Investing in the Future of the San Joaquin Valley
Focused in nine counties - Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare – the San Joaquin Valley Impact Investment Fund’s (SJVIIF) mission is to make the San Joaquin Valley a healthier place to live, work and prosper by investing in organizations and entrepreneurs whose activities promote community health and wellbeing for all.
Through impact investments, the SJVIIF will sustain and scale efforts of the San Joaquin Valley Health Fund (SJVHF), a grantmaker partnership created in 2015 by The Center at Sierra Health Foundation. Responding to limited local philanthropic resources, the SJVHF serves as a conduit for grant support from the Sierra Health Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, California Wellness Foundation, Dignity Health, Hellman Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, Rosenberg Foundation, The California Endowment, Tides, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and Convergence Partnership.
Sustaining Change Through Investment Partnership
The SJVIIF will build upon the SJVHF’s success by harnessing investment capital to unlock opportunity for underserved communities. Dignity Health and Sierra Health Foundation will serve as lead investors, joining SJVHF funders, other foundations, banks, health systems and socially motivated households and organizations to invest in the region.