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We are grateful and excited to work with our valued partner organizations who are best at supporting and engaging with San Francisco s most vulnerable communities, DPH Director Dr. Grant Colfax said in a statement. Working together, we will serve populations and neighborhoods that have been disparately impacted by COVID-19. In addition to providing low barrier, culturally and linguistically competent services, the grant will also help fund the San Francisco AIDS Foundation s effort to create a Community Case Investigation and Contract Tracing Training Center to help strengthen the organizations investigation and tracing efforts, DPH officials said.
The funding is part of DPH s equity strategy, focusing on residents and neighborhoods that face the greatest disparities in COVID-19 case rates.
San Francisco awards $5.25M grant to strengthen COVID-19 response in hard hit areas
By Daniel Montes article
An aerial view shows a statue of Eureka, part of the Pioneer Monument, looking over squares painted on the ground to encourage homeless people to keep to social distancing at a city-sanctioned homeless encampment across from City Hall in San Francisc
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SAN FRANCISCO - Ten San Francisco-based community organizations will receive more than $5 million in grants to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in some of the city s most impacted neighborhoods, San Francisco Department of Health officials said Friday.
The $5.25 million grant program will help the organizations, as well as their partner organizations, provide services like testing, outreach, case investigation, contract tracing, follow-up care and other health services related to the city s COVID-19 response.