Access Community Health Network $60,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant to establish an interdisciplinary geriatric primary care center for low-income seniors on Chicago's south side.

Advocate Charitable Foundation $63,938
Park Ridge, Illinois

Two-year grant in partial support of a palliative care demonstration project to more effectively meet the needs of patients and their families.

Alliance for Aging Research $15,000
Washington, DC

One-year grant for a congressional briefing and paper on three diseases that can cause falls in the elderly - vertigo, sarcopenia, and restless leg syndrome.

Alzheimer's Family Care Center $55,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant to replace a van to transport adult day service clients.

American Indian Center $152,754
Chicago, Illinois

Two-year grant to establish an Elders Program for Native American seniors in the Chicago area.

Association for Individual Development $16,361
Aurora, Illinois

One-year grant to purchase multiple assistive devices for seniors living in supportive living arrangements.

Boca Raton Community Hospital Foundation $25,000
Boca Raton, Florida

One-year partial support of an electrophysiology program for the diagnosis and comprehensive treatment for electrical disturbances of the heart.

Cambodian Association of Illinois $1,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant in support of thirtieth anniversary celebration, 30 Years Past and Looking Ahead.

Casa Central $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

Partial fourth year support for the West Town/Logan Square Senior Center.

Center of Concern $30,000
Park Ridge, Illinois

One-year grant for the outreach and counseling service which reaches over 300 seniors annually.

Christ Episcopal Church $26,743
Waukegan, Illinois

One year grant to train volunteers to deliver a home safety program aimed at preventing falls among the frail elderly.

Community Care Options $90,000
Berwyn, Illinois

Three-year grant to hire a half-time facilitator to expand the Wraparound program serving seniors in the Berwyn-Lyons Township of Southwest Cook County.

Community Care Organizations, Inc. $142,387
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Two-year grant to document the feasibility of offering chronic disease self-management as a reimbursable service under Wisconsin’s Medicaid-Waiver long-term care program.

Community Research, Resource, Information and Services for Seniors $85,564
Danville, Illinois

Two-year grant to conduct a public awareness campaign on elder abuse.

Concerned Scientists in Aging and Students for Social Security $30,000
San Francisco, California

One-year grant to inform academics and students about Social Security - its structure, its beneficiaries, and the impact of proposed changes.

Cornell University $204,203
Oriskany, New York

Three-year grant to develop a virtual home, available via the internet and a CD-rom, that will illustrate solutions to home safety and functional problems for people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Guild for the Blind $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

Third-year support of an education and training program for elderly with new vision loss.

Health and Medicine Policy Research Group $105,742
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant for research and analysis of best practices to support Illinois' efforts to rebalance its long-term care system and make it more accessible.

Healthcare Consortium of Illinois $50,000
Dolton, Illinois

One-year grant for a caregiver support project that partners with churches to identify caregivers and involves agency staff in linking caregivers to services and volunteer respite care provided by churches.

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society $10,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant in support of SafetyNet: The Senior Citizen Project, which assists elderly refugees and immigrants.

Jewish Family and Vocational Services $113,580
Louisville, Kentucky

Three-year grant to create a volunteer program to serve the elderly, including expansion of transportation and personal support services.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation $300,000
Chicago, Illinois

Three-year grant to provide technical assistance, predevelopment assistance, and access to financing for community-based developers to create 500 or more units of affordable senior housing.

Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County, Inc. $45,000
West Palm Beach, Florida

One year in continued support of mental health programs for seniors in Palm Beach County.

Monastery of Our Lady of Little Citeaux $10,000
Copperhill, Tennessee

One-year grant in program support.

Moultrie County Counseling Center $62,720
Sullivan, Illinois

Two-year grant to continue a new mental health counseling and case management program for the elderly.

Northwest Side Housing Center $45,000
Chicago, Illinois

Three-year partial support to design and implement a new program to assist elder homeowners in renting their income property.

Pension Rights Center $250,000
Washington, DC

Two-year grant in matching funds toward a larger matching grant from the Administration on Aging to create a national single-point-of-entry pension information and assistance service.

Resurrection Home Health Foundation $56,000
Skokie, Illinois

One-year grant to purchase 16 telemonitoring units for homebound long-term care patients with congestive heart failure.

Rush University Medical Center $203,234
Chicago, Illinois

Three-year grant to implement and evaluate a model, interdisciplinary team approach to screening, diagnosis, and treatment of older adults with depression.

Saint Agnes of Bohemia $20,000
Chicago, Illinois

Second year support of church-based senior programming.

