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AgeOn.
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$901,762
From July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, over
500 donors contributed more than $1.6 GRANTS
million to the Institute on Aging (IOA),
providing support to the newly launched
$320,529
Companioa initiative, Friendship Line, the
inaugural Heart of the Bay, and more.
INDIVIDUAL
IOA is deeply grateful for the generous
individuals, foundations, and corporations $290,033
whose gifts help to advance our mission
HEART OF THE BAY
of enhancing the quality of life for aging
adults and adults living with disabilities,
enabling them to maintain their $130,574
health, well-being, independence, and
participation in the community.
PLANNED GIVING
Inaugural Heart of the Bay
Benefits California Seniors
On February 11, 2021, more than 300 f riends
of IOA tuned in for Heart of the Bay, a
virtual dinner party celebrating IOA, those
we serve, and those who support our work.
Together, we raised nearly $300,000 to help
IOA continue providing critical support to
seniors across California, keeping them
safe and healthy during the pandemic and
beyond. The event highlighted the impacts
of IOA’s Friendship Line, meal deliveries,
and Companioa programs on aging
adults and adults with disabilities in our
community. Please visit ioaging.org/heart-
of-the-bay and save the date for this year’s
Heart of the Bay: February 8, 2022.
For IOA Leader Lynn Brinton, Joseph & Vera Long Foundation
Launching Companioa is Helps Friendship Line Reach
Deeply Personal Seniors Isolated by COVID-19
In February 2021, IOA proudly launched Companioa, Institute on Aging’s 24-hour toll-f ree Friendship Line
an innovative, holistic approach to supporting families is the only accredited crisis line in the country for
and caregivers of loved ones with dementia. IOA people aged 60 years and older, and adults living
Philanthropy Committee member and returning IOA with disabilities. We also make on-going outreach
Board member, Lynn Brinton, and her husband, Dan calls to lonely older adults. While there are other
Cohn, generously supported Companioa’s launch with organizations that respond to the needs of people
a leadership gift. Unfortunately, Lynn is personally who may be contemplating suicide, none provides
familiar with the challenges individuals and their the type of services that IOA’s Friendship Line offers
families face when navigating a dementia diagnosis to respond to the public health problem of suicide
and care: Lynn’s mother, Barbara, struggled with among the elderly.
dementia in the last four years of her life. “Mom’s
dementia diagnosis knocked me and my family off Many of our foundation partners stepped up their
our feet,” says Lynn. “We felt like we were f ighting giving to support IOA through the challenges of
for a quality of life which was declining precipitously the pandemic. The Joseph & Vera Long Foundation
on a landscape for which we had little to no gave a generous grant of $100,000 to help build the
understanding.” There were recurring shocks as the inf rastructure needed to shift the on-site Friendship
disease quickly exhausted Barbara’s f inancial savings Line to a remote workforce. Since their f irst grant
and took hold of her behavior and well-being with to Friendship Line in 2014, the Long Foundation has
limited resources and interventions to help. recognized the importance of the line, especially
at a time when older adults are more isolated than
Through its family of services ranging f rom personal ever and remote mental health resources were in
care coaches to support groups to on demand advice, high demand. Thanks to the generosity of individuals
Companioa aims to increase the family and caregivers’ and foundations like the Long Foundation, software,
sense of control, lower their stress levels, and help phones, laptops, and more were purchased and
reduce the number of unnecessary emergency distributed, all without missing a call.
room visits and hospitalizations. Lynn says, “My hope
is that individuals and families facing dementia ioaging.org/services/all-inclusive-health-
will have a companion to help them with this
lifealtering diagnosis. IOA is making this a reality with care/friendship-line
Companioa.”
ioaging.org/companioa
FISCAL YEAR 2021 DONORS
Thank you to all of our generous donors who supported our work last year. We are
proud to recognize gifts $1,000 and above from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.
