The program, named the Creating Possible Fund, selected grantees based on “creative and scalable approaches to tackling equity gaps in education and health” for U.S. youth.
“We know that inequities in health stem from larger structural inequities that are deeply embedded in our society, laws, economy and particularly our educational systems,” said Korab Zuka, president of the Gilead Foundation and vice president of public affairs of Gilead Sciences. “With assistance from leaders in education and health, we believe we’ve chosen a group of innovators in health equity who will make a meaningful impact on society.”
The inaugural grantees are:
- Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform (Providence, R.I.)
- Kingmakers of Oakland (Calif.)
- KQED (San Francisco)
- Morehouse College, Center for Excellence in Education (Atlanta)
- Oakland (Calif.) Fund for Public Innovation
- Fresh Lifelines for Youth/Peer Point (Milpitas, Calif.)
- Pulse of Perseverance (Chicago)
- Represent Justice (Los Angeles)
- Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, Ala.)
- St. John’s Community Health/Compton Unified School District (Los Angeles)
- The Trevor Project (West Hollywood, Calif.)
- Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans)
- YELLOW (Virginia Beach, Va.)
