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Improving California's Aging Services and Long Term Care System - Blueprint for Partnerships Between California Foundations and State Policymakers

Publication date: 
04/2011
This Blueprint represents a coordinated effort by seven California foundations to highlight how foundations might engage in collaboration and partnership with state policymakers to address the issues and respond to the challenges facing the ALTC system in California.
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Resource type: 
Best Practice
Audience: 
Nonprofit Staff
Policy Makers
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

The Maturing of America - Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population

Publication date: 
06/2011
A nationwide survey: “The Maturing of America—Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population.” The survey, administered in 2010 by ICMA, with more than 1,400 local governments responding out of over 10,000 that received it, was intended to assess progress against benchmarks established in the first “Maturing of America” survey conducted in 2005. In both cases, the findings were eye-opening.
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Resource type: 
Report
Audience: 
Nonprofit Staff
Policy Makers
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

The Maturing of America - Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population

Publication date: 
06/2011
A nationwide survey: “The Maturing of America—Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population.” The survey, administered in 2010 by ICMA, with more than 1,400 local governments responding out of over 10,000 that received it, was intended to assess progress against benchmarks established in the first “Maturing of America” survey conducted in 2005. In both cases, the findings were eye-opening.
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Resource type: 
Report
Audience: 
Nonprofit Staff
Policy Makers
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

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