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Accessible Faith Grant Program
Carey Tercentenary AME Church
$30,000
Chicago, Illinois
An 18-month grant to install an enclosed platform lift that will provide access to all three levels of the building.
Community Presbyterian Church at Mount Prospect
$30,000
Mount Prospect, Illinois
An 18-month grant to install a platform lift for access to the lower-level event hall, kitchen, and classrooms.
Epiphany Parish
$30,000
Chicago, Illinois
An 18-month grant to install two ramps for access to the church and community center.
Our Lady of Peace Church
$19,650
Chicago, Illinois
An 18-month grant to install a platform lift that will provide access between the sanctuary and lower-level meeting rooms.
Saint Catherine of Siena-Saint Lucy Parish
$30,000
Oak Park, Illinois
An 18-month grant to construct a concrete ramp that will create an accessible entrance.
Saint Hedwig Catholic Church
$30,000
Chicago, Illinois
An 18-month grant to install a ramp at one entrance of the church and install an exterior vertical platform lift at the Pastoral Center.
Saint John de la Salle Catholic Church
$7,766
Chicago, Illinois
An 18-month grant to install a platform lift that will provide access to all three levels of the building.
Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Church
$30,000
Forest Park, Illinois
An 18-month grant to install an enclosed lift for access from the sanctuary to the second floor of the parish hall.
Saint Luke Church of God in Christ
$26,000
Chicago, Illinois
An 18-month grant to upgrade an elevator that will meet revised code requirements and provide access to the lower level multi-purpose room.
Saint Mark United Church of Christ
$13,000
Chicago Heights, Illinois
An 18-month grant to remove the existing hazardous parking lot and replace it with one that is safe and accessible.
Saint Odilo Church
$9,835
Berwyn, Illinois
An 18-month grant to install a platform lift that will provide access to the social hall used for most events.
Salem United Church of Christ
$11,625
Oak Lawn, Illinois
An 18-month grant to construct a new accessible unisex, single occupancy restroom.
Advocacy
American Academy of Home Care Physicians
$19,500
Edgewood, Maryland
Three-month grant for grassroots advocacy to promote payment for home-based medical care under Medicare.
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
$15,000
Washington, DC
One-year grant to protect and advocate for the civil rights of low-income older persons with mental illness.
Central Illinois Organizing Project
$35,000
Bloomington, Illinois
One-year grant to continue to empower and advocate with older adults to protect against housing foreclosure and predatory lending.
Economic Opportunity Institute
$75,000
Seattle, Washington
One-year grant to continue developing, coordinating, and implementing policy for a universal retirement savings account program in several states.
Health & Disability Advocates
$34,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to continue serving as the policy leader for the Make Medicare Work Coalition that assures federal and state programs provide meaningful benefits for all Medicare consumers, especially those most vulnerable.
Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital, Inc.
$35,000
East St. Louis, Illinois
One-year grant to expand case management, information and referral, counseling, and assistance for low-income elderly to assist them in obtaining health care and other benefits.
Long Term Care Community Coalition
$34,925
New York, New York
One-year grant for advocacy to assure proper use of civil monetary penalties for improving long-term care quality.
National Senior Citizens Law Center
$98,477
Washington, DC
One-year grant to assure access to Medicaid benefits for low-income elderly and disabled adults.
Northwest Side Housing Center
$15,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to create a task force that will establish and implement methods to secure and maintain vacant homes to protect older residents.
Pension Rights Center
$1,000
Washington, DC
Six-month grant in support of a symposium introducing principles for a new retirement system.
Public Action Foundation
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to continue a statewide Medicare prescription drug advocacy and education campaign.
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Inc.
$35,000
Chicago, Illinois
Six-month grant to continue advocacy to preserve housing for low-income Chicago seniors.
Continuing Education
AgeOptions
$2,182
Oak Park, Illinois
Six-month partial support to train 150 direct service professionals about new benefit programs for elders impacted by the economic downturn.
American Psychological Association
$21,600
Washington, DC
One-year grant to continue an awards program focusing on the psychology of aging.
Chinese American Service League $50,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to translate Healthy IDEAS, a depression screening/management program, into Chinese.
Jesuit High School
$75,000
New Orleans, Louisiana
Grant to develop and/or maintain projects, programs, courses, lectures, expenses, etc. that are related to student activities in the fields of gerontology/geriatrics.
Loyola University Medical Center
$76,496
Maywood, Illinois
One-year grant for an online educational program for nurse practitioners on palliative care for nursing home residents and their families.
Lutheran Services in Iowa, Inc.
$2,300
Des Moines, Iowa
One-year grant for a training program for home health care workers.
Miami University Scripps Gerontology Center
$34,928
Oxford, Ohio
Second-year support to implement distance learning courses that teach nursing home staff and supervisors methods to improve incontinence care, mealtime assistance, and interventions for nursing home residents.
Pioneer Network in Culture Change
$98,912
Rochester, New York
One-year grant to develop, demonstrate, and disseminate a low-cost replicable process for implementing incremental environmental changes that promote person-centered care in nursing homes.
Terra Nova Films $37,586
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to expand and enhance a website for family caregivers.
UWM Foundation, Inc.
