Resource Library

Grantmakers In Aging (GIA) offers this digital sharing kit to accompany our new publication, Better with Age: A Guide to Funding in a Longevity Society.  

Better with Age: A Guide to Funding in a Longevity Society reviews the landscape of funding in aging and presents opportunities for funders to increase their impact by considering how aging intersects with their investments.

Innovation and Hope is a four-part webinar series and partnership between Grantmakers In Aging and the Helen Daniels Bader Alzheimer's & Healthy Aging Speaker Series

This guide outlines the wide range of grant-funded efforts to support both family caregivers and the paid direct care workforce, opportunities for funders to get involved, and other sectors also now focusing on caregiving.

Actionable ideas for philanthropy to fuel efforts to recognize, assist, include, support, and engage family caregivers. 

The field of impact investing has developed over more than five decades, gaining traction as a lever for driving social change and equity, and as a prudent investment strategy. Many types of organizations have taken up the approach, including foundations, faith-based organizations, health systems, pension funds, insurance companies, corporations, wealth managers, banks fulfilling the Community Reinvestment Act, and individuals seeking social and environmental benefits alongside financial returns. Government is also a frequent partner. Still, impact investing is relatively new to many philanthropic funders, which has led trustees, staff, and fiduciaries generally to ask how they could or should apply impact investing and broader social investing techniques to advance their missions and values.

Across the United States, Multisector Plans for Aging are driving public-private partnerships at the highest level of state government. Globally, 128 countries have national or subnational plans on aging. These plans have the potential to influence policies and funding mechanisms across sectors with corresponding metrics to track impact.

Learn the fundamentals of the Multisector Plans for Aging movement and see how funders can and should get involved to help advance this essential work.

This guide takes a deep dive into the topic of impact investing and highlights funders across the GIA network and beyond who are leveraging impact investments to create healthier, more age-integrated communities.

This guide is intended to give GIA members and other funders an understanding of impact investing — specifically within the philanthropic context — by defining key terms and sharing examples of how it is already being used. 

Impact investments can be used to complement traditional grantmaking and bring promising initiatives to scale. Join Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health to learn about strategies to structure and deliver capital to drive and sustain solutions, as well as examples of how funders are leveraging impact investing to advance their missions. 

Communication Best Practices: Reframing Aging Initiative Guide to Telling a More Complete Story of Aging offers valuable recommendations and research-based rationales when crafting presentations, press releases, academic papers, letters to the editor, websites, publications, consumer materials, speeches, and other communications.

This report summarizes key issues relevant to understanding complex care and offers resources and case studies for funders interested in entering the field or deepening their existing work. It also profiles funding opportunities, explores existing models, and shares philanthropic lessons learned.

This report from Grantmakers In Aging, seeks to capture a range of promising approaches to aging in community being used globally.  
 

Our 2019 funding guide, Aging Positively: Bringing HIV/AIDS into the Aging Services Mainstream: An Introduction for Funders, highlights the diverse experiences of older people living with HIV/AIDS and offers actionable ideas for philanthropies of all kinds to improve care and quality of life. 

​Honoring the Denver Principles and MIPA (Meaningful Involvement of People with HIV/AIDS), GIA also recorded a series of interviews with older people living with HIV/AIDS and produced the following videos reflecting on their lived experience.

This guide examines the crisis caused by opioids in rural communities, particularly the impact on the lives of many older individuals, potential solutions, and initiatives that governments, communities and funders are implementing.

Community AGEnda, the age-friendly initiative of Grantmakers in Aging, has released a new age-friendly community toolkit. This exciting new resource is available to advocates for age-friendly communities around the world and addresses the challenge in communicating effectively about this promising idea. Learn to how to create more effective messages, shape brochures, and frame public communications campaigns. Toolkit partners such as WHO Age-Friendly Cities, AARP Livable Communities and AARP International, The Village to Village Network, N4A, the AdvantAGE Initiative contributed their valuable experience and research.

View ways to make your community more age-friendly with this infographic.

Learn how to create more effective messages or talking points, develop printed materials, and frame public communications campaigns.