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Contents © 2003
by Jim Holman.
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LITTLE NOTES
November 2003

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Alliance Healthcare Foundation -- $30,000, second year of funding to support the expansion of the Residency Training Program to increase the number of physicians who will be thoroughly trained to provide both medical and surgical abortions.

Anonymous Foundation -- $252,000, funding to make mifepristone, the medical abortion method, available to PP patients in all of our 14 family planning clinics.

The California Endowment -- $510,748, two-year grant to fund the Coachella Valley Migrant Farm Worker Project to reduce teen pregnancy by engaging youth and families in a teen theatre and parent program and to improve the quality and continuum of care by expanding a reproductive healthcare clinic for migrant farm worker teens and their families in Coachella Valley.

The California Wellness Foundation -- $130,000 for core operating support to enhance family planning and women's health services in San Diego and Riverside Counties. This project (centralized scheduling facility) is funded in part by TCWF. Created in 1992 as an independent, private foundation, TCWF's mission is to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention programs.

Community Health Corporation -- $22,000 for the purchase of colposcopy equipment and training for the Riverside Family Planning Center used to detect cervical abnormalities, typically a precursor to cervical cancer.

The Compton Foundation -- $50,000 to implement Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud's Emergency Contraception Distribution Project in Baja California, Mexico, thus mainstreaming the use of Emergency Contraception in that area.

Heller Family Foundation -- $26,000, second year of funding (in conjunction with support from the Alliance Healthcare Foundation) for the Residency Training Program to increase the number of physicians who will be thoroughly trained to provide both medical and surgical abortions.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- $300,000, two-year grant to support the extensive programs of Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud, located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

Jewish Communal Fund of New York -- $500,000 on the recommendation of an anonymous donor, to make mifepristone, the medical abortion method, available to PPSDRC patients in all of our 14 family planning clinics.

Legler Benbough Foundation -- $15,000 for the expansion of the Males Acting Responsibly for Community and Health (MARCH) and the Sisters Together Acting Responsibly (STAR) programs for 11-12 year olds with the intention of reducing future unplanned teen pregnancies and relationship violence.

The Marx Foundation -- $10,000 for general support.

The Parker Foundation -- $100,000 in support of a new PP Express clinic in Chula Vista. Express clinics provide fast, walk-in, reproductive care, allowing women access to basic services without the wait inherent in visits to full-service family planning centers.

Lucy Dillon Rastetter Fund of the San Diego Foundation -- $50,000 in support of Fronteras Unidas Pro Salud's programs in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and $25,000 for the new Chula Vista Express clinic.

The Women's Foundation -- $17,500 to produce and air a weekly radio program, "Risky Business," out of El Centro, Imperial County, which will provide information to Latino youth in Riverside and Imperial Counties and Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico on parent-teen communication skills and reproductive health care.


ED PETERS, formerly a canon lawyer for the diocese of San Diego, now teaches in conjunction with Ave Maria College in Michigan. One of the more interesting pages on his website, www.canonlaw.info (or try mywebpages.comcast.net/enpeters/), is a section called U.S. Bishops.

Peters lists vacant sees in the U.S., the bishops over 75 (soon to retire) and the years when any bishop will turn 75 (normal retirement age for bishop).

California bishops and when they turn 75:

Bishop Ryan of Monterey - March 2005

Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles - February, 2011

Archbishop Levada of San Francisco - February, 2011

Bishop Brown of Orange - November, 2011

Bishop Wiegand of Sacramento - May, 2012

Bishop Steinbock of Fresno - July, 2012

Bishop Walsh of Santa Rosa - October, 2012

Bishop Brom of San Diego - September, 2013

Bishop Blaire of Stockton - December, 2017

Bishop Barnes of San Bernadino- June, 2020

Bishop McGrath of San Jose - June, 2020

Bishop Vigneron of Oakland - October, 2023

(Vigneron installed as Oakland's bishop on Oct. 1, 2003)

Aux. Bishop Cordileone of San Diego, June, 2031

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