Grants to enhance End-of-Life Care in Missouri

The Hospice Foundation awards grants to organizations involved in a range of end-of-life services and education. The Foundation supports hospice, palliative care, advanced directives, grief and bereavement services, educational programs, and other activities which nurture informed personal choices and respect for diverse cultural identities in the end-of-life experience. ​

The purpose of this letter is to encourage your organization to submit a grant request that will strengthen end-of-life care and education in Southwest Missouri and will advance their Vision and Mission Statements.

Toward this goal, the Hospice Foundation of the Ozarks is interested in, but not limited to, funding programs that:

• Train staff and volunteers to take advantage of cutting-edge hospice and palliative care concepts.
• Provide education that increases professional skills and expertise in end-of-life care.
• Address topics relevant to current end-of-life practices.
• Prepare future leaders to recognize the importance of end-of-life issues.
• Reach out to patients and families to inform them about options for care at end of life and develop a plan to ensure their wishes are honored.
• Urge individuals to voice end-of-life decisions to family, friends, clergy, and health care providers through advance care planning.
• Enhance the various disciplines that constitute hospice and palliative care (allied therapies, bereavement, social work, spiritual caregiving, companion service, volunteers/volunteer management).
• Support and enhance the interdisciplinary team approach of which hospice and palliative care is known for.
• Create and distribute educational resources for patients and families facing end of life; brochures, books and multimedia materials.
• Offer community education that provides information about end-of-life resources available in the Ozarks.
• Develop conferences and webinars that provide quality Continuing Education for professionals who work with individuals and families facing serious illness, death, and grief.
• Encourage healthcare systems and providers to discuss hospice and palliative care earlier in the disease process.
• Develop modern and innovative concepts that improve care at end of life.
• Apply scholarship/research to enhance knowledge and/or training on relevant end-of-life topics/issues.

Eligibility Criteria

There are grants available to 501(c)3, tax-exempt organizations. Organizations requesting grants must be fiscally sound with demonstrated economic sustainability.

For  more information,visit Hospice Foundation of the Ozarks (HFO).