California Health Care Foundation (CHCF)
$425,000 won
Narrative Approach
Verified Win

CHCF's dual-target strategy: serving both Medi-Cal patients and the safety-net providers

CHCF funds projects that improve care for Medi-Cal patients AND strengthen the safety-net providers who serve them. Proposals that address only one side — patient services OR provider capacity — miss CHCF's core theory of change.

Thomas Anderson, MHA

Program Director

Central Coast Safety-Net Collaborative

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The Strategy

CHCF's funding logic is dual-target: they want to see both improved patient outcomes AND strengthened provider systems. A proposal that only adds patient services (e.g., 'we will provide more diabetes education') without a provider-system component gets rejected. A proposal that only trains providers without showing patient impact also gets rejected. The winning structure: your project must have a patient-facing intervention AND a provider-facing intervention, linked by a shared data or referral infrastructure. Example: 'We will implement a CHW-led diabetes navigation program for 500…

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