Posted on August 22, 2008

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California Community Foundation Awards $1.1 Million for Adult Day Care

The Los Angeles-based California Community Foundation has announced grants totaling nearly $1.1 million to eight area nonprofits that provide adult daycare services for the aging population.

The two-year grants, which range from $100,000 to $150,000, are part of the foundation's Best Care initiative, which is designed to help nonprofits measure the effectiveness of their programs by developing and integrating a client-tracking and outcomes system. Recipients include St. Barnabas Senior Center of Los Angeles, OPICA Adult Day Care Center, and the Watts Labor Community Action Committee.

The foundation also awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant to Vital Research, a Los Angeles-based consulting firm, to develop a Web-based system for data collection and analysis that can be easily accessed and used to compile aggregate data from all eight participating service providers.

"These grants will help measure the quality of services provided so that the results can be shared with others who care about the welfare of our senior population," said foundation president and CEO Antonia Hernández. "When nonprofits collaborate and share information about what works and what doesn't, long-term systemic change is possible."

For a complete list of grant recipients, visit the California Community Foundation Web site.

“Foundation Awards $1 Million to Eight Nonprofits.” California Community Foundation Press Release 8/12/08.

Primary Subject: Aging
Secondary Subject(s): Human Services
Location(s): California

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