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CTA Foundation

We power lives. Through our extensive and dynamic network, we bring technology to those most in need — seniors and people with disabilities. It's more than just devices. We give people freedom, independence, purpose and most importantly, vital connections.

Foundation Grants

The foundation’s grants strategically support programs that improve the lives of seniors and people with disabilities. Because we consider grants part of a partnership, we work closely with our grantees to ensure their programs’ success.

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    F.Y. Eye

    Developed a network of digital advertising to share nonprofit resources with a broader community. 

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    Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School

    Support for accessible music technology to aid students, educators, professional musicians and recreational learners in instruction and performance. 

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    Front Porch

    The organization will provide tech-enabled health and wellness, internet accessibility and digital literacy to older adults across its senior living communities.

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    Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing

    Front Porch's initiative, "Gaming to Connect" is an intergenerational video gaming program to promote mental health, physical wellbeing, and social engagement. Through our Center for Innovation and Wellbeing, the project will foster social connectivity, accessibility, and adoption through multiple events and activities between local partners, volunteers, and older adults in residential communities and senior centers. 

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    Gallaudet University Technology Access Program

    Accelerate the development from an early prototype to an easy-to-use automatic speech recognition-based captioning product that can be brought to market.

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    Generations On Line

    Support for their app teaching seniors to use tablets. 

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    Hearing Loss Association of America

    Promoted consumer and assistive technologies for individuals with hearing loss.

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    Helen Keller National Center

    Supporting resources for people who are deaf-blind and older adults losing both vision and hearing.

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    Institute for Human Centered Design

    Creating accessible experiences for the Smithsonian Latino Center and resources to help other museums to replicate accessibility in their exhibits. 

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    Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington

    The CTA Foundation supports JCA’s SeniorTech initiative to increase capacity at five of their tech training centers where computer and technology courses are taught to adults age 50 plus by expert, older adult volunteers.

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    Jewish Healthcare Foundation

    The Foundation is working to scale and grow its Virtual Senior Academy, a program using telepresence technology to reduce social isolation among seniors.

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    Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired

    Expansion of the Access Tech Immersion Pilot to focus on individuals living in more rural communities as well as people who primarily speak Spanish.

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    Lighthouse Guild

    Lighthouse Guild is working on a new assistive technology training initiative that will support people who are visually impaired. Through in-person and virtual support, the project will help people who are visually impaired leverage technology to attain their goals. 

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    MAB/MA Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired

    MABVI provides increased access to assistive technology training for seniors who are blind or have low vision, so they can maintain active lives in their own homes.

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    Mary’s Center

    Mary’s Center provides healthcare services to seniors and people with disabilities through the use of consumer technology. The grant will help Mary’s Center purchase the consumer technology to preform healthcare services.

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    Meals on Wheels

    A pilot project will test the feasibility of virtually connecting isolated, home-bound seniors to their local senior center.

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    Meals on Wheels Central Texas

    The Connecting Seniors with Technology program gives low income, homebound seniors and adults with disabilities access to the internet and computer training.

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    Meritan, Inc.

    Meritan provides home health services to older adults using remote monitoring equipment to improve care access, healthcare quality and measurable outcomes.

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    Music & Memory

    The CTA Foundation supported a pilot project to learn how tablet technology can be leveraged to enhance quality of life for the elderly and infirm in long-term care, including those with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, as well as other cognitive and physical challenges.

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    Oak Hill

    Developed a “smart home on wheels” to bring the versatile technology to seniors and individuals with disabilities who lack transportation.

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    Oasis Institute

    Provided support for accessibility feature and technology training classes. 

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    Opportunity Village

    Opportunity Village provides programs and services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This grant will assist with their new software and hardware integration providing optimal service delivery for their clients.

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    PSS (Presbyterian Senior Services)

    PSS is increasing the Digital Capacity of low-income older adults (OAs) across the NYC metro region through their ""Life University Tech Trainings"". delivered at their 10 OA Centers in the Bronx and Harlem. These centers serve those who are marginalized due advanced age, low to poverty-level income, limited education, language barriers, and inadequate services.

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    Raising the Floor

    Researched a searchable database of assistive technologies.

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Learn more about the criteria for CTA Foundation Grants.