The Dana Home Foundation 2015 Grant Award Ceremony
The Dana Home Foundation 2015 Grant Award Recipients and Board Co-Presidents
Back row: Jing Liu, Chairman and Founder, Daoyin Health Society; Alex Will Shea, Acting Minister of Congregational Care, Hancock United Church of Christ; Charlotte Rodgers, Director, Town of Lexington Human Services Department; Jim Freehling, CEO and President, Brookhaven at Lexington; Randy Hiller, Executive Director, Lexington Chamber Music; Joyce Bellefeuille, Founder and Chair, The Power of Flowers Project; Joan Butler, Executive Director, Minuteman Senior Services; Erica Johnson, Executive Director, Cooperative Elder Services; Martha Ryan, Director, Neighbors Who Care; Debby King, Library Outreach Coordinator, Perkins School; Lorraine Teehan, Book Group Coordinator, Perkins School; Stephanie Lawrence, Executive Director, Neighbor Brigade
Front row: Heather Vandermillen, Reference Librarian, Cary Memorial Library; Sheila Butts, Community Center Director, Lexington Recreation Department; Jane Trudeau, President, Friends of Lexington Council on Aging; Karen Agahigian, CEO, VNA of Middlesex-East; Shirley Stolz, Friends of Lexington Council on Aging; Susan K. McClements, Co-President, Dana Home Foundation Board; Claudia Knight, Co-President, Dana Home Foundation Board Co-President
Front row: Heather Vandermillen, Reference Librarian, Cary Memorial Library; Sheila Butts, Community Center Director, Lexington Recreation Department; Jane Trudeau, President, Friends of Lexington Council on Aging; Karen Agahigian, CEO, VNA of Middlesex-East; Shirley Stolz, Friends of Lexington Council on Aging; Susan K. McClements, Co-President, Dana Home Foundation Board; Claudia Knight, Co-President, Dana Home Foundation Board Co-President
The following organizations received grant awards:
- Brookhaven - To help fund the Active Aging Wellness Fair for Seniors in early October, 2015
- Cary Memorial Library, Lexington - To continue to expand and enrich the library’s selection of materials and programming of interest to seniors
- Cooperative Elder Services - To pilot the Lexington Memory Café in conjunction with the Lexington COA, providing activities, conversation and refreshments for memory impaired seniors and their caregivers and
- To fund computer hardware necessary for implementing an Electronic Health Records project as required by the Department of Public Health - Daoyin Health - To help fund Daoyin Health Program for Seniors. This program combines unique techniques for both meditation and stretching
- Friends of the Council on Aging–- To continue funding the “Lifelong Learning Institute”, a program to provide seniors with a community-wide, affordable, daytime learning program and
- To furnish select rooms in the Mansion at the new community center - Hancock Church - To fund “Hancock Talks”, a program of live and recorded conversations and roundtables on issues pertinent to seniors and caregivers
- Lexington Chamber Music Center, Inc.–- To continue funding this ongoing program which presents outreach concerts by high school students at retirement and nursing homes in Lexington and the surrounding towns
- Minuteman Senior Services–- To continue offering the Healthy Connections program in Lexington which provides services to seniors including nutrition programs (Senior Dining Program at the Lexington Senior Center and Meals On Wheels) and health benefits counseling through SHINE and Healthy Aging programs
- Neighbor Brigade–- To fund outreach efforts to Lexington seniors to encourage increased volunteers and service recipients. Neighbor Brigade provides temporary volunteer support during a sudden crisis
- Neighbors Who Care - To provide operating capital to increase volunteers, hire a part time driver, expand social activities and develop a strategic plan
- Perkins School for the Blind - To continue offering the “Thriving with Vision Loss Project”, an outreach program of the Perkins Braille & Talking Book Library
- Power of Flowers–- To provide funds for a Flower Therapy program in Lexington and to help fund the purchase of a replacement van for transporting flowers
- Town of Lexington, Health and Human Services Department - To help fund its Senior Outreach Services Program serving Lexington residents over 60 in the areas of community awareness, safety education, telephone reassurance and reduced or no cost transportation
- Town of Lexington, Recreation and Community Programs Department–- To fund the Forever Young Fitness program for seniors at the new community center
- Visiting Nurses Association of Middlesex-East, Inc. - To fund the establishment of an Adaptive Devices Bank of equipment used by patients with limited mobility or dexterity to better perform activities of daily living