The Conrad Prebys Foundation in San Diego has announced $8.1 million in grants focused on advancing quality, culturally competent care for 18 local clinics.

The grants, part of the foundation’s Strengthening Health Access, Resources, and Excellence (SHARE) Initiative, will provide two-year, unrestricted grants of up to $250,000 per year to health clinics that effectively serve communities in need of improved health services, especially Indigenous, immigrant, and border residents. Recipients include Alliance Health Clinic ($400,000), which will provide primary health care for low-income, immigrant, and refugee members of the community; Challenge Center ($500,000), which will increase access and quality care for persons with disabilities and the aging population; and California State University San Marcos/Truecare Mobile Clinic partnership ($300,000) to provide free healthcare services to underserved communities in north San Diego County through a mobile health clinic.

“After listening carefully to the community and conducting research into critical health challenges in our region, we know that health outcomes are vastly unequal across San Diego, and historically marginalized and excluded communities bear the burden of this inequity,” said Conrad Prebys Foundation CEO Grant Oliphant. “These grants are designed to provide vital support to organizations that serve patients facing high barriers to excellent care. These organizations often have limited resources to cover gaps in service such as improving cultural and linguistic relevancy, increasing access to the uninsured/underinsured, and recruiting and retaining quality staff.”

For a complete list of recipients, see the Conrad Prebys Foundation website.

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