Grantmaking
Funding Innovative Solutions
Overview
The SCAN Foundation provides grant support to initiatives that broaden the public’s awareness of the need to improve the long-term care system in the United States, to efforts that will impact policy in California and nationwide, and to promising program models, particularly home- and community-based service models for seniors that foster their independence.
The SCAN Foundation generally furthers its public awareness and policy work through solicited grants. Potential grantees for the dissemination and assessment of promising program models are selected through open requests for proposals and collaboration with other foundations. These program models have the potential to inform and strengthen long-term care policy development and, ultimately, lead to an improved care system for our seniors. Maintaining this dual-focused approach to grant-making helps The SCAN Foundation achieve its mission of keeping seniors independent, at home and in the community. In 2009 alone, the Foundation will award approximately $7.5 million to selected grantees.
Call for Grantees
The SCAN Foundation welcomes the opportunity to engage with partners that share our vision and who are ready to implement promising program models for the care of seniors, primarily in California. To this end, the Foundation issues two requests for proposals (RFP) per year, with submissions received through an online application process. The Spring RFP is open and invites proposals for a broad range of projects while the Fall RFP focuses on seeking solutions within a specific area of the continuum of care for seniors. It is our expectation to support approximately five projects in each of the two RFP cycles, which will provide helpful information to all persons interested and involved in comprehensive long-term care.
Awards
Since its founding in May 2008, The SCAN Foundation has awarded over $15.5 million in grant funding to more than 55 organizations focused on broadening public awareness, impacting state and federal policy, and improving the care continuum for seniors in California.
Recent grantees include: Area 1 Agency on Aging, Bay Area Community Services, CARA Education Fund, St. Barnabas Senior Center of Los Angeles, and The Health Trust.