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2007 Grant Listing
IMPROVING
COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL LONG TERM CARE
Comprehensive
Community Programs for Independent Living
American Indian Center $53,500
Chicago, Illinois
Third-year support to continue the “Elders Program” and to develop a
plan for assuring program sustainability.
Apna Ghar, Inc. $42,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year grant to support case management for older adults.
Arab American Family Services $49,200
Burbank, Illinois
One-year
grant for an awareness campaign about barriers to access to community
services needed by elderly Arab-Americans and to provide case management for
those in need.
Benedictine Sisters-St. Scholastica Monastery $35,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year
grant to purchase a wheelchair-accessible minivan for transporting disabled
sisters to medical visits.
Blue Grass Community Foundation $50,000
Lexington,
Kentucky
One-year grant to help establish the site as an affiliate of the Independent
Transportation Network,
a program in which older or visually-impaired persons needing rides can call
in 24/7.
Boca Raton
Community
Hospital
Foundation
$25,000
Boca Raton,
Florida
One-year
grant in support of the cardiac electrophysiology program.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
$20,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year grant
for a public awareness initiative to prepare and distribute a position paper
on seniors in poverty.
Center
of
Concern
$35,000
Park Ridge,
Illinois
One-year
support for the Senior Support and Geriatric Counseling Program.
Center on Halsted $50,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year
grant for expanded services, programming, and outreach to
older adults, including education on aging issues, social activities,
cultural enrichment, linkage and referral, and mental health services.
Central Illinois
Organizing Project $100,000
Bloomington,
Illinois
Two-year
grant to empower and advocate with older adults to protect them from
predatory lending and home foreclosure.
Chicago
Lighthouse for the Blind or
Visually Impaired $150,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Three-year
grant to update broadcasting equipment and expand the geographic area served
to northwestern Indiana
and the southwest
Chicago
suburban area.
ChildServ
$75,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant to expand and enhance programs serving grandparent-headed families.
Chinese Mutual Aid Association $165,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Three-year
grant in partial support to establish the Golden Age Club, a senior program
providing comprehensive senior services to ethnically diverse immigrant and
refugee communities in the Uptown neighborhood of
Chicago.
Eastern
Illinois
University
$68,000
Charleston, Illinois
One-year
grant for the purchase of two delivery vans for the Peace Meal
home-delivered meal program.
Economic Opportunity
Institute $15,000
Seattle, Washington
One-year grant to continue technical assistance to states on developing a
universal retirement savings account system.
Economic Opportunity Institute $150,000
Seattle, Washington
Eighteen-month
grant to implement URSA (universal retirement
savings program) in the state of
Washington and to encourage replication of the model by other states.
Esteem Music, Inc. $37,000
Lakeland,
Florida
One-year
grant to provide recreational music opportunities to enhance the mental and
physical health of low-income seniors at three senior centers in South Florida
.
Ethiopian Community Association of
Chicago $3,860
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant to enroll 50 African-born elderly in a drop-in center offering
culturally sensitive educational, health, recreational, and social
activities.
Federation of Communities in Service, Inc. $68,284
Abingdon,
Virginia
Third-year
support to increase the organization’s capacity to assist emerging groups
in developing ElderSpirit communities.
Grandfamilies Program of Chicago
$69,200
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year
grant to hire a housing coordinator to develop a citywide housing resource
center for grandfamilies and to evaluate the impact of these assistance
programs on the well-being of grandfamilies.
Health and Disability Advocates $250,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year
grant to continue the Make Medicare Work Coalition’s education and
advocacy efforts around the Medicare Prescription Drug (Part D) program and
the State Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs.
Jane Addams Senior Caucus $20,000
Chicago,
Illinois
A
one-year grant for continued advocacy to improve the Back Home Project, a
state initiative to assist seniors to move out of nursing homes.
LifeLine of
Central Florida
$25,000
Orlando,
Florida
One-year
grant for the STEPS program (Suicide Training, Education, Prevention for
Seniors) to increase awareness of the prevalence and warning signs of
suicide among older adults.
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois
$50,000
Des Plaines,
Illinois
One-year
grant to replace a bus used to transport clients of the Adult
Day
Services
Center
in Moline.
Marillac Social Center $26,615
Chicago,
Illinois
Second-year
grant in support of program offering outreach, assistance, and sustenance to
homebound elderly residents of Chicago's west side.