Saint Benedict's Abbey $75,000
Atchison, Kansas

An eighteen-month grant to renovate church and guest house for accessibility.

Saint Francis Manor Apartments of Vero Beach, Inc. $26,400
Vero Beach, Florida

One-year grant for kitchen repair.

Saint Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers $300,000
Hammond, Indiana

Three-year grant to develop a model program in which trained volunteers serve as limited guardians for older adults with diminished capacity to make decisions about their own best interests.

Senior Services Associates, Inc. $35,000
Elgin, Illinois

One-year grant to expand its case coordination unit by adding a case manager to the Crystal Lake office.

Statewide Housing Action Coalition $5,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant to provide two trainings on reverse mortgages for housing counselors to enable them to assist older homeowners in making the correct decisions on reverse mortgages.

Wider Opportunities for Women $250,000
Washington, DC

Eighteen-month grant to develop, pilot-test, and evaluate a reliable and realistic base-measure of minimum economic security for older adults.

Women's Center of Jacksonville, Inc. $131,043
Jacksonville, Florida

Two-year grant to provide training on elder abuse, particularly sexual assault and domestic violence, to law enforcement personnel, health and social service providers, and seniors in northeast Florida.

World Relief - Chicago $48,313
Chicago, Illinois

One-year partial support of a project addressing the mental health, material, and cultural integration needs of refugee and immigrant older adults.

Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly $172,818
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eighteen-month grant to develop an ethics education program for long-term care administrators and staff.

National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform $87,955
Washington, DC

One-year grant to give families, residents, and advocates information on specific best-practices in person-directed care and strategies to get these practices adopted in nursing homes around the United States.

National Senior Citizens Law Center $120,000
Washington, DC

Two-year grant to evaluate nursing home admission agreements to ensure that they protect consumer rights as required under the Nursing Home Reform Act, Medicaid, and Missouri law.

National Senior Citizens Law Center $200,000
Washington, DC

Two-year grant to expand its technical assistance, training, and public awareness efforts related to preserving Medicaid coverage for low-income frail elders.

Pioneer Network in Culture Change $70,000
Rochester, New York

An eighteen-month grant to expand programs and build the capacity of the organization to meet the growing demand for information and technical assistance on culture change.

Providence Retirement Home $42,880
New Albany, Indiana

One-year grant to help convert 14 residential rooms into skilled nursing rooms.

Catholic Elder Community $10,000
St. Petersburg, Florida

One-year planning grant to study the feasibility of developing an affordable, supportive housing community with opportunities for spiritual growth and lay ministry.

Federation of Communities in Service, Inc. (FOCIS) $123,770
Abingdon, Virginia

Two-year grant to facilitate replication of the ElderSpirit co-housing community concept in six new locations.

Franciscan Friars Assumption BVM Province $65,000
Franklin, Wisconsin

One-year grant for software and consultants to help the Province begin and successfully complete a five-year, $3 million capital campaign to finance operating shortfalls and building renovations for the care of aging religious.

Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Mary's Home $100,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant to update fire safety equipment in St. Mary's Home and to complete structural repairs to Jugan Terrace, an independent apartment complex.

Provena Senior Services $300,000
Mokena, Illinois

Three-year grant in partial support of a model for expansion of facilities undergoing culture change within a multi-facility long-term care system.

Sisters of Saint Francis $96,000
Oldenburg, Indiana

One-year grant to upgrade five elevators in the Motherhouse on the campus of Sisters of St. Francis.

American Society on Aging $7,500
San Francisco, California

Four-month grant in support of a business forum on aging and travel stipends for semi-finalists in Boomer Business Plan Challenge.

Executive Service Corps of Chicago $45,054
Chicago, Illinois

Third-year support to refine their performance coaching practice and make further progress in sustaining it.

Johns Hopkins University $95,807
Baltimore, Maryland

One-year grant for the first year of a five-year longitudinal study evaluating the health promotion effects of the Experience Corps on its older adult volunteers.

Spoon River College $20,020
Canton, Illinois

One-year grant to recruit, train, and support retirees to serve as leaders and consultants for the local community, the regional economy, and for each other.

 

Alliance for Aging Research $15,000
Washington, DC

One-year grant in partial support of the "Aging Research on the Threshold of Discovery" survey and report to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.

Alliance for Aging Research $30,000
Washington, DC

One-year grant for continued program support.

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging $75,065
Washington, DC

One-year grant to develop case studies of three unique models in Denver of service-enriched independent senior living, and to assess the feasibility of conducting an outcome evaluation comparing the results of the different approaches for seniors.

