Introducing the 2024 Equity and Innovation Grantees

The Foundation celebrated the return of the Equity and Innovation Grants this year with a new format and two exciting new grantees.

At the awards ceremony, Foundation supporters and Hospital staff came together for the first time in five years to meet the 2024 Grantees, the Hearing Screening Project and Project REACH. Thanks to a multi-year partnership with BMO, each grantee was awarded a $100,000 capacity-building grant, allowing for critical investment in new initiatives that will have a widespread impact on patient care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

This special occasion allowed us to celebrate the incredible achievements of this year’s grant recipients and reinforced our shared commitment to advancing equity and innovation at ZSFG.

Learn more about the innovation and compassion our team provides each day to patients in need.

Project Reach

This innovative program is transforming surgical care for patients experiencing housing instability or homelessness at ZSFG. By combining human-centered design, whole-person care, and on-the-ground innovations, Project REACH creates more healing environments, enables more frequent check-ins, and develops care plans that truly meet patients where they are.

Hearing Screening Project

This initiative is tackling a critical yet often overlooked healthcare gap – hearing loss in marginalized communities. By integrating audiology screening into primary care visits and taking the screening test to community centers across San Francisco, this project ensures that more patients receive essential screenings for hearing loss treatment.