Impact of the DRA Citizenship and Identity Documentation Requirement on Medi-Cal: Findings from Site Visits to Six Counties
The Impact of the DRA Citizenship and Identity Documentation Requirement on Medi-Cal: Findings from Site Visits to Six Counties report finds that the federal Deficit Reduction Act’s (DRA) Citizenship and Identity Document Requirement has not only been ineffective in rooting out fraudulent Medi-Cal applicants and enrollees, but has also resulted in increased costs and workload for counties. |
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Raising Our Voices, Strengthening Our Communities: Advocacy Training to Build Skills and Confidence (Case Studies)
Raising Our Voices, Strengthening Our Communities: Advocacy Training to Build Skills and Confidence (Case Studies) reports on four case studies that highlight the successes, challenges, and lessons learned by local leaders who attended “Advocating for Change” trainings. |
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Raising Our Voices, Strengthening Our Communities: Advocacy Training to Build Skills and Confidence (Case Studies) - Spanish
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California Counts! A Funders' Guide to the 2010 Census
California Counts! A Funders' Guide to the 2010 Census provides an overview of the 2010 census, summarizes the challenges to achieving an accurate count, and describes funding strategies for reaching populations that have historically been undercounted, such as people of color, immigrants, limited-English speakers, renters, low-income groups, among others. |
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Making Change: How Social Movements Work and How to Support Them
Making Change: How Social Movements Work and How to Support Them seeks to provide a guidepost to both funders and the field by detailing what makes for a successful social movement, what capacities need to be developed, and what funding opportunities might exist. |
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Making Change: How Social Movements Work and How to Support Them (Executive Summary)
Executive Summary to Making Change: How Social Movements Work and How to Support Them report. |
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What Makes an Effective Advocacy Organization? A Framework for Determining Advocacy Capacity
Advocacy as a strategy for the nonprofit sector has become increasingly widespread. Foundations are looking to fund more of this type of work; nonprofits are learning how to harness its power to achieve their mission; and both are trying to better understand how to evaluate success. To that end, The California Endowment asked TCC Group to conduct an evaluation of a cohort of advocacy organizations who were receiving general support from the foundation. One of the important outcomes of that evaluation was a much deeper understanding of the characteristics of effective advocacy organizations. |
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Prevention for a Healthier California: Investments in Disease Prevention Yield Significant Savings, Stronger Communities
This report finds that if California were to invest in community-based disease prevention programs both the state and private health insurance payers could save significant amounts in health care costs annually. |
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Prevention for a Healthier America: Investments in Disease Prevention Yield Significant Savings, Stronger Communities
The Prevention for a Healthier America: Investments in Disease Prevention Yield Significant Savings, Stronger Communities report examines how much the country could save in health care costs if we invested more in disease prevention. |
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Blue Sky Budget Impact Report - Beyond Dollars and Cents: Assessing the Impacts of the Proposed State Health and Human Services Budget on Local Communities
Beyond Dollars and Cents: Assessing the Impacts of the Proposed State Health and Human Services Budget on Local Communities is a report prepared by the Blue Sky Consulting Group for The California Endowment. As California's budget struggles continue, programs for low-income individuals and families face significant and potentially severe budget cuts. |
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A Statewide Survey on the Status of California Nonprofit Organizations in the Current Economy
This report, created by the California Cares coalition, provides alarming statistics detailing donation decreases and increases in demand for services following the events of September 11. |
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Blurred Borders: Transboundary Issues and Solutions in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region
Co-funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, this report discusses the many issues affecting the border region, including environment and health and human services. Specifically, one section identifies trans-border issues related to infectious diseases, disparities in health and the implications of Mexico serving as part of the safety net in the region. |
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Experiences with Medicare Part D: Stories from Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse and Medically Needy Californians
A report prepared by Lake Research Partners, and funded by The California Endowment, describes the experiences of 35 "vulnerable" Medicare beneficiaries with the early implementation of Medicare Part D prescription drug program. |
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Exploring California's Rural Health System: From the Redwood Forests to the Baja Border
This report by the National Health Policy Forum summarizes the impressions of federal health policymakers who participated in a three-day site visit to California to explore the state's rural health system with a particular focus on the financial health of inpatient and outpatient providers and how that affects access to care. The role of telemedicine as a tool for expanding access was explored as well as the special needs of vulnerable populations such as farm workers. Participants learned how state and federal regulation and payment policies and state budget deficits impact the viability of rural health systems. |