Benjamin Rose Institute $245,119
Cleveland, Ohio

Thirty-month grant to examine the relationship between cognitive impairment and the ability of the care receiver to provide consistent and reliable information.

Council for Jewish Elderly $9,576
Chicago, Illinois

Six-month grant for a pilot project to develop an instrument to assess older adults' risk of self-neglect.

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America $10,000
Boca Raton, Florida

One-year grant for continuing research investigating how short telomeres affect the screening of ulcerative colitis and the development of cancer.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation $40,000
Hollywood, Florida

One-year grant to develop a simple, inexpensive blood test to identify individuals at risk of heart attack.

Health and Disability Advocates $75,000
Chicago, Illinois

Third-year support of the Medicaid Leadership Group that is examining healthcare funding structure in Illinois, focusing on how local, state, and federal funding policies interact with one another.

Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr. Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute $132,600
Tampa, Florida

Three-year grant to determine if booster sessions of cognitive rehabilitation, in conjunction with medication, can decrease the rate of cognitive and functional decline in patients with Alzheimer's.

National Consumer Law Center $100,000
Boston, Massachusetts

One-year grant in partial support of research and advocacy to facilitate administrative, budgetary, and legislative changes protecting seniors from abusive creditors and credit counselors.

South Austin Coalition Community Council $26,400
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant in support of a community needs assessment to document the issues facing grandparents raising grandchildren and to make policy and program recommendations.

University of Illinois at Chicago $64,386
Chicago, Illinois

Two-year grant for a pilot study to determine whether playing a musical instrument contributes to better cognitive functioning in later life.

University of Kentucky Research Foundation $174,644
Lexington, Kentucky

A fifteen-month grant for the final phase of the national public guardianship study, examining six additional jurisdictions.

Alzheimer's Association $10,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant in partial support of education and distribution costs of PBS special on Alzheimer's Disease.

American Psychological Association $10,000
Washington, DC

One-year grant to plan a national conference on training models in professional geropsychology.

Catholic Medical Students Association $2,500
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant to purchase and distribute ethics books to medical students.

Center for Economic and Policy Research $30,000
Washington, DC

One-year grant in partial support of education to increase public knowledge about the status of Social Security and about the benefits and risks of alternatives for handling these challenges.

Center for Economic and Policy Research $35,000
Washington, DC

Nine-month grant in support of a series of four to six press breakfast panel discussions on Social Security for national media.

The Century Foundation $15,000
New York, New York

One-year support for a Social Security public education project.

Deborah's Place $10,000
Chicago, Illinois

Six-month grant to plan and conduct an educational program for staff to provide them with information and skills to serve an aging population.

DePaul University $40,000
Chicago, Illinois

Second-year support of eight public service law interns working with agencies serving the elderly.

Dystonia Medical Research Foundation $2,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant to reprint a brochure on Blepharospasm and create a fact sheet.

Generations United $15,000
Washington, DC

One-year partial support for a housing symposium to increase the availability of housing for grandparents and other relatives raising grandchildren.

Grantmakers in Aging $7,500
Dayton, Ohio

Partial support of 2005 annual conference, Aging with Attitude: Transforming our Communities and our Nation.

Heather Hill Hospital, Health and Care Center $48,400
Chardon, Ohio

One-year grant to produce a training video on Dementia Care Mapping and train at least 800 practitioners.

Institute for America's Future $25,000
Washington, DC

One-year grant to create, produce, and distribute Social Security fact sheets.

Institute for Women's Policy Research $30,000
Washington, DC

One-year grant for information dissemination and analysis on the impact on women of proposed Social Security changes.

National Conference of State Legislatures $55,926
Denver, Colorado

One-year grant to educate state lawmakers on the complex issues facing grandparents and other relatives raising grandchildren.

Northwestern University $150,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant to adapt an established curriculum on palliative and end-of-life care for healthcare professionals working in long-term care facilities.

Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute $250,000
Bronx, New York

Two-year grant for research, education, and advocacy promoting state policies to extend health coverage to direct care workers in the long-term care industry.

Polisher Research Institute $21,410
North Wales, Pennsylvania

One year grant for a student award program designed to attract students to the study of geropsychology.

Spry Foundation $141,760
Washington, DC

An 18-month grant to develop, implement, and evaluate a model training program to enhance communication skills of direct care workers in community-based agencies.

Terra Nova Films $40,000
Chicago, Illinois

A six-month grant for the first phase of an initiative to bring training tapes on aging to wider audiences through the use of new technology.

