The California Endowment (TCE) Grants: How to Win Funding
The California Endowment (TCE) is California's largest health-focused private foundation, holding approximately $4.5 billion in assets and awarding over $150 million annually.
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The California Endowment: the 10-year 'Building Healthy Communities' framing
The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities (BHC) framework is a 10-year place-based strategy. Even as BHC formally concluded, the framing — community power building, policy change, and systems change — remains the lens for TCE funding. Position your work as building community power, not delivering services.
The California Endowment (TCE) shifted from a traditional health foundation to a 'health equity through community power' foundation. Their Building Healthy Communities initiative, while formally concluded, established the framework TCE still uses: fund community power building, policy advocacy, and systems change — not direct service delivery. If your proposal is primarily direct service ('we will provide health services to X people'), TCE is likely the wrong funder. If your proposal…
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