The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation has given a $7.9 million grant to the Schmieding Home Caregiver Training Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
UAMS said the money will support operations for five years at the Schmieding program’s seven training sites around Arkansas.
The program provides education and skills training to family members and paid caregivers caring for older adults in the home. The program includes training on how to deal with dementia.
“The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation’s support has been critically important to the success of the UAMS Schmieding Home Caregiver Program,” Jeanne Wei, executive director of the Institute on Aging, said in a news release. “We are grateful to the foundation for this grant and for their continuing visionary support of all our programs, and thank them for their continued support of the training program.”
In 1998, the Schmieding Foundation donated $15 million to UAMS to establish and support the Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education in Springdale, which developed the curriculum and training program.
With this most recent grant, the foundation will have given $97.5 million to UAMS, with $94.3 million of that going to the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, which includes the caregiver training program.
This makes the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation one of the largest donors in UAMS history.
The foundation has given more than than $1.8 billion to nonprofits since 1994, including hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations in Arkansas. It plans to shut down at the end of 2017.
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