The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati has formed the Health Foundation Fund, a public charity that makes it easier to accept funding for projects that aren't paid for entirely by the foundation.

        The Health Foundation Fund's first project is the Homeless Management Information System, which was recently awarded a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the largest grant HUD has awarded nationally for such a project.

        Through the project, the fund and its community partners will develop a computer system to be used by 40 homeless services agencies to handle referrals and eliminate redundant intake and screening procedures.

        The Health Foundation Fund also has assumed operation of the Assistance for Substance Abuse Prevention Center, created by the Health Foundation three years ago to provide research and technical support to grassroots organizations involved in alcohol and drug addiction.

        The Health Foundation itself gives more than $11 million a year to programs dealing with severe mental illness, substance abuse, school-based health and care for the poor.

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