Zen Hospice Project
273 Page StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102-5616
Telephone: (415) 863-2910
Website: www.zenhospice.org
Attn: Chris Panos
2008
For over two decades, Zen Hospice Project has pioneered an internationally recognized best practice model of end-of-life care and education that is based in the Zen Buddhist principles of compassion, mindfulness and loving-kindness. Zen Hospice Project approached the Foundation with a request for funding of its Volunteer Caregiver Program in 2008. The Volunteer Caregiver Program integrates spiritual practice and end-of-life care training with service to the dying to embrace each moment of life and death as a pathway to self-realization and harmony. This program, supported by the Foundation's 2008 grant in the amount of $10,000, brought essential support to low income and underserved populations that face socioeconomic barriers to care, such as the poor, underinsured and uninsured, as well as those lacking education or facing language barriers.
2009
In May of 2009, the Foundation continued its support of the Volunteer Caregiver Program with an additional grant in the sum of $2,500.
Zen Hospice Project and Upaya Zen Center was awarded a grant in the amount of $125,000 for a collaborative program to create a replicable model for professional education to implement more compassionate, contemplative and effective End-of-Life and Palliative care. The ultimate goal is to establish the outcomes and findings of the program into evidence-based medicine, advancing these contemplative practices into the mainstream aspects of healthcare to support the greatest need.
