Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS) was recently awarded a 2026 Thome Aging Well Grant to support the implementation of its estate planning and housing stabilization legal services across 17 Maryland counties. MVLS was one of 24 organizations in Maryland and Michigan that received a combined $3.8 million to help older adults with lower incomes age safely and with dignity at home.

Launched in 2022 by Enterprise Community Partners—with funding from the Edward N. and Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation, Bank of America trustee—the Thome Aging Well program uses a trust-based philanthropic approach that allows local organizations to respond to community needs quickly and directly.

“These organizations will have the flexibility to meet older adults where they are and respond to the needs they see emerging in their communities,” said Stephany De Scisciolo, Enterprise vice president of Impact, Evaluation and Population Health. “This is how we ensure that these grants will have the greatest impact—by placing them in the hands of trusted, community-based partners working every day to ensure older adults can remain in their homes and continue to live safely and comfortably in the neighborhoods they know.”

To date, the Thome Aging Well program has awarded over $23 million to 66 community-based, government, and tribal organizations and reached over 14,000 older adults with aging-in-place home modifications, trainings and workforce supports, preventive health screenings, food access and delivery programs, and additional services.

About Enterprise Community Partners

Enterprise is a national nonprofit that exists to make a good home possible for the millions of families without one. We support community development organizations on the ground, aggregate and invest capital for impact, advance housing policy at every level of government, and build and manage communities ourselves. Since 1982, we have invested $92.0 billion and created 1.1 million homes across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—all to make home and community places of pride, power, and belonging. Join us at enterprisecommunity.org.