Mental Health Association of Palm Beach
County
$50,000
West Palm Beach,
Florida
One-year grant
to support senior-focused programs and services to promote mental health.
Moultrie
County Counseling Center
$7,256
Sullivan,
Illinois
Six-month grant
for continued support of mental health services program for low-income
elderly.
Music Institute of
Chicago
$16,000
Winnetka,
Illinois
Nine-month
grant to provide music education, performances, and therapy for seniors in
both community and nursing home settings.
National Adult Protective Services Foundation $24,849
Springfield,
Illinois
Nine-month
grant for development of a three-year strategic plan to build capacity to
become a more effective national leader
on elder abuse.
National Family Caregivers Association $64,790
Kensington,
Maryland
Fifteen-month
grant to pilot test the creation of ten geographically organized electronic
communities for family caregiver support.
National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped
$150,000
Denver,
Colorado
Two-year
grant for advocacy to help expand and institutionalize the Donated Dental
Services project, an important national resource for needy elderly, the
disabled, and medically compromised people.
National Indian Council on Aging, Inc. $20,000
Albuquerque,
New Mexico
One-year
grant to support the national conference on Long Term Care in Indian
Country.
Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Inc. $100,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant to provide counseling, technical assistance, and financing for home
modifications and safety, and deferred or forgivable loans to low-income
seniors at risk of losing their ability to stay in their own homes.
Older Women’s League $20,000
St. Louis,
Missouri
One-year grant
to sustain the Midwest Pension Rights project, which provides pension
counseling and benefit recovery to older clients.
Polish American Association $31,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year grant
to conduct twice weekly outreach activities throughout the community to help
seniors maintain optimum physical and mental health.
Public Action Foundation
$33,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year grant to continue a statewide Medicare Prescription Drug Education
and Advocacy Campaign.
Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service $57,728
Boca Raton,
Florida
Two-year
grant to hire a new senior outreach worker to facilitate and expand access
to mental health and care management services for older persons in south
Palm Beach
County.
Saint Andrew’s Resources for Seniors $40,000
Saint Louis,
Missouri
One-year grant
for a home repair program to assist 50 low-income, at-risk seniors in
remaining independent and safe.
Saint Benedict's Abbey $50,000
Atchison,
Kansas
One-year
grant toward capital project to improve accessibility by adding a lift and
an elevator.
Saint Teresa of
Avila
Parish $50,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant to provide improvements to the Church and
Parish
Center and support for the food pantry and other ministries to elderly in
the area.
Sargent
Shriver
National
Center
on Poverty Law, Inc.
$170,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year
grant for a collaborative effort using tenant advocacy and legal tools to
preserve existing affordable senior housing units, and to promote state
policies to preserve low-income housing for seniors into the future.
Senior Friendship Centers $60,000
Sarasota,
Florida
One-year
grant to begin the process of transforming the agency's fifteen senior
dining sites into Community Engagement Centers.
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine $175,035
Lansing,
Michigan
Eighteen-month
grant to develop, implement, and evaluate an internet training program for
optimal emergency care for older patients.
South Grand Senior Ministry $73,000
St. Louis,
Missouri
Two-year
grant to expand services to a broader group of low-income elderly in the
metropolitan
St. Louis
area.
University
of
Chicago $88,453
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant to develop the content and basic functions of a web-based tool to
assist individuals with diabetes and their doctors in making proper choices
for disease management.
University
of
Illinois
at
Chicago
$10,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant in partial support of SHAPE!,
Chicago
Senior Health and Fitness Walk.
World Relief - Chicago $59,831
Chicago,
Illinois
Third-year
support for a program addressing the mental health, material, and cultural
integration needs of older adult refugees.
Independent
Living\Improving Quality of Nursing Home Care
Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Joseph’s
Home for the Elderly $27,500
Palatine,
Illinois
One-year grant
for feasibility study for a capital campaign for building a new home.
University
of California,
Los Angeles $262,010
Los Angeles,
California
Two-year
grant to study the prevalence and risk factors for elder mistreatment in
Residential Care Facilities in Arizona.
University
of
Minnesota $60,000
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
One-year grant to develop and
test the feasibility of using “shared decision-making” to
help frail elders needing long-term care services to make better, more
informed choices.
Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice Foundation, Inc.
$60,000
Vero Beach,
Florida
One-year
grant to upgrade the HVAC system.
Independent
Living\Integrating the Provision of Acute and Long Term Care
Horizon Hospice & Palliative Care $84,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant for planning and implementation of the next phase of the Someone To
Trust program, to increase the number of people and healthcare institutions
who actively use advance care planning in the Chicago metropolitan area.
University
of
Iowa $173,346
Iowa City,
Iowa
Thirty-month
grant to develop and implement an evidence-based training program to teach
all professionals in nursing homes how to provide meaningful activity-based
care for older persons with dementia.
Independent
Living\Maintaining Older People in Residential Settings
National Senior Citizens Law Center $150,000
Washington,
DC
Eighteen-month
grant for advocacy to protect access to Medicaid benefits for older persons
requiring long-term care.
Sinsinawa Dominicans $40,426
Sinsinawa,
Wisconsin
One-year
grant to purchase new furnishings and library materials for elderly Sisters.
EDUCATION
AND TRAINING OF PROFESSIONALS
Alliance
for Aging Research $15,000
Washington,
DC
One-year
grant to support three one-hour presentations on Capitol Hill featuring
reports on post-operative delirium, caregiver mortality, and geriatric oral
health care.
Alzheimer's Association of St. Louis
$90,000
St. Louis,
Missouri
Eighteen-month
grant for
a two-part training project to improve hospital care of persons with
Alzheimer’s or other forms of memory loss.
American Psychological Association $23,600
Washington,
DC
One-year
grant for the 2007 Division 20 student research and mentoring awards program
and the Lawton Award for Distinguished Contributions in Applied Gerontology.
American Society on Aging $10,000
San Francisco,
California
One-year
grant in support of 2007 Chicago Conference.
Boston
College $11,000
Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts
Two-year
grant to initiate a faculty and student awards program for an emerging
professional association, the Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD).
Campaign for Better Health Care $54,500
Champaign,
Illinois
One-year
grant to train and educate faith community leaders and congregants to help
them advocate for accessible and affordable health care for all Illinoisians.
Catholic Medical Students Association $2,500
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant to purchase “Hippocratic and Judeo-Christian Medical Ethics” and
distribute to medical students.
Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly $75,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Second-year
support for education and training to improve identification of and
treatment for depression in ethnic refugee elders from Chinese, Korean,
Polish, and Hispanic communities.
Easter Seals, National Office $219,724
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year
grant to provide training to adult day services and hospice programs about
each others’ roles as a means of improving collaboration on end-of-life
care for the elderly.
Florida
Atlantic
University
$249,558
Fort Lauderdale,
Florida
Two-year
grant to enhance the competency of medical and nurse practitioner students
in diagnosis and treatment of dementia and to understand the roles these
professionals play in delivery of care.
The Generations Project $75,000
Indianapolis,
Indiana
One-year
continued support to
conduct education and empowerment activities for senior citizens, persons
with disabilities, families, local officials, businesses, professionals, and
the media regarding home- and community based services.
Grantmakers in Aging $10,000
Dayton,
Ohio
For partial
support of 2007 Conference -- Breaking
Away:
Charting a New Course in Aging Philanthropy.
Grantmakers in Health $5,000
Washington,
DC
For partial
support of a
Chicago
two-day continuing
education
program on health grantmaking.
Horizon Hospice and Palliative Care
$15,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Three-months
grant as bridge funding to continue the
Someone to
Trust program.
Indiana
University
South Bend $5,500
South Bend,
Indiana
One-year grant
to disseminate training and educational
materials on
suicide in late life.
Iroquois Mental Health Center $8,000
Watseka,
Illinois
One-year grant
to train service providers on substance abuse
in older
adults.
National
Academy
of Social Insurance $110,100
Washington,
DC
Three-year
grant to continue an internship and mentoring
program
to develop young research leaders, focusing on
long-term
care and disability issues as key components in
aging
policies.
National
Alliance
for Caregiving $116,011
Bethesda,
Maryland
Second-year
support to strengthen the ability of local
caregiving
coalitions to become sustainable, effective
advocates.
Northwestern University $10,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Six-month
grant to pilot test the “Education in Person-Centered Palliative End-of-Life
Care for Long-Term Care” curriculum, developed
through an
earlier RRF grant.
