The Kaiser Foundation is a mental health organization based in

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. Its stated mission is to assist individuals and communities in preventing and reducing the harm associated with problem substance use and addictive behaviours. Although founded by a related person, it is not the same organisation as the

Kaiser Family Foundation KFF, which was formerly known as The Kaiser Family Foundation or The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, is an American non-profit organization, non-profit organization, headquartered in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. It prefers KFF, w ...

based in the

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. It was founded in 1985 by Edgar Kaiser Jr.

External links

Kaiser Foundation

BC Business Online - The Reinvention of Edgar Kaiser Jr. 2010-12-01
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