The California Endowment is engaged in a campaign to  improve the health of California  communities. The California  Endowment has undertaken a decade long effort of Building  Healthy Communities - places  where children and youth are  healthy, safe and ready to learn.

After much research and deliberation, The Endowment selected 14 communities impacted by poverty, and is now making deep, sustained and community-driven investments in these areas. Wrapped  around these investments will  be policy and systems-change goals to ensure that healthy  communities are sustainable  for generations to come.