(s), you will be asked to submit a full proposal using the Grant Application. Please give yourself an adequate amount of time to proceed through these two stages of application. The grant making timeline is provided below.

  3. Multiple requests from a single agency are discouraged and require advance approval.

  4. Funding decisions are made based on the proposal’s merit, recommendations from the Kaiser Permanente grants review committee, and availability of resources.

  5. Grant funds are disbursed within 10-weeks after the written grant notification.

  6. Please submit one original and three copies of the proposal. Also please email your proposal and budget document for expeditious confirmation and processing.

  7. submitted grant proposals become the property of Kaiser Permanente. Please keep copies of all submitted documents for your records.

Grant CycleImplementation or Timeline of the Proposed Program (estimated)Letter of Inquiry (required) DeadlineFull Proposal DeadlineGrant Notification
Cycle 1July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011ASAPMarch 9, 2010 at noonJune, 2010
Cycle 2Fall or Winter of 2010 (for a year)July 6, 2010 at noonAugust 9, 2010 at noonSeptember, 2010

Evaluation Reports for Community Benefit Grants

  1. Interim Evaluation Report
  2. Final Evaluation Report

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