A Little Help provides older adults with virtual and hybrid programming offerings in Metro Denver, Northern Colorado, and on the Western Slope to foster intergenerational connections and combat isolation. The grant will support A little Help’s organizational technology infrastructure and equipment upgrades. 

The AARP Foundation developed a voice technology program – using Amazon’s Alexa – to connect seniors to one another.

This program will connect 500 low-income, minority older adults in Montgomery County with hearing loss to over-the-counter hearing technologies. The Access HEARS intervention includes counseling, aural rehabilitation, and education on how to use affordable, accessible hearing technologies.

Created a set of tutorials for using the open source NVDA screen reader.

Support for the VisionConnect Initiative creating resources to help people new to vision loss. 

Army Distaff Foundation provides housing, health, and wellness services to older people who served our nation. This grant assists ADF in enhancing the Make & Tech Lab at Knollwood Life Plan Community with updated consumer technologies, workshops, and training for aging seniors.

Avenidas provides virtual programming for vulnerable older adults, especially those who are homebound; who are not proficient speakers of English; or who are reluctant technology users. The grant will assist Avenidas in purchasing DTEN D7 systems for their virtual programs.

Bookshare, the world’s largest digital library of accessible materials and support for Benetech’s flagship literacy initiative, developed an app that will work on smart speakers. The grant will assist Benetech in the development and release of Bookshare for Google Assistant.

Funding will support people with disabilities and seniors in various technology programs purchase tablets, screen magnifiers and other assistive technologies.

Helped continue development of the CareBank.

Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired provides computer training to individuals who are blind or visually impaired gain, maintain, or improve their employment. The grant will assist CABVI in purchasing access technology equipment for their computer lab training. 

Supporting new accessible features in PATRIOTLink® which helps service members, veterans, caregivers and social service professionals connect to eligible resources.

Support for Senior Connect, a scalable digital literacy training program targeted to low-income older adults in Central Texas who face social isolation due to COVID-19.

This funding request would allow us to provide computer training, ongoing technical support, and internet connections for 123 low income, socially isolated, homebound seniors who we have given a senior friendly computer or tablet. These funds would pay for the tech services mentioned above as well as any ongoing issues with their tech devices including free tech support help, and free replacement or repair as needed.

Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio provides family caregiver training and experiences using the EVRTalk virtual reality (VR) program. COA’s innovative outreach and partnered events provide practical knowledge and empathy-building experiences via VR scenarios.

Cyber-Seniors and Lighthouse Guild have partnered to bring programming to young people and older adults with significant visual impairment. The grant will assist Cyber-Seniors in providing intergenerational technology training for visually impaired older adults and work readiness opportunities for visually impaired young people.

DOROT is replicating their Tech Coaching program throughout the country through a new partnership with the Village to Village Network (VtVN) providing individualized support to older adults. 

BridgingApps, a program of the Easter Seals of Greater Houston, will expand its website content – a digital compendium of apps specifically targeted at seniors and those with disabilities.

EngAGE serves low-income seniors' technological needs by providing connection to our virtual programs to battle isolation and loneliness during the pandemic and beyond. The grant will help fund their technology program to include tech training and support, devices, internet hot spots and program coordination to roll it out.

The first-of-its-kind Accessible Products Hotline employed customer service agents with visual impairments to help low vision or blind consumers identify and support accessible products.

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

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

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