PLATINUM HEART ($100,000K+)
Lynn Brinton and Daniel E. Cohn The Joseph & Vera Long Stupski Foundation
Caltrans Foundation The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg
Hellman Foundation May & Stanley Smith Charitable Foundation
Estate of Fu and Linda Jin Trust
DIAMOND HEART ($50,000-$99,999)
Inger and Norbert Bischofberger Mount Zion Health Fund University Mound Ladies Home
Ray Dagmar Dolby Fund Peninsula Health Care District
Matthew Kelly Family Foundation Ruth Ann Rosenberg
GOLD HEART ($25,000-$49,999)
Karen and Andy Fisher Metta Fund
SILVER HEART ($15,000-$24,999)
Estate of Kenneth Edlin Susan Koret Daniella Siroskey
Joseph L. Barbonchielli Jeannee Parker Martin and Smart Family Foundation IOA PHILANTHROPY
COMMITTEE
Foundation Michael Martin, MD
BRONZE HEART ($10,000-$14,999)
J. Thomas Briody, MHSc Claire Davis, MD and Kathy and Craig Moody This past f iscal year marked
Warren Browner, MD Jim Davis, MD Spinach Fund the development of IOA’s new
Lillian Cape Marlene Litvak and Bruce Fisher Sutter Health Philanthropy Committee. Comprising
philanthropic leaders f rom across the
EMERALD HEART ($5,000-$9,999) Bay Area, the Philanthropy Committee
Lynn Altshuler and Stanley Mimi Haas Audrey and Robert Sockolov
reviews and advises on all aspects of
Herzstein Carie Harris Roselyne Swig fundraising at IOA and advocates for
Amazing Care Charitable The Karuna Charitable Fund Fumi Tanaka and Aaron IOA’s mission.
Foundation Steven Kay Cooperband
Linda Borick-Davidson and Elizabeth W. King Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar and
William Davidson, Jr. Beth Lewis David Werdegar, MD Sandra Simon, Chair
Meryl S. Brod, PhD and Len Weiss Erin McGrath Diana Whitehead Lynn Brinton
Adele Corvin On Lok Amy and Thomas Zellerbach Meryl Brod
Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg Barbara and John Osterweis
John & Marcia Goldman Kit and Courtney Rodgers
Dana Corvin
Foundation Sandra Simon James Davis, MD
Andy Fisher
RUBY HEART ($2,500-$4,999)
Audrey Sockolov
Roxana and Daniel Blades Christine and Joseph Montesano The Lawrence Weissberg Cynthia Diana Whitehead
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Clare M. Murphy Foundation
Marcia and John Goldman Sudha Pennathur and Judy Williams
Anne and John Hinton Edward Messerly
FISCAL YEAR 2021
Ambassador James Hormel and Gerry and James Sangiacomo
Michael Nguyen Tammy and Robert Sher
GEM HEART ($1,000-$2,499) BOARD OF DIRECTORS
American Online Giving Marcia and David Glassel Rebecca A. Perez
Foundation Joanne and David Handy Lisa Pritzker H. Andrew Fisher, Chair
Anonymous Amy and Dustin Harper Barbara Kate and
Anne Hinton, Vice Chair
Julie and Thomas Atwood Joan Hestenes Thomas R. Reynolds
The Benevity Community Roean Iscoff Toni Rembe and Arthur Rock Theresa Matacia, CFA, Treasurer
Impact Fund Beth and Fred Karren Barbara and Richard Rosenberg Marlene Litvak, Esq., Secretary
Joelle Benioff Barbara and Ron Kauf man San Francisco Giants J. Thomas Briody, MHSc
Patricia McCall and Arthur Jeannine Kay and Michael Rugen SAP
Bernstein Arlene and Stephan Krieger Bette and Randolph Scott
Warren Browner, MD
Lorraine Bosche Gerard Linsmeier Anne Marie Siu Yuan and Peter Aaron Cooperband
Janet and Micah Broude Jan and Jay Luxenberg, MD Bacchetti James Davis, MD
Carol Brownstein and Theresa Matacia and Jan Speer Jeannee Parker Martin, RN, MPH
David Lieberman Patrick Scanlon Rowland Tabor
Laine Buckingham and Linda McKay George Thompson
Louise C. Walter, MD
William E. Rothmann Ernie McNabb Diane Torkelson Cynthia Diana Whitehead
The Franklin Cole Foundation Aaron McPherson Charlene and Sidney Tuchman Amy W. Zellerbach, Esq.
Stacey Depriest Susan Moldaw Marilyn Wacks
Sandra and Conrad Donner Kathleen E. Mulaney Nancy Wakeman
Nancy Dunfee Marilyn Mullem and David Melnick Lucie and Jerry Weissman
Eucalyptus Associates, Inc. Henry Nelson Monique Schaulis, MD and
Francine Feder Dayna Nicholson Matthew Werdegar
Gail Gerber and Diana Nunan Anita and Ronald Wornick ioaging.org/donate
Jonathan Bernstein Nutrition Solutions Lynne and Paul Zakaria
Katharine Gilmartin Barbro and Bernard Osher Linda and Gary Zellerbach
philanthropy@ioaging.org
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