The SFMS Community Service Foundation

The San Francisco Medical Society Community Service Foundation, a tax-exempt 501(c)3 charitable foundation, is the conduit for funded projects in research, education, and advocacy. It also serves as the grantor institution for research and educational grants for SFMS members and others, offering low overhead, solid accounting, and the good name of the SFMS. For information or to discuss project ideas, contact Steve Heilig at (415) 561-0850 extension 270 or heilig@sfms.org.

About the Foundation

The SFMS Community Service Foundation (CSF) serves to collaborate with other community health organizations on projects such as tobacco and antismoking education, tuberculosis control and prevention education, child immunization and other child health and safety programs, violence prevention, AIDS education, and more.
Other efforts have included improving language translation in health care settings, increasing organ donations, improving approaches to antibiotic resistance, and supporting major environmental health education and advocacy.

Examples of Projects

Domestic Violence
The SFMS and CSF provided funds for the development of the first SFMS guidelines on domestic violence screening and intervention. To learn more about the SFMS Domestic Violence Brochure, click here. 

Medical Ethics
The CSF was the recipient of grants from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation for the development of new approaches to the issue of medical futility. Under the grant, the SFMS-based Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees (BANEC) developed guidelines published in the Western Journal of Medicine that were the focus of much attention in the professional and public media and have served as the basis for new policies at hospitals around the state.
The model for this project was the previous BANEC-developed consensus guidelines on physician-hastened death, published in the Western Journal of Medicine and widely discussed in the media, including on the front page of the New York Times.

Inquiries about these projects, and about use of the SFMS CSF as a low-overhead tax-exempt option for funding appropriate proposals, may be directed to Steve Heilig at (415) 561-0850 extension 270 or heilig@sfms.org.

Donations

We invite you to become a supporter of the SFMS Community Service Foundation. All donors will be acknowledged in San Francisco Medicine; please let us know if you would prefer to remain anonymous.

Donations may be made at four levels:
President's Circle: $5,000 or more
Officer's Circle: $1,000 to $4,999
Director's Circle: $100 to $999
Member's Circle: $99 or less

If you would like to make a contribution, please contact us at (415) 561-0850.