Grantees

The Program for Cognitive Strength and Ability’s is dedicated to helping those with cognitive loss by offering cutting-edge, strength-based programming that engages the mind, body, and spirit. Funding will support an evaluation using interviews and questionnaires that will study PCSA’s impact on quality of life, mental and physical health, self-esteem, decreased feelings of isolation and loneliness for participants and their family caregivers. 

Provides funds for a vibrant volunteer program—anchored by adults 55 and older—that engages volunteers in sharing their knowledge with Museum visitors and supports accessible experiences for older adult visitors.

GenStrong Intergenerational Program impacts its participants, the community and the agency in a positive way, increasing connections among different age groups, developing meaningful relationships and combating loneliness and isolation. It provides space for different generations to positively interact and learn from one another.

Funding for expansion of Concerts in Motion’s in-person and virtual concerts will help to alleviate isolation and loneliness in older adults. It will bring their signature interactive, culturally-responsive concert programs to under-resourced older adults served by three Manhattan agencies. CIM’s evidenced-based data has shown that such programs using music and individual engagement with isolated older adults has helped to alleviate social isolation and loneliness.

Aging Alone Together provides tools, strategies and support for adults ages 60 to 100+ who identify as solo agers; individuals who, by choice or circumstances, function without the support system traditionally provided by family. This funding expands the Aging Alone Together (AAT) curriculum to more diverse solo agers throughout a broader geographic area.

Support will revitalize the development of a high-quality website to improve user experience and facilitate easier access to events and to the mission of Harlem Advocates for Seniors.

There is anecdotal evidence which demonstrates that minor changes to a home can improve an older person’s life significantly, thereby making activities of daily living, such as bathing and meal preparation, housework and laundry easier and also reduce the potential for falls. Funding will focus on the design and conduct the program’s first outcomes evaluation of the Home Safety and Fall Prevention Program.

Council Lifetime Learning (CLL) is designed to combat social isolation and slow physical and cognitive decline among seniors in New York City living on low and fixed incomes. The funds will be used to offset costs for the Spring season 2025.

The aim is to significantly expand the support we provide to the Aging population in New York City who are facing rising rates of food insecurity.

Pilot data is collected to test whether an exercise intervention can promote muscle mass maintenance in aged mice with Alzheimer’s or dementia being treated with semaglutide, thereby promoting both cognitive and metabolic health.

The objective of the Aging in Place Outreach Network (APON) is to identify vulnerable older adults who need assistance living independently and connect them with supportive services.

To Whom I May Concern® (TWIMC) is a program featuring individuals living beyond their diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment, with Alzheimer’s or with another form of dementia. The program enables people living with dementia to share their stories and at the same time helping to change attitudes about dementia among the general population.

Aging Alone Together provides tools, strategies and support for adults ages 60 to 100+ who identify as solo agers; individuals who, by choice or circumstances, function without the support system traditionally provided by family.

Council Lifetime Learning (CLL) is designed to combat social isolation and slow physical and cognitive decline among seniors in New York City living on low and fixed incomes.

SkillSpring identifies, recruits, and trains low-income young adults (ages 18–25) experiencing barriers to workforce participation to attain a New York State credential as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). SkillSpring’s hands-on experience, paid internships, job training, and courses in healthcare certification leads to living-wage jobs in health care.

This research allows for an additional group of mice, specifically females and males of one strain displaying susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease-related cognitive decline, to be included in a study that will be important to the understanding of potential sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease treatment.