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Connecticut Community Foundation's and Town Conversations on Aging

Connecticut Community Foundation serves 21 towns in Greater ... of the Pathways Services for Seniors Initiative , each community is encouraged to take a fresh look at its senior ... grant funds toward van and driver costs for weekly trips. Connecticut Community Foundation hopes that the Town ...

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United Way of Connecticut and 2-1-1

In 2011, United Way 2-1-1 , Connecticut’s statewide toll-free information and referral ... service, received more than 50,000 calls from or regarding Connecticut residents aged 55 and over. A review of these ... Parking Permits to Veterans Benefits. United Way of Connecticut and 2-1-1 ...

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Helping the Elderly of Hamden - The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and The Phelps Community Project

In her Last Will and Testament, Emma P. Pelton of Cheshire, Connecticut established the John P. and Cora E. Phelps Fund at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in memory of her ... more than 65 grants have been made to eight organizations serving Hamden’s older adults. The majority of grants from ...

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Foundation for Community Health's Prescription Assistance Fund

The Foundation for Community Health is a private foundation dedicated to ... of residents of the northern Litchfield Hills in Connecticut and the greater Harlem Valley in New York. The ... donor-advised funds wanting to assist people in our community who need help with their medical expenses. The ...

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Fairfield County Community Foundation's Stella Margaret McHenry Fund

In 2001, Fairfield County Community Foundation (FCCF) received a bequest from the ... with their housing needs. A meeting of Fairfield County Community Foundation, the Norwalk Senior Center and a ... safe, affordable housing. In 2007, the Southwestern Connecticut Area Agency on Aging replicated this successful ...

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Older Adults as Community Resources - November 28, 2012 Program

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11/2012

Connecticut is the 7th oldest state in the nation, and as ... ready to create their own ‘third acts” -- to address community challenges. Dick Goldberg, Director of Coming of ... Atlantic Philanthropies offered comments about the foundations’ emphasis to raise the visibility about the ...

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Community Experience Partnership

Information on how community foundations around the country, in partnership with Atlantic ... Philanthropies, helped to develop a range of innovative community projects to tap into the experience and talents of ...

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"For All Ages": The GIA Guide to Funding Across the Lifespan

For grantmakers interested in health, community development, the arts, and more, aging offers a ...

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Connecticut 2-1-1 Information for Older Adults

United Way of Connecticut's 2-1-1 Information for Older Adults lists ... Care Insurance; and Legal/Protective Service Issues. Connecticut 2-1-1 Information for Older Adults ...

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The Elder Economic Security Standard Index for Connecticut

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12/2009

... older adults require to maintain their independence in the community and meet their daily costs of living, including ... care. The Elder Economic Security Standard Index for Connecticut ...

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Improving California's Aging Services and Long Term Care System - Blueprint for Partnerships Between California Foundations and State Policymakers

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04/2011

... represents a coordinated effort by seven California foundations to highlight how foundations might engage in collaboration and partnership ... the challenges facing the ALTC system in California. The foundations signing on to this Blueprint are willing to make ...

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The Maturing of America - Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population

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06/2011

A nationwide survey: “The Maturing of America—Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population.” The survey, administered in 2010 by ICMA, with more than 1,400 local governments responding out of over 10,000 that received it, was intended to assess progress against benchmarks established in the first “Maturing of America” survey conducted in 2005. In both cases, the findings were eye-opening.

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The Maturing of America - Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population

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06/2011

A nationwide survey: “The Maturing of America—Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population.” The survey, administered in 2010 by ICMA, with more than 1,400 local governments responding out of over 10,000 that received it, was intended to assess progress against benchmarks established in the first “Maturing of America” survey conducted in 2005. In both cases, the findings were eye-opening.

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Baseline Survey Report for EngAGEment Initiative

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06/2011

... The overall goal of this two-year initiative is to build Connecticut Funders’ understanding, interest and momentum ...

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2-1-1 Barometer: Connecticut's Older Adults

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10/2011

... remain connected to needed resources is essential to community-based strategies for this growing segment of our ... Way initiatives aimed at aging in place. 2-1-1 Barometer: Connecticut's Older Adults ...

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From Washington, D.C. to Connecticut: Take Away Messages from the American Society on Aging Annual Conference

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04/2012

... challenges: Developing measurable quality standards for community long-term services and supports, and not ... And Services at Home (SASH): An affordable housing community in Vermont developed a model that is now expanding ... isolation of family caregiving. From Washington, D.C. to Connecticut: Take Away Messages from the American Society on ...

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Is This What Change Feels Like? A Review on: The State of Aging in America: The 2012 Conference of Grantmakers in Aging

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10/2012

Several partners from Connecticut's EngAGEment initiative attended the Grantmakers ... O'Sullivan and Nancy Heaton from The Foundation for Community Health, Debbie Stein , part time EngAGEment ... hat of Senior Services Program Officer for Connecticut Community Foundation; and Deb Werner , also with the Council. ...

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Aging Ready Communities - Challenges, Opportunities, National and Local Models - November 30, 2011

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11/2011

... T. "Bitsie" Clark - Executive Director, East Rock Village, serving residents from New Haven, Hamden and North Haven. ... B. Stafford, Ph.D., Director of the Center on Aging and Community at Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University, and Mia Oberlink, M.A., ...

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Funders at Work in Aging

The Council compiles examples of the many ways in which Connecticut grantmakers provide funding and leadership in ...

How a Public/Private Partnership Brought $30 Million and 6,650 Jobs to Connecticut

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07/2012

... to bring millions in federal stimulus funds to needy Connecticut families. But, in 2010, deep into a recession, the state’s philanthropic community – guided by the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy – worked with ...

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