Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente has partnered with Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation to connect young people with mental health resources. Kaiser Permanente is providing a $350,000 grant to the foundation's Kindness in Community Fund, which will support community organizations that focus on youth mental health and wellness, are informed...
Southwest Fresno Youth Get Boost From Kaiser Permanente
A $40,000 Kaiser Permanente Fresno grant will help the Fresno Police Activities League provide fitness activities and mentoring programs at the Cecil C. Hinton Community Center. At-risk youth in southwest Fresno will have access to a new boxing ring, fitness equipment, meditation room, and mentoring, thanks to the grant, which...
Kaiser Permanente Accelerates Efforts to End Fresno Homelessness
Kaiser Permanente says it will provide $3 million over three years to an initiative that will use real-time data to help 15 communities nationwide — including the Fresno-Madera area — better understand the dynamics of local homelessness. The nonprofit health-care giant is partnering with New York-based Community Solutions on the Built...
California: Trump Plan to Take Back Rail Money ‘Disastrous’
SACRAMENTO — Leaders of California's high-speed rail project told the Trump administration Monday its plans to withhold or claw back $3.5 billion in federal money for the project was "legally indefensible" and "disastrous policy." Terminating the money "would cause massive disruption, dislocation, and waste, damaging the region and endangering the...
Fresno County Will Lead Effort to Improve California Math Scores
The Fresno County Superintendent of Schools has been entrusted with helping young learners throughout California sharpen their math skills. Along with that responsibility comes a newly awarded $11.2 million California Statewide Early Math Initiative grant. "Our county decided to seek the grant because we are aware we are underperforming in state...
Obama Foundation Awards Local Nonprofit $50K Grant
President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper Alliance has awarded Fresno Boys & Men of Color a $50,000 grant for its work in improving the lives of underprivileged youth. For Efrain Botello, the grant is an indicator of the hard work he and other youth leaders put into their community. "It is...
NFL Star J.J. Watt’s Generous Heart Stretches to Fresno
Students at Fresno’s Tehipite Middle School have a special reason to cheer Houston Texans’ star defensive end J.J. Watt this coming football season. The J.J. Watt Foundation donated nearly $20,000 to the school in southeast Fresno for new uniforms, protective gear and other essential equipment for six of its sports...