2022 Grants
Advocacy
Alivio Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
$85,000
An 18-month grant to address the healthcare coverage gap in Illinois for low-income, immigrant adults, age 65 and over.
Florida Health Justice Project, Inc.
Miami, Florida
$52,498
A one-year grant to address barriers in Florida’s Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services system by expanding coverage, improving access, and ensuring transparency and due process.
The Gerontological Society of America
Washington, D.C.
$300,000
A three-year grant to continue supporting the Reframing Aging Initiative and establish The National Center to Frame Aging.
Greater Chicago Food Depository
Chicago, Illinois
$30,000
A six-month grant to advance food security and economic stability for older adults by raising awareness and effectively implementing a new Elderly Simplified Redetermination Process that will ensure low-income older adults maintain their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
Habitat for Humanity International
Atlanta, Georgia
$100,000
A second-year grant to expand local advocacy action addressing the intersection of property tax relief and affordable housing for low-income, older adults and older BIPOC homeowners.
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
Chicago, Illinois
$175,000
A second-year grant to continue developing a strategic action plan for aging equity through the Illinois Aging Together campaign.
Injustice Watch, NFP
Chicago, Illinois
$150,000
A two-year grant for continuation and expansion of Injustice Watch’s reporting on issues related to aging.
Jane Addams Senior Caucus
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A two-year grant for organizing efforts to help ensure implementation and enforcement of the recently passed Senior Safety Ordinance.
Legal Action Center of the City of New York, Inc.
New York, New York
$150,000
A two-year grant for advocacy work designed to improve healthcare affordability by expanding Medicare coverage of Substance Use Disorder treatment and services.
Legal Council for Health Justice
Chicago, Illinois
$40,000
A second-year grant to advocate for the rights of low-income older people in Illinois to receive medically necessary care through Medicaid.
Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction)
San Francisco, California
$130,000
A second-year grant to develop the leadership capacity and skills of older adults residing in manufactured housing communities in Florida and Illinois, strengthening advocacy efforts to protect the affordability and viability of manufactured home communities in those states.
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
$110,000
A second-year grant supporting Aging in a Changing Region, a partnership to help municipalities in the Chicago region better coordinate and plan for older residents and bring visibility to the issue of aging in community.
National Center for Transgender Equality
Washington, D.C.
$35,000
A six-month grant to generate a detailed breakout report on older trans individuals after completion of the organization’s third national survey of transgender individuals in the United States.
National Domestic Workers Alliance
New York, NY
$100,000
A one-year grant to implement a coalition-based approach to foster collaboration across care advocacy spaces and promote a comprehensive care infrastructure and equitable caregiving solutions.
New America Foundation
Washington, D.C.
$88,025
A one-year grant to explore the issue of student loan default among older people and build awareness of the issue among stakeholders in the student loan and aging fields in ways that will lead to policy change.
Philanthropy Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
$50,000
A one-year grant to engage a broad base of stakeholders to create an organized entity that can increase the attention and focus on aging issues with policy- and decision-makers in the state.
SAGE
New York, New York
$50,000
A third-year grant to continue recruiting, training, and engaging LGBTQ+ older adults and allied partners as advocates and spokespeople to advance LGBTQ+-inclusive policies in Florida and Illinois.
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
Chicago, Illinois
$60,000
A one-year grant to protect the safety and quality of life of older adults living in subsidized housing.
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
Chicago, Illinois
$35,000
A one-year grant to ensure healthcare coverage and access for undocumented older adults in Illinois through individual representation, provider training, and policy advocacy as part of the Healthy Illinois Campaign.
Small Business Majority Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A second-year grant to encourage Illinois small businesses to enroll in the Secure Choice Savings Program and continue to promote a similar program in Wisconsin.
Southside Together Organizing for Power
Chicago, Illinois
$30,000
A second-year grant in support of the Seniors’ Community Benefits Agreement project for advocacy to fight housing displacement and secure economic benefits for long-time residents of Chicago’s historic, low-income, African-American neighborhood of Woodlawn.
Tenant Education Network
Chicago, Illinois
$20,000
A one-year grant to mobilize tenants in a subsidized senior building to ensure quality living conditions, through an innovative model that uses community-based participatory design.
Direct Service
(Funding limited to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Florida)
Aging Care Connections
La Grange, Illinois
$117,461
A one-year grant to help medically-complex homeless older adults stabilize their physical and mental health, find permanent housing, and address unmet psychosocial needs.
Center for Disability and Elder Law, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
$75,000
A one-year grant to establish a bi-weekly Legal Assistance clinic program in Chicago’s Austin and Auburn-Gresham neighborhoods.
CJE SeniorLife
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A second-year grant to support The Legal Help Desk, an innovative medical-legal partnership that provides pro bono legal services for older adults and offers access to CJE’s wrap-around social services and assistance programs.
Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly
Chicago, Illinois
$55,000
A one-year grant to conduct outreach efforts specifically designed to connect isolated or lonely limited English proficient older adults to local resources.
Cyber-Seniors
Los Angeles, California
$80,198
A one-year grant to provide technology training to under-served older adults living in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in an effort to enhance community interaction, combat social isolation, and improve intergenerational connections.
Elevate Branson
Branson, Missouri
$70,000
A one-year project to support the development of affordable, permanent, and supportive housing solutions for chronically disabled individuals, over the age of 65, who are experiencing homelessness.
Florida Veterans Foundation Inc.
Tallahassee, Florida
$30,000
A one-year grant to educate, counsel, and assist older wartime veterans on opportunities to improve their financial well-being.
HANA Center
Chicago, Illinois
$15,000
A four-month grant to support the planning process for an initiative utilizing the popular Korean app KakaoTalk to connect and educate older Korean-speaking adults.
Heal Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$57,500
A one-year grant to continue a new virtual support program for family caregivers from diverse and underserved communities.
Illinois Legal Aid Online
Chicago, Illinois
$45,000
An 18-month grant to use input from older adult stakeholders to create a digital repository of resources supporting older homeowners.
International Institute of Metro St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
$48,668
A second-year grant providing mental health screening, therapy, socialization, and psychoeducation for aging foreign-born clients in the St. Louis region.
Loyola University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$90,025
A one-year grant to develop, implement, and evaluate a program to address ageism, isolation, and loneliness through social connectivity and education among nursing students and older adults.
Metropolitan Asian Family Services
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A second-year grant supporting a program that is reaching greater numbers of low-income, limited-English speaking older persons residing in Chicago’s west and southwest suburbs, helping them apply for and receive the economic and healthcare benefits for which they are eligible.
NANAY
North Miami, Florida
$20,000
A one-year grant to offer culturally, ethnically- sensitive, and appropriate supportive services to racial and ethnic minority older adults, who are providing care for older loved ones.
Northwest Center
Chicago, Illinois
$35,000
A second-year grant to empower older adults with digital literacy, financial and personal resilience skills, and mitigate social isolation as well as build cross-racial and cross-cultural bonds, and intergenerational sharing.
Pathlights
Palos Heights, Illinois
$55,000
A one-year grant to expand its Path to Financial Stability Program by focusing on low-income older adults in marginalized communities served by Pathlights.
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
$75,000
A one-year grant for continued support of the Rush Caregiver Intervention, a program designed to identify and support family caregivers throughout the Rush system and serve as a model that can be implemented by health systems nationwide.
Serving Older Adults of Southeast Wisconsin, Inc.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
$30,646
A one-year grant to provide those who are isolated and lonely the opportunity to reconnect by joining virtual programs and appointments, including one-on-one instruction on the use of technology, a technology lending program, and classroom instruction on a variety of resources, software programs, and apps.
Spanish Coalition for Housing
Chicago, Illinois
$44,000
A one-year grant to promote the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program to the low- and middle-income communities it serves by providing outreach and education to older adults who are at risk of losing their homes, as well as mandated housing counseling necessary to qualify for a reverse mortgage.
United Community Center, Inc.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
$50,000
A one-year grant to use innovative technologies to expand access to dementia care education and support services to Latinx family caregivers of older adults living in four counties in southeast Wisconsin.
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
$50,000
A one-year challenge grant to provide pension counseling to, and advocacy services for, Illinois retirees who are entitled to their earned pension benefits, while moving the project toward long-term sustainability.
Voice of the People in Uptown
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A second-year grant to further expand the Senior Support Services program, designed to ensure that older residents in properties owned and managed by Voice can remain in affordable housing within their community and be connected with resources that improve quality of life.
Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement
Washington, D.C.
$82,060
A one-year grant to support WISER’s Financial Caregiver Project, which promotes education, tools, and resources around financial wellness and retirement readiness so that caregivers can effectively plan for their own future security and that of their care recipient.
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$19,579
A one-year grant to provide job training, one-on-one coaching, and employment placement services that assist low-income women in achieving economic self-sufficiency.
Professional Education and Training
AgeOptions, Inc.
Oak Park, Illinois
$10,0000
A one-year grant for continued support of Avisery, a program that builds the capacity of professionals to help older people navigate complex health insurance programs and reduces barriers older adults face in obtaining affordable healthcare coverage.
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
Hillside, IL
$50,000
A one-year grant to coordinate training for aging service providers and homeless service providers in suburban Cook County to streamline and improve access to critical housing services for older people experiencing housing instability and homelessness.
Diverse Elders Coalition
New York, New York
$80,000
A third-year grant to build on the successful training model developed over the past two years and strengthen the position of DEC and its member organizations to advocate for older adults throughout the nation.