Terra Nova Films $15,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant in partial support of integration of the Silver Images Film Festival into the Chicago International Film Festival.

Visual Aid Volunteers of Florida, Inc. $1,500
Switzerland, Florida

Partial support of 2006 conference to train braillists.

Wayne State University $22,935
Detroit, Michigan

One-year grant for 2005 continuing education conference on diagnosis and treatment of mild cognitive impairment.

Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc. $55,000
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Two-year grant to provide aging-related educational internships to ten of Wisconsin's private college students during the summer of 2006 and the 2006-07 academic year.

Council on Foundations $18,400
Washington, DC

For support of programs for the year 2005.

The Foundation Center $10,000
New York, New York

One-year support of the Center's information resources and services in 2005.

Gerontological Society of America $64,811
Washington, DC

Two-year grant to develop an online clearinghouse for matching internships in aging with students and recent graduates seeking hands-on experience in the field.

Grantmakers in Health $12,000
Washington, DC

For support of programs for the year 2005.

Independent Sector $8,622
Washington, DC

For support of programs for the year 2005.

Lyric Opera of Chicago $10,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant in partial support of the annual Seniors Matinee.

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation $1,000
Ridgefield, Connecticut

One-year grant for program support.

Grandfamilies Program of Chicago $57,918
Chicago, Illinois

Two-year grant for board development and strategic planning.

Illinois Adult Day Services Association $55,000
Chicago, Illinois

Two-year grant to institute basic management practices and implement a strategic planning process.

Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs $75,000
Winnetka, Illinois

Two-year grant to create a Development Department and hire development staff.

LaSalle Foundation $34,132
Chicago, Illinois

Three year grant to hire a volunteer coordinator and improve the recruitment, management, and overall experience of senior center volunteers.

Meals on Wheels Foundation of Cook County $75,000
Chicago, Illinois

Two-year grant to hire a Director of Development to enable this public awareness program to become financially independent and stronger in its ability to raise funds for the Community Nutrition Network, which provides home-delivered meals.

Metro Seniors in Action $75,000
Chicago, Illinois

Three-year grant to further strengthen infrastructure, focusing on improving financial development and management.

National Training and Information Center $95,000
Chicago, Illinois

Three-year grant to improve resource development and financial management.

Senior Home Sharing, Inc. $76,000
Wheaton, Illinois

Three-year grant to improve resource development and implement a comprehensive fundraising plan.

White Crane Wellness Center $75,000
Chicago, Illinois

Three-year grant to improve marketing of its adult day program and the agency’s financial management.

 

Adas Yeshurun Anshe Kannesses Israel $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to install an elevator.

Edgewater Presbyterian Church $13,900
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support construction of an accessible restroom.

First Christian Church of Chicago Heights $25,000
Chicago Heights, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support installation of a platform lift and renovation of a restroom for accessibility.

Messiah-St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support installation of a platform lift, construction of a ramp, and provision of new fire doors with accessible panic bars.

Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church $8,400
Oak Lawn, Illinois

An 18-month grant to renovate two restrooms for accessibility.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Church $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18 month grant to install an elevator and remodel two restrooms to meet ADA requirements.

Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support installation of an elevator, construction of an accessible entrance, and renovation of restrooms for accessibility.

Resurrection Lutheran Church and School $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support installation of an elevator.

Saint Ann Catholic Church $11,433
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support installation of a platform lift.

Saint Anne Catholic Church $5,000
Hazel Crest, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support construction of a new accessible restroom.

Saint Bartholomew $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support installation of an elevator.

Saint Cornelius Parish $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

One-year grant for installation of a parish hall elevator.

Saint Gertrude Parish $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to install a chair lift.

Saint Giles Church $24,500
Oak Park, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support renovation of restrooms for accessibility.

Saint John Cantius Church $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to renovate two restrooms for accessibility and install a platform lift.

Saint John's United Church of Christ $17,777
Bensenville, Illinois

An 18-month grant to install a platform lift.

Saint Joseph Church $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support construction of an elevator addition with a ramped entrance and new accessible restrooms.

Saint Mark's Episcopal Church $25,000
Evanston, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support renovations of restrooms for accessibility and installion of a platform lift.

Saint Kevin's Church $25,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to renovate two restrooms for accessibility and install a platform lift.

Saint Peter's Episcopal Church $10,000
Chicago, Illinois

An 18-month grant to support renovation of a restroom for accessibility.

Thornton United Methodist Church $7,214
Thornton, Illinois

One-year grant to support design services for an overall accessibility plan and to purchase and install assistive listening and projection systems.

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