Resource Library

This report highlights key activities and takeaways and previews future programming around the OAA Reauthorization campaign.

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.

This report provides a snapshot of current narrative-change strategies across the care economy—highlighting existing efforts, gaps, and opportunities for philanthropy to advance lasting cultural and policy progress.

New Frontiers for Funding provides guidance specifically for grantmakers supporting rural areas and how working on rural aging issues can increase the impact of many different kinds of philanthropies.

A fact sheet outlines how congress and philanthropy can work together to strengthen the Older Americans Act to better meet the social needs that COVID-19 revealed and match funding levels to the growth of the older population and the true cost of aging in America.

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.

Grantmakers In Aging and Grantmakers In Health (GIH) responded to a request for feedback about the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA) from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP).

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.