The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants $498,000 to promote Latino health.
Satélite Radio Bilingüe celebrates its fifth anniversary on September 16, 1998 with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for $498,000 to produce and distribute health information to underserved populations. A compelling series tackling the woes of children's health will kick off the new programs. The programs will be carried on Radio Bilingüe's five stations in the Salinas, San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys and on Satélite Radio Bilingüe's affiliates throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico. The grant also provides for twelve KU-Band downlinks for radio stations wanting access to that live, interactive programming.
Since 1992, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has supported Radio Bilingüe's establishment of a national health news desk and series of talk shows. As a result, high quality, relevant health programs, produced at Radio Bilingüe studios in Fresno and San Francisco are reaching thousands of listeners nationwide. Health stories are broadcast regularly on Noticiero Latino, Radio Bilingüe's news service, and live phone-in discussions can be heard on Línea Abierta, the weekday talk show.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, NJ, is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. It became a national institution in 1972 with receipt of a bequest from the industrialist whose name it bears, and has since made more than $2.6 billion in grants. The Foundation concentrates its grantmaking in three goal areas: to assure that all Americans have access to basic health care at reasonable cost; to improve the way services are organized and provided to people with chronic health conditions; and to reduce the personal, social, and economic harm caused by substance abuse - tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs.
Radio Bilingüe is the United States' successful Latino public radio network. Radio Bilingüe is a non-profit five-station organization founded in 1976 to provide farm workers and low-income people with relevant educational, informational and cultural programming. Through Satélite Radio Bilingüe, the network provides audiences with 24 hours of bilingual programming 7 days a week on two satellites with a footprint encompassing the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Northern Mexico and the Hawaiian Islands.