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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.
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