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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
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Applying for a Grant section.
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Johns Hopkins University
A Randomized Trial of Training and Support for Voluntary Caregivers
The project would test a multi-component, community-based intervention that incorporates group education, individual counseling, and 24-hour-a-day telephone access to a trained professional. |
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| $351,730 over 24 months
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WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
Second Opinion for Caregivers
The award-winning Public Broadcast System series Second Opinion, seen on 205 public stations and in every major television market supports information sharing and improved communication among primary caregivers, patients and physicians to ensure quality health care and recovery from major illnesses. In partnership with the Langeloth Foundation, WXXI Public Broadcasting Council will produce two components of this national public education program: 1.) the role of Caregiver Panelist on each show; 2.) an education campaign to enhance awareness about how primary caregivers can best advocate and communicate with physicians, and help support the highest quality care for patients as they recover from a major illness. |
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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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| $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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| $261,268 over 12 months
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AARP Foundation
Professional Partners Supporting Family Caregivers
Invitational State of the Science Symposium for nurses,social workers and family caregivers/experts to critically review the evidence supporting best practices in family caregiving, identify barriers to implement best practices and recommend strategies (practice, education, research agenda, policy, systems reform) to overcome these barriers. This project is designed as a first step in moving professional providers to improve their commitment, knowledge and skill in educating and supporting family caregivers. |
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| $155,148 over 18 months
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Institute for the Future of Aging Services, American Association of Homes and Services for Aging
Family Caregiver Support in Affordable Senior Housing: A Training and Assistance Pilot Program
A recent IFAS study of independent affordable senior housing properties attempting to help residents age in place found that family caregivers are a significant driver in the property’s ability to help residents remain independent. This project will create, pilot, and evaluate a caregiver training program that will help properties build and strengthen this informal component of their service packages. The program will work through the property service coordinators (and partner with other community groups as appropriate) to train family caregivers about resources available in the community, how to access them, the importance of accessing services, and other caregiver related issues. Designed with cultural competency in mind, The program will be piloted in some of AAHSA’s affordable housing member sites with culturally & racially diverse populations, and post evaluation, it will be disseminated through AAHSA’s 5,300 housing members across the country. |
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| $21,684 over 12 months
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Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Cross Survey Comparison of Informal Caregiving in the US to Disabled Elderly
This study will review the current methods used to study caregivers in national data sets and explore how differences in the definition of caregiver and survey design affect the estimated prevalence and profile of caregivers in the United States. To date no researcher has compared caregiving across data sets. |
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| $358,400 over 30 months
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Beth Israel Medical Center
The Asian Family Caregiver Program
With a 10-year history of providing resources, support and education in the field of family caregiving, we intend to build on the success of our recently piloted Caregiver Resource Center (CRC) by expanding it to a fulltime program and adding an Asian (Chinese) Family Caregiver component. We will address the high levels of need among Asian family caregivers at Beth Israel’s robust and rapidly-growing Asian Services Program by developing culturally relevant tools and resources and begin a direct service component, including community outreach and a telephone information line. We will also conduct staff education for awareness and sensitivity to caregiver needs and to foster referrals to CRC services.
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