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OASIS Highlights
2006: OASIS Active Start Program Receives National Innovation in Prevention Award from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Promoting Healthy Lifestyle
2006: OASIS Wins NCOA's RespectAbility Program of Excellence Award Recognizing Promising Practices in Civic Engagement
2005: OASIS Founder Marylen Mann is recognized by AARP's Impact Award as one of ten people who "did something extraordinary to make the world a better place" for her work to develop the OASIS program and expand it into a national organization.
2005: Federated Department Stores purchases The May Department Stores Company and commits to continue national sponsorship of OASIS.
2005: AT&T Foundation awards $500,000 national Excelerator grant to OASIS to expand workplace technology skills training for underserved adults.
2004: OASIS introduces Active Start, a comprehensive approach to reducing health risks through physical activity, to underserved neighborhoods in Los Angeles with funding from the U. S. Administration on Aging and the UniHealth Foundation.
2003: OASIS Receives Nearly $1 Million from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Active for Life Program.
2003: SBC Funds OASIS Project to Increase Seniors' Access to Computers and the Internet.
2003: National Endowment for the Humanities Makes $250,000 Grant to OASIS for Lewis & Clark Project.
2002: OASIS and the SPRY Foundation join forces to develop Science Across the Generations with funding from the National Science Foundation. The program will bring together OASIS volunteers and children to explore math, science and technology concepts.
2001: The OASIS Institute rolls out the HealthStages program to OASIS centers nationwide.
2001: The OASIS Connections program begins to expand throughout the country with additional suport from the SBC Foundation and The May Department Stores Company.
2000: The U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration awards The OASIS Institute and Barnes-Jewish Hospital a grant under its Technology Opportunities Program (TOP). The grant provides seed money for OASIS Connections, a project that will foster opportunities for seniors to connect to people, opportunities and resources through the Internet.
1999: OASIS celebrates the Tenth Anniversary of the OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program.
1998: National Endowment for the Humanities awards a grant to OASIS to develop the program "The Peoples of Russia and China at the Dawn of the Century."
1997: OASIS makes national commitment to the Presidents' Summit for America's Future to reach 100,000 young people through mentoring programs by the year 2000.
1997: OASIS pilots HealthStages with major funding from Emerson.
1994: National Endowment for the Humanities awards a grant to OASIS to develop the public program "Reemerging Russia: Search for Identity."
1991: Business and Aging Leadership Award presented to The May Department Stores Company by the U.S. Administration on Aging in recognition of the company's sponsorship of the National OASIS program.
1991: OASIS featured on national television in "Forever Young" segment of former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop series.
1990: The May Department Stores Company honored as a finalist for Harvard University's George S. Dively Award for Corporate Public Initiative for national sponsorship of the OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program.
1988: The U.S. Surgeon General's Conference on Health Promotion and Aging recommends that federal and state agencies disseminate information about OASIS as a successful private sector model.
1985: OASIS and May Company receive Distinguished Volunteer Service Award from the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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