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My CP partner, San Mateo County Health Foundation receives public funding for operational costs only that go directly to programs and services. In addition there are about 5000 residents of the San Mateo community that are donors of the programs that support San Mateo Medical Center. These donors are very generous individuals, such as families, foundations around the bay area, corporations and civic organizations. San Mateo County Health Foundation is overall  an independent, nonprofit organization that relies mostly on contributions from individual donors and foundations that have the capability to fund large-scale health care initiatives for the San Mateo Medical Center. Due the fact that foundations relies heavily on donations there is no application, you can just go on the website, enter credit card information and donate. It is that easy.  This foundation is well established and receives constant funding and donations so therefore there hasn’t been any issues in relation to money. But if in the future there was a decrease in donations and funding then I can definitely see a problem occurring within the foundation, such as lack of services, supplies and employees to fulfill the jobs that run the foundation and clinics.