In addition to three new grants awarded through our new Three Ts strategy—Teams, Training and Technology—Archstone Foundation has renewed its commitment to the California Master Plan for Aging and Catchafire.
Teams
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center
Archstone Foundation awarded a one-year $75,000 grant to Sol Neighborhood Educational Center (El Sol) to support its Sustainability by Building Capacity for Medicare Billing and Strategic Relationships project. El Sol was a highly successful participant in the Archstone Foundation Care Partners Depression in Late-Life Initiative. This project is designed to assist El Sol in identifying health care partner(s) to bill for depression care, while also strengthening the organization’s financial sustainability by identifying new sources for earned income through Medi-Cal/Medicare billing. Specifically, the project aims to develop the capacity of the organization to train and deploy Community Health Workers in the clinical setting while increasing sustainability through robust billing and reimbursement strategies.
University of Washington (UW) AIMS CENTER
Archstone Foundation awarded a two-year $130,000 grant to the University of Washington (UW) AIMS Center for the Innovative Approaches to Financing Collaborative Care project. Collaborative Care is a highly effective method for treating common mental health conditions in primary care and other general medical settings. The five-year, Archstone Foundation funded Care Partners Depression in Late-Life Initiative project demonstrated that it is possible for a primary care clinic to partner with a community-based organization to deliver effective Collaborative Care to address depression among older adults. However, there are no tools or materials available to assist community-based organizations (CBOs) implementing Collaborative Care in partnership with primary care clinics. The purpose of this project will be to build upon the knowledge gained through our Care Partners project; specifically, to outline strategies for financing Collaborative Care when some components are delivered by a CBO. The project will develop a Collaborative Care billing/financing white paper that will provide guidance about successfully financing Collaborative Care in clinic/CBO partnerships.
Technology
Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC)
Archstone Foundation awarded a one-year $75,000 grant to the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) for the POLST Registry Bridge project. CCCC is a statewide collaboration of healthcare providers, organizations, state agencies, and individuals, that has worked for more than 20 years to change the way Californians plan for and provide care for the seriously ill. In the summer of 2021, the State of California passed the California POLST eRegistry Act to help ensure immediate access for healthcare providers to completed POLST forms during an emergency. Having an electronic registry for POLST orders was also a recommendation of the Archstone Foundation-supported Master Plan for Aging. CCCC will work closely with the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) as they develop a plan to design and implement a statewide electronic POLST Registry.
Other – Capacity Building Support
Catchafire
Archstone Foundation awarded Catchafire, Inc., a one-year $75,000 Expenditure Responsibility Grant (ERG) to assist the Foundation in providing non-monetary capacity building support to nonprofit grantees and declined applicants for a second year on the Catchafire platform. Catchafire is a social enterprise that helps foundations provide capacity building support to nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, or charities at scale by matching nonprofit organizations with expert, volunteer consultants. Volunteer consultants include experts in IT, graphic design, board development, fundraising, and many other valuable services. This partnership will allow Archstone Foundation to provide capacity building support to nonprofit organizations beyond the small number to which we can directly award grants. The Year 2 cohort will support 100 organizations to have access to the Catchafire capacity building platform. During the first year of the program, the Archstone Foundation cohort had 30 registered organizations that matched on capacity building projects, representing over 2,500 donated volunteer hours and more than $480,000 in dollars saved.
