What kinds of actions taken now would ensure that community clinics have the leaders they need to meet the impending challenges of coming years? In 2008, two leading health care funders in California—the Blue Shield of California Foundation and the Community Clinics Initiative, a joint project of Tides and The California Endowment—engaged a team of consultants from Informing Change informing change and CompassPoint Nonprofit Services to assess the state of leadership in the community clinics field and answer this question.

Three separate studies were undertaken, and the results of all three are summarized in this publication. Community Clinic Leadership in California: State of the Field and Implications for the Future is a snapshot of the current leadership landscape and calls out important implications for consideration by clinic leaders, their funders and other community clinics stakeholders.