The California Endowment’s mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. With smart grant making—which we call “change making”—good leadership, and people power, we believe we can make the state of health in California better for all. We don’t focus on prescriptions. We focus on fixing broken systems and outdated policies, ensuring the balance of power is with the people. The goal is simple: First, change the way people view health—from the notion that health happens in the doctor’s office to a belief that health happens where you live, work, learn, and play.
titles from this organization
Benchmarking Foundation Learning and Evaluation Practices 2023
Oct 5, 2023
Publisher(s): Center for Evaluation Innovation
A Portrait of California 2021–2022
Nov 10, 2021
Publisher(s): Measure of America of the Social Science Research Council
California Census 2020 Statewide Funders’ Initiative Final Evaluation Report
Nov 1, 2021
Publisher(s): Social Policy Research Associates; Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)
Building Capacity, Transforming Systems: A Summative Evaluation of The California Endowment’s Sons & Brothers Grantmaking Executive Summary
Sep 7, 2021
Publisher(s): Equal Measure; Bright Research Group
Advocacy That Builds Power: Transforming Policies and Systems for Health and Racial Equity
Apr 1, 2021
Publisher(s): Center for Evaluation Innovation
For the Community, By the Community: The We Count LA Impact Story
Feb 10, 2021
Publisher(s): California Community Foundation
Voices of Partners: Findings from the Community/Stakeholder Engagement Study
Sep 29, 2017
Publisher(s): California Endowment; Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)
Heard, Not Judged: Insights Into the Talents, Realities and Needs of Young Men of Color
May 24, 2016
Publisher(s): California Endowment; Campaign for Black Male Achievement; Mee Productions; Brand Positoning Doctors
A New Power Grid: Building Healthy Communities at Year 5
May 10, 2016
Publisher(s): California Endowment
The Social and Economic Impacts of FreshWorks: An Examination of Three Northgate Gonzalez Grocery Store Investments
May 1, 2016
Publisher(s): California Endowment
California FreshWorks Food Access Report: An Examination of Three Northgate Gonzalez Grocery Store Investments
May 1, 2016
Publisher(s): California Endowment
California FreshWorks: A Case Study Examining the Development and Implementation of FreshWorks
May 1, 2016
Publisher(s): California Endowment
A New Power Grid: Building Health Communities at Year 5
Jan 1, 2016
Publisher(s): California Endowment
Beyond Almonds and Blond Lawns: Investing in Non-Profit Organizations To Sustain Central Valley Communities Beyond the Drought
Sep 1, 2015
Publisher(s): California Endowment; Kern Community Foundation; Fresno Regional Foundation; Schonfield Consulting
Communications Strategies That Fast Track Policy Change
Sep 5, 2014
Publisher(s): California Endowment; Media Impact Funders; Hershey Cause Communications
- PolicyLink
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Atlantic Philanthropies
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Open Society Foundations
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
- Kern Community Foundation
- Building Movement Project
- Hispanics in Philanthropy
- Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Kuity
- Fresno Regional Foundation
- Media Impact Funders
- Kapor Center for Social Impact
- Philamplify
- Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)
- Campaign for Black Male Achievement
- Schonfield Consulting
- Mee Productions
- Brand Positoning Doctors
- Hershey Cause Communications