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Health Policy Research Brief: Less Than One-Quarter of California Adults Walk Regularly
A new policy brief issued by the UCLA Center for Healthy Policy Research and funded by The California Endowment highlights how little exercise most California adults are getting. The report, Less Than One-Quarter of California Adults Walk Regularly, states that in an average week one in five California adults walk on a regular basis, while more than a quarter of the adult population in the state do not walk at all. |
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Implementing Medicare Part D in California: A Scan of the Landscape
This two-month study examines California’s readiness to implement the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) by describing the implementation activities of various public and private health, advocacy and funding entities in the state; investigating respondents’ sense of the challenges to implement the program and the strategies needed to meet these challenges; and examining and assessing gaps in implementation activities. |
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Improving Care Management for the Chronically Ill and Underserved
The National Health Policy Health Policy Forum conducted a Los Angeles site visit in April to survey the challenges involved in providing effective, efficient care in California's most urban locale. This site visit report, LA Story: Improving Care Management for the Chronically Ill and Chronically Underserved is a companion piece to the report, Exploring California's Rural Health System: From the Redwood Forests to the Baja Border, which was released earlier this year. |
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Making Health Policy at the Ballot Box: Californians and the November 2004 Election
Commissioned by The California Endowment, this report by the Public Policy Institute of California provides the first comprehensive analysis of California voters in the Nov. 2, 2004, election. The report examines issues related to making health policy decisions at the ballot box and considers how this experience may influence voters’ reactions to future ballot measures and health policymaking in the state. |
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Managed Care and Medi-Cal Beneficiaries with Disabilities: Assessing Current State Practice in a Changing Federal Policy Environment
This analysis, prepared for The California Endowment by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services examines how other states have addressed issues in designing, implementing and overseeing managed care systems for persons with disabilities and serious and chronic health conditions. In addition, the report evaluates how changes in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 relate to decisions regarding the use of mandatory managed care enrollment for disabled beneficiaries. |
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Stretched Thin: State Budget Cuts Threaten California’s Health and Human Services Programs
Partially funded by The California Endowment, this California Budget Project report surveyed 11 counties about how eight health and human services programs that are administered by counties are faring. |
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The Challenge of Assessing Policy and Advocacy Activities: Part II -- Moving from Theory to Practice
This report is a follow-up to The Challenge of Assessing Advocacy and Policy Activities: Strategies for a Prospective Evaluation Approach. This paper synthesizes a convening's discussions to help advance the conversation across the field on policy and advocacy evaluation. It also provides recommendations and a framework on approaching policy and advocacy evaluation. |
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The Designation of Rural Areas in California
In July 2005, the federal Office of Rural Health policy increased the number of designated rural census tracts within the Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) classification system. This Public Policy Case Study, produced by The California Endowment, offers a window to both the policy process undertaken by California organizations to champion the change in designation, and examines one way that foundations may influence the process. |
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The Private Foundation’s Guide to the California Initiative Process
First published in fall 2003, this guide details the activities private foundations may engage in with regard to California state ballot initiatives. |
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The Public Charity’s Guide to the California Initiative Process
Created by Northern California Grantmakers’ Public Policy Committee, this paper outlines the manner in which public charities can play a significant role in state ballot initiatives, including details on the state and federal regulations that affect them. |
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The State Budget and Local Health Services in California: Surveys of County Officials
Created by Public Policy Institute of California, this report provides an analysis of how local health programs in California have fared in the context of the state’s budget situation in fiscal year 2003-2004. |
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Health Reform 2007: Impact on the Valley
The Central Valley Health Policy Institute at California State University, Fresno, recently issued the policy brief Health Reform 2007: Impact on the Valley. Funded by The California Endowment, the brief offers a San Joaquin Valley perspective on the various proposed health reform measures currently being debated in California. |
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Why Public Policy?
The California Endowment believes that public policy is essential to achieving meaningful changes in access to quality health care and improvements in the health status of California's underserved communities. |
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