To carry out its mission, Search and Care:

• seeks out at-risk older people who become known to health care providers, neighbors, clergy, store-owners, landlords and building management agencies, banks, pharmacies, grocery stores, and others in the neighborhoods we serve;
• provides information, referral and ongoing monitoring and care management services that connect approximately 320 older people each year to benefits, services and entitlements provided by others; and provides some special services that are not provided by other service providers;
• collaborates with organizations at all levels to develop and improve coordination of services for the growing number of at-risk older people who need individualized community-based preventive protective services if they are to live safely in their own homes.

History of the Organization:

Search and Care was founded in 1972 to meet the special needs of homebound older people living in the Yorkville and Carnegie Hill neighborhoods of Manhattan. In 1974, Search and Care was organized as a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) social service agency. During the past 33 years, Search and Care has helped over 5,400 frail and isolated older people live independently in the comfort of their homes. In July, 2006, Suzannah Chandler, a co-founder of the agency, retired as Executive Director. Brian C. Kravitz, LSCW, MS. Ed has joined us in this position.

Apart from a few small discretionary grants through local legislators, financial support comes entirely from private philanthropy: individuals, religious and community groups, and foundation and corporate grants. For more detailed information on Search and Care's financials, please visit Guidestar.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Christine L. Robinson, President
Katharine S. Legg, Vice President
Caroline Moore Tripp, Secretary
Nicholas F. Potter, Treasurer

Cynthia E. Bing
Neil E. Botwinoff
Irvine D. Flinn
Barbara D. Hayes
Bryan Hunt Lawrence
Kathleen B. Linburn
Alice K. Moorhead
Susan M. Relyea
Jeanne B. Riegel
Marian R. Shelton
Claudia G. Thompson
Cecil Wray

HONORARY DIRECTORS
Henry Darlington, Jr.
John F. Gilpatric
Molly C. Goodman
Matthew F. Heyd
The Rev. Clarke K. Oler
Molly O. Parkinson
Virginia R. Schwerin