$19,500
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
One-year grant to disseminate TimeSlips, a program to engage persons with dementia.
Women's Health Foundation
$8,247
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to disseminate pelvic health educational information to older women.
Direct Support to Vulnerable Seniors
A Day in Time, Inc.
$10,000
East Troy, Wisconsin
One-year grant for outreach and education efforts targeting rural caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease.
AgeOptions
$47,000
Oak Park, Illinois
One-year grant to build capacity of service providers and advocates to assist vulnerable seniors with benefits.
Aging Care Connections
$35,000
La Grange, Illinois
One-year grant to continue a coordinated care program for elderly transitioning from one care setting to another.
Areawide Council on Aging of Broward County, Inc.
$30,000
Sunrise, Florida
One-year grant to implement a program that reduces fear of falling.
Bethel New Life, Inc. $20,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant for a social model adult day services program serving low-income elderly.
Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services
$15,000
St. Louis, Missouri
One-year grant to assist immigrant elderly with limited English proficiency and multiple disabling conditions become U.S. citizens and access benefit programs.
Boca Raton Community Hospital Foundation
$25,000
Boca Raton, Florida
One-year partial support of patient cardiovascular monitoring system in the emergency department.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
$30,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to purchase a bus to allow low-income elders in affordable housing access to resources and services
Catholic Charities, Inc. - Diocese of Madison
$67,285
Madison, Wisconsin
One-year grant to provide in-home respite care for frail older adults and their caregivers, using teams of volunteers from local congregations.
Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly
$40,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year continuation grant for depression screening and support services for ethnic Chicago seniors.
Companion Day Services, Inc.
$4,000
Marshfield, Wisconsin
One-year grant to support a social model adult day service program serving low-income elderly.
Esteem Music, Inc. $15,000
Lakeland, Florida
Third-year grant to continue and expand a program providing group music lessons to low-income seniors.
Guild for the Blind
$18,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to provide support, education, and training to help seniors with vision loss remain independent and active.
Independent Living Community Services, Inc.
$28,000
Miami, Florida
One-year grant to replicate a program addressing fear of falling.
Lincoln Park Village, Inc.
$15,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to create a membership organization that offers programs and services that enable members to stay in their homes as they age.
Naperville Elderly Homes, Inc.
$20,000
Naperville, Illinois
One-year grant toward the purchase of a wheel-chair accessible bus to help residents of low-income senior housing access basic social and spiritual services.
National Alliance for Caregiving
$15,000
Bethesda, Maryland
One-year grant for a conference on policy issues in family caregiving.
Northern Illinois Food Bank
$15,000
St. Charles, Illinois
One-year grant for monthly food deliveries to 200 low-income elderly.
Northwest Side Housing Center
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
Challenge grant to help ITN Chicago launch volunteer-based transportation services on Chicago's northwest side.
PEER Services, Inc. $35,000
Evanston, Illinois
One-year grant to expand substance abuse treatment program for older adults.
Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service
$24,592
Boca Raton, Florida
Six-month grant for supportive services to frail elderly Holocaust survivors.
Senior Friendship Centers
$54,000
Sarasota, Florida
One-year continued support to transform traditional congregate nutrition sites into “Community Engagement Centers.”
Wisconsin Illinois Senior Housing
$10,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to implement a computer system for enhancing person-centered long-term care in three residential settings.
Membership/Philanthropy
Council on Foundations
$19,620
Arlington, Virginia
Program support for 2009.
Donors Forum $18,487
Chicago, Illinois
Program support for 2009.
The Foundation Center
$12,000
New York, New York
Program support for 2009.
Grantmakers in Aging
$10,000
Dayton, Ohio
Partial support of the 2009 Annual Conference.
Grantmakers in Health
$12,000
Washington, DC
Program support for 2009.
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
$15,000
Washington, DC
Program support for 2009.
Organizational Capacity Building Program
Elderday Center, Inc.
$2,000
Batavia, Illinois
Three-month grant for a Readiness Assessment process to prioritize areas for organizational growth.
Horizon Hospice & Palliative Care
$67,482
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to support training and management needs during the transition to Electronic Medical Records.
Japanese American Service Committee
$24,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to improve board development.
Research
Alliance for Aging Research
$30,000
Washington, DC
One-year grant for continued program support.
Avila Institute of Gerontology, Inc.
$49,900
Germantown, New York
One-year grant to test a computer system designed to facilitate person-centered long-term care.
Heartland Health Outreach, Inc.
$16,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to study the oral health needs of older Chicagoans.
IDEAS Institute
$25,584
Kirtland, Ohio
Six-month grant to test the effect of low-cost environmental interventions on the communication skills of nursing home residents with dementia.
Laity in Support of Retired Priests, Inc.
$40,000
Bonita Springs, Florida
Eighteen-month grant to define a model retirement program for U.S. Diocesan priests.
Thresholds $31,185
Chicago, Illinois
Fourteen-month grant to continue research on an integrated, team-delivered mental and physical healthcare intervention for older adults with severe and persistent mental illness.
Other
Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Joseph's Home for the Elderly
$50,000
Palatine, Illinois
One-year grant to update life-safety systems at a skilled nursing facility.
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