ARCHSTONE FOUNDATION

Archstone Foundation envisions a time when health and social service providers are well-trained and work together to ensure high-quality, culturally competent integrated care that is person-centered, well-coordinated, and compassionate.

With Training grants, Archstone Foundation will center its grantmaking on training health care and social service providers on effective evidence-based team care models that focus on improving teamwork and elder care skills for all team members. Examples include interdisciplinary and cross-sector team training, meeting the needs of newer team members who are filling gaps in traditional care, and enhancing geriatrics and gerontological expertise and skills more broadly.

Healthcare and social services silos create barriers that prevent the exchange of information and limit data sharing, which are critical building blocks to improving care. Removing these barriers is a necessary step to improving care coordination.

Team care is most effective when it takes advantage of communications and information technology, and when all members of a care team, including older people and their caregivers, have real-time access to care plans and notice of important changes of health status, such as a hospitalization or emergency department visits.

Archstone Foundation will support efforts that demonstrate technology’s benefits to all stakeholders in the care process. We will fund grants that promote the adoption of technologies, that facilitate teamwork between health care and social services providers, and empower older adults and their families to direct their care.

Following an extensive review of its grantmaking in 2019, Archstone Foundation replaced its prior small grants program (~ $15,000) for direct service organizations with a Capacity Building funding opportunity. Capacity Building grants will offer up to $50,000 to support projects designed to help organizations work more efficiently and effectively. These grants are not intended to cover routine core operating expenses nor provide on-going programmatic support. They are meant to aid development at a structural level, increasing an organization’s ability to deliver on its mission over time.

Archstone Foundation offers two annual Capacity Building Request for Proposals (RFP) opportunities. One is a general Capacity Building funding opportunity, open to any non-profit serving older adults (or their caregivers) in California.

Following an extensive review of its grantmaking in 2019, Archstone Foundation replaced its prior small grants program (~ $15,000) for direct service organizations with a Capacity Building funding opportunity. Capacity Building grants will offer up to $50,000 to support projects designed to help organizations work more efficiently and effectively. These grants are not intended to cover routine core operating expenses nor provide on-going programmatic support. They are meant to aid development at a structural level, increasing an organization’s ability to deliver on its mission over time.

Archstone Foundation offers two annual Capacity Building Request for Proposals (RFP) opportunities. This program is aimed at organizations focused on serving racially, ethnically, or otherwise diverse older people with histories of disadvantage in order to reduce health disparities and advance racial equity.