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Funding Priorities:
In an effort to advance two areas the Foundation's Board considers to be significant in
the healthcare field, the Foundation has established priority funding status for proposals
that address 1) caregiving, and 2) correctional health care. Other projects falling within
the Foundation's stated guidelines will also be considered for funding.
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Mission Statement:
The Foundation's grant-making
program is centered on the concepts of health and well-being.
The Foundation's purpose is to promote and support effective
and creative programs, practices and policies related to healing
from illness, accident, physical, social or emotional trauma
and to extend the availability of programs that promote healing
to underserved populations.
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here for the complete description of the Foundation's
programmatic focus. It is important to read this to gain
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Cooperative Assistance Featured Current Completed |
In order to help potential
grantees tailor their funding requests to the Foundation's
interests, we have created this Featured
Projects section to highlight approved grants
most favored by the Board. These grants, with a focus
on individuals or communities that are often overlooked,
represent creative projects that can serve as models.
If you would like to submit a request for funding, you
may register in the
Applying for a Grant section. Click
here to see a complete list of Featured Grants.
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| $152,440 over 24 months
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Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE, DBA Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders)
Caregiving RFP: SAGE’s Volunteer Caregiving Program for GLBT Seniors
This innovative project will focus on creating and evaluating trainings, programs, and resources that will provide information and individual and group support for unpaid, non-family caregivers such as Friendly Visitors, who experience the same stressors as traditional caregivers without the accompanying societal acknowledgement — and often without the formalized help that mainstream agencies offer family caregivers. The project will draw from SAGE’s decades of experience in delivering direct and supportive social services — focusing on volunteer-based caregiving and friendly visiting — to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) senior citizens, who are significantly more likely than non-LGBT seniors to live alone and to lack traditional family support systems, and are at elevated risk for premature institutionalization and poor health outcomes when traditional caregiving supports cannot be put in place. Although this model will emerge from the particular experience of LGBT seniors and their unpaid, non-family caregivers, it will have relevance to all seniors who lack traditional family support systems or who can benefit from additional caregiving supports such as those provided under this program. |
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| $97,760 over 24 months
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Interfaith CarePartners
Caregiving RFP: Utilizing the Infrastructure of Congregations for Respite and Support of Frail Older Adults
The project will undertake an independent evaluation of the effectiveness and outcomes of a volunteer respite and direct care program consisting of 2,100 volunteers which serves over 1,550 people annually. Respite for caregivers (often of dementia patients) and frail older adults who need help to age in place are the primary recipients of support. |
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| $261,614 over 24 months
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Philadelphia University
Philadelphia Inmate Services and Healthcare:PhISH
The Philadelphia University Partnership Project (PUPP) will develop and implement an occupational therapy/gender based model for female inmates with psychiatric disorders. The project will recognize and define inmates’ needs, identify mental/physical health care providers, help them to learn methods to negotiate with these providers/systems while in prison and to establish connections with providers/systems post-release. Occupational Therapists (OTs) are uniquely trained to assess inmates’ individual abilities /limitations and prescribe methods to enable more robust self-reliance and will strengthen inmates’ transition from institution to community.
Philadelphia University’s OT faculty, graduate students and project partners (Philadelphia Prison System, Frankford Hospital, Jewish Employment Vocational Services, and City of Philadelphia Mental Health Services) will design a multifaceted assessment/intervention approach to optimize female inmate cognitive learning which in turn will enable these inmates to manage their health and mental health care when they return to their communities.
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