Kendal Charitable Funds Offers Grants for Innovative New Programs to Improve the Lives of Older Adults

Kendal Charitable Funds Offers Grants for Innovative New Programs to Improve the Lives of Older Adults

Kendal Charitable Funds is seeking proposals for promising innovations that will transform the experience of aging. Established in 1989, the organization raises and disburses funds in support of the charitable purposes of the Kendal Corporation and its affiliates, a system of not-for-profit communities, programs, and services for older adults.

The funds' Promising Innovations grant program seeks to support new projects designed to enhance the lives of older adults, whether through services, research, and/or developing new understandings and awareness of the potential for aging well. The program is looking for pilot projects that address one or more of these criteria. Priority will be given to opportunities that have the greatest potential for change and replication to impact the greatest number of individuals.

Potential project topics include but are not limited to 1) The Field of Aging — wellness enhancement, quality of life, multi-generational relationships, and home and community; and 2) Populations of Older Adults — frail, thriving, underserved, minority, and cognitively impaired. In addition, the foundation may consider other grants to individuals and organizations whose proposals compliment these topics.

Grants are available only for new programs; existing programs are not eligible for funding. Grants will not be made to support sectarian religious activities, endowment or debt reduction, capital requests for construction or equipment, loans, fellowships or out-of-area-travel, proprietary enterprises, political lobbying or legislative activities.

Eligible applicants are nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations. Individuals may apply through a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization serving as his or her fiscal agent.

Grants will not normally exceed a maximum of $25,000. Several smaller requests may be granted rather than one or two larger ones. The grant period will normally be for one year.

Visit the Kendal Charitable Funds Web site for complete program guidelines and application instructions.