Generations United
Washington, D.C.
$76,934
A third-year grant to expand national partnerships advancing intergenerational solutions; disseminate a report on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in inter-generational programming; and transition its Advisory Group into a lasting learning collaborative.
Pro Bono Net, Inc.
New York, New York
$75,000
A second-year grant to expand training and adoption for professionals in aging using Pro Bono Net’s Risk Detector tool to screen low-income older adults for legal needs impacting their economic security and to easily refer them to legal services.
The Georgia Institute on Aging
Atlanta, Georgia
$65,000
A one-year grant to promote person-centered care in affordable housing communities, with a focus on fostering relationships, meaningful engagement, and empowerment.
Research
Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging
Cleveland, Ohio
$200,000
A two-year grant to incorporate consumer-facing information into the Best Practice Caregiving website, so that family caregivers, including those from diverse communities, can learn about and access programs and resources that will support them in their caregiving roles.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
$96,430
A one-year grant to study trends in high-risk debt accumulation among older adults and factors that lead to an increase in debt in later life.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
Lebanon, New Hampshire
$209,450
A two-year grant to test the feasibility and effectiveness of Brief Behavioral Activation for Improving Social Connectedness, an evidenced-informed intervention, delivered via internet-based video conferencing services, designed to increase social connectedness among lonely, homebound older adults living in a rural community.
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois
$100,000
A one-year grant to build on the data research about housing in the Chicago metropolitan area completed during the first phase of this project and use it to provide data-focused support to partners working on key policy topics that surfaced in the recent report, produce new applied research briefs, and highlight emerging policy issues with stakeholders.
Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
Tallahassee, Florida
$91,043
A one-year grant to adapt and pilot test Combating Social Isolation, a focused, brief, mechanism-of-change based behavioral intervention that uses technology in an innovative way to reduce the adverse effects of loneliness for older adults.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
$259,975
A two-year grant to develop, refine, and pilot test a program to help care navigators in home-based primary care practices better serve and support persons living with dementia and their caregivers.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
$184,806
A two-year grant to culturally adapt an existing anxiety intervention for Latinx caregivers and examine intervention feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy.
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$53,854
A nine-month grant to identify training gaps for community health workers who provide care for vulnerable older adults in some of Chicago’s most disadvantaged and underserved communities.
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$120,000
A two-year grant to support the formal assessment of the “Art Is…In,” program, an at-home, easily accessible art program to improve the well-being of caregivers of persons with dementia.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$56,852
A one-year grant to conduct meaningful and systematic community engagement in developing an intergenerational storytelling intervention protocol that promotes social, psychological, and physical well-being.
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island
$156,833
A two-year grant to gain a greater understanding of implementation practices used during virtual intergenerational technology training programs in diverse higher education contexts.
Organizational Capacity Building Program
Standard OCB Grants
(Funding limited to Illinois)
AMPT: Advancing Nonprofits
Chicago, Illinois
$7,500
A one-year grant to support organizational capacity building in senior-serving small nonprofits on Chicago’s west and south sides.
Chinese Mutual Aid Association
Chicago, Illinois
$36,600
A third-year grant in support of a strategic partnership between Chinese Mutual Aid Association and Hanul Family Alliance that will allow both organizations to: operationalize private pay home care initiatives; create new funding streams; and provide critical homecare services to more older adults.
Home Centered Care Institute
Schaumburg, Illinois
$24,750
A one-year grant to foster the development, growth, and diversification of HCCI’s Board of Directors and create a comprehensive fundraising plan to ensure the organization’s long-term sustainability.
Latino Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Alliance
Cicero, Illinois
$60,000
A second-year grant in support of LAMDA’s continued organizational growth and expansion.
McGaw YMCA
Evanston, Illinois
$50,000
A one-year grant to develop an organizational strategy for coordinating programs and services for older adults currently served across McGaw YMCA departments.
Meals on Wheels Foundation of Northern Illinois
North Riverside, Illinois
$30,000
A one-year grant to conduct a brand strategy evaluation, develop new branding, and implement roll-out of a new brand to increase visibility to underserved older people in Illinois.
National Able Network
Chicago, Illinois
$24,398
A one-year grant to engage a consultant to help the organization: formalize its existing strategic development efforts; better align its work with national standards for performance excellence; and become more directed and recognized for its efforts benefiting older people and workforce development.
OCB Flexible Fund Grants
(Funding limited to Illinois)
Senior Home Sharing, Inc.
Lombard, Illinois
$5,000
A six-month grant to support Board development.
Senior Services Plus, Inc.
Alton, Illinois
$5,000
A six-month grant for targeted consultation to support strategic planning efforts.
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
Chicago, Illinois
$5,000
A six-month grant to support Shriver Center’s upcoming organizational assessment and strategic planning process.
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