Where We’ve Been
Vesper Society’s projects and relationships have allowed us to serve communities in over 30 countries! We are grateful for the opportunity to have served abroad.
Our founders, Gene Heckathorn and Bob Cummings, grew up in the Bay Area and Pasadena, respectively, and for the next several years Vesper Society will focus on our home base of California.
Vesper Society supports Modoc Medical Center with telehealth diabetes services in a 4,500 square mile reigon of rural northeastern California's Modoc County. (READ MORE)
Conference: International Impact of Emerging Information Technologies. Oct. 1987. Pacific Grove, CA.
Conference: Ways to Peace in Central America and the Caribbean: German-American Perspectives. Sept. 1985. Menlo Park, CA
Conference: Roads to Peace II: National Security, National Interest: Economic and Social Justice Aspects. Jan. 1983. Menlo Park, CA.
Vesper Society provided in-home attendants with day care, enabling frail elderly to stay in their homes.
Vesper Society sponsored senior day care and rehabilitation programs and a residential care for elderly training program. Project Heritage became part of the Easter Seals organization in 1995.
Search Institute, a subsidiary of Vesper Society at the time, conducted these projects to identify key assets needed to support the healthy development of children and youth.
With help from Vesper Society, the Center links faith with health sectors and creates forums for discussion. The Center provides technical assistance and professional development in collaboration with Public Health Institute.
Vesper Society hosted this series where a physician and attorney described the creation of collaborative programs designed to transform inner city neighborhoods into healthy communities.
Vesper Society supported this project that included faith and philanthropic communities and others who recognize the role congregations play in community building and neighborhood revitalization. This project was conducted with San Francisco Foundation.
Vesper Society organized this international conference focusing on models for intergenerational cooperation.
Vesper Society assisted communities in confronting divisive issues and reaching inclusive and sustainable agreements.
Vesper Society provided technical assistance to two East Oakland Hispanic community organizations so they could help new immigrants attain employment.
The hospital opened in 1962 and came under the management of Vesper Society in 1968.
Vesper Society developed a personal emergency response system for the medically vulnerable, isolated elderly, and handicapped individuals. Patients were linked to the hospital by a device added to their telephone.
Vesper Society served terminally ill patients and their families primarily in a home setting. The hospice program became an independent non-profit, named Pathways of the East Bay, in 1995.
Vesper Society provided physicians’ orders in a home setting and a team of health care professionals provided care.
Vesper Society improved the physical well-being of children through enriched meals and education about nutrition and child development. The program was transferred to International Child Resource Institute in 1993.
Vesper Society conducted this series of projects in collaboration with summit Medical Center and Alameda County Public Health Department that focused on prevention, partnership, and wholeness.
Vesper Society provided assistance for people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and their families.
Vesper Society brought together people developing faith and health programs to learn about tools and models for expanding programs and building new partnerships.
The hospital came under the auspices of Vesper Society in 1979 through the acquisition of the former Levine Hospital.
Vesper Society collaborated with the City of Pleasanton to open a senior day care center.
Vesper Society mobilized community assets to improve health among communities in Alameda County by connecting health resources to individuals, congregations, and faith communities. This project was conducted with San Francisco Foundation.
Vesper Society invited individuals from 16 organizations in eight countries (US, Switzerland, Uganda, Germany, Pakistan, UK, Palestine and Mexico) to discuss the Internet’s impact on convening, collaboration, and leadership in faith-based organizations.
Vesper Society supported this conference series where attendees sought to build foundations for stability, security, and peace via discussion on the renewal of the transatlantic partnership.
In this national program, Vesper Society trained leaders to integrate faith values into their work. This program was conducted with the Ecumenical Working Group, a consortium of eight US denominations.
Vesper Society developed this program that provided useful, balanced, and unbiased information on the emerging field of venture philanthropy for human service organizations.
Vesper Society partnered with Sutter Delta Urgent Care Clinic to establish an urgent care clinic providing affordable health care to those with little or no insurance.
Vesper Society funded the development of the Oakley Youth Advisory Council, which provides opportunities for youth leadership and engagement. READ MORE
Vesper Society’s support allows Operation Access to increase access to specialty health care services and donated surgeries for low-income, uninsured people living in East Contra Costa County. READ MORE
Vesper Society supports student interns and faculty building the Interfaith Allies movement on campus by spreading interfaith cooperation, engaging in service, and developing new curriculum. READ MORE
Vesper Society’s support allowed for the expansion of the telehealth program, a critically needed specialty care service in this remote and medically underserved rural, frontier region of Northern California.
Vesper Society assisted in establishing a volunteer house whose residents are assigned placement with nonprofit organizations to work for social justice and the underserved for one year.
Vesper Society supported La Clínica in offering behavioral health services for a new Oakley clinic in East Contra Costa County and for a school-based health center at Havenscourt Middle School in Oakland. READ MORE
Vesper Society supported La Clínica in offering behavioral health services for a new Oakley clinic in East Contra Costa County and for a school-based health center at Havenscourt Middle School in Oakland. READ MORE
Vesper Society supports free dental services for children and youth through age 19 in underserved and low-income communities in Contra Costa County. READ MORE
Vesper Society helped to expand career opportunities for youth through quality training, career, technological, and education services. READ MORE
Vesper Society supported this social justice ministry of the church to address the serious issue of hunger in Imperial County by engaging students and community stakeholders. READ MORE
Vesper Society supported the training of the Youth Intervention Network in the Dialogue for Peaceful Change methodology. This collaboration addressed youth violence in the Antioch community.
Connecting to Care (2011-present). Vesper Society’s support helps Connecting to Care provide unique integrated telebehavioral health clinical services, as well as comprehensive diabetes care, to rural Northern California patients. READ MORE
Vesper Society’s support helps Connecting to Care provide unique integrated telebehavioral health clinical services, as well as comprehensive diabetes care, to rural Northern California patients. READ MORE
Vesper Society collaborated with California Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (CAHSA) to enhance leaders' skills in health care organizations and to apply those values in daily decision-making.
Vesper Society coordinated the efforts of more than 25 faith and community-based organizations in Hayard to provide services addressing health disparities.
Vesper Society support Clinica's comprehensive pediatric asthma program for high-risk patients in Imperial County. READ MORE
Vesper Society supports the expansion of the clinic's chronic disease program for working uninsured patients to include all of San Francisco and San Mateo counties. READ MORE
Vesper Society launched this program to provide comprehensive mental health and case management services to the adolescent population in Hayward, California's sixth largest city.
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