Metta Fund

Grantee Spotlight

Bayview Center for Arts and Technology (BAYCAT)

General Operating Support Grant: These grants are designed to strengthen organizations.

BAYCAT: The Bayview Center for Arts and Technology educates, empowers and employs underserved youth and young adults to produce digital media that tells their unique stories and engages them to positively transform themselves, their communities and the world.

San Francisco Health Plan

Institutional Partner Grant: These grants are for large institutions that are able to Identify and implement high quality, evidence-based projects.

San Francisco Health Plan: This organization strives to improve the health status and quality of life for the people of San Francisco and to support the providers who serve them. The institutional grant supports funding coaches in a program to help clinics work on individual goals to create sustainable improvements.

St. Anthony Foundation Free Medical Clinic

Impact Grant: These grants support an organization’s use of data to identify needs, guide the work, make improvements, and assess outcomes.

St Anthony Foundation Free Medical Clinic: This is a community health clinic based in the Tenderloin providing primary care and preventive care to a diverse and underserved population. The impact grant will go toward increasing St Anthony’s ability to track, treat and educate patients with diabetes.

Strong Community-Based Organizations

Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of individual health and human service nonprofit organizations that are working to improve health in San Francisco.

Making an Impact

Supporting organizations’ use of data to identify needs, guide their work, make improvements, and assess outcomes.

Strong Local Institutions

Identifying and implementing high quality, evidence- and community-based research projects in partnership with local institutions.

Healthy Neighborhoods

Assessing and implementing neighborhood-based strategies aimed at improving physical activity, healthful eating and other positive lifestyle changes.

Summer Camp for City Youth

Providing tuition assistance for financially-disadvantaged youth to attend high-quality summer camps.

Supporting Innovation

Helping to implement innovative, tested concepts, or to seed new ideas.