ADVOCACY
AgeOptions, Inc.
Oak Park, Illinois
$115,000
One-year continued support for the Make Medicare Work Coalition.
Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.
Washington, DC
$60,000
One-year continuation grant to train the National Medicare Alliance and maintain an electronic, searchable database of Medicare appeals decisions.
Children’s Home & Aid Society of Illinois (fiscal agent)
Chicago, Illinois
$12,500
One-year grant to continue the work of Illinois Partners for Human Service to develop advocacy skills for nonprofit organizations in Illinois.
Gerontological Society of America
Washington, DC
$10,000
Six-month grant to initiate a dialogue among Capitol Hill staff and the broader legislative community about aging issues.
Lake County Sponsors
Libertyville, Illinois
$30,000
Nine-month grant to promote community acceptance and zoning approvals for affordable, supportive senior housing.
Mental Health Association of New York City, Inc.
New York, New York
$75,000
One-year grant to provide technical assistance to multiple states working toward effective advocacy for geriatric mental health services.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Inc.
Alexandria, Virginia
$5,000
One-year support of national effort advocating that Americans complete advance directives before a health crisis occurs.
National People’s Action
Chicago, Illinois
$45,000
One-year grant for an advocacy campaign to end predatory payday lending practices targeting senior citizens.
Older Women’s League
Washington, DC
$27,000
One-year grant for a public advocacy campaign to raise awareness of older women’s employment needs.
Public Action Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
$22,150
Six-month grant to train seniors about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs, build a base of activists in Chicago and central Illinois, and develop leadership among members of the Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans.
DIRECT SERVICE
Asian Health Coalition
Chicago, Illinois
$30,000
One-year grant to develop and implement a linguistically and culturally competent colorectal cancer prevention program targeting older Korean-Americans.
Bethel New Life, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
$20,000
One-year grant to provide services to older adults with physical, social, and/or mental impairments to help them remain in community settings.
Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation, Inc
Boca Raton, Florida
$25,000
One-year grant to provide quality care and improved patient outcomes for older adults in an emergency room setting.
Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
One-year continuation grant for an initiative improving the system of resources and services for homeless elders.
Chinese American Service League, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
$35,000
One-year continuation grant to implement the Chinese-language version of Healthy IDEAS for depression screening and intervention of 400 Chinese seniors.
Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana, Inc.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
$25,000
One-year grant to support home-delivered groceries to more than 1,000 low-income, homebound seniors.
Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
Des Plaines, Illinois
$2,395
One-year grant to purchase adaptive equipment for elderly residents with vision loss.
Council on Aging of Martin County, Inc.
Stuart, Florida
$131,440
One-year grant to create a model geriatric specialty clinic located within a senior center.
Eskenazi Health Foundation
Indianapolis, Indiana
$99,515
One-year grant to continue and expand a volunteer guardianship program protecting health, well-being, and safety of isolated, decisionally-incapable, ill seniors.
Franciscan St. Margaret Health
Hammond, Indiana
$30,000
One-year grant to expand a volunteer program serving incapacitated older adults.
Guild for the Blind
Chicago, Illinois
$15,000
One-year grant to teach seniors with vision loss how to use their remaining senses for the safe movement from one place to another.
Korean American Community Services
Chicago, Illinois
$35,000
One-year grant to recruit and train older Korean-American volunteers to assist other Korean elders through community outreach, facilitating educational sessions, and enrolling eligible elders in public benefits programs.
Latino Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Alliance
Norridge, Illinois
$10,000
One-year grant to provide culturally and linguistically competent support group services to caregivers of Latinos with Alzheimer’s disease.
Lincoln Park Village, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
$16,500
One-year grant to provide access to programs, services, and activities for vulnerable elders with modest incomes.
Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly
Palatine, Illinois
$75,000
One-year grant for life safety improvements at a long-term care facility serving low income seniors.
Mercy Housing Lakefront
Chicago, Illinois
$30,000
One-year grant to support care coordinators in two new independent affordable senior living sites.
National Able Network
Chicago, Illinois
$53,275
One-year grant to expand employment and counseling services to low-income seniors.
Northern Illinois Food Bank
Geneva, Illinois
$40,000
One-year grant for program expansion to deliver nutritious food to vulnerable seniors.
PEER Services, Inc.
Evanston, Illinois
$38,500
One-year continuing support for a multi-pronged effort to increase older adults’ access to evidence-based substance abuse treatment.
Personal Assistance Telephone Help, Inc.
Bloomington, Illinois
$50,598
Two-year grant to create a self-neglect response system for older adults in McLean County, Illinois.
Pillars
LaGrange Park, Illinois
$55,000
One-year grant to replicate PEARLS, a model program designed to reduce depressive symptoms among older adults.
Prairie State Legal Services, Inc.
Rockford, Illinois
$32,000
One-year grant to develop a telephone hotline for older adults to improve their access to legal services.
