Alzheimer's Poetry Project

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This is our first ever call for support. Please help continue our work.

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I am excited to say that over the next four months we have launched this pilot-project with four nursing homes in Wisconsin.
 

I am taking this step because on April 1, 2025, we received a notice from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services that all Civil Money Penalty program (CMP) Grants have been frozen by the Trump administration. 
 
CMP was a program to help improve the lives of people living in nursing homes. CMP grants were the major source of funding for the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project for the past seven years. 
 
I had contracted with four nursing homes: Care Age of Brookfield, Brookfield; Sheridan Health and Rehabilitation Center, Kenosha; Tudor Oaks Health Center, Muskegon and WI Veterans Home, Union Grove.
 
I would have been heartbroken to tell them we were not going forward.
I won’t let this freeze stop us! 
 
Big thanks to John and Susan McFadden for seed money to help cover expenses. 
 
We started the project on May 6th. 

I am grateful for your interest in the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project and hope you will consider supporting the work if you are able.

Please check back for updates, photos and stories from the project.

Cheers,
Gary Glazner
Alzheimer's Poetry Project

PS Your tax exempt donations will be made to my fiscal sponsor: The Illinois St. Andrew Society