Children's Receiving Home: $4,260

Provided funds for the purchase of a hemoglobin analyzer and oxygen tanks required to keep the home in compliance with state regulations. In addition, purchased a six month supply of first-aid and intake materials.

Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento: $5,000

Purchased 100 Cribs for the Infant Safe Sleeping Program, which aims to decrease the number of preventable infant sleep-related deaths in Sacramento County by providing education and support for new parents.

Discovery Science Center - Wow! Healthy Eating Exhibit: $2,500

Provided funding for a permanent exhibit on Healthy Eating to encourage visitors to the museum, including young children, to make healthy food choices.

Wellspring Women's Center: $3,988

Funding Wellspring Women's Center for their Women's Health Program, which provides educational materials and sanitary supplies for over 150 women for a year.

Society for the Blind: $4,908

Funding for the purchase of assistive technology for use in client teaching, demonstrations, and outreach including oral thermometers and blood pressure units.

Keaton Raphael Memorial Foundation: $5,000

Funding for their Family Navigator Program which assists families dealing with childhood cancer. The program provides educational materials, therapeutic tools and other resources to assist families in their childhood cancer journeys.

Sacramento Food Bank
$6,000 used to:

Expand and enhance nutrition education through their mobile distribution centers, provide onsite preventative health screenings for high blood pressure and diabetes and information on nutrition, safe food preparation, and culturally sensitive recipes.

Ronald McDonald House
$5,000 used to:

Subsidize the cost of stay for families with children hospitalized in Sacramento area hospitals with life threatening illnesses who reside more than 30 miles away.

Sacramento Children's Home
$2,500 used to:

Purchase medical instruments for intake examinations for children in crisis entering the residential facility. Over 3,700 children received consistent, timely medical care last year.

Food Bank of Yolo County
$6,000 used to:

Purchase reusable containers to deliver food to the hundreds of families who receive 25 lbs of staple foods each month.

Stanford Settlement
$2,675 used to:

Provide funding for Senior Health and information fair, which will provide free health screenings, first aid kits, and education regarding resources for well being and assistance to help seniors remain at home.

WEAVE
$1,575 used to:

Purchase TB Vials for use at their Safehouse to comply with mandatory TB testing requirements

Clean and Sober
$1,250 used to:

Provide running shoes, sox, water bottles, 5K entrance fees for 25+ sober individuals to promote health, build confidence and provide hope to those struggling with addiction.

(1) Provide Running shoes, sweats, socks for their newly started "running club" to promote health, provide education, and building self-esteem and sense of community.
(2) Provide transportation costs (bus passes) to medical appointments.

Diogenes Youth Services
$10,000 used to:

Purchase a used van that will assist the 175 youths served at their crisis center.

Loaves and Fishes Mary House
$7,300 used to:

Purchase washer and dryer to replace 20 year old units which run nine hours daily to provide laundered towels and washcloths for the 80-100 homeless women who shower at this day-shelter each weekday.

YWCA
$1,150 used to:

Support the ENCOREplus Breast Cancer Program in purchasing Self Breast Exam Models and brochures for Sacramento County.