Kendal Charitable Funds - Service, Transforming the experience of Aging

From the opening of the first Kendal community in 1973, residents and community members, staff, and board members have lived out the core commitment of working with older people, and others in the community, to create conditions that foster independence, well-being, security, and fulfillment in later years. Kendal has grown to include The Kendal Corporation, Kendal Charitable Funds, Kendal Outreach, LLC, continuing care retirement communities, a life care at home program, and adult communities that together provide services to more than 3,500 older adults in six states. Kendal Charitable Funds was established in 1989 to support the charitable purposes of the Kendal system of affiliates and Kendal Outreach. Those served by Kendal organizations and their boards and staffs, together with the wider constituency, support various funds for resident and member financial assistance, for reaching out into the wider world, for increasing the diversity of those served, and for improving the experience of aging far beyond our walls. Read a brief history of Kendal's outreach initiatives.

SUPPORT OUR INITIATIVES

We welcome your support of the following initiatives. Contributions can be made through Kendal Charitable Funds.

Promising Innovations

Our newest initiative will provide grants to model projects that change the individual experience of aging for the better. Projects that fit this broad purpose and are in accordance with Kendals Values and Practices will be selected by a national committee from among proposals garnered across the field of aging. Read more about Promising Innovations.

Kendal Outreach, LLC

Kendal Outreach serves the long term care field by improving the practice of geriatrics and gerontology through advocacy and education. Visit the Kendal Outreach Web Site.

COLLAGE, The Art and Science of Healthy Aging

COLLAGE is a nationwide initiative that provides member organizations a suite of standardized, systematic and integrated health and wellness assessment tools developed to advance and promote healthy aging. Visit the COLLAGE Web Site.

Untie the Elderly

Untie the Elderly has been providing programs around the globe on restraint-free care since Kendal staff made the first presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Homes for the Aging in 1986. That presentation led to Federal legislation in 1990 that required nursing facilities to consider the effects of restraint use on the well-being of residents. Learn more about Untie the Elderly.

Leadership Development for Nurses

Kendal Outreach, LLC, and Widener University are collaborating on a program that will provide leadership training to 60 Directors of Nursing and Registered Nurses working in nursing homes in the Delaware Valley. Learn more.

SUPPORT OUR AFFILIATES

Kendal affiliates are providing housing, services, health care, assisted living, skilled nursing and long term care, in-home programs and services, and outreach initiatives. You can support affiliates by contacting them directly or by donating online. View a map of Kendal communities.

All gifts will be acknowledged and recognized.