Healthy Living Grant Program
- Social Determinants of Health – Addressing the root causes of poor health outcomes and disparities that are often systemic (i.e. housing, food, economic insecurity)
- Health Access – Removing biases that prevent people from seeking and receiving quality care
- Mental Health – Supporting emotional health to create resiliency and improved well-being
- Cancer Prevention – Prevention education and screening programs
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The City of Hope Healthy Living Grant (HLG) recipients use our funding to make a difference. We know this because we went out and watched them work. Many broke down barriers to healthy living and lifestyles by providing much-needed support in the languages its community members speak. Others provided knowledge and education that help change the perspectives of individuals coming to their community. We have seen gardens grow, kids walk to school safely and early morning walkers getting in exercise before most other people’s days have begun. We have heard these programs delivered in Mandarin, Spanish and English. In order to effectively share what we have learned from our grantees, we want to provide them with an opportunity to showcase their work (in our local vulnerable communities). To help them get ready, we assisted them in reporting their evaluation data and taught them how to turn those numbers into compelling 15-minute presentations. Then we provided each grantee with an opportunity share their findings at our yearly conference and awards luncheon (see the 2023 cohort presentations here).
2023 City of Hope Healthy Living Grant Recipients
Mental Health Advocacy Services
Mental Health Trainings: Mental Health and Homelessness. Provide trainings that support mental and behavioral health providers to understand the mental health challenges of the unhoused.
Breast Cancer Angels
One Family At A Time. Sustainably supporting the social health needs of breast cancer patients from Orange County to Riverside.
Pediatric Adolescent Diabetes Research and Education Foundation (PADRE)
Accepting. Advancing. Amazing. Type 1 Diabetes Education and Support Program. Education-based program to support disadvantaged teens diagnosed with Type1 diabetes. They offer year-round support, education and treatment assistance to teens and their families. Will work directly with teens and their families (support systems) increase competence, control and confidence in their ability to control their diabetes.
Duarte High School Environmental Club
School Garden. Link environmental learning and therapeutic gardening into a school-based garden. Students will design and build the garden. They will infuse gardening into the culture at the school.
Hollywood Food Coalition
Community Exchange. Through their innovative food rescue program they will rescue, sort and distribute 2.4 million pounds of rescued food with their network of over 140 fellow non-profits.
Growing Hope Gardens
Urban Resident Food Garden. Through their community collaboration, Growing Hope Gardens will serve residents of a permanent supportive housing community. They will engage the residents through a series of leadership and skill building workshops that will provide access to food, enhance wholeness at the individual and community level, and the build a sustainable program through community engagement that fosters ownership.
AV-Boots on the Ground
Fight for Veterans Health Benefits. Address the gap in veteran engagement at community events that link them to social care and health services through targeted approaches that build trust.
City of San Gabriel—HEAR Commission
Mental Wellness. Seek to normalize discussion around mental illness and treatment. Provide local residents with the opportunity to meet and connect with mental health services providers in their community.
Rainbow Labs
Leveraging the Power of LGBTQ+ Volunteers as Mentors for LGBTQ+ Youth. Responding to their 2021 focus groups with LGBTQ youth, they will strengthen a mentoring infrastructure that will provide youth with the caring and consistent adults in their lives, that they indicated that they needed.
Montclair Community Foundation
Cultivating Wellness in Montclair. The MCF will cultivate wellness in Montclair by assisting the efforts of Healthy Montclair’s promotoras and expanding the Montclair Community Garden as a resource for increasing access to organic fruits and vegetables and improving physical activity through gardening.
LYTE Foundation, Inc.
Living Your Truth Empowered Charter Program. Will offer free coaching and programming through community-based locally tailored Charters to breast cancer survivors immediately following treatment.
2023 Community Building Grant Recipients
Orange County Buddhist Church
Tomodachi Bento—Addressing Social Isolation Among Elderly Japanese Americans. Just as a physician treats the mind, body and soul of a patient, Tomodachi Bento, through its Social Isolation and Engagement Plan will seek to engage senior, caregivers and the community similarly though Lunch and Learn, Dining Out and culturally sensitive programs.
Conejo Free Clinic
Breast Cancer Screening & Diagnostics for Low-Income Women. Provide breast cancer screenings and/or diagnostic tests for vulnerable refugee populations in Ventura County.
Asian American Senior Citizen Service Center
Mental Health Café. AASCSC will host mental health café sessions within the API community utilizing an integrative approach of peer/professional co-facilitation.
2023 Health Equity Grant Recipient
Mighty Little Giants, Inc.
NICU Family Support. Addressing the inequities that Black and Indigenous women face when birthing, Mighty Little Giants will partner with the Antelope Valley Hospital to provide a safe space for postpartum support and healing.
For more information, please contact Nancy Clifton-Hawkins at communitybenefit@coh.org.