San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership

What San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership does

San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership (SFHIP) is a nonprofit collaborative body founded in 2010 to improve community health and wellness in the City and County of San Francisco through a collective-impact model. SFHIP convenes hospitals, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), UCSF, community clinics, dental societies, SFUSD, and community-based organizations to coordinate systems-level changes addressing health disparities among communities of color and marginalized populations. Current focus areas are Community Healing, Economic Inclusion, and Food Security.

SFHIP's primary deliverables are not technology products but coordination outputs: the triennial Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) covering all 41 San Francisco neighborhoods and 26 zip codes; issue-specific working groups on alcohol policy, children's oral health, and sugar-sweetened beverages; a convening infrastructure including a Steering Committee that meets every other month and a triennial CHNA Breakfast; and curated community resources including bilingual COVID-19 materials. Notable documented outcomes include two San Francisco SSB ordinances (2015), a statewide ban on powdered alcohol (2015-2016), training of more than 70 primary care providers in fluoride varnish (2013-2016), and expansion of fluoride-varnish-providing clinics from 3 to 14 (2013-2017).

SFHIP's business model is grant-funded and member-supported rather than commercial. Revenue derives from public health funding, member organization contributions, and discrete city allocations (one quantified at $250,000 in 2016 for children's oral health). No commercial revenue is generated, no products or services are sold, and programs are provided free of charge. The organization functions as a public-health convening and advocacy platform rather than a vendor, with no API, no proprietary technology stack, and no disclosed headcount or operating budget.

Name

San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership

Legal name

San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership

Website

https://sfhip.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Short description

SFHIP is a San Francisco nonprofit collaborative founded in 2010 that convenes hospitals, SFDPH, UCSF, and community organizations to coordinate collective-impact initiatives addressing health disparities among communities of color and marginalized populations citywide.

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Product category

Public Health Collaborative Services

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Health Governance, Interagency Coordination & Partnerships (HLAJAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Global Health Systems Strengthening (BPAGABAD), Community Health, Health Promotion & Behavior Change (SBCC) (BPADAIAL)

Keywords

• Community health improvement
• Collective impact partnerships
• Health needs assessment
• Health equity initiatives
• Public health collaboration

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding and Public Health Funding: SFHIP operates as a public health collaborative supported by member organizations, government public health funding, and institutional grants. The organization coordinates resources across San Francisco Department of Public Health, hospitals, universities, and community organizations to fund collective impact initiatives. No commercial revenue is generated.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SFHIP is a nonprofit collective impact collaborative that convenes hospitals, public health departments, universities, community clinics, dental societies, school districts, and community organizations to drive systems-level changes addressing health disparities in San Francisco. Its core offerings include the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), current initiatives focused on Community Healing, Economic Inclusion, and Food Security, and community health data and resource publications.

Product overview

SFHIP is a community health collaborative organization (not a software technology company). The organization operates as a collective impact partnership focused on improving community health and wellness in San Francisco. The primary 'offerings' are community health improvement initiatives, the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), health data resources, and advocacy programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Comprehensive assessment tool that helps understand health disparities across 41 San Francisco neighborhoods and 26 zip codes, informing efforts to address root causes of inequities through better interventions, policies, and infrastructure.
• Community Healing Initiative Current SFHIP initiative focused on systems-level changes for communities of color and marginalized populations in San Francisco.
• Economic Inclusion Initiative Current SFHIP initiative focused on systems-level changes for communities of color and marginalized populations in San Francisco.
• Food Security Initiative Current SFHIP initiative focused on systems-level changes for communities of color and marginalized populations in San Francisco.
• Community Health Data Comprehensive health data covering demographics, living conditions, health behaviors, health outcomes, and mortality statistics for San Francisco neighborhoods.
• COVID-19 Resources Comprehensive resource lists and data reports compiled to help inform and support community partners during the COVID-19 crisis.
• CHNA Breakfast Convening event held every 3 years that brings together community, hospital, and healthcare leaders to learn about CHNA findings and advance health equity in San Francisco.

Quantifiable outcome

• 19 new neighborhood tap water filling stations installed in low-income neighborhoods (2016-2017)
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Partnerships

