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Centre for Research on Aging

Centre for Research on Aging

Grace Dart Foundation Knowledge Mobilization Fund

The 2024-2026 Grace Dart Foundation Knowledge Mobilization Fund for Empowered Aging brings Concordia University to communities and stakeholders outside of the University. 

A young woman and older woman sit side by side at a table working on separate embroidery projects. Credit: Brock Dishart

About the award

This award matches students with community organizations and nonprofits working primarily with older adults. It is an opportunity to co-develop community-engaged activities with older adults and to acquire experience in the community sector

Empowered aging considers growing old as an active and evolving process wherein diverse individuals have opportunities to access resources and supports that will enable ongoing realization of personal potentials as needs and situations change over time.

A knowledge mobilization award is not a research award: it is an award to help make your research relevant to potential audiences. The goal of this award  is to develop effective ways, using methods developed through your research, to engage older adults in topics that are important to them and to bring research knowledge and expertise to other sectors of society.

About the Grace Dart Foundation

The Grace Dart Foundation provides love and care to older adults in the greater Montreal area. The Foundation supports a warm and personal environment for the well-being of older people through its various donation efforts, in line with the following five areas of giving: Basic Needs, Loneliness & Isolation, Socialization & Personal Development, Cognitive Disorders, and Living Environment.

Year one projects (2024—2025)

Emma Chen (HKAP) Online Program of Balance through Dance with Respecting Elders Communities Against Abuse (RECAA)

Emma Chen leads a dance exercise class. Emma is younger and sitting in a chair surrounded by 6 women sitting in chairs circling her waiting for instruction.
Photo of a laptop screen with a Zoom session open. Two Zoom squares are visible, on top, Emma smiles at the camera and has her arms outstretched. The bottom square has an older woman who is smiling and looking at her phone which is taking a photo of the screen.

Brock Dishart (Humanities PhD) Community Quilting Project with Gay and Grey Montreal, NDG

A room full of people of various ages sit around tables together working on embroidery projects.
A person delicately feeds their quilted square through a sewing machine.

Guillaume Jabbour (Communication Studies) Soundscape Project with Suspicious Fish, Verdun

Two older adults in winter clothing, one standing and one sitting down, are on a Montreal metro train with headphones on and recording devices in their hands.
A man with a greying beard, black framed glasses, and a toque stand in the Montreal metro train with headphones on and a recording device held up in his hand.

Andrea Tremblay (Independent Studies) Community Gardening with New Hope for Senior Citizens, NDG

An outstretched hand with a grey gardening glove on gently touches a cluster of purple-black tomatoes on a vine in a garden.
Tomatoes of various sizes and ripeness are arranged on a white background into the shape of a heart.

Year two projects (2025—2026)

We are currently recruiting students for year two projects. Stay tuned!

 
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