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1. What is St. David's Community Health Foundation?
2. What is the Foundation's relationship to the St. David's hospitals?
3. Why does the Foundation focus on issues related to access to care?
4. How does St. David's differ from other community foundations?
5. How does St. David's differ from other hospital foundations?
6. Much of Foundation funding supports existing programs; what are the benefits of contributing through the Foundation rather than giving directly to those programs?

1. What is St. David's Community Health Foundation?

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving community health through leadership, collaboration and education. The Foundation supports programs that address the most pressing health needs and provide the most effective advances in improved health. Where gaps in community services exist, we create new programs to serve unmet needs. back to top

2. What is the Foundation's relationship to the St. David's hospitals?

St. David's Foundation receives operating support from St. David's HealthCare System. We also distribute profits from the six St. David's hospitals to the community through our grants and programs. back to top

3. Why does the Foundation focus on issues related to access to care?

We researched the health needs of this community and identified access to health care as the number one problem that affects the largest percentage of the population. Therefore, improving access to care will have the greatest impact on improving the health of our community.back to top

4. How does St. David's differ from other community foundations?

The Foundation focuses exclusively on health and health care. We research the best solutions and focus support more narrowly on specific areas of need that produce the greatest impact, rather than providing broad support to many programs and causes. back to top

5. How does St. David's differ from other hospital foundations?

We distribute grants to other organizations in the non-profit sector to help them establish and operate programs to serve the community. We also have the flexibility to shift our funding focus as priority needs change. Typically, hospital foundations raise money to fund the hospital itself or hospital programs in the community. back to top

6. Much of Foundation funding supports existing programs; what are the benefits of contributing through the Foundation rather than giving directly to those programs?

Working with the community, we identify specific areas of need where we can achieve the greatest impact and we develop and deploy strategic, community-based solutions designed to produce measurable results in those specific areas. By leveraging community resources - knowledge, expertise and funding - in a coordinated, proactive manner, we are able to produce a much greater return per dollar invested in improving community health. We provide financial stewardship of donated funds and professional evaluations of organizations' use of our funds to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. back to top