The Retirement Research Foundation
Foundation Reports

President's MessageFinancials2008 Grants2007 Grants 2006 Grants Improving Community And
Institutional Long Term Care
Education And Training
Of Professionals
Roles In SocietyOrganizational Capacity
Building Initiative
Other Miscellaneous GrantsSupporting Research In AgingAccessible Faith

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2006 Grants

Education And Training Of Professionals

American Psychological Association
$25,000
Washington, DC
One-year grant in partial support of a national conference on training models in professional geropsychology.

American Psychological Association
$22,600
Washington, DC
One-year grant for the 2006 Division 20 student research and mentoring awards program.

Catholic Diocese of Belleville
$15,000
Belleville, Illinois
Six-month grant for a two-day conference for service providers on bereavement and grief.

Christian Community Health Fellowship
$92,219
Chicago, Illinois
A 15-month grant for phase one of a three-phase project to bring existing geriatrics training materials to health teams serving low-income elderly at community health centers nationwide.

Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly
$75,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant for education and training to improve identification of and treatment for depression in ethnic refugee elders from Chinese, Korean, Polish, and Hispanic communities.

Deborah's Place
$10,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to develop a manual on the special needs of homeless older women.

Dystonia Medical Research Foundation
$5,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant to include information on aging on their new website.

Florida Atlantic University
$34,106
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Three-year grant to expand enrollment of advanced practice geriatric nursing (APGN) students and support development of leadership abilities in these students.

Florida Atlantic University
$35,000
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
One-year grant to provide first year medical students with clinical experience working with elders in dementia at the Memory and Wellness Center.

The Generations Project
$71,000
Indianapolis, Indiana
First-year support of a three-year project to conduct public education on a new home- and community-based service system for Indiana.

Horizon Hospice & Palliative Care
$30,000
Chicago, Illinois
Six-month planning grant to organize a coalition which will lead a city-wide initiative aimed at increasing the rate of advance care planning and educating professionals involved with these issues.

Institute of Medicine
$200,000
Washington, DC
A fifteen-month grant in partial support of a national consensus study on the health care and workforce needs of an aging population.

National Alliance for Caregiving
$130,683
Bethesda, Maryland
One-year grant to develop effective and sustainable community - based caregiver coalitions, bring the individual coalitions into a national advocacy network, and increase the advocacy skills of coalitions through a training, technical assistance, and educational initiative.

National Indian Council on Aging, Inc.
$15,000
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Four-month grant to support scholarships for the 2006 American Indian and Alaska Native National Conference on Long Term Care.

Older Women's League
$75,000
Arlington, Virginia
One-year grant to conduct a poll of health professionals and the public to gauge current opinions regarding mental health and aging and to design educational materials to address identified misperceptions.

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
$189,668
Wyncote, Pennsylvania
Three-year grant to develop a model for infusing an awareness of aging issues into seminary training and creating a replicable approach for seminaries of diverse faiths.

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.

Terra Nova Films
$225,000
Chicago, Illinois
Two-year grant to adapt educational videos for family and professional caregivers to streaming video technology for easier web-based access.

Terra Nova Films
$15,000
Chicago, Illinois
One-year grant for continuation of the Silver Images Generations Award at the Chicago International Film Festival.

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
$261,173
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Two-year grant for a model training project to develop a Center of Training Excellence that educates home health care service providers in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and nursing to recognize mental illnesses in homebound older adults.

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
$25,000
Colorado Springs, Colorado
One-year grant in partial support of second year of the Clinical Geropsychology Conference Series.

University of Washington
$10,000
Seattle, Washington
Four-month grant to develop and disseminate a consumer-friendly monograph with best practices for implementing proven programs for strength and balance training among seniors.

Visual Aid Volunteers of Florida, Inc.
$1,500
Switzerland, Florida
One-year grant in partial support of 2007 Conference to improve skills of volunteers who produce braille, tape and graphic materials for blind persons within Florida and around the country.

Wayne State University
$262,150
Detroit, Michigan
Two-year grant for a project to increase professional practice skills and competencies of occupational therapists providing services to home bound older adults with physical and mental health limitations.

Wayne State University
$23.628
Detroit, Michigan
One-year grant in support of 2006 continuing education conference on optimizing physical and mental health functioning in older adults.

Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc.
$55,000
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
One-year grant to provide ten educational internships to Wisconsin private college students to introduce the field of aging as a viable career option.

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