Partnership for Caring
www.partnershipforcaring.org

A national, nonprofit organization devoted to raising consumer expectations for excellent end-of-life care and increasing demand for such care. It is the only end-of-life organization that partners individuals and organizations, consumers and professionals in a powerful collaboration, joining their voices to demand improvements in how dying people and their loved ones are cared for in our society. Partnership for Caring has a dual focus: providing services for individuals and advocating for societal change. Among other services, Partnership for Caring operates the only national toll-free crisis and information hotline, available to individuals and professionals alike, dealing with end-of-life issues. Partnership for Caring also provides state-specific living wills and medical powers of attorney. Partnership for Caring administers a number of grants and special projects. A recognized leader in the end-of-life movement, Partnership for Caring is the home of the National Program Office for the Last Acts campaign.


Last Acts ®
www.lastacts.org

A national program to improve care and caring near the end of life. It is a multifaceted campaign to raise awareness of palliative care and encourage improvement in its delivery. At the heart of the campaign is a coalition of more than 700 national and local professional and consumer organizations - Partners - that share a commitment to improving care for dying people and their families. The campaign's activities focus on educating and engaging the public and professionals through Partner organizations. It accomplishes education and engagement by gathering and sharing existing information and strategies, stimulating development of new ideas and approaches, and creating opportunities for networking and coalition action. Last Acts® sponsors national and regional conferences, publishes an email newsletter, a quarterly print newsletter and special reports, conducts discussion groups about end-of-life issues, and posts new information nearly daily on its Web site.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services
www.krtdirect.com/dying

Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services (KRT) is a leading worldwide distributor of news and information. It provides news stories, photos, print and animated news and feature graphics, illustrations, caricatures, paginated news and feature products, material for young readers, and interactive news products to news organizations around the world. With contributions from more than 40 newspapers plus its own staff in the United States and Europe, KRT's services appear in more than 600 newspapers worldwide with a daily circulation of more than 90 million. KRT is also well represented on leading online services and all major North American TV markets.

The Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care
www.coordinatedcare.net
The Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care(CAICC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational institute working in collaboration with the VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York at Albany. CAICC is dedicated to improving end-of-life care within mainstream medicine. Current CAICC projects focus on the development, implementation and evaluation of advanced illness coordinated care (AICC) and palliative care programs throughout the United States. Support for these projects comes from VA Healthcare and the Nathan Cummings, Robert Wood Johnson, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels and Charitable Leadership Foundations. CAICC is currently collaborating in the development of the Children's Oncology Group End-of-Life Task Force's Pediatric Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Program.


Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin
www.uwlax.edu/sociology/cde&b
The Center for Death Education and Bioethics (CDEB) is a resource center for academic materials concerned with the issue of death, dying and bereavement in contemporary society. Although the Center for Death Education is affiliated with the Sociology/Archaeology Department of UW-La Crosse, its resources can be helpful to many departments and programs on campus and in the community. The CDEB has a large collection of journals, books and articles concerned with death, dying, bereavement, terminal illness, hospice care, etc. CDEB sponsors ILLNESS, CRISIS & LOSS, a quarterly peer reviewed journal published by Sage Periodicals. CDEB also makes available, at cost, brochures on grief and loss.


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
www.rwjf.org
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, N.J., is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. It concentrates its grantmaking in four goal areas: to assure that all Americans have access to basic health care at reasonable cost; to improve care and support for people with chronic health conditions; to promote healthy communities and lifestyles; and to reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by substance abuse -- tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs.


Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
www.samuels.org
A New York State not-for-profit foundation dedicated to funding work in health care and the performing arts. The Foundation's mission in health care is to assist New Yorkers, particularly those who are elderly or chronically ill, to receive high quality health care and to exercise their rights as consumers of health care. To achieve this, the Foundation makes grants for demonstrations, evaluations, and other types of studies that directly impact the users of health care. Such applied research enables providers within the health care delivery system as well as policy makers to better identify the innumerable problems facing an aging population and thoughtfully address the myriad difficulties older individuals experience in accessing appropriate, affordable, quality care.


Charitable Leadership Foundation
Charitable Leadership Foundation (CLF) supports programs and/or organizations that address problems in the areas of education, housing (especially low-income), job skills and enhancement of economic opportunities for low-income people. CLF also supports initiatives in medicine, as well as medical research that meet certain criteria. In order to achieve this end, it awards grants, loans, and technical assistance to legally incorporated, IRS 501 (c) (3) charitable organizations for projects, programs and capacity building appropriate to this mission.