Protestants for the Common Good $95,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant to establish a pilot program called the
Academy
for the Common Good, which
will engage older adults
in
education, training, and advocacy on behalf of social justice
for all people.
ROTARY/One Foundation, Inc. $7,680
Chicago,
Illinois
Six-month
grant to support summer employment for three
high
school students in non-profit agencies serving the elderly.
Rush University Medical Center $294,891
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year
grant to develop and test a training program to
advance
the understanding and practices of physicians for
capacity
assessment of older adults, e.g, the determination of
a
person’s ability to make informed decisions.
SPRY Foundation $12,757
Chevy Chase,
Maryland
One-year
grant for evaluation of a training program designed to
increase
the communication skills of direct care workers.
Terra Nova Films $15,000
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year grant
for continuation of the Silver Images Initiative
at the 2007 Chicago
International Film Festival.
The
University
of
Colorado
at
Colorado
Springs $25,000
Colorado Springs,
Colorado
One-year
grant to supplement registration fees for an annual conference
to
bring clinical psychologists the latest knowledge and skills to treat older
patients.
Vanderbilt
University $26,510
Nashville,
Tennessee
One-year
grant to implement a distance learning program
for
nursing home staff, to help them learn strategies to
reduce
incontinence among residents.
Wayne
State University $24,000
Detroit,
Michigan
One-year
grant for a one-day seminar,“New Tools and New Methods
for
Enhancing Mental and Physical Health in Late Life.”
Wisconsin
Foundation for Independent
Colleges, Inc. $65,000
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
Third-year
support of educational internships to
Wisconsin
private
college students, to introduce the field of aging
as
a viable career option.
Women's Center
of
Jacksonville, Inc. $62,548
Jacksonville,
Florida
One-year
grant to continue training and advocacy around the
issues
of elder abuse, with particular emphasis on family and sexual
violence.
Women's Health Foundation $23,675
Chicago,
Illinois
One-year
grant to adapt an evidence-based pelvic fitness and
education
program for use with mobility-limited elderly women suffering
from bladder symptoms.
ROLES
IN SOCIETY
Center for Productive Longevity$5,000
Washington,
DC
Six-month
grant in partial support of meeting to address the issues
of
an aging and shrinking workforce.
Hospice Care Plus $40,000
Berea,
Kentucky
Six-month
grant to develop and implement a volunteer
program
for an inpatient hospice.
ReServe Elder Service, Inc. $50,000
Brooklyn,
New York
One-year
grant to develop approaches to replicate the
“ReServe”
stipended volunteer service model nationally.
Spoon River College $17,500
Canton,
Illinois
Third-year
support of program to recruit, train, and support
retirees
to serve as leaders and consultants for the local
community,
the regional economy, and for each other.
ORGANIZATIONAL
CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVE
Cambodian Association of Illinois $75,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year
grant to add a development director to the staff and to
plan
expanded senior programming.
Escorted Transportation Services Northwest $30,000
Arlington Heights,
Illinois
One-year
grant for organizational development to expand and
sustain
their fundraising, marketing, and training services.
Faith in Action of
McHenry
County $43,925
Crystal Lake,
Illinois
Three-year
grant to develop a public relations and marketing
program,
and to establish a resource development plan.
Family Alliance, Inc. $29,700
Woodstock,
Illinois
One-year
grant for resource and Board development.
Family Service: Prevention, Education & Counseling NFP
$75,000
Highland Park,
Illinois
Two-year
grant to establish a development department to
strengthen
fundraising.
Illinois
Adult Day Services Association $27,500
Chicago,
Illinois
Third-year
grant to continue to professionalize the
management
and governance of the Association.
Meals on Wheels Foundation of Cook
County $75,000
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year
grant for resource development.
National Able Network $80,575
Chicago,
Illinois
Two-year
grant to engage in, and begin implementation of,
a
formal strategic plan to meet the increasing needs of
older
workers more effectively.
Northwest Side Housing Center $93,610
Chicago,
Illinois
Three-year
grant to improve marketing and resource
development
and purchase new technology.
The
Volunteer
Center
of Northwest Suburban Chicago $43,300
Arlington Heights,
Illinois
One-year
grant to develop a succession plan for
executive
staff and complete a staff assessment.