Provena Mercy Medical Center
Aurora, Illinois
$34,962
One-year grant supporting an Advanced Practice Nurse providing program care coordination to persons with dementia and their caregivers.
Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service of South Palm Beach County, Inc.
Boca Raton, Florida
$16,643
One-year grant for continued support of a transportation program that fosters independent living among seniors.
Saint John’s Healing Community Board
Collinsville, Illinois
$19,004
Six-month grant to determine feasibility of opening an adult day service center in southwestern Illinois.
Saint Joseph’s Hospital Inc.
Tampa, Florida
$25,500
One-year grant for a volunteer program providing companionship for unfriended people near death.
Saint Mary’s Parish
West Chicago, Illinois
$12,870
One-year grant for start-up of a Parish Nurse program for low-income, Hispanic elders.
Seniors on a Mission, Inc.
Jacksonville, Florida
$40,200
One-year grant supporting volunteer opportunities that provide a sense of purpose to older adults who live alone.
Sinsinawa Dominicans
Sinsinawa, Wisconsin
$26,085
Six-month grant to purchase equipment for an assisted living community serving women religious.
Social Development Foundation, Inc.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
$25,000
One-year grant to educate, screen, and enroll seniors into benefits programs.
Southeast Lake County Faith in Action Volunteers
Highland Park, Illinois
$6,200
One-year grant to increase number of volunteers and older adult care recipients in a program serving community-based elderly.
Swedish Covenant Hospital
Chicago, Illinois
$40,000
One-year support to expand a home telehealth monitoring program for congestive heart failure patients.
Terra Nova Films, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
$56,400
One-year grant to expand and enhance videos on English and Spanish websites for family caregivers of older adults.
Touchette Regional Hospitals, Inc.
Centreville, Illinois
$40,000
One-year grant to connect low-income seniors in East St. Louis with benefits and resources.
United Community Center, Inc.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
$50,000
Two-year grant to coordinate health and social services at a new medical center serving low-income elderly Latinos.
Western Illinois Area Agency on Aging
Rock Island, Illinois
$35,900
One-year grant to expand the Matter of Balance falls prevention program across 13 mostly rural, west-central Illinois counties.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING
American Academy of Home Care Physicians
Edgewood, Maryland
$69,576
One-year grant to improve efficiency and effectiveness of home-based primary care practices serving frail elders.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
$41,139
One-year grant to train home care aides and the seniors they serve about proper nutrition and healthy meal preparation.
Easter Seals, National Office
Chicago, Illinois
$186,012
Two-year grant for a training program to transform the culture of adult day services to deliver person-centered care.
HealthCare Chaplaincy, Inc.
New York, New York
$75,000
One-year grant supporting the creation of a training program to prepare chaplains for national certification in palliative care.
Horizon Hospice & Palliative Care
Chicago, Illinois
$60,192
One-year grant to educate staff at Rush University Medical Center about hospice care to assure success of new in-patient hospice unit at Rush.
International Honor Society of Nursing Foundation
Indianapolis, Indiana
$136,035
Two-year grant to train and support nurses for leadership and improved care delivery in geriatric settings.
Life Quality Institute, Inc.
Denver, Colorado
$33,494
Sixteen-month grant to deliver palliative care education to healthcare and senior service professionals in rural Colorado.
Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation
Evergreen Park, Illinois
$9,600
One-year grant to support training and certification of staff members in hospice and palliative care.
National Center for State Courts
Williamsburg, Virginia
$186,603
Two-year continuation grant to provide resources on aging issues, elder abuse, and guardianship to state judges and court personnel.
Pioneer Network in Culture Change
Chicago, Illinois
$178,750
Eighteen-month grant to promote the use of MDS3 resident preference data for enabling long-term care culture change.
Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care
Park Ridge, Illinois
$273,395
Three-year grant to build capacity of four nursing homes for persons with advanced dementia, and develop a self-sustaining, specialized dementia care program.
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$146,454
Three-year grant for online database to assist rehabilitation clinicians working with older adult patients.
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
$91,548
Two-year grant to address older adult substance abuse and medication misuse with an intervention and education protocol.
Treasure Coast Hospice
Stuart, Florida
$156,000
One-year continuation grant to expand a palliative care program in area nursing homes.
RESEARCH
Brown University
Providence, Illinois
$75,710
One-year grant for research on the prevalence and impact of billing Medicare beneficiary stays as outpatient observation.
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
$25,000
One-year grant to design an evaluation method for studying outcomes of a required interdisciplinary geriatric team training curriculum.
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota
$99,988
One-year grant to study precursors and consequences of leptin signaling in immunosenesence.
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
$54,491
Eighteen-month grant to study the impact of mindfulness training on well-being of persons with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$132,000
Two-year grant for research to test replication strategies for Fit and Strong, an evidence-based exercise program for older adults with osteoarthritis.
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland
$207,472
Eighteen-month grant for the first national, longitudinal study of health and cost consequences of inappropriate use of psychopharmacological medications for nursing home residents.
