2008 Grant Recipients

Access to the Arts

to provide interactive arts programming and performances for disadvantaged and underserved seniors in nursing homes and retirement communities

$14,575

 

American Association of Service Coordinators     

to provide training to service coordinators

$30,000

 

American Red Cross                   

for the Nurse Assistant Training program

$30,000

 

Case Western Reserve University

to improve heart failure outcomes of frail older adults in the long-term care setting

$75,000

 

The Center for Community Solutions             

for the Council on Older Persons

$17,500

 

City of East Cleveland        

for program support at the Helen S. Brown Center

$60,000

 

Cleveland State University Foundation, Inc.

for The Center for Nonprofit Policy and Practice

$5,000

 

Cleveland TOPS Swingband Foundation            

for program support

$18,000

 

Eliza Bryant Village          

for start-up programming at the Amasa B. Ford Lodge, a 45-unit senior housing facility

$120,901

 

The Eliza Jennings Senior Care Network        

to provide home and community-based health and wellness services to residents of the Westerly senior housing community

$50,000

 

Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation                 

for renovation of the former Langston Hughes Library for the new headquarters for Senior Outreach Services

$125,000

 

Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation                  

for a planning grant to develop affordable housing for grandparents raising grandchildren

$50,000

 

Fairhill Center                

for the Senior Guest House

$50,000

 

Foundation Center                     

for operating support and capacity building

$5,750

 

Golden Age Centers of Greater Cleveland        

for marketing and communications

$60,000

 

Grantmakers In Aging                

for program support

$35,000

 

Heights Youth Club            

for intergenerational programming

$15,000

 

ideastream                           

to broadcast Life (Part 2) and other in-depth health coverage

$30,000

 

The Intergenerational School  

for intergenerational programming

$17,205

 

Jennings Center               

for the REACH project, a long-term care workforce development initiative

$25,000

 

MetroHealth Foundation        

for a planning grant to determine the feasibility of establishing two Elder Service Sites in Old Brooklyn

$40,950

 

Montefiore Foundation         

for staff training in palliative care

$20,000

 

Ohio Grantmakers Forum        

for membership

$2,150

 

RSVP of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

for volunteer management staff

$10,000

 

Schnurmann House              

for the community nutrition and transportation program

$25,000

 

Senior Citizen Resources, Inc.

for the Home Delivered Meals program

$13,000

 

Senior Transportation Connection of Cuyahoga County

for the call center

$50,000

 

Slavic Village Development    

for security improvements at the Harvard Village Senior Apartments

$8,100

 

Southwest General Health Center

for the Gatekeeper program

$5,200

 

TC3 Transportation Consortium Coordinating Committee

for operating support and communication expenses related to the

merger with Cuyahoga County Senior Transportation Connection

$10,000

 

Towards Employment            

for Achieve, a job retention program for long-term care direct care workers

$10,000

 

University Hospitals Health System

for the Center for Geriatric Medicine House Call program

$50,000

 

Verb Ballets                  

for the Moving Connections senior outreach program at the Eliza Bryant Village and Eliza Jennings Home

$10,000

 

Western Reserve Historical Society

to support educational outreach programs for seniors

$10,020

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