The Tufts Health Plan Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in their work to improve systems and best practices that influence and ultimately result in healthy communities and age-friendly cities. The Foundation will fund activities in Health and Wellness, Workforce Development, Purposeful Engagement, and Field and Capacity Building that will:

The Foundation promotes healthy living and disease prevention and invests in programs and strategies that help older adults manage illness and chronic health conditions, promote independence, and help improve quality of life. All proposed activities should be evidence-based or evidence-informed, focusing on effective, science-based approaches that include rigorous evaluation and consistent outcomes. Activities can also be a best practice and systems approach to expanding, scaling or replicating programs to older adults living in underserved communities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, focusing on those in greatest economic and social need. Efforts can consist of clinical and community interventions.

Field and Capacity Building:Systems change and collaboration can be challenging. The Foundation wants to address those challenges. We support activities that build the field of healthy aging and strengthen the capacity of nonprofit organizations to enhance quality of life for people as they age. We also will fund initiatives that build field capacity including support for family and other caregivers in their essential roles as they care for loved ones at home. This includes training and technical assistance as well as planning, coordinating and collaborating around age-friendly communities. The Foundation will also consider capacity-building programs for nonprofit organizations that provide encore careers, paid service work and/or volunteer opportunitie

 

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