Foundations Provide Support to Ensure Stimulus Funds Are Put to Good Use

As federal economic-stimulus money flows through states and cities, some foundations are making grants to ensure it is put to good use.

One major effort is taking place in California, where the California HealthCare Foundation, in Oakland, is helping the cash-strapped state take advantage of its share of roughly $36-billion in stimulus spending through 2016 to expand the health-care system's use of information technology­.

"We see it as an unprecedented opportunity given

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