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July 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Starting in July 1996, Catholic Charities in Lake County, Calif., provided transportation and other services to the elderly in a rural community.
July 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Oakwood Lutheran Homes Association, Madison, Wis., recruited and trained 10 congregational teams of volunteers who provided in-home care and support to individuals and families.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
April 30, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, staff at the Volunteers in Medicine Institute developed technical assistance materials for volunteers interested in creating free clinics.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Va., carried out Final Gifts, a national research study of hospice volunteerism.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Oxford Health Plans, Inc., created its service credit banking program, called Partners In Caring, to assist Medicare members with nonmedical needs by recruiting and training community volunteers.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
CareAmerica Health Plans, a for-profit health insurer in Southern California, launched its CareXchange SCB (Service Credit Banking) program in Glendale, Calif.
January 1, 1999 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology presents the Foundation's long-standing initiative Faith in Action, a program that encourages voluntarism as a strategy for meeting the needs of the chronically ill.
July 31, 2008 | Program Result Report
Project staff at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., expanded a program that relied on volunteers to work with geriatric patients to prevent and reduce delirium, an underreported condition that can result in higher mortality and morbidity.
January 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
From July 2001 until January 2004, staff of the Washington, D.C.-based Food & Friends recruited, trained and deployed volunteers to prepare and deliver food to people with HIV/AIDS, cancer, dementia and other life-challenging illnesses.