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
$137,650
Eighteen-month grant to test the feasibility of a model, faith-based collaborative addressing depression in low-income African-American elders.
SPECIAL INITIATIVES
National Council on Aging, Inc.
Washington, DC
$1,125,000
Three-year special initiative to enhance the development of a new comprehensive model of assisting older adults to become more economically secure by creating, testing, and evaluating new technology tools for service providers and consumers.
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation
Portland, Oregon
$597,765
Three-year special initiative to advance end-of-life care by catalyzing the spread of POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) across the United States through small grants, technical assistance and national program office support.
ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING
Aging Care Connections
La Grange, Illinois
$49,830
One-year grant to plan and launch a capital campaign.
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, Illinois-St. Scholastica Monastery
Chicago, Illinois
$35,500
Six-month grant to evaluate resource development practices, improve development infrastructure, and increase donor revenue.
Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly
Chicago, Illinois
$26,000
One-year grant for a needs assessment and strategic planning.
Counseling Center of Lake View
Chicago, Illinois
$5,000
Six-month grant to assess, identify, and prioritize areas for growth in organizational capacity building.
$51,782
One-year grant for information technology enhancements and new staffing structures to increase billing efficiency.
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly
Chicago, Illinois
$51,459
One-year grant to create and implement a marketing plan.
Northwest Side Housing Center
Chicago, Illinois
$20,000
One-year grant to develop and implement a strategic plan.
Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda Home
Chicago, Illinois
$12,400
One-year grant to develop and implement planned giving.
PeopleCare, Inc.
Riverside, Illinois
$5,000
Five-month grant for resource development consultation.
Reba Place Church
Evanston, Illinois
$3,000
Six-month grant to assess, identify, and prioritize areas for growth in organizational capacity building.
Senior Aid
Chicago, Illinois
$3,000
Six-month grant to assess, identify, and prioritize areas for growth in organizational capacity building.
ACCESSIBLE FAITH PROGRAM
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
Chicago, Illinois
$10,350
Eighteen-month grant to renovate a restroom for accessibility.
Carter Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Chicago, Illinois
$30,000
Eighteen-month grant to replace chairlifts with exterior enclosed platform lift.
Epworth United Methodist Church
Elgin, Illinois
$19,812
Eighteen-month grant to renovate two restrooms for accessibility and purchase assistive listening devices.
Euclid Avenue United Methodist Church
Oak Park, Illinois
$10,844
One-year grant to purchase and install multi-media projection screen.
First Baptist Church
Aurora, Illinois
$30,000
Eighteen-month grant to install exterior enclosed LU/LA elevator to create accessible entrance and provide vertical accessibility.
Notre Dame de Chicago, Illinois Church
Chicago, Illinois
$30,000
Eighteen-month grant to construct a three-stop elevator addition.
Oak Lawn Bible Church
Oak Lawn, Illinois
$27,149
Eighteen-month grant to replace obsolete vertical platform lift.
Oakdale Covenant Church
Chicago, Illinois
$19,100
Eighteen-month grant to replace obsolete platform lift.
Our Lady of Peace Church
Chicago, Illinois
$6,000
One-year grant to install automatic entrance door and repair broken sidewalk.
Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica Parish
Chicago, Illinois
$19,700
Eighteen-month grant to renovate restrooms for accessibility.
Our Lady of the Snows Parish
Chicago, Illinois
$7,334
One-year grant to update sound and assistive listening system.
Saint Joseph Church
Richmond, Illinois
$26,362
Eighteen-month grant to replace obsolete chairlift with vertical platform lift and restripe parking lot to meet accessibility requirements.
Saint Mark Parish
Chicago, Illinois
$23,383
Eighteen-month grant to construct walkway, entrance ramp, and entrance door for accessibility.
Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church of Evanston
Evanston, Illinois
$30,000
Eighteen-month grant to construct ramp at main entrance.
Sixth Grace Presbyterian Church
Chicago, Illinois
$11,698
Eighteen-month grant to construct two new accessible restrooms.
MEMBERSHIPS/PHILANTHROPY
AcademyHealth
Washington, DC
$1,000
Six-month grant to sponsor a colloquium on long-term care.
Alliance for Aging Research
Washington, DC
$30,000
One-year grant for 2011 program support.
Council on Foundations
Arlington, Virginia
$12,825
One-year grant for 2011 program support.
Donors Forum
Chicago, Illinois
$6,170
One-year grant for 2011 program support.
The Foundation Center
New York, New York
$12,000
One-year grant for 2011 program support.
Grantmakers in Aging
Dayton, Ohio
$10,000
One-year support of annual conference, “Aging Power: Building on the Strengths of Individuals, Organizations, and Communities.”
Grantmakers in Health
Washington, DC
$12,000
One-year grant for 2011 program support.
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
Washington, DC
$15,000
One-year grant for 2011 program support.