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News Release: Community Healing and Restoration Initiative Awards More Than $8 Million to Wildfire Recovery

December 4, 2025

UniHealth Foundation partnered with the California Community Foundation (CCF) as an initial funder of the CCF Wildfire Recovery Fund’s Community Healing and Restoration Initiative.

American Legion, Department of California

June 3, 2024

In June, UniHealth Foundation approved a $700,000 grant to US VETS to support the development of its Wellness Center on the West LA Campus. The landmark groundbreaking marks a historic moment in the nation’s history as the largest veterans’ housing development in the nation’s history.

A New Skid Row Facility Where Homeless Women Can Try ‘To Get Whole and Heal’

APRIL 21, 2022 |

Los Angeles Times

“… In Los Angeles County, “demand for recuperative care beds currently far outpaces supply due to record levels of homelessness, profound shortages in all forms of housing” and the requirements of a state bill meant to stop patient dumping, a report prepared for the UniHealth Foundation two years ago found.”

Dignity Health and UniHealth Foundation Address Cultural Trauma as a Health Issue with $4 Million Investment in Mental Health Trainings to Improve Outcomes for SoCal Youth

NOV 1, 2019 |

Dignity Health

UniHealth Foundation is collaborating with Dignity Health Foundation to address community mental health needs for adolescent youth.

Scaling Up: How Philanthropy Helped Unlock $4.7 Billion to Tackle Homelessness in Los Angeles

JUL 1, 2019 |

The Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy
Sol Price School of Public Policy
University of Southern California

UniHealth Foundation was one of 57 initial funders to support United Way’s Home for Good Funders Collaborative, which would prove instrumental in addressing the homeless crisis in Los Angeles.

Homelessness and Health Care: What is Being Funded?

FEB 1, 2019 |

Health Affairs
Grant Results

In 2013 UniHealth Foundation, in Los Angeles, California, awarded a grant for linking homeless people being discharged from hospitals to recuperative care.