The New York University Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing was awarded a four-year grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies to fund their project REASN (Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing). The overall goal of the REASN project is to deepen the involvement of specialty nurse associations in improving nursing competencies in providing care to older adults. The main objectives of this project are:

• Create new and sustainable advanced geriatric training resources in 13 hospital-based specialty nursing associations.
   

• Create sustainable infrastructures for geriatric initiatives specialty nursing associations through geriatric special interest groups.
   

• Develop a Web Fellows program at 40 specialty nursing associations to assure member access to geriatric best practices.
   

• Enhance and expand association websites as vehicles to communicate and disseminate evidence-based, sustainable geriatric nursing clinical content to specialty nursing association members, unaffiliated specialty nurses, and hospitals.
   

• Collaboratively develop and obtain endorsement of a global vision statement about care of older adults in the hospital setting with 55 specialty nursing associations.