Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention All of us at the John A. Hartford Foundation have a deep appreciation and respect for the work that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) do to safeguard the health of our nation and promote healthy aging…
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This is the first in a series of six Health AGEnda posts on the 2014 Annual Report. At the John A. Hartford Foundation, we like to say that our job is not to make grants, but rather to make change. Making systemic, large-scale practice change is the idea behind…
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Last week’s meeting of the John A. Hartford Foundation’s Board of Trustees was an important and exciting time for us all. It was the first board meeting under the direction of our new President, Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, and it was the last board meeting for our long-time board…
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Margaret L. Wolff is the new chair of the John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees. Moving from strength to strength. That is how I recently described the John A. Hartford Foundation’s shift in strategic direction from building academic capacity over the past three decades to its current focus…
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Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, started as the John A. Hartford Foundation's new President this week. As I begin an exciting new chapter of a career deeply embedded in geriatrics, I am thrilled by the opportunity to serve as the new President of the John A. Hartford Foundation and…
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“Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing Jell-O to a tree.”—John Candy As the year comes to a close, there are many lists of the best and worst in almost every imaginable category for 2014. Here at Health AGEnda, we have made an annual practice of reviewing the…
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While many of our legacy grant programs continue to support the development of leaders in the field of aging and health research and education (see this week’s earlier Health AGEnda post about our latest Hartford/VA social work research scholars), new and growing investments under the John A. Hartford Foundation’s current…
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This is the last in a three-part Health AGEnda series on the Hartford Foundation’s 2013 Annual Report: Spreading Innovation Through Collaboration. Collaboration is everything—creating meaningful and measurable change rarely, if ever, happens in a vacuum. Here at the John A. Hartford Foundation, we recognize the importance of forging longstanding relationships…
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One of the Hartford Foundation's new grants will support an additional 44 Health and Policy Fellows over the next three years. While the two new grants approved by the John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees last week continue to move us forward in our new strategic direction, which…
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We know that to some people, foundations simply seem like large ATM machines. If you have the right card and the right code, then voila, the money for a project or organization is dispensed and you're done. But we, and many of our funder colleagues, strive to be more than…
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