23 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFDPH is a central member and co-leader of SFHIP, contributing to the Alcohol Policy Partnership Working Group, Children's Oral Health Initiative, and other collaborative health improvement efforts. SFDPH provides public health data and policy expertise.
• Hospital Council Northern & Central CaliforniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Hospital Council co-hosts the CHNA Breakfast with SFHIP every 3 years. This event convenes community, hospital, and healthcare leaders to learn about CHNA findings and advance health equity in San Francisco.
• UCSF (University of California, San Francisco)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUCSF participates in SFHIP through its School of Dentistry, Department of Family and Community Medicine, CTSI, and the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative. UCSF contributes research capacity and clinical expertise to initiatives including Children's Oral Health and Preterm Birth.
• San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFUSD partnered with SFHIP on the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages initiative, adopting a wellness policy prohibiting sale or serving of SSBs (2016). SFHIP supported adoption of a new Wellness Policy for SFUSD.
• San Francisco Community Clinic ConsortiummajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium and its Federally Qualified Community Health Centers are key partners in the Children's Oral Health Initiative, helping address disparities in childhood caries through city-wide strategic planning.
• San Francisco Dental SocietymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe San Francisco Dental Society participates in SFHIP's Children's Oral Health Working Group, contributing dental professional expertise to the city-wide strategic plan to reduce oral health disparities.
• University of the Pacific School of DentistrymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with SFHIP on the Children's Oral Health Initiative, contributing academic dentistry expertise to the collaborative working group developing the city-wide strategic plan.
• UCSF Department of Family and Community MedicineminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine is listed as a resource provider in SFHIP's COVID-19 resources compilation, sharing Bay Area community resources.
• Chinese HospitalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChinese Hospital provided bilingual (Chinese) COVID-19 materials compiled by SFHIP for distribution to the community.
• Freedom Community ClinicminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFreedom Community Clinic provided bilingual COVID-19 community resources (English and Spanish) shared through SFHIP's resource compilation.
• One DegreeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne Degree provided Bay Area community resources compiled by SFHIP for COVID-19 support.
• Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, Dignity HealthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a current SFHIP focus area partner under the Community Healing initiative. Dignity Health hospital participates in SFHIP's collaborative health improvement efforts.
• SFHIP Alcohol Policy Partnership Working Group (APPWG)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFHIP developed the APPWG with SFDPH, SF Police Department, and technology industry nonprofit organizations to reduce disparities in alcohol-related harm through data tools, applied research, community organizing, and policymaking. The group achieved a statewide ban on powdered alcohol sale (2015-2016).
• SFHIP Children's Oral Health Working Group (COHWG)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFHIP developed the COHWG with SFDPH oral health division, UCSF, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, SF Community Clinic Consortium, SF Dental Society, SFUSD, and Head Start. The group developed and implemented a city-wide strategic plan reducing disparities in children's oral health.
• SFHIP Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Working GroupmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFHIP's SSB Working Group led initiatives to implement public and private policies reducing sugary beverage consumption. Achievements included hospital healthy beverage policies, two SSB ordinances, qualified sugar tax ballot measures, and tap water filling stations in low-income neighborhoods.
• Kaiser PermanentecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKaiser Permanente CEO Ron Groepper served as chair of the San Francisco Section of the Hospital Council, which co-hosts the CHNA Breakfast with SFHIP. Kaiser Permanente participates in the collaborative health improvement partnership.
• CavityFreeSFmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCavityFreeSF is a citywide collaborative formed in 2012 (formerly SFHIP's Children's Oral Health Working Group) to reduce children's caries experience and disparities. SFHIP collaborated on the San Francisco Children's Oral Health Strategic Plan 2014-2017, aiming to integrate oral health with overall health.
• End Hep C SFmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnd Hep C SF is a collective impact initiative established in 2016 with the goal of eliminating HCV in San Francisco. A collaboration of over 30 community partners including SFDPH, it focuses on community-based HCV testing, linkage to care, treatment access, and preventing new infections.
• SF Hep B FreemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSF Hep B Free is a citywide campaign launched in 2007 to increase public and healthcare provider awareness of hepatitis B, promote HBV testing and vaccination among API persons in San Francisco, and ensure access to treatment for chronically infected individuals.
• UCSF Preterm Birth InitiativemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUCSF's Preterm Birth Initiative supports wide-ranging research aimed at reducing the incidence and burden of preterm birth. It is cited as a key program working to reduce maternal and infant health disparities in San Francisco.
• Black Infant Health ProgrammajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Black Infant Health Program provides support for women most at risk of preterm birth and is referenced as a key San Francisco program working to reduce maternal and infant health disparities alongside SFHIP.
• Our Children Our Families (OCOF) CouncilmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOCOF is a citywide collective impact initiative working with SFHIP on reducing childhood overweight and obesity as a key health indicator. OCOF identified SFUSD weight status as a target for citywide collective impact intervention.
• Our Children Our Families 5-year PlanmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOCOF 5-year Plan aims to reduce maternal and infant health disparities and is cited alongside SFHIP and UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative as citywide partnerships working to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Healthy Chicago Strategic Plan / Chicago Department of Public Health: Chicago's citywide health-equity collaborative that pairs municipal public health with hospital, academic, and community partners around a shared city health improvement plan — structurally similar to SFHIP's collective impact approach.
• Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County: A county-level collective-impact collaborative that convenes hospitals, public health, and community organizations to address health disparities and conduct community health needs assessments — the same structural model SFHIP uses in San Francisco.

Others

• Trust for America's Health: A national nonprofit that translates community-level public-health data into policy and coalition advocacy, paralleling SFHIP's CHNA-to-policy pipeline at the federal level.
• BUILD Health Challenge: A national funder that explicitly supports cross-sector (hospital + public health + community) collective-impact partnerships on community health improvement — operates the same model SFHIP embodies and serves as a potential partner, funder, or peer benchmarking reference.
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): The membership association for local public-health departments, including SFDPH, which supports CHNA processes, cross-sector convening, and health-equity practice — adjacent ecosystem participant with overlapping mandate.
• Prevention Institute: A national nonprofit focused on multi-sector partnerships addressing community health, equity, and upstream determinants — operating similar working-group and collective-impact methodologies as SFHIP.
• Public Health Institute: A statewide nonprofit that builds public-health capacity, partners with local health departments, and operates multi-sector initiatives on health equity — comparable to SFHIP in mission and partner ecosystem, though operating at a larger (state) scale.

Broad incumbents

• Boston Public Health Commission: The City of Boston's local public health authority, which conducts citywide health needs assessments, convenes hospitals and community partners, and operates health-equity initiatives analogous to SFHIP's CHNA and working groups.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

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