International Palliative Care Initiatives
International Palliative Care Initiatives focus on enhancing hospice and palliative care programs in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Palliative Care Fellowships
The goals of this fellowship program, jointly funded with the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, are to support the training of physicians in the principles and practice of palliative care, to help build capacity of fellowship programs, and to help establish palliative medicine as a recognized subspecialty of medicine.

Arts and Humanities
The Project on Death in America seeks to encourage individuals from the literary, visual, fine arts and performing arts to use their creative skills and insights to identify and convey meaning in facing illness, disability and death.
This focus area is no longer active.

Community Support for Grief & Bereavement
The goal of this funding initiative is to enhance the capacity of individuals and of communities to grieve and to support one another in the experience of grief.

Grants Program 1994 - 1997
The PDIA Grants Program funded a diverse range of organizations aimed at understanding and transforming the culture and experience of dying in America.

Palliative Care for African-Americans
The Initiative to Improve Palliative Care for African-Americans seeks to define and promote a research, education, and policy agenda for the improvement of care for African American patients facing serious illness.
This focus area is no longer active.

Social Work Leadership Development Awards
The Social Work Leadership Development Awards promote innovative research and training projects that advance the ongoing development of social work practice, education, and training in the care of the dying.
This focus area is no longer active.

Faculty Scholars Program
The Faculty Scholars Program supported researchers, educators, and practitioners of palliative care.
This focus area is no longer active.