Kaiser Awards $1 Million in Grants for HIV/AIDS Efforts in California
This week, Kaiser Permanente announced more than $1 million in community benefit grants to 62 not-for-profit organizations in California as part of its AIDS awareness efforts, the San Francisco Business Times reports (Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 11/25).
The funding aims to encourage HIV/AIDS knowledge, counseling, prevention, screening and treatment efforts throughout California (Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 11/25). The grants were announced in advance of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 (Stockton Record, 11/26).
Twenty four Northern California not-for-profits will receive $750,000 in grants, and 38 Southern California not-for-profits will get $300,000 in grants
Grant amounts range from $15,000 to $60,000.
Kaiser officials said all of the funding will be distributed by the year's end (San Francisco Business Times, 11/25). This is part of the California Healthline Daily Edition, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.