Archstone Foundation Awards Eight New Grants This Quarter
Eight grants were awarded through our new Three Ts strategy–Teams, Training, and Technology–and our Capacity Building and Innovations RFP opportunity, “Supporting Diverse Communities and Advancing Racial Equity for Older Adults through Capacity Building & Innovations.”
Teams
Alameda County Care Alliance
Archstone Foundation awarded its first grant to advance team-based models of care to the Alameda County Care Alliance (Public Health Institute, fiscal sponsor), to address health disparities and advance equity in serious illness care for communities of color through the expansion of leadership and staff, appropriate infrastructure, and operations in Los Angeles for their Advanced Illness Care Program (AICP). Alameda County Care Alliance’s AICP is a faith-based, culturally embedded program providing lay care navigation to support persons needing advanced illness care and their families/caregivers in the community setting. Archstone Foundation approved a 30-month, $510,000 grant, contingent upon securing matching funds for the expansion of the AICP to the Los Angeles area.
Training
University of California, San Francisco
Archstone Foundation awarded a 42-month $300,000 Training grant to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics to support its long-standing Emerging Leaders in Aging (ELIA) program. ELIA is a one-year national leadership development training program that competitively selects junior and mid-career leaders in clinical, research, policy, and education initiatives in aging. It is designed to empower a new generation of geriatric health professionals across multiple disciplines and specialties (geriatrics, nursing pharmacy, social work and more) to meet the needs of the growing aging population. ELIA shares the Foundation’s vision of interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration.
Technology
University of Washington
Archstone Foundation awarded a three-year $455,030 Technology grant to the University of Washington AIMS Center for their “Enhancing Delivery of Depression Treatment for Older Adults Through Text Messages” pilot project. Text messaging holds promise as a strategy for engaging older adults in depression treatment through frequent contact with a behavioral health care manager. This pilot is a next step in disseminating the Foundation’s decade-long Depression in Late Life work and it will develop and test the feasibility of a text messaging intervention delivered in primary care settings practicing integrated depression care for with older adults. It will also assess the feasibility of text messaging as a compliment to in-person and phone contact between a behavioral health care manager and patient being treated with Collaborative Care to treat depression through a team-based approach.
Capacity Building
Community Health Initiative of Orange County
Archstone Foundation awarded $50,000 over one year to Community Health Initiative of Orange County (CHI Orange County) to build their capacity to serve low-income older adults, with a focus on immigrant communities with limited English proficiency in Orange County. Funds will help to develop a business plan for a formalized older adult services model to enroll Medi-Cal beneficiaries, as the full-scope of benefits will expand to low-income adults regardless of immigration status.
National Health Foundation
Archstone Foundation awarded a one-year $50,000 grant to the National Health Foundation (NHF) to renovate their commercial kitchen in a 148-bed interim housing and recuperative care site to be funded by the City of Los Angeles and located in Arleta, in the San Fernando Valley. The goal of this project is to support NHF to engage in and complete the process of becoming a congregate meal site for older adults at their Arleta interim housing and recuperative care site. This grant will leverage the City’s support, provide consulting services to complete the kitchen design, and it will serve older Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the San Fernando Valley.
Innovation
Alzheimer’s Orange County
Alzheimer's Orange County (AlzOC®) received $50,000 over one year to establish Mejorando la Vida de la Cuidadora (Enhancing the Life of the Caregiver), a new caregiver service for Spanish-speaking communities in Orange County. This is a partnership project with local Hispanic-serving community organizations and with UC Irvine Health. AlzOC’s Mejorando la Vida de la Cuidadora will provide outreach services for limited English proficient family caregivers. In addition, it will implement evidence-informed dementia caregiver classes, offer a comprehensive dementia assessment, care coordination and care planning, and counseling services.
Watts Labor Community Action Committee
Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) was awarded $50,000 over one year to design and pilot Shaped to Fit, a diabetes education program that bridges the gap between the content of the already well-established Diabetes Self-Management Program and the reality that faces older adults in South Los Angeles. Shaped to Fit seeks to: improve health access and health literacy, health, and healthcare utilization by educating Black and Latino older adult patients and healthcare and aging services providers; and to improve nutrition, movement, and medication self-management for South Los Angeles older adults living below the poverty line.
Legacy Area: Caregiving
Grantmakers In Aging (GIA)
Archstone Foundation awarded $145,000 over 18 months to Grantmakers In Aging to launch a national campaign for low- and moderate-income family caregivers of older adults and persons with disabilities, through capacity-building grants and programming for ten state-based caregiving coalitions. Coalitions will receive training, skill-building, and technical assistance to communicate the return-on-investment caregivers provide to federal and state policymakers with the goal of increased statewide funds and policies to support unpaid caregivers for older people. GIA will serve as the funding collaborative’s fiscal agent, convene funders, and administer and manage grants to partners and funded coalitions.
