2005  Grant Awards

Access HealthColumbus - $175,000

The Access HealthColumbus Public-Private Partnership Outcome Care -- Phase 2

To support the expansion of the Voluntary Care Network to near Westside of Columbus and their ongoing work on the Southside of Columbus.

Access HealthColumbus - $250,000  

The Healthcare Change Lab Initiative

To assess our community's readiness for change to create the conditions necessary to envision and realize sustainable, quality health care for all people in our community. 

American Heart Association-Ohio Valley Affiliate - $2,500   

2005 American Heart Walk

American Heart Association - $50,000 

Ohio Physicians Obesity Conference

To support a two-day conference entitled the First Annual Ohio Physician Obesity Conference.

Amethyst, Inc. - $26,773

A Sanctuary for Change:  A Relational Approach to Women’s Sexual Health and Wellness

To serve women in recovery from addiction and the trauma of physical and sexual abuse.

Arthritis Foundation, Central Ohio Chapter - $4,118                 

Home Assessment Website

To improve the Home Assessment Program by expanding and integrating its information system.

Central Ohio Diabetes Association - $75,000      

A Diabetes Lifestyle, Education and Prevention Center

To collaborate with several organizations concerned with health and disparity issues in the local African American community.  The project will implement and evaluate a culturally-competent, community-based intervention in the Near-East side of Columbus.

Central Ohio Trauma System - $251,500 

2006 Operating Support

To continue work that focuses on the reduction of deaths/permanent disabilities from trauma/emergency health issues; enhanced emergency care, improved collaboration among healthcare and community health services, expanded education with regards to injury prevention, and comprehensive preparedness by central Ohio hospitals for large scale disasters.

Children’s Hunger Alliance - $27,600                                                                       

Healthy Weights for Latino Children Franklin County

To conduct healthy weight intervention with preschool age Latino children that targets both caregivers and parents with healthy feeding information, best practices, and nutrition extension activities aimed at preventing childhood obesity.

Columbus AIDS Task Force - $23,770           

Expansion of HIV Testing and Counseling Program

To reduce the rate of HIV infection among high-risk populations in Columbus by increasing early HIV prevention counseling and testing among these populations.

Columbus Health Department - $49,957                                                                    

Effective and Empowered Health Care Consumers

To improve health status of the African American and Hispanic/Latino communities by enabling its members to be more informed, empowered and effective health care consumers.

Columbus State Community College Development Foundation - $60,000

Career Exploration through Health Care Professions Summer Camps

To increase the number of youth choosing to prepare for and enter health care professions by exposing middle school and early high school students to the opportunities, content, and excitement inherent in today’s and tomorrow’s health care professions.

Community Research Partners - $25,000      

Research to Identify Health Concerns

To provide funding for research that will provide data on the consistent and emerging health issues in Franklin County.

Community Research Partners - $15,000                                        

Physician Survey

To develop a survey tool distributed to the Columbus Medical Association physician membership as part two of a two-phase process. The information obtained through this survey will compliment the findings from data compiled within the Community Health Needs Assessment Report (phase-1)—a report intended to provide data on consistent and emerging health issues within Franklin County.

Community Research Partners - $2,413.66     

Production of Physician Survey

Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies - $3,500              

Annual Partnership Support

To reduce infant mortality within the greater Columbus community.

Goodwill Industries of Central Ohio – $75,000                                        

Healthy Focus Program

To improve the overall health of its 630 staff members and the quality of life needs of up to 2,000 persons with disabilities who attend Goodwill’s programming.

Health Policy Institute of Ohio - $3,000 

Epidemiology for State and Local Public Health Staff

To enhance the ability of public health staff to understand the origin and development characteristics of diseases and the causes and transmission of disease within a population.

L.C. Severson Company, Inc. - $25,000                                      

Matching funds in support the Columbus Medical Association’s efforts to research insurance options and develop approaches to risk management for its membership.

Mental Health Association of Franklin County, Inc. - $10,000             

RAAP:  Raising the African American PotentialTo develop ongoing programming that targets African American males ages 12 to 24 years of age in response to the recognized lack of services currently available targeting this high need population.

National Society to Prevent Blindness – Ohio - $22,887                              

Senior Eye Health Project

To decrease the incidence of preventable vision loss among Central Ohio’s seniors through promotion of healthy lifestyles, early detection and treatment.

Ohio Grantmakers Forum - $10,000                                       

2005 Program Support

To provide operating support for 2005.  Operating support is vital in helping to address the mission to provide leadership for organized philanthropy in Ohio and to enhance the ability of members to fulfill their charitable goals.

The Ohio State University Foundation - $50,000                                        

A Partnership for Health Care Education for Limited English Proficiency Patients

The collaborative partnership will expand its online inventory of dual language health education and health promotion materials for use by clinicians and others who serve Limited English Proficiency populations.

The Ohio State University Foundation - $82,000                                         Interdisciplinary Behavioral Health Training Project

To develop and pilot an interdisciplinary competency-based curriculum to professional preparation and training in behavioral health.

The Ohio State University Public Broad Casting Stations - $25,000  

Improving Health Literacy Through Communication

To improve the health literacy of older adults and their caregivers.  The project will focus on improving communication between and among people over the age of sixty, their care givers, and their physicians and other health practitioners.

Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio - $35,000         

Thin Prep Testing Program

To improve the accuracy of testing for cervical cancer and other abnormalities for women from low-income households in central Ohio served by their clinics.

Physicians Free Clinic - $310,000 

To provide operating support to help meet the medical needs of our community’s vulnerable population.

Physicians Free Clinic - $12,703              

Volunteer Facilitator Position

To support the expansion of the Volunteer facilitator position due to increased demands for care from the uninsured and from individuals interested in gaining real-time experiences through volunteering.

Strategies Against Violence Everywhere - $3,000            

For the Health of Black Men

To bring together community stakeholders and health providers to outline critical health issues faced by African American men.

Wexner Heritage Village - $5,000                            

Health Solutions to Allow Aging in Place at HUD-Subsidized Unit