Home Care Associates (HCA) is a worker owned cooperative of 120 people, most of whom were former welfare recipients. HCA has a dual mission of creating quality jobs while offering quality home health care to residents of the Philadelphia area. A recent Aspen Institute study concluded that HCA workers were rated higher by consumers than workers from other agencies. This is an inspiring project that will hopefully be replicated in other cities. Visit them on line at www.homecareassociatespa.com.

Untours Foundation co-owners, Norma and Hal Taussig, became keenly aware of the need for quality home care workers after Norma suffered a stroke in recent years. Norma and Hal were also disappointed to learn how little their health care company paid the home care aides who came to their house. With a little research, they discovered Home Care Associates, which was trying to expand in order to compete in the open market. At that same time, Norma and Hal won $250,000 from Paul Newman and JFK, Jr., for having the Most Generous Business in the US. In 2,000, they loaned that prize money to HCA, which is being paid back on schedule. Since that time, Paul Newman has been impressed with HCA and has given the Untours Foundation an unsolicited grant of $25,000 to loan to HCA. That loan is also being paid back on schedule.

The Untours Foundation is raising additional funds to loan to HCA, so that it can do a major expansion and open offices in communities outside of Philadelphia. Donate to the Untours Foundation.