McGregor Foundation Awards 14 Grants in Support of Low-Income Seniors

CLEVELAND, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The McGregor Foundation, in its semi-annual grantmaking cycle, has awarded $319,392 to 14 local service-providers for a broad range of programs that aid Northeast Ohio's most vulnerable seniors.

Among the grants is $50,000 to the Senior Transportation Connection of Cuyahoga County to strengthen its coordination of cost-effective transportation services for low-income seniors in Greater Cleveland.

McGregor also provided $30,000 to the Care Alliance Health Centers for the Restoring Smiles Program, which strives to improve dental care for inner-city seniors. In a different direction, McGregor gave $10,000 to Music and Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral for the Brown Bag Concert Series that includes many seniors in its audience.

"The plight of low-income seniors in Northeast Ohio worsens by the day," says Rob Hilton, president of the McGregor Foundation. "That is why, in this era of limited resources, we are focused on funding programs that contribute to improving the lives of our neediest seniors."

Other McGregor grants:  

• All Faiths Pantry, $10,000, food delivery services to seniors and the physically challenged.
• American Red Cross, $20,000, installing smoke alarms in the homes of low-income seniors.
• Business Volunteers Unlimited, $5,000, capacity building for not-for-profit organizations.
• East Side Organizing Project, $19,980, community organizing and wealth preservation for seniors in the Buckeye and Shaker Square neighborhoods.
• Fairhill Partners, $40,000, Senior Guest House, a temporary residence for displaced impoverished seniors.
• Ideastream, $25,000, coverage on issues of aging.
• The Intergenerational School, $20,000, intergenerational educational programming.
• Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, $30,000, adult guardianship services.
• May Dugan Center, $40,000, the Health Care Initiative.
• Slavic Village Development, $12,552, oral histories of neighborhood seniors.
• Women's Recovery Center, $7,400, intensive case management for elderly clients in the drug and alcohol addiction treatment program.

The McGregor Foundation is an affiliate of the A.M. McGregor Group, the oldest not-for-profit, non-sectarian provider of aging services in Northeast Ohio.  Since its founding in 2002, the Foundation has awarded almost $9 million to programs focused on seniors.

The Group also operates The Gardens, a nursing facility for 149 residents in private-rooms on a 32-acre campus in East Cleveland. Adjacent to the Gardens is the A.M. McGregor Home, which includes 65 affordable independent and assisted living apartments. In addition, McGregor operates McGregor at Overlook, a 25-room satellite nursing home atop Cedar Hill in Cleveland Heights. 

Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Ohio Department of Aging chose The McGregor Group to sponsor the local Program for the All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). 

This special Program, which enables low-income seniors to age at home rather than in costlier residential care facilities, serves participants through Centers for Senior Independence at the Margaret Wagner House in Cleveland Heights and the MetroHealth Senior Health & Wellness Center on Cleveland's West Side.

The McGregor Group traces its roots to 1877 with early support from the stock in the original Standard Oil Company.

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SOURCE The McGregor Foundation