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Community Partnerships for Older Adults - Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
The goal of the Community
Partnerships for Older
Adults (CPFOA) program is to foster community partnerships to improve
long-term care and supportive services systems to meet the current and
future needs of older adults.
The CPFOA projects focus on two
groups of older
Americans: those 60 years of age or older who are at increased risk of
disability because of poverty, race or ethnicity, chronic illness, or
advanced age; and older adults with physical or cognitive impairments
who require long term care and supportive services.
Specifically, CPFOA projects seek
to:
- Educate the community that long
term care begins at home and in the community with individuals and
their families
- Work together with older adults
to develop community-wide long term care solutions
- Build bridges between the long
term care options that exist today and those of the future
- Learn
locally from their community and share nationally with others to
develop solutions for long term care and supportive services systems.
The Community Partnerships for
Older Adults program
is based at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public
Service. The Duke University Long Term Care Resources Program provides
technical assistance for the program, under the direction of Beverly S.
Patnaik. More information about CPFOA is available on the program's Web
site at: http://www.cpfoa.org
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, based in
Princeton, N.J., is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted
exclusively to health and health care. It concentrates its grantmaking
in four goal areas: to assure that all Americans have access to quality
health care at reasonable cost; to improve the quality of care and
support for people with chronic health conditions; to promote healthy
communities and lifestyles; and to reduce the personal, social and
economic harm caused by substance abuse - tobacco, alcohol and illicit
drugs.
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Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
Mission
The Ann Arbor Area Community
Foundation is
dedicated to building endowment to enrich the quality of life in
Washtenaw County by providing community leadership, making grants and
serving donors.
History
The forces that brought the
Foundation into being
and gave it so much momentum are the same forces that continue to shape
and strengthen the organization today. They include initiative, acumen,
compassion, and a deep commitment to the well-being of the community.
The Formative Years
In 1960, several illustrious
members of the
United Way Fund met informally to discuss their shared concerns. They
agreed that far too many special projects and community programs were
languishing for lack of funds. Many things that needed to be
accomplished--some urgently--were simply not happening. The question
was: what to do about it? The group volunteered their time and energy
to study the problem as a committee.
After three years of intensive
study, the committee
made its recommendation: create a community foundation, a trust that
would use endowments to supplement the work of other agencies. The
members knew very well that there were more needs than could ever be
met by philanthropy. Still, they believed that a community foundation
could make an important contribution, first by providing seed money on
a short-term basis to nonprofit groups, and second by giving citizens
new ways to contribute to their community. The Ann Arbor Area
Foundation was officially incorporated in 1963.
A Growing Concern for
Our Quality of Life
At the end of its first year of
operation, the
Foundation held assets of $59,018 and awarded just over $6,000 in
grants. By the end of 1997, assets stood at $13.5 million and
Foundation grants totaled more than $500,000.
Today, the Ann Arbor Area
Community Foundation is
one of the largest community foundations in Michigan--a permanent and
growing endowment built by gifts from thousands of individuals and
organizations, all concerned about improving the quality of life in the
greater Ann Arbor area. Our continuing success is a tribute both to the
visionary citizens who created the Foundation and the hundreds of
donors, volunteers, committee members and advisors who continue to make
it grow, thrive and evolve.
More information about the Ann
Arbor Area Community Foundation is available at: http://www.aaacf.org
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