Recent Grants Awarded
$75,000 | Bay Ridge Center
Todd Fiedler
Promoting Healthy Aging in Southwest Brooklyn
This grant will help support the development of a health and wellness program that will be tailored to meet older adults’ biological, psychological, social, and cultural needs.
$180,000 | Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
Finn Brigham
Healthy Aging
This funding will support the creation of a healthcare program designed specifically for LGBTQ+ patients over the age of 60.
$200,000 | Community Healthcare Network
Robert Hayes, President & CEO
CHN's Community Health Worker Program for Older Adults
This grant will support a new Community Health Worker program to provide care coordination for at-risk and "rising-risk" geriatric patients.
$100,000 | Dances For A Variable Population
Naomi Goldberg Haas
Highbridge Movement Speaks®
This grant will fund a pilot dance and creative movement program for older adults and home healthcare workers with wraparound support in partnership with a housing provider.
$120,000 | The Educational Alliance, Inc.
Rich Baum
Integrated Social Work Internship Program
This grant will support an older adult social work internship director to provide clinical supervision, facilitate ongoing training, and strengthen existing partnerships with academic institutions in educating social work students on aging.
$138,000 | Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State (HPCANYS)
Jeanne Chirico
Expanding Access to Palliative Care Services in New York State
HPCANYS will work with NYS DOH to develop a palliative care services benefit that supports those with serious illness regardless of coverage type, age, and setting.
$100,000 | Kings Bay YM-YWHA
Daniel Zeltser
Improving the Health and Well-Being and Capacity for Independence of Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Older Adults
This grant will help to expand an adult day program for deaf and hearing impaired older adults.
$211,000 | Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA)
Arielle Basch
JASA and Maimonides Medical Center: A Clinical-Community Transitional Care Partnership to Support an AFHS
This project will enhance JASA’s transitional care work with Maimonides by addressing the 4Ms post-discharge in the community.
$160,000 | New York University Langone Medical Center
Joseph Lowy, MD
Addressing Psychosocial Distress and Advance Care Planning for Older Patients with Serious Illness
This grant will support the addition of a full-time licensed palliative care social worker to NYU's ambulatory supportive care programs.
$182,000 | Northwell Health Foundation
Tara Liberman, DO
Hospice Not Taken Under Care Intervention - For Older Adults Residing in Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island
This grant will help improve the hospice conversion rate and increase hospice utilization through targeted outreach and education on the goals and benefits of hospice care.
$200,000 | NYC Health + Hospitals
Sakina Ouedraogo Tall, MD
Telemedicine Cognitive Geriatric Program
This grant will support H+H's cognitive geriatric program to increase the detection of dementia, improve quality of care and provide more support to caregivers.
$180,000 | NYC Health + Hospitals
Saima Ajmal, MD
Implementation of Age-Friendly Health Systems
This grant will enhance Bellevue Hospital's ability to deliver high-quality care to older adults by utilizing the four essential elements of an Age-Friendly Health System.
$150,000 | Search and Care
Aaron Rooney
Expanding Health Access Through Technology and Community Partnership
This grant will provide Metropolitan Hospital Geriatrics patients access to telehealth and computer coaching.
$215,000 | Service Program for Older People (SPOP)
Catherine Thurston
Treatment for Older Adults Experiencing Trauma Symptoms or Substance Use Disorders
The goal of the program is to address a need for behavioral healthcare for older adults experiencing substance use disorders or symptoms relating to trauma.
$114,000 | VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Sylvia Stinson-Perez
Group Rehabilitation for Older Underserved Blind Persons (GROUP)
This grant will allow VISIONS to provide legally blind older adults with group training at the VISIONS Older Adult Center in Manhattan to shorten the wait for individual vision rehabilitation services.