Downey Medical Center

Eligibility

To be eligible for a Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center Community Benefit grant, an applicant organization (or fiscal agent), must have operations in California and be a local, state, or federal government agency operating for public purpose, or one of the following types of nonprofit organizations:

501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization with a 509 (a) designation indicating that the organization is not a private foundation
501(c)(19)
501 (c)(8) or 501 (c)(10) operating under a lodge system and only if used solely for charitable purposes and serving the general community
A local, state, or federal government agency, including any of its subdivisions that perform substantial governmental functions

In addition, organizations must:

Provide direct services to disadvantaged and/or underserved populations that address funding priorities identified in the Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center Needs Assessment
Provide services within the geographic boundaries of Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center's service area, which includes the communities of Artesia, Bell, Bellflower, Bell Gardens, Cerritos, Commerce (only zip code 90040), Compton (zip code 90222 and 90021), Cudahy, Downey, Florence/Graham, Hawaiian Gardens, Huntington Park, Lakewood, Lynwood, Maywood, South Gate, Norwalk, North Long Beach (only zip code 90808), Paramount, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, Southeast portions of Los Angeles (defined by zip codes 90003, 90002, 90001, 90059) Vernon, Watts, and Whittier
Address critical public health needs among vulnerable populations
Have submitted progress and/or final reports for all previous grants

Needs Assessment Funding Priorities

Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center provides grants to local nonprofit health and human service organizations that address these needs among vulnerable populations:

Need I: Access to Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Services. Focus is on improving access of uninsured and underinsured people to health insurance and health care services (primary and specialty care) to strengthen the safety net in our community.
Need II: Improve Awareness, Prevention, and Management of Chronic Diseases. Focus is on improving education, prevention, early detection, and treatment of chronic diseases with an emphasis on diabetes, heart disease, and cancer among vulnerable populations.
Need III: Promote Obesity Prevention Programs and Policy Advocacy That Increase Physical Fitness and Healthy Food Choices. Focus is on initiatives, partnerships and large scale systemic policy change that promote healthy eating and physical activity in an effort to attack the growing epidemic of obesity.
Need IV: Support Programs, Interventions and Education That Address the Needs of At Risk Youth. Focus is on improving adolescent health, decreasing sexually transmitted disease rates, increasing access to mental health services and reducing teen pregnancies.

Funding Restrictions

Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center Community Benefit will generally not consider funding requests from international, social, recreational clubs, or for the following:

Sports teams and tournaments (e.g., golf, tennis, walks, and runs)
Individuals
Religious purposes
Partisan political activities
Endowments or memorials
Re-granting purposes to other organizations

Kaiser Permanente will not consider requests from organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or veteran status in their programs, services, policies, hiring practices, and administration. In addition, Community Benefit grants will not be awarded for activities, events, or programs organized or solely sponsored by alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical companies.

We generally do not provide grants for academic research, capital campaigns, event sponsorships (including community health fairs), or political campaigns.

Agencies and organization may only submit one (1) community benefit grant request within this grant cycle.

Filing Deadline

Grant requests must be submitted on or before 5:00 PM on January 13, 2012. Grant requests will be reviewed only once during the 2012 calendar year by the grant review committee. The reviews will be completed by the end of April. Proposals maybe forwarded to the committee if they meet funding criteria as outlined in this application, and if all necessary materials are included in the request.

All requests for information should be directed to sheri.d.bathurst@kp.org.

Online Submission Process

We suggest that you review the Kaiser Permanente Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) before applying.

If you have already started an online grant application, please click Continue to proceed where you left off.

You can start the online application for Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center Community Benefit grants program.

Prior to submitting your online application, you will be able to review your grant application for completeness. Please note that once a grant application has been submitted, it cannot be edited or resubmitted.

When you are working in the online application form, you have the option to save your work and return to the application at a later time through account you created. In addition you:

Can view a history of submissions
Will receive a submission acknowledgement

Note: If you forget your account password, please follow the onscreen instructions from the account log-in page to retrieve your password. If this method does not work, please send an e-mail to KP-Community@kp.org with "Downey Medical Center Online Application Password Reset" in the subject line to reset your password.