The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), or just Kaiser Family Foundation, is a U.S.-based non-profit philanthropic private operating foundation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its focuses on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. A nonprofit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit, non-profit, or NPO) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Philanthropy involves the donation or granting of money to various worthy charitable causes. ... Cafe Borrone, adjacent to the recently re-opened Keplers Books in the Menlo Center, is a popular lunch spot in downtown Menlo Park. ...

KFF develops and runs its own research and communications programs, often in partnership with outside organizations. The Foundation contracts with a wide range of outside individuals and organizations through its programs. Through its policy research and communications programs, the Foundation works to provide reliable information in a health system in which the issues are increasingly complex and the nation faces difficult challenges and choices.

The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries. The Foundation was established in 1948 by Henry J. Kaiser. Henry J. Kaiser perches above Hawaii Kai in April 1963, his suburban development in Honolulu. ...

External links

• Kaiser Family Foundation
• The Kaiser Family Foundation's Role in Today's Health Care System
• kaisernetwork.org
• kaiserEDU.org
• statehealthfacts.org
• GlobalHealthReporting.org
• GlobalHealthFacts.org