Medical Centers Announce Dignity Health Community Funding Opportunities

Area nonprofit community benefit organizations are encouraged to submit letters of intent (LOI) for the annual Dignity Health Community Grants program, which earlier this year awarded over $263,000 to 17 Inland Empire organizations. LOIs are due to the Community Hospital of San Bernardino and St. Bernardine Medical Center, members of Dignity Health, by 5 p.m. on Friday, July 18. The Community Grants program is dedicated to improving the health status and quality of life of the communities served by each of the 40 Dignity Health Hospitals in California, Arizona and Nevada. Since the program’s inception in 1990, Dignity Health has awarded over $50 million to more than 2,400 organizations. Locally, grants up to $75,000 will be awarded to qualified nonprofit organizations for use in providing health services to under-served populations. New this year, grants will be awarded to organizations that partner together and whose proposals address the following health priorities: programs that improve access to quality care, provide chronic disease management services or offer youth development. Dignity Health’s Community Grants Program is funded by contributions from its member hospitals and supports Community Hospital of San Bernardino and St. Bernardine Medical Center in their missions to provide compassionate, high-quality and affordable health services. Grant applicants may download the 2014 LOI form at: http://www.chsb.org/Who_We_Are/Serving_the_Community/227221. For more information about the local Dignity Health grant application process, contact Kathleen McDonnell, Inland Empire manager, Community Benefit, at (909) 475-5083.