Recent Grants Awarded
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$150,000 | Carter Burden Network
Geriatric Community Transition Program
This pilot is designed to provide essential support to older adults transitioning from the hospital back to their homes.
$150,000 | City Bar Justice Center
Elderlaw Project Advancement Initiative
This grant would support staff and pro bono volunteers to provide high-quality free legal services for critical life-planning document preparation, fraud/scam prevention, and other essential legal aid to older adults.
$140,000 | EngageWell Community Health & Innovation Collaborative
Care Your Way for Aging Adults: Healthy Food, Connections and Digital Support
This pilot program will address food insecurity, digital exclusion, and social isolation among low-income older New Yorkers.
$150,000 | Fountain House
Warm-Line Expansion
This grant will help expand the Warm-Line program, a phone line where people with serious mental illness can call for non-emergency support, to serve the older adult clients of Encore Community Services.
$200,000 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Building Mount Sinai Health System’s “Age Friendly” Geriatric Surgery Co-Management Pilot Program
The goal of ALIGN-CARE is to create a scalable, high-quality model for managing surgical care in frail older adults.
$200,000 | Montefiore Medical Center
Age Friendly Health System Performance Improvement Initiative - Phase II
This grant will support the next phase toward becoming an Age-Friendly Health System.
$135,000 | New York University Langone Medical Center
Diabetes Prevention Program for Older Adults
This program will offer older adults with prediabetes a non-pharmacological intervention to reduce their risk of Type 2 Diabetes, and lower the overall risk of chronic disease.
$180,000 | Public Health Solutions
Senior Services Coordinator - A Social Care Model for Servicing Older Adults
This grant supports a Senior Services Coordinator focused on older adults to provide direct services according to the Medicaid 1115 Waiver requirements and will develop a model for supporting older adults via future waiver programs.
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$165,000 | Sunnyside Community Services, Inc.
Social Work Internship Program
This grant will support an internship program to provide social work students with a meaningful community-based opportunities to enhance geriatric skills.
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