When I was in graduate school (a very long time ago!), I recall taking a number of courses in the mental health specialization in the MSW program. There was almost no aging-related content in any of the courses except for a lecture on “Organic Brain Syndrome.” The limits of the…
Read full postAt the Foundation, we know that advancing our mission to improve the health of older Americans is accomplished not by us, but by our grantees. The Foundation will make the most progress when the organizations and individuals we support have all the tools needed to do their best work. As…
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Recently, you heard from the creative team—our writer, photographers, and videographers—for our award-winning 2011 annual report focused on mental health and older adults. In that blog post, Don Battershall reported that in order to capture the stories of the older adults, caregivers, and health care professionals featured in the annual…
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As the Grants Manager at the Foundation, my access to grantees is mostly limited to the reports they periodically send to us and the occasional evaluation site visit I attend. So, my focus is usally on the numbers: how grantees spend the money we awarded them and whether they are…
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As our dedicated 2012 Hartford Foundation annual report blog series followers know, our August 7 blog featured the creative team behind our award-winning annual report. Intrigued by their stories, we asked our annual report writer, Lynne Christensen, to tell us more about her experience writing about mental health and older…
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Sometimes you hear something over and over again and you think you know it, and yet you can still suddenly understand it in a different way. I've been hearing about the pay "cut" geriatricians experience versus other physicians for more than 15 years. And I've spent a good deal of…
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Last year I had the honor of announcing our first-ever Gold Award in the Vision Award Annual Report Competition sponsored by the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) for our 2010 Hartford Annual Report. This year, I get to brag again. Our 2011 Hartford Annual Report focused on mental health…
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Let’s face it: In addition to strategic planning, convening, evaluating, networking, and grantmaking, a good portion of my job is just plain bragging. I like to do it. I’m good at it (N.B., bragging about bragging is a rare skill). And our Hartford grantees make it easy. My job is…
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We are always proud of how our innovative and entrepreneurial grantees parlay work started with Foundation support into additional resources to improve the health of older adults (for example, in the CMMI Innovation Challenge program). Today, I am very proud to announce that in partnership with our long-time grantees at…
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While our mission to improve the health of older Americans is our passion, we also try to be thoughtful about how we do our work as a foundation and as a part of the nonprofit sector and of society. There are only a few simple national rules